Redindigo.be Artists http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php Redindigo.be Artists en Redindigo.be Chantal Delrue artist_7.jpgHaving followed school in Brussels and Antwerp Chantal has received a BA in Fine Arts at Launceston and recently in 2006 got a Masters degree in Fine Art. Chantal has the Belgium nationality but lives sinces the 80’s in Tasmania.  Before settling in Australia she has traveled intensively over the world and has even lived for one year with Mexican artists as well as with aboriginal artists.

Her work is influenced by the work of the Flemish Primitives especially Van Eyck and Van Der Weyden but also from the more surrealistic artists Magritte and the Mexican autobiographical painter Frida Kahlo.  In the 90’s most of her work was about “Dreams” where she likes to work from the subconscious and will meditate in the silence for up to 10 days in a darkened room.  

In her more recent exhibitions Chantal is dedicating time to environmental concerns she and many others have around the continued destruction of the Forest of Tasmania.
Chantale Delrue’s work is concerned with the spiritual significance that forests have had throughout human history, and the current destruction of old growth forests. Her paper wall assemblages are created using dyes that she makes from the bark, leaves and flowers of native species found in the Tasmanian southern forests. The muted colours and subtle imprints left by the leaves on the paper convey a sense of the fragility of these ecologies. Each piece literally represents a microcosm of the forest.

Technorati tags: ]]> http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=7 http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=7 +0200 redindigo.be Geoff Dyer artist_3.jpgGeoff Dyer is regarded as one of Australia’s most respected and collected contemporary landscape artists. After graduating from art school in the late 1960’s, he worked as an art educator but rapidly established a vibrant painting
career. Dyer's work has been called gothic referring to the dark nature of his paintings, which are becoming increasingly abstracted. The impasto surface texture emphasizes the materiality of the paint and process as equal to the subject. Small works are created with only a palette knife and fingers

Dyer has spent most of his career painting the Australian bush, particularly the sublime wilderness of Tasmania. His seascapes from this notoriously rugged stretch of water have also been the subject of recent works. Dyer has managed to create works that merge 19th century romantic landscape traditions such as Turner, with a more contemporary vision that owes much to Australian modernists such as Fred Williams.

Dyer’s institutional recognition has been well documented. He has been a finalist ten times in the Australia’s premier landscape prize, the Wynne (Art Gallery NSW) and in 2003 he was the winner of the country’s premier Art Prize, The Archibald. He is represented in many major collections, both in Australia and overseas.

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Technorati tags: ]]> http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=4 http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=4 +0200 redindigo.be Glen Clarke artist_1.jpgGlen Clarke's work is based on the following theory: 'The correct distance between objects is critical, whether that distance is physical, cultural or emotional. Two objects too close to each other become one, two objects too far apart no longer relate to each other.' Glen believes that 'the world is made of art materials - marshmallows, clothes pegs, chopsticks, folded money shirts - and that any one element can become one of millions of DNA
building blocks.' A highly intuitive artist, his political and social concerns continue to influence Glen’s work. He is 'intrigued by experiments withchance relationships, accidental spatial
configurations, and a type of spontaneous Feng Shui.' 

Glen Clarke was the winner of the prestigious NGA National Sculpture price in 2005. His award winning work is now held in the collection of the Macquarie Bank. 

Glen Clarke is exhibited in Australia and Kuala Lumpur and is supported by the Australian
Council and the Australian High Commission.
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Technorati tags: ]]> http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=8 http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=8 +0200 redindigo.be Jan Florin artist_5.jpgJan Florin, musician and full time artist. His work is inspired by artists like Rothko, the "minimal-art, the colorfiled-painters, the Hard-Edge artist and even artist like Jackson Pollock an Juan Miro.  In his work, Jan tries to distinguish two elements: painting on one hand and the meaning on the other side. He prefers to work from the unconsciousness. Playing with little drawings, colors, spots and lines, is Jan is searching to create the "ultimate" that reflects powerful our inner thinking.

Technorati tags: contemporary art]]> http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=5 http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=5 +0200 redindigo.be John Dahlsen artist_2.jpgJohn Dahlsen is an Australian artist, based in Byron Bay, who studied in Melbourne at the
Victorian College of Arts and at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education.
John Dahlsen explores the duality of meaning and perception, and the illusion that is created in between. He presents an image of a non-object in a painting of an informal formalist sculpture. His paintings form the profile of a solid sculpture, moulded and plied to present the essence of formalism. The subject of the paintings, exhibit abstract geometrical imagery and constructivist diagramming of space that is playfully organic and blob-like. Yet the work is a painting of these organic man-made blob sculptures. The work considers cycles and recycling in re-presenting paintings of sculptures that are inherently plastic fabricator machine end waste. The use of plastic materials and their place in the evolutionary motions of recycling are important to Dahlsen in constructing these images. He explores the
mechanics of how an object is put together, what place it occupies in a cycle of life; organic or manmade. Dahlsen's choice of materials has as muchprominence as the end product. The work concentrates on cycles, momentum and the multiple. He is painting nonrecyclable purged plastic objects. These objects are by products of everything plastic, they are the plastic run before or after a hairbrush, juice bottle or chair is made.
They represent everything and nothing. The plastic in its petroleum state has undergone millions of years of evolution to get to this stage. And then, it is discarded as a byproduct of societal needs. For 25 years John Dahslen has had regular solo and group exhibitions in Australia, in both commercial and regional galleries and internationally, in USA and Europe.
Dahlsen became the first Australian artist, (he joins such renowned artists as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente and Damien Hirst) to be commissioned by global vodka producer Absolut, to create a major public artwork “Absolut Dahlsen”, which was unveiled at Sculpture by the Sea, 2004. (This work is now located outside the Gold Coast City Art Gallery).
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Kuddtji early paintings frequently depict his inherited ancestral totem the Emu. The stylistic compositions of his paintings often incorporate either a checkerboard background or brightly coloured dots. The concentric circles represent water holes where the Emu goes to drink.

His style has developed significantly over the years. His sophisticated dot work that is typical for his earlier work has transformed into bright fields of colour. These works are called “My Country” and represent the wildflowers found in the desert landscape. His brushstroke is loose and confident, putting amazing colour in geometrical patterns. These works are reminiscent of the style of his late sister Emily Kngwarreye, who was also praised for her remarkable sense of colour and bold brush stroke.

Kuddtji has painted for the Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings for many years. His work has become very collectable and is represented in various public and private collections in Australia and overseas.

Technorati tags: ]]> http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=10 http://www.redindigo.be/artists_en.php?artistID=10 +0200 redindigo.be Ronny Roels artist_9.jpgRonny obtained a BA in Art in 1984. From that time onwards Ronny was and still is passionate about the naked human being.  The naked body has been an unlimited source of inspiration. In honoring the human body, Ronny creates very realistic paintings that can be interpret in two ways: beauty or desire. Art is beauty and beauty is interpreted differently from human to human.  As articulating beauty is one thing, the naked body can also appear as a chocking event that can make people feel very uncomfortable.
Ronny has won several local art prizes and has been part of multiple group exhibitions around Belgium.


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