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RUTH CRESPO HERNANDEZ
To quote interioraddicts.com:
"Melbourne artist Ruth Crespo Hernandez has been poppingup everywhere and rightly so as her artworks are gorgeous!"
Ruth's artworks have recently featured on Channel 9's The Block.
HARLEY MANIFOLD
Harvey Manifold’s oil paintings depict the lone figure ambling through life – in alleyways in Melbourne landscapes, dwarfed by skyscrapers and highway overpasses.
His paintings tread the discourse of unnoticed physical and psychological terrains.
City landscapes, constructed by people yet cluttered by ‘anti-spaces’...
Manifold’s paintings reflect tensions between states of camouflage and discontinuity in an era of increased communication and alienation.
REBECCA LONG
A magazine editor by day, Melbourne-based artist Rebecca Long discovered painting during a period of ‘verbal despair’, when she realised the limitations of words and logic when attempting to capture the human experience and communicate feeling.
Her disillusionment informed an artistic approach that was defiantly visceral and minimised opportunities for loss of meaning between application of paint and the viewer’s visual processing.
A self-proclaimed finger painter, Rebecca eschews brushes and other tools that might disrupt or corrupt the essence of the work.
Her minimal, mostly monochrome palettes and biomorphic marks, sometimes likened to lacerations or scars, amplify and scrutinise spatial and ideological dichotomies, and invite the viewer to ‘try them on’. Her emotionally raw and intense style – described by one collector as ‘psychological noir’ – uses motifs to suggest a noumenal landscape, and impel rather than impart a narrative.
Her compositions are ‘atemporal’. For Rebecca, a successful painting is relational, permissive and elusive, morphing during attempts to define it.
Rebecca's work has earned her a large and engaged Instagram following, as well as interest from overseas galleries and international collectors.
