Jenny Dawson
“Since 1993, I have successfully worked as team leader or part of an artist’s team on 52 collaborations to produce art for public spaces. These commissions have come from Percent for Art Scheme (25), government and local government (21) interstate (1) and the private sector (5). The budgets have varied from $10,000 to $244,000.
I bring varied and well developed skills to the organization and planning, research, design, fabrication and installation process. I have been a practising freelance artist since graduating with both a teaching degree and a fine arts degree specializing in ceramics. I have established and run my art practise from the J Shed Studios in Fremantle since 1992. My focus is on design and I work mainly in the public art realm.
I have established a thriving studio situation that invites projects on a large scale and collaborations with artists from other disciplines. I have strong design and fabrication skills and enjoy working in various materials in three-dimensional sculptural works as well as wall and paving works.
Some of the mediums I have worked with include photography, painting, sculpture, metal and aluminium sculpture, concrete casting, stone and concrete carving, high fired ceramic tiles and mosaics. I have worked with engineers, architects and fellow construction professionals and personally install my own works with a team of specialists. I have extensive expertise both as a designer and a maker. I am meticulous with detail and all of my work is expertly crafted and finished.
I am a skilled organizer and a diplomatic team participant. I have worked extensively with other designers, artists, architects, landscape architects, builders, tilers, tradesmen, local council officers, schools and selected community groups in many varied roles as team leader and participant.
I have jointly won four awards for design excellence:
1997 Subiaco Centenary Tiles project
1998 Percent for Art Public art awards for Art works at Banksia Hill Detention Centre
1999 Civic Design Award for Art in Public Places/Charrnock Woman Mosaic in East Perth
2008 Landscape Architects of Australia award for art in Public Places for the Leighton Indigenous Paving Project”
Visit: www.jennydawson.com.au
Sioux Tempestt
Sioux Tempestt is a multidisciplinary Perth artist with a background in design and marketing. In addition to studio-based works, Sioux’s practice employs a multi-disciplinary approach, generating mural, sculptural and digital art which meaningfully contributes to its context.
Sioux has been involved in numerous group shows and held seven solo exhibitions. Among other achievementsSioux was a Finalist in the 2019 Perth Royal Art Prize; 2019 City of Busselton Art Award; Highly Commended in the 2018 City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award; Highly Commended in the 2018 Town of Bassendean Visual Art Award and a Finalist in the City of Joondalup 2018 Community Invitation Art Award. Her work is held in the City of South Perth and Ronald McDonald House public collections.
Sioux aims to constantly push the boundaries of her practice by traversing across different mediums. She intuitively fuses colour and form to investigate the integration of abstract expressionism within different realms: the public art environment; architectural landscape; digital applications. Sioux seeks to conceptually express dynamism and movement through painterly interpretations. The marks of paint and other medium recording the kinetic energy of paint as it is transferred from her body to surface.
Sioux often uses photography for research, to document environments and ideas, then deconstruct/reconstruct the imagery or enlarge it to microscopically investigate and illustrate objects in greater depth.
Visit: www.siouxtempestt.com
Bradley Kickett
Bradley Kickett is a local Noongar artist. He was born in Northam and grew up in Perth. He is descended from the Kickett clan in York, Western Australia. He began painting in 2007.
Bradley’s style of art is abstract with paintings depicted from an aerial view and illustrated in a fluid style that he has developed over the last three years. Bradley’s art pieces are influenced by experiencing Noongar country, from the oceans to the rivers and seeing the wildflowers and the land from the air and showing the flow and the shapes of the earth. These images are all interwoven with the history and the stories that are shared and passed down to him from his family and elders.
Since 2007, Bradley has exhibited and sold work at True Blue Gallery, Maaliup Aboriginal Art Gallery, Kings Park Aboriginal Art Gallery, Yonga Boodjah Aboriginal Art Gallery and the Walliup Cultural Centre in Fremantle.
Further to this, Bradley has also exhibited and sold work at the Animal Art Awards, 2010, Manjar Art Awards (2010-2016), City of Gosnells Art Awards (2011, 2015 & 2016), City of Belmont Art Awards (2015 & 2016) and the City of South Perth, Emerging Artist Award (2015).
Bradley was the winner of the Acrylic Award at the City of Gosnells, 2015 and received the Highly Commended Award at the City of Belmont, 2016.
Bradley is currently studying in his second year at Curtin University, towards a Bachelor of Arts majoring in fine art.
Bradley Kickett
