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Here is a teaser of some of our artists: Lucy Culliton, Nicholas Harding, Euan Macleod, Guy Maestri, Amanda Marburg, Luke Sciberras, Alexander Seton, Peter Sharp and Ben Quilty. Watch this space - more artists to come!

Photos of all artworks will be online before the event.

Lucy Culliton

Born in Sydney in 1966, Lucy Culliton worked first as a graphic designer before graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney in 1996. Culliton is a highly accomplished painter and her sophisticated use of texture and colour renders her subjects with a sensory potency that brings a sense of appreciation for even the most modest of subjects. Common motifs range from roosters, shells, crockery, cups and saucers, knitted toys and cacti to animal and prize displays at local shows. Of these familiar but often overlooked subjects, Culliton has stated "I like to paint the ordinary and make it important".

Culliton has held eight solo exhibitions and she has been awarded several prizes for her work, including the Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize in 2006 and the Mosman Art Prize for Painting in 2000. She has been a finalist in the Archibald, the Sulman and the Wynne prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW and the Dobell Prize. Lucy Culliton is represented by Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney.

Nicholas Harding

Nicholas Harding was an Archibald finalist every year from 1994-2009. He won it in 2001 with a painting of actor John Bell as King Lear. He was commended in 1998 for his portrait of Margaret Olley and Highly Commended for his portrait of Bob Dickerson, ‘Bob’s Daily Swim’ which won the People’s Choice Award in 2005. Since 1981 Harding has been included in numerous group shows, including the Dobell Drawing Prize (winning in 2001), the Wynne and Sulman Prizes, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Kedumba Drawing Award (joint winner in 1994). He has exhibited in London and has had regular solo exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. He received a Centenary Medal for Services to Australian Art in 2003, was highly commended and Peoples Choice in the 2005 Archibald prize and won the Kilgour Prize in 2006.

www.nicholasharding.com.au

Euan Macleod

Euan Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1956. He attained a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) in 1979, and moved to Sydney in 1981. He has had over 50 solo shows in Australia and New Zealand and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. His work is represented in many private and public collections, including Te Papa Museum, New Zealand, the National Gallery of Australia, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the New Parliament House Collection. His work has also been purchased for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, N.Z. He has won a number of prizes including the Archibald Prize in 1999, the Sulman Prize in 2001 and the Blake Prize in 2006.

Amanda Marburg

Amanda Marburg was born in Melbourne in 1976. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999 and an Associate Diploma of Visual Art (Painting) at the Western Metropolitan College of TAFE in Melbourne in 1996. Amanda has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, collaborations and group exhibitions since 2000. She has also won awards such as Art & Australia’s ANZ Private Bank Emerging Artist Program in 2005, the Roger Kemp Memorial Award in 1999, Five in 2001 from the Span Gallery, Melbourne and she was a finalist in the 2011 Archibald Prize.

Guy Maestri

Guy Maestri completed B.F.A Honours Painting at National Art School, Sydney in 2002. His collections include National Portrait Gallery, Macquarie Bank and Parliament House. Since 2001 Guy has had regular solo and group exhibitions including the Brett Whitely Traveling Art Scholarship in 2002, 2003 and 2004 with Highly Commended in 2002, the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007 & 2008, the Paddington Art Prize, the Melbourne Art Fair, the Mosman Art Prize and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. In 2009, Guy was the winner of the Archibald Prize and in 2001 the winner of Commendation Prize, Mosman Art Prize.

Alexander Seton

Alexander Seton is a Sydney based artist who graduated from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 1998. He has exhibited in numerous sculpture exhibitions over the years, including Sculpture by the Sea four times since 2002, the McClelland Sculpture Survey 05, The Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award 06, New Social Commentaries 06. Seton has participated in group shows such as Flaming Youth at the Orange Regional Gallery, international sculpture symposiums such as the 2007 Hanyu International Sculpture Cup, in Shenzhen in China, and a number of solo shows, including both 'Security Blanket' at Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, and 'Panoply' at Chalk Horse Gallery, in 2007, and Memeoid at Chalk Horse in 2008. Alex's practice has earned a growing reputation based upon producing carved marble and synthetic stone sculptures that play on optical illusion and the perception of surface. The work uses the tension and often contradiction between the traditional laborious skill of carving and use of contemporary subject matter and concerns. It is that contradiction that opens the door to questions of the nature of choice, whether it be satire of the 'monumental' to questioning the currency of political intimidation (such as in 'Panoply' 07) or personal armor (such as in 'On Hold' 08). It is in the outrageously implausible realization of concrete barriers, couches, toffee apples, beanbags and doonas, that the possible is called to account.

www.alexanderseton.com

Peter Sharp

Peter Sharp completed a Bachelor of Art Education at City Art Institute, Sydney in 1987 before graduating with a Masters of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts in 1992. In 1996 he was awarded the Jacaranda Drawing Prize and in the following year was granted a residency at the Cite' des Arts Internationale, Paris. His paintings have been exhibited in the Wynne Prize (1996, 2003) and Sulman Prize (1998, 2008) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as in numerous regional gallery exhibitions throughout Australia. Sharp was a finalist in the 2009 & 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sharp's work is represented in numerous public institutions and corporate collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The Holmes a Court Collection, Artbank, The Macquarie Group Collection, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, Grafton Regional Gallery and the University of Wollongong as well as private collections in Australia and overseas.

Ben Quilty

Ben Quilty was a finalist in the 2006 Archibald Prize for his portrait of artist Adam Cullen. He was a finalist in the 2004 Archibald and Wynne Prizes and in 2005 was an Archibald finalist with his portrait of Beryl Whitely, mother of the late Brett Whitely and founder and patron of the Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, which Quilty won in 2002. He has worked full-time as an artist ever since and has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia as well as completing residencies in Hill End, Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Barcelona. Ben Quilty won the 2011 Archibald Prize for his portrait of Margaret Olley.

www.benquilty.com