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The Studio Project
A book of Sunshine Coast artists, photographed in their studios.
A large-format book profiling 39 Sunshine Coast artists, each with a portrait and their workspace. Watch the book preview.
Winner · Open Category · 2025 APS Photo Book Awards
Also at Sunshine Coast regional galleries, Gympie and Maryborough galleries, Berkelouw Books Eumundi, Steven Street Gallery Yandina, Annie’s Bookstore Peregian Beach, Frametree Cooroy and CA Gallery Coolum Beach.
The artists
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A.J. Taylor
I’m just settling into my new studio. Essentially, it’s a big shed that’s been divided into two spaces. Out the back is a large area for preparing surfaces.
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Alison Mooney
Most often, my studio paintings in this ongoing ‘suspense vs. anticipation’ series, emerge from varying points on a pendulum between compositional, or colour, agitation and resolution.
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Beatrice Prost
My paintings and hand carved aluminium artworks explore our lands and seas seen from high above or down below. From rivers to reefs, my art is fuelled by patterns, repetitions and organic geometries in nature.
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Blair McNamara
7PM: Someone puts on some familiar guitar music. The kitchen is a mess of sunburnt hungry kids. The overgrown backyard is an abstract canvas of untamed banana leaves, surfboards, discarded towels, cane toads and open cars.
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Brian Keayes Mobius
My art is a response to the natural environment in which I live and the people who inhabit it. I’m deeply influenced by learnings from the First Nations custodians who hold the ancient knowledge of their lands.
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Carlie Johnston
I’ve always felt to be an artist at heart, but it wasn’t until I was in my late 30’s that I found the confidence to truly explore and share my creativity.
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Colin Pennock
This is a calm familiar place to make work. As thoughts come from the process of painting. The music and colours I choose are connected to where I’ve been and help the work evolve. I watch for movement in the paint.
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Gabrielle Jones
My work references Art History, mostly Baroque and Rococo eras and Abstract Expressionism, and evidences a mash-up of styles, marks and forms which is essentially an exploration into what paint can do-specifically, brush strokes become an equivalence of feminine textiles and adornments.
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Helena Jackson-Lloyd
I am a Sunshine Coast based visual artist. My work is inspired by the natural environment, with a particular interest in exploring the patterns, cycles, rhythms, and energies that weave a ‘wild place’.
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James Stickland
To paint is to breathe, it’s the discovery of techniques, the passion that makes you forget time. To be able to manipulate pigment into a story on canvas and bring it to life, challenging but fulfilling.
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Jandamarra Cadd
Art for me is never just about the art itself or the end product. The subject, medium, style etc serves as an invitation to something far more expansive.. A catalyst to activate the heart of our very humanity.
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Jan Williamson
Art, for me, is a process stimulated by life and the world around me, my work comes from a fleeting thought or vision in my mind. Then the challenge, mixed with passion, that it has to be put onto paper or canvas.
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Jess Le Clerc
I fell in love with art for two reasons, it calms my mind to sit and observe life and try to reproduce what I see and feel in paint and sharing that experience with others gives me a connection to others, expressing what I feel is most important in this human experience and giving it to others to share.
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Joolie Gibbs
Deliberate, controlled and very time consuming, is how I describe my artwork. The mindful processes I go through from making my botanical inks from trees on my property to the final mark making on the paper keeps me going.
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Judith Laws
Quote by Sandy Pottinger “In Judith’s artwork colour is not the background - it is the painting” I paint intuitively from my ideas and my imagination.
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Judith Sinnamon
“There are days when the sun’s glare washes out the colour, and the light with it, and days when cloud does. Light decides it. The bush is a medium for light. The effects on our senses are unpredictable, subtly mutable, aleatory.
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June Sartracom
Inspired by the modernist legacy and reductive visual language, my practice investigates the interplay of light, space and perception through minimalistic, geometric drawings and monochrome ‘relief’ paintings.
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Kellie O'Dempsey
My work is in constant flux, and I’ve come to realise that change is at the heart of my practice.
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Kevin Wilson
Creating art has always been a way for me to conceptualise my place in the social and natural world. Whilst I’m physically present in my images, my works do not specifically focus on personal exploration or self-portraiture.
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Kurun Warun
Art,dance and didge have been a part of my life for a long time. To me they are all the same, just another extension of my being.
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Kym Barrett
I make richly layered abstract paintings that emerge slowly from my absorption in the creative process. I build and excavate paint to arrive at something new and unexpected.
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Lauren Jones
My studio is my sanctuary. Not a place I come to work but to investigate. I find joy in the ‘making’, losing myself in the materiality of paint.
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Libby Derham
Since I can remember, I’ve been capturing observations of the world through drawing. It was a turning point when realising I could treat my brush as another tool for drawing, marking the start of my painting journey.
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Lisa Morgan
My studio is a place full of intent and excitement for what lies ahead. I follow no particular process, surprised and wary when a painting travels well, waiting for a wind change to take it to a place I do not fully recognise.
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Michael Pugh
In 1971, I came to Buderim where I set up my first studio. After 16 years in a very basic and improvised studio, I built a new studio further up the hill.
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Nicole Voevodin-Cash
Creating with interaction as a sculptural strategy transforms the process into a dynamic dialogue between the artwork and its audience.
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Odessa Mahoney De Vries
I am intrigued by the materiality of paint and the process of layering to discover unexpected compositions and colour combinations.
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Pam Walpole
The source of my work often springs from a natural or man-made disaster, like a flood, fires, or the destruction of bushland. The drama is the catalyst and triggers my need to paint.
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Petalia Humphreys
My studio houses a making process that calls upon a family tradition of creativity and woodworking. My ancestors include artists and designers – in addition to carpenters and cabinet makers.
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Peter Hudson
“ My paintings and drawings are a 50/50 mix of studio work, and plein-air landscape paintings I feel very lucky to have two studios, one in the back yard at home, and the other is anywhere in the Australian bush.
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Rex Backhaus-Smith
Dr Jill Brannock quotes, “Rex is a complex man, painter, poet, - a man of vision and artistic integrity - a lover of outback Australia”.
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Saren Dobkins
How do I feel working in my studio? I have painted for over 30 years, in whatever space I found myself: from bedrooms to leaky sheds. I have been in this studio, designed by my father, Walter Dobkins since 2019.
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Simone Eisler
I am passionate about understanding nature, and in my pursuit, I deconstruct it in order to creatively reconstruct it. As a child, I used to dissect small animal organs outside my father’s veterinary surgery.
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Sine Black
Charcoal and chalk pastel are the media I am currently exploring. I brought the pots and leaves in from the garden and arranged them on the studio table, stood back and saw that they had taken on a new persona.
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Stefan Dunlop
My references are predominantly classical, mixed with pop and contemporary imagery. In practice I work closely with these references, using drawing, projection and painting to produce the works.
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Susan Schmidt
I love my studio … for what it allows, rather than what it is. A safe place to find myself, forget about and make sense of life. A short walk from favourite subjects, and offerings of sticks and leaves for mark-making.
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Trevor Purvis
My starting point has always been the love of outback travel, not just the painting. Searching out the inspiration leads to plein air studies on paper that feel, smell, experience the scene.
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Yanni Van Zijl
Ceramic sculpture is what I do whilst imagining larger works or installations. It offers time and space for day dreaming, my happy place where I get out of my head.
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Zartisha Davis
Zartisha Davis was born in Nambour (1990), a Kabi Kabi woman descending from the Mooloolaba Chilly family, of the Mooloolah and Meridan Plains people.
Take the studios home
39 Sunshine Coast artists, their studios and their stories, in one award-winning book.