Ethabuka Reserve features on ABC TV's Painting Australia

This week on the ABC TV Painting Australia program travels to the Bush Heritage Ethabuka Reserve, near the Simpson Desert in Queensland.  

Sorrel Wilby takes three local artists to Ethabuka Reserve to complete a work that interprets this unique Australian landscape in just two days. The ABC TV program 'Painting Australia' features Master artist Mandy Martin and emerging artists Annabel Tully, Noel Miller and Bek Mifsud battle against the elements - suffocating heat and unrelenting swarms of flies - as the artists endeavour to produce a work representative of the land in two days.

Painting Australia - Simpson Desert
ABC TV program Painting Australia to be screened at 8.00 PM (AEST) on Tuesday 3rd April 2007. Check you local guides. ABC Television Guide 

 

 

MASTER ARTIST

Mandy Martin, website http://www.mandy-martin.com/
Mandy Martin, born 1952 in Adelaide, has held many solo exhibitions in Australia, Mexico and the USA. She has exhibited widely in curated exhibitions in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, USA, and Italy. Her works are in many public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia and all major state galleries and collections. In the USA she is represented in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and many private collections.

She studied at the South Australian School of Art, 1972-75. She was a lecturer at the School of Art, Australian National University between 1978 – 2003.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

EMERGING ARTISTS

Annabel Tully

Born in 1972, Annabel Tully is arresting as a contemporary landscape artist. She depicts subtle and sensitive, yet often dynamic landscapes to demonstrate her strong kinship with the land.
2006 has been her most successful and challenging year to date. She was awarded finalist in the Norvill prize for Australian landscape painting in Murrurundi, NSW and 2 prizes in the Winton Outback Art Prize, Qld.

Annabel lives and works on a sheep and cattle property in the Channel Country of far South-West Queensland. She spends endless hours with pigment and dirt on her hands and she paints insitu.

Noel Miller

Five years ago Noel walked out of the boardroom to concentrate on his painting. He has been hung in the Blake prize twice and the Jacaranda once and has a couple of solo exhibitions coming up as well as a joint show at the Redcliffe City Gallery. More recently he was winner of the Warwick Prize and was a finalist in the Norvill Prize for Landscape. He prepares the canvas with tiling grout and PVA to help get the ochres into the canvas.

Noel lectures on a cruise ship which does tours into Antarctica on art of the region. His partner is a well known crocodile scientist at the University of Queensland.

  

  

Bek Mifsud

Bek Mifsud is an Alice Springs based artist and geologist whose work explores the history and geography of and journeys made to Central Australia. Originally from Violet Town, Victoria, Bek completed a double major in photography and printmaking. Deeply drawn to land and rock formations, Bek later chose to study geology to inform her arts practice.

Bek first visited the Australian desert on field trip tracing the ill-fated journey of explorers Burke and Wills and naturalist Becker in 1994. She was immediately drawn to the immense landscape and became fascinated by "the journeys that people make to and from the centre”.