[Let the] Art Speak

TAMZEN BREWSTER

Through development of the work Verge I've explored ideas of self and time. I’m fascinated by our understanding of time and the possibilities that arise when you consider the implications of a non-linear trajectory of time. I find creating art opens up a tactile language that allows me to communicate and examine ideas, that in some way, intrinsically reveal imagery that helps me make sense of my place within everything.

LEE BLAKIE

It is the meditative process of building depth and colour with pencils that allows Tasmanian artist Lee Blakie to contemplate her subject. Lee’s art focuses on her connection to the land and sea and strives to capture nature’s essence through it’s vibrant hues and textured detail. Each piece explores the shared dialogue and passage of time between humanity and our environment. Lee hopes that her work fosters a deeper appreciation for our natural world, our interdependence with Mother Nature and the responsibilities we all have for our planet.

FYONNA MCKENZIE

Roz Wren

Roz Wren is a freelance creative with over 35 years’ experience designing and making theatrical costumes, puppets, sets and props, large scale festival installations and delivering community arts workshops. Her foray into the world of Fibre Art and embroidery started about 15 years ago, when she took to embroidering in the evenings as a calming antidote to working to deadlines.

Her work has been exhibited in the ‘Glenorchy Open’ at the Moonah Arts centre and in the Bi Annual ‘Out of Hand’ exhibition in the Long Gallery.  Roz is currently studying at UTAS towards a Fine Arts Diploma.

ROZ WREN

Roz Wren is a freelance creative with over 35 years’ experience designing and making theatrical costumes, puppets, sets and props, large scale festival installations and delivering community arts workshops. Her foray into the world of Fibre Art and embroidery started about 15 years ago, when she took to embroidering in the evenings as a calming antidote to working to deadlines.

Her work has been exhibited in the ‘Glenorchy Open’ at the Moonah Arts centre and in the Bi Annual ‘Out of Hand’ exhibition in the Long Gallery.  Roz is currently studying at UTAS towards a Fine Arts Diploma.

STEVE LOVEGROVE

While physical bodies of the world die alone and in the dark everyday, souls remain and grow. A seabird falls from the sky and lands on the riverbank. A machine breaks down and slowly deconstructs. Pieces of debris wash up on the shore. A child’s toy falls from a stroller. Water, sun, wind and time sculpts these objects and gives them new life. My art takes these found gifts and recognises their potential, their never-ending soul. My intent is to give the viewer the chance to see and share in this new potential.

THE X-PRESS RADIO GROUP

A collective of artists, community radio makers and musicians who come together through a disability support program to create collaborative audio works. Guided by participant-led processes and supported by creative facilitators, the group explores listening, experimentation and storytelling through interviews, performances and found sounds. For The Unseen, the group began with the concept of anonymity, collaboratively creating and fragmenting a poem that was recorded, edited and reassembled into an evolving listening experience. Using spoken word, percussion created from everyday objects, and layered visual imagery of hands and movement, the work reflects on what it means to feel unseen, inviting audiences to slow down and actively listen.

The artwork includes the voices, sounds and movements of Alex Morris Bagley, Luke John Campbell, Matthew Dean, Lawrence Dooley, William Webster, Lucy Wade, Kaye Giameos Christian DelaCruze, Tanya Cooke and Alice Murphy and is produced by Hannah Rogers. 

DANI SALOME

What if we reclaimed art..? Liberated into all it can be.

Art as muse.. teacher.. healer.. Friend.. How would we meet art if we saw it as just love going where love needs to go..?

CHARLIE CHADWICK

ISABELLA GRAMACCIONI

This work depicts a distorted, cartoonish humanoid figure in bright pastel tones. An ageing figure’s pursuit of youth mutates into something unstable rather than renewed, slipping into the uncanny.

Exaggerated features and warped proportions disrupt the boundaries of the human form, striking a balance between familiarity and unease. Referencing contemporary fixations on cosmetic enhancement, biohacking, and pharmaceutical intervention, the work challenges ideals of seamless self-optimisation. Instead, progress is shown as excessive and unpredictable, where control gives way to distortion.

The figure holds tension between improvement and loss, asking where the pursuit of progress begins to erode what is human.

REBEKAH PYBUS

Based in Lutruwita/Tasmania, Rebekah Pybus works across painting, sculpture and installation, exploring place, transformation and the unseen forces that shape human experience. Informed by shifting landscapes and experiences in nature, her practice intertwines memory, time and resilience, often reflecting on transitions, daily rituals and the complexities of change.

Pybus completed a BFA at UTAS in 2010. Drawing on her lived experience, including late neurodivergent diagnoses, Pybus’ work weaves layered meaning and viewpoints reflective of the way she experiences the world.

Making doorways, transitions, small daily rituals through unknowings, knowings, and changes. Some kind of act, a meditation of sorts, through rocky roads and home instability. 

Transmuting grief. Alchemising the short straw.

STEVE LOVEGROVE

While physical bodies of the world die alone and in the dark everyday, souls remain and grow. A seabird falls from the sky and lands on the riverbank. A machine breaks down and slowly deconstructs. Pieces of debris wash up on the shore. A child’s toy falls from a stroller. Water, sun, wind and time sculpts these objects and gives them new life.

My art takes these found gifts and recognises their potential, their never-ending soul. My intent is to give the viewer the chance to see and share in this new potential.

ANITA DENHOLM

Tasmanian by birth, an observer of Life. A sculptor by nature- driven by an insatiable need to create. Self taught. Going against the trends/counter cultural.

LEE BLAKIE

‘What a Beauty!’ her first owner thought, admiring the flawless paint, seductive body, firm leather seats and chrome accessories.  She may have possessed luxury items such as a cigarette lighter, radio, and glovebox. Now discarded, this old lady has embraced another form of beauty, one only achieved through age and the passage of time. Echoing the hues and textures of her final owner, Mother Nature, she now bleeds rust as she slowly returns to the ground. In my work, I seek to evoke a connection, encouraging viewers to engage with the landscape as an integral part of our shared history.

FRAN REEVE

CHARLIE CHADWIXK

ANNA PHILLIPS

I have worked all my life, teaching and making art. I spent thirty years as a trained nurse and over twenty as an art teacher.

ANNA PHILLIPS

Making art is my life. 

FYONNA MCKENZIE

TILLY FERGUSSON

If I went to a psychiatrist, no doubt they would diagnose me with some condition. I feel overwhelmed by the attention economy. Bombarded by flashing colours, catchy tunes, witty phrases and loud voices all desperately vying for my attention dollars.

I don’t want it. 

The struggle is to block out the barrage.

I’ve installed a PPS, personal positioning system. I plug in my destination, then navigate my way, pausing at those noisy choice points to check in with my values and adjust the route accordingly. I’m heading for the bullseye. That’s where I want to be, living by my values, chosen by me, not pushed onto me for someone else’s power or profit.

SUZY DUNNE

Suzy is a vibrant theatre-maker, performer, educator, and raconteur based on Dharug & Gundungurra country in the Blue Mountains. Her practice moves between prose and ritual, tracing the rhythm of repetition, the choreography of thought, and the echo of ink on paper. Living with OCD, she transforms compulsion into creation, revealing a tender precision in black and white. Each work is both confession and cadence: meaning emerges through form.

resIDual explores endurance and erasure in the digital and ecological age. It questions what aspects of identity persist amid commodification, data storage, and environmental imprint - suggesting that repetition itself becomes a quiet act of remembrance and resistance.