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Five works currently online from our Bloom exhibition:
Every year during August, Kintolai Gallery holds an exhibition entitled Bloom. The aim of Bloom is to expose five emerging South Australian artists to the public. Past Bloom particpants have used the show as a launching pad to further their artistic careers both within South Australia and nationally.
This years Bloom includes one mid career artist, Peta Cowen Goh.
Peta Cowen Goh - has exhibited her glass creations in selected galleries throughout Australia and internationally. In this body of work she has concentrated on creating simple classic forms hence the name of one of the series of works in Bloom 'My Favourite Forms: Secrets Shiny and New'. Another series of works in the exhibition concentrates on the observation of space, in particular psychological space, through the creation of beautiful small glass bowls and marbles that invite closer observation.
Rayna Schofield - is an artist whose subject matter often dominates large canvases with swift flowing movements. Her works have a certain tribalistic aspect with their raw energy and bold, evocative subject matter. In Bloom she is presenting a body of work that is quite subdued in its movements but which brings a different type of energy to the gallery space with their rich, warm colours. This exhibition directly follows the limited edition publication of a book on Rayna's artwork, 'Vent Pah', which married text to her images.
Anne Stadler - is a talented sculptor who has created eyecatching, quirky dolls for Bloom. The 'dolls' are constructed from carved wood, plastic doll body parts and found objects. They are based on tribal representations of the human figure - burial artefacts, archaelogical finds, fetish and occult objects. The dolls are also a response to Anne's current experiences of motherhood.
Alison Bryant - is a talented graphic designer and freelance illustrator who has only recently approached painting with intent. For this body of work she was initially inspired by expectant mothers, who are close friends, her mother's workplace (a maternity ward) and her current position in life. All events are ones that experience great personal growth. Through the use of form, space and colour, this inspiration grew to a journey of looking further inward, into the body and to raw emotions, to relationships and the interaction between all areas in the body and to moments of thought and feeling.
Megan Scarlett O'Hara - was primarily inspired for this 'Generation Series' by her great, great, great grandfather, botanist and first director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, George William Francis (1800 - 1865). This association has led Megan to look at the role of botanical, historical work and the individual interpretation of our own native flora and fauna. Taking native seed pods out of their natural environment and into a context of different ways of viewing.
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