Leave a Trace - Spring Exhibition at Seesaw Wines
Exhibiting Artists: Kim Bizo, Larissa Blake, Rhonda Campbell, Mary Donnelly, Clare Dubina, Madeline Young.
The Corner Store Gallery, in partnership with Seesaw Wines, is delighted to present a vibrant group exhibition to celebrate the Orange Wine Festival. This colourful and diverse showcase features an exciting mix of local talent alongside artists from beyond the region, all coming together at Seesaw Wines for a special event.
Join us at the Seesaw Cellar Door for a wine tasting event and immerse yourself in the artistic talent of our region through this collaborative exhibition.
Kim Bizo
In this latest collection, “Dangerous Implements”, Kim continues with her love of culinary art whilst taking a tongue and cheek exploration into the unforeseen dangers of the kitchen. All her favourites are here; soft cheeses, fruits and nuts enjoyed with a little pinot. Kim invites you to enjoy her little table scapes and slow down and relish the simple pleasures of sharing food with those you love and hold dear.
Kim studied at the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts in New Zealand. After University she travelled and lived in many countries with her young family finding her way to Armidale, New South Wales in 2015. In this small regional city she started to earnestly focus on her art practice again. Although still very emerging, Kim has exhibited regularly in many galleries including the New England Regional Art Museum, Project Gallery 90, Sydney, The Toowoomba Gallery and The Cornerstone Gallery in Orange. In 2023 she had a two person show at The Gallery at Get framed in Armidale. She is very much looking forward to two solo exhibitions in 2025.
Larissa Blake
Larissa Blake is a painter and colourist, working with gesture and energy.
Her figurative abstraction is imbued with a sense of place and space. She works with an uplifting and exuberant palette and is interested in the healing and transformational power of art.
Larissa Blake is a visual artist based in Orange, N.S.W.
A painter and colourist, her work is inspired by the everyday and
reinterprets traditional genres in a contemporary context.
Her studio is an industrial shed situated in idyllic garden
surrounds on the outskirts of Orange.
Rhonda Campbell
After a recent trip to the tropics, I was inspired by lily Ponds and Dragonflies, for this small series of work.
While there, I made studies, en plein air, and then returned to my studio in Orange to work from these, my memory and my sensory reactions of this place.
These works are using acrylics, ink and pastels on canvas.
Rhonda graduated from the National Art School & Alexander Mackie College in Sydney, Australia. She then taught art in Australia & later design in London. Her career took a complete change & the next 25 years were spent in Fashion & Design.
Since retiring in 2000 Rhonda has taken up the paint brush again. She draws significant influence from her travels, in Outback Australia, also Europe & Asia. With an interest in colour, texture & mark making Rhonda’s works are built up with multiple layers, often scratching back those layers, particularly when working in oil, pigment & cold wax. She loves the spontaneity & “happy accidents” which occur when working in this way.
Rhonda has more recently taken a new direction in Abstraction – a memory of her subject (landscape or still life). Even though abstracted, the works often retain an echo of that subject.
She says, “many ideas & images pass through my mind as I paint but nothing else exists when I do, I’m totally absorbed in my work”.
Mary Donnelly
It was with a sense of anticipation that I began this series, hoping that by seeing out this personal challenge there was an opportunity for growth and change.
Not thinking about the past or the future thus allowing one to work in the present - had the outcome of allowing colour, texture and form to inform the content and for intuition and faith to have the final say.
Born in Gozo, Malta. My practice is an ongoing study of exploring the underlying compositional structures that lead to an inner dialogue within the work. Formal education began in 1994, continuing on with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and culminating with a Masters in 2008.
My work examines the aesthetic and formal qualities that present themselves within the artistic dialogue of an artwork. I continue to seek out and define the understated beauty of simple objects and to highlight the way they are presented in everyday settings; a collection of objects that would otherwise have gone unnoticed become the subject for observation.
Clare Dubina
My artistic exploration continues to hinge upon the female figure, inspired by the abstractions of its shapes, forms and negative spaces. I aim to convey the essence of femininity by capturing the strength, vulnerability, and complexity through a fusion of colour, line and design.
Clare Dubina (b.1977 UK) is a multi disciplinary artist located in Naarm (Melbourne), holding a BFA in Printmaking from the University of The Arts, Philadelphia USA. Since graduating in 2001, Dubina has moved through various creative roles within fashion photography and visual merchandising, redirecting her path in 2020 back to painting and ceramics to pursue art as a full time career. Clare draws on the female form as an ever evolving source of inspiration in her art practice, which has led to collaborations with iconic Australian brands such as Tigmi Trading, En Gold, Bed Threads, and most recently Fenton & Fenton. Clare has successfully participated in two duo shows and several group shows, including the Friends and Faves exhibition curated by The Design Files. Earlier this year, Clare had her first solo gallery show with Micheal Reid Northern Beaches, and will soon be joining a roster of artists at a London gallery. Her work has been featured a handful of times in the reputable interiors publication, The Local Project, and sits in private collections across Australia, NZ, the UK and the USA.
Madeline Young
Inspired by her young son’s innocent and instinctive mark-making, Madeline’s latest work embarks on a vibrant journey into pure abstraction. Colour takes center stage, subtly shifting with the seasons and reflecting her emotions. Texture and composition are equally essential, weaving layers of various mediums and materials to create rich depth and a sense of history in each piece.
Madeline Young is based in Orange NSW on Wiradjuri Country and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Newcastle completed in 2009. She has exhibited widely across Australia over the past 10 years in both solo and group exhibitions. Alongside her art practice, Madeline works full-time as a Curator and Gallery Director of The Corner Store Gallery, which influences and shapes her own work.
Seesaw Wines, Orange NSW.