TEN Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery.
TEN
years. artists
Exhibiting Artists: Daniela Cristallo, Raphe Coombes, Emily Heath, Fleur Stevenson, Ana Anderson, Jaq Davies, Nicola Woodcock, Linda Kruger, Ann Gordon, Tim Winters.
To honour and celebrate of a decade of cultivating and showcasing Australian talent, The Corner Store Gallery proudly presents a commemorative exhibition featuring ten of our distinguished artists from the past decade. Each artist has created two unique 10 x 10 inch works capturing the spirit of their practice and reflecting the gallery’s enduring commitment to artistic innovation.
TEN not only celebrates the last decade of The Corner Store Gallery, but also acknowledges the vibrant community of artists who have contributed to our success. Join us as we honour the past and look forward to the future with this milestone exhibition.
Ana Anderson
Ana Anderson is a contemporary Australian artist, her works depict the landscape and our connection to nature. Recently Ana’s focus has turned from the bush to gardens, scenes of tropical oasis scattered amongst suburbia. Mini places of escape and beauty, taking the viewer to faraway lands. Her works are composed intuitively, using strong compositional elements and bringing balance through the geometric play of light, shape and colour; creating a rhythmic flow.
Daniela Cristallo
Daniela captures fleeting moments that converse between the element of water and its relationship to the body. Swimming all year round on Sydney’s East Coast, she finds solace in returning time and time again. She makes gentle observations along the way, inviting new ways to move beyond the edges of the canvas that wander through waters that gently burn, echo and drift.
“Because there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it is sent away” - Anonymous
Raphe Coombes
Raphe Coombes is based in northern NSW. His practice involves painting and drawing inspired by landscape, energy, connection, history and sound and how they integrate together creates his distinctive imagery. Raphe uses an array of techniques and robust colours to convey his abstracted world.
Working with traditional oil making methods; creating walnut and stand oil from old masters’ recipes and grinding pigments to generate colours. His work is predominantly on board the grain of the timber often acting as a ground informing his practice. Playing with impasto marks and the viscosity of paint, the artist brings us to a strong connection with the expressionist painters of the past.
Raphe’s works are delightfully layered with colour and energetic marks. With pops of red, yellow and purple echoing blooming flowers, sweeps of blue indicating moving water and delightful scrawling’s of bird flight paths taking the viewer on a dance around the surface. The immediacy of the mark making is key here, building on the dynamics and energy of the work creating a thrilling zing of life, intimacy and emotional punch.
Jaq Davies
Jaq Davies is multidisciplinary artist living and working in the Central West of NSW.
Much of Jaq's work is autobiographical and combines elements of sculpture, painting, drawing and found objects to create works with their own distinct visual language....... works which are suspended in a place between reality and the abstract.
Ann Gordon
Ann is a contemporary landscape artist who paints directly from the Australian bush, either on canvas or in a journal. With layers of paint, graphite and charcoal, she creates intuitive, energetic and layered artworks that express the essence of the Australian landscape. “An integral part of my artistic process is to collect natural materials from the bush for mark making. Back in the studio, these tools help connect me back to my time painting plein air and help to express the unique quality of a time and place. “
These works explore the magic evening hours of Towra Point Nature Reserve near Kurnell in Sydney. An area with an abundance of mudflat, freshwater wetlands and seagrass beds, accessible only by boat.
Emily Heath
I’m constantly fascinated by my emotional connection and response to inanimate objects and enjoy that the still life genre is a way of exploring my memories, relationships and current mood. It’s always a playful exchange between me and the objects and I enjoy walking a line between accurate representation and abstraction, forever in pursuit of capturing that inexplicable emotional response that is so time and place specific it only continues living inside the painting.
Linda Kruger
Linda is an Australian artist living on Bundjalung country. She has a professional background making screen based content for Museum exhibitions and currently works as a full time artist. Linda has been part of the Corner Store Gallery’s stable of artists since 2022, and is excited to be part of their 10 year celebrations!
Fleur Stevenson
Fleur Stevenson’s works “Reimagining art school” and “Floating at the Ladies Baths, Coogee” explore memory, personal history and place. They investigate translating recent and past memories of freedom from personal experiences, which occurred in the two cities Fleur has lived in: Melbourne and Sydney.
Each painting considers the physical environment and the associated ideas, feelings and emotions and the space the memories occupy on the surface.
By placing herself at each location and responding to a memory, Fleur considers the relationship of her internal thought as an interior, situated in the exterior of a landscape or place. This spatial relationship is investigated in each composition in varying ways, by a clearly defined boundary, or where the spaces overlap.
Tim Winters
Tim Winters is a visual artist and designer working across a wide range of media. He exhibits widely, including Australia, United Kingdom and Singapore, and has conducted various artists’ residencies and workshops in Australia and Europe. Tim’s works are in public and corporate collections, and he is the recipient of various art prizes.
Nicola Woodcock
I work with oil pastels using a small palette without extending this range by blending or mixing the pigments, preferring instead to work with solid saturated blocks of colour straight from the crayon. The joy comes from finding colour combinations that excite me when placed side by side. I allow the medium to dictate the strength of lines and marks which means relinquishing a degree of control over the marks produced. The thick, chunky pastel crayons leave no room for fussiness, detail is pared back and I’m forced to search for the essence of the image. There is also a large degree of spontaneity in my work since I don’t re-work or layer any parts of the surface, once a mark is placed it remains. These two garden pieces are inspected by a walk in the botanic gardens in Sydney.