Angela Kirby
www.frizzkirby.com

Angela Kirby is one of a small number of leading contemporary Australian Artists who is reaching an ever increasing international audience with her work. Angela was born in Melbourne, and bought up in the south east of South Australia. The pieces Angela will exhibit at the Festival will come from her inspirational mandala collection.

'Mandalas are a very sacred part of me, of us and of life and I certainly feel a great privilege to continue drawing them. And so when I go to my easel I just begin. I don't have a plan as that is not what these are about for me. Vastly different than how I work with my paintings.'

Jacqueline Briner
http://www.arts.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=288&c=5724

Originally from England, Jacqueline immigrated to Australia when still quite young. Married, raised a son and now exhibit through rural and urban South Australia. As artist in residence at Prospect gallery in 2009, Jacqueline explored the concept of luck and how it might impact on our genetic inheritance. Most of her work involves painting, in either oils, acrylics or watercolours.

Anthea Piszczuk
www.anthealouise.com

Born in rural South Australia in 1958, Anthea explores and replicates the abstract patterns, textures and colours of our environment. Using fibre, pastel, paint, collage or a fusion of these….her creations may be visual, functional or wearable.

For this exhibition she has chosen to explore the patterns, textures and form of the infant.

Since completing formal training in Advertising and Graphic design in 1978 her journey of creativity and inspired multiplicity has been evident in exhibitions from 2006.

Natasha Nydegger
http://www.natashanydegger.webs.com/

Natasha Nydegger is an Adelaide based figure sculptor. She was born in Sydney and grew up in the Adelaide hills. Her artistic talent was recognized and nurtured from an early age. Her passion for sculpture was ignited by a sabbatical year in europe when she was sixteen, whiere she was exposed to the culture and works of the great European artists.

She began exhibiting at age eighteen, with a sold out series of wall sculptures at Kensington gallery exhibited alongside drawings by John Lennon. She has also exhibited in Green Hill Gallery, Hill Smith Gallery and Lombard Art Gallery. Natasha has studied at Adelaide Central School of Art and Adelaide College of the Arts, where she learnt bronze casting. She teaches figure sculpture at BAPEA art school.

As well as being an artist, she would love to become a mother. She tries to capture the youth, optimism and beauty of the young in her sculptures. Portrait sculptures of children in bronze or terracotta available for commission.

Emma Kruszynski

Largely self taught in weaving, I have explored different styles over the last 10 years, by working with other artists and community groups here in South Australia and New South Wales. I have exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions since 2000.

I find that my motivation and inspiration to create come from very different sources depending on what is happening around me. Sometimes it is Russian architecture, sometimes my garden, and for these pieces, birth and its journey for both mother and child. A couple of these were created last year during my second pregnancy, the others were created drawing from memories of the early days of motherhood.

I like the textures and energy of weavings in relation to this phase of life. Organic, sometimes fraught with tension, other times loose and open.