Some of our Artists

Julie Wecker is a multi award-winning artist who was Finalist in the Moreton Bay Region Art Awards in 2009 and Finalist in the Pine Rivers Art Awards in 2008. Her work is in the collections of the Redcliffe Museum and the Pine Rivers Regional Gallery and

Josefina Diazgranados

If there exists a pictorial work that in one way or another could resemble the immaterial patrimony of the Northern Colombian Coast that represents in each brushstroke the grace, the color, and the feeling implicit in the meaning of loving a specific zone

Lachlan Kennedy

Lachlan has lived in Redcliffe all his life. He has a quirky sense of humor and a unique vision of the world. In 2007 Lachaln held his first solo exhibition at the Graydon Gallery at New Farm, selling 60% of his work. This young man's passion for art has

Hariata Tangahoe

Since she first exhibited in the early 1980s, Tangahoe has been described as a naive painter, but these days she shrugs her shoulders and says she has never thought of her paintings in such terms. Intuitive is a better word to describe Tangahoe's art, although she does embody something of 'the naïve' who, according to Marcel Jean, "after reaching adulthood, retains intact the conviction that desire and reality are synonymous

TUPUNA

Ki te kitenga I ahau no oku tupuna
I tuku iho I tuku iho

(My visions come from my ancestors)

Practical living belongs in a universe which includes spirits and ancestors,
humans and the natural world all in one living cosmos, an ordered universe
that is interrelated and which has to be maintained through right relationships.'
A.C.Moore: Arts in the Religions of the South Pacific- Symbols of Life, 1995, pg. 68

Since she first exhibited in the early 1980s, Tangahoe has been described as a naive painter, but these days she shrugs her shoulders and says she has never thought of her paintings in such terms. Intuitive is a better word to describe Tangahoe's art, although she does embody something of 'the naïve' who, according to Marcel Jean, after reaching adulthood, retains intact the conviction that desire and reality are synonymous
Gregory O'Brien: Lands and Deeds, Godwit, Auckland, 1996, ( pages 88-92)