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 WELCOME to ARTROPICA INNISFAIL STUDIO GALLERY, landline based in tropical Far North Queensland, Australia.
* ABN 51 208 360 857 + GST registered
Home Website: www.artropica.com.au
Established 1997 by creative founder/director, professional artist & co-owner Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch, Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery provides for its regional community:
1. Fine Art Supplies - an extensive range
2. Custom Framing - with quality & conservation Care (for the FNQ tropical climate especially!)
3. Restoration, Professional Artist & Educator Services
4. Original Artwork & Unique Handmade Giftware, from Local, Indigenous and FNQ Fine Artist's.
5. Artworker/Co-ordinator Services for Community Art Events, Workshops & Exhibitions
* Purchase Facilities available: Online PayPal, Shop EFTPOS/VISA, Direct Debit.
PRINTS OF SELECTED ARTWORKS:
1. For customer convenience, selected works are available for Prints on Demand (POD) at:
1. FINE ART AMERICA - http://artropica-innisfail-studio-gallery.fineartamerica.com
2a) KMP's Red Bubble Gallery - http://artropica.redbubble.com/ offers a selection of prints in various sizes and forms to choose from, eg.cards, prints, posters.
2b) KMP's Red Bubble Social Networking Site - http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica
You can view comments made on artworks here.
3. ARTIST RISING.COM - http://www.artistrising.com/shop/artist/39212/Kerryn-Madsen-Pietsch.htm
ARTIST REPRESENTATION
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Clifford MADSEN
Australian Indigenous Visual Artist/Sculptor
Biography
Cliff Madsen, born Mossman 1959, is a member of the Kuku Yalangi community, an Australian FNQ rainforest Aboriginal language group. He started painting in his early forties but has carved and sculpted North Queensland timbers for most of his life after his father introduced him to the craft.
He grew up in the hills near Port Douglas before moving north of the Daintree River between China Camp & Bloomfield River Community, where his parents lived and leased 30 square miles of land running a small cattle station for over thirty years. Cliff has resided in the Johnstone Shire (now known as the Cassowary Coast Regional Shire) since 1985 with his own family and works fulltime in the banana farming industry.
Cliff Madsen has a very strong kinship/connection with the land and natural environment of Far North Queensland. This is reflected in the images of wildlife, patterns, colours, timbers and wood grains, which dominate his work.
He has mainly exhibited locally in Innisfail art-curated shows and competitions and won several awards. His work has been purchased for both public and private collections.
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Kerryn MADSEN-PIETSCH
Contemporary Australian Visual Artist/Educator
Artist's Statement
"Often using multiple mediums, mixed-media and collage processes, I piece together abstract ideas, concepts, visual elements and pieces of experience which is at the very heart of the creative process and journey. It all acts as a vehicle for projection and exploration of self, linking and connecting to the human psyche, exposing conscious and subconscious realms, the alchemy of relationships, while transcending spirit with the Divine.
Added to the generative mix are archetypes and symbols developed over time: the thread ‘tracks’ are a metaphor for transition between states of being, planes of paint, spirit and matter; forms of vessels, grids and planes echo containment within levels; colour resonates with symbology, emotion and memory. By creating these ‘relationships’, one is ever mindful of reality, illusion, the dynamic forces, energies and thoughts that connect/disconnect all things visible and invisible."
Biography
Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch, born 1956, Ararat, Victoria, Australia, grew up somewhat resilient and self-directed, as the youngest of five children and only daughter, on an isolated self-sufficient mixed-farm near Hall's Gap, in the Grampians of Western Victoria, Australia. Between formal art and education studies Madsen-Pietsch worked and travelled interstate gaining life experiences. She settled in Innisfail, Far North Queensland 1985 to teach and married in that same year to Clifford Madsen, an Indigenous artist and member of the rainforest people of the Kuku Yalangi language group. They have three children and two grandchildren. Parallel to a long art teaching career, raising a family, and now current owner/operater of an art retail business, is Madsen-Pietsch's continual commitment to developing her professional art practice.
She has numerous drawing, painting, printmaking, fibre and sculpture awards, regional exhibition and workshop achievements behind her. Her recent solo exhibition 'Elevating the Spirit' selected and shown at Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld 2007, has also been juried to show in the Main Space, Umbrella Studio, Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Qld, 2009 April 24 - May 31.
Formal qualifications: 2003 Certificate 4 in Public Art,Tropical North Queensland TAFE, Cairns, Qld; 1982 Graduate Diploma in (Secondary) Education, Bendigo CAE, Vic. Majors: Art & Craft (D); 1977 Diploma in Art & Design, Deakin University Geelong Vic.; 1974 TOP Tertiary Orientated Program (equivalent Yr 12) 9 Subjects (8 x Art) Stawell Technical School, Vic.; 1973 HSC Art Luther College, Croydon, Melbourne.
For comprehensive information visit the home website: www.kerrynmadsen-pietsch.com
From Nov.08 Madsen-Pietsch's work can also be viewed at the national ABC's new 'Artpost' site:
http://artpost.abc.net.au/kickapps/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=4066278&as=50484&b= |
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