Macquarie Group Collection
Congratulations to the 2024 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize winners and finalists.
Please note:
1. The payment for the art is directly between the buyer and the artist, with no involvement from Macquarie;
2. The artist's price for each work is GST inclusive, where appropriate;
3. Macquarie has not added commission to the artist's price; and
4. The costs for packing and/or transport are not included in the price, with arrangements to be mutually agreed between the buyer and seller.
Artist bio:
Mitchell Davis currently lives and works on Gandangara country in the NSW Southern Highlands and is completing a Master of Fine Arts at the National Art School. In his textile and assemblage-based work he explores cycles of damage and repair, repurposing sentimental materials to redefine their associations and explore ideas of masculinity and identity. Camping in the bush is an iconic national pastime in Australia. In this work, the tent's materiality evokes intimacy with the landscape, while sewing becomes a meditation on interconnectedness, permanence, and impermanence.
Instagram: @mitchel__davis
Artist bio:
Lee Coulthard has recently completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Art at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Wynn Vale Dam, thirty minutes northwest of Adelaide, is a haven of natural beauty embedded in suburbia. The artist recalls that “We would sit on the bank and distort the red gum-lined embankment and colourful water reflection into hazy patterns of blues and greens”. In this painting, based on recollections of earlier experiences, the intention is to “create an aesthetic using systems, colour and paint rather than imagination”.
Instagram: @lee.m.coulthard
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Melbourne/Naarm-based artist Rhy Dyball uses cinematic lighting in his photography to create eerie, ambivalent narratives that can unsettle the viewer. Graduating in 2023 with First Class Honours in Photography from RMIT, his work is inspired by American photo-artist Gregory Crewsdon, and more broadly by the genre of horror film and its capacity to instill dread and anxiety, and the idea of an Australian Gothic evolved from the stories of our landscape. Deploying light as subject matter in itself, he intends for his photographs of the natural environment to be challenging, prompting us to question our place within a precarious world.
Instagram: @rhydyball
Website: www.rhydyball.com
Artist bio:
Fergus Berney-Gibson graduated from the National Art School in 2020 and has been included in a number of group exhibitions in mostly artist-run spaces around Sydney. In this work rendered on leather, the assumption of Australian suburbia as refuge is investigated through the skin of a lamb, an animal synonymous with Australian cultural heritage but one that is also an interloper. Weaving biographical narratives based on his emotional and interpersonal experiences, the artists asks: “As we mark the walls, the picket fences and backyards, how does the house mark us in return?”
Instagram: @ferguskbg
Website: www.ferguskbg.com
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Melbourne/Naarm-based artist Olivia Chin draws on her Australian-Malaysian-French heritage in brightly coloured compositions that can feel like diary entries from experiences in the Australian landscape. Adopting topsy-turvy perspectives and spontaneously abstracted forms, they capture the artist’s sense of interconnectedness between ourselves and the landscape. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture in 2015, Chin has expanded her practice to include textiles, painting and murals, and exhibited in group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne.
Instagram: @olivechin
Website: www.oliviaclairechin.com
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Zartisha Davis is a Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi artist from the Meridian Plans and Mooloolah River region near Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. This painting draws directly from her family’s cultural heritage: “At the mouth of the Maroochy River, where the earth transitions into the salty swirl of the ocean, my ancestors hosted sacred ceremonies along the coastline, extending as far as Deception Bay. Indulging in lavish feasts heaving with oysters and shellfish, they discarded their shells into towering piles that reached over six meters high—this abundance, celebration, and community created a Midden”.
Instagram: @Chilly_alma
Artist bio:
Photographic artist Alice Duncan employs analogue photographic techniques to capture light onto physical film, a process that can forge a tangible connection to the landscape. This image is part of an ongoing photographic series that uses non-extractive methods to photograph the landscape at Lake Mungo, the traditional lands of the Barkindji, Mutthi Mutthi and Ngyiampaa people. It documents an encounter with the landscape between the photographer and Barkindji elder, Lance, highlighting the importance of multiple perspectives and the collaborative nature of understanding and representing the landscape.
Instagram: @alicelduncan
Website: www.aliceduncan.com.au
Artist bio:
With a background in landscape architecture, Alison Ford returned to university ten years ago to study visual arts. She lives in a rainforest environment located between Canberra and the coast in southern NSW and her work is inspired by the natural surroundings, attempting to capture the ever-changing and often unexpected visual shifts that occur throughout each day. The role of chance informs the palette and compositions of this collage, mimicking how colour and light flicker through the forest, apparently randomly and always differently depending on where, when and who experiences it.
Instagram: @alison.amaryllis
Artist bio:
Conglomerate/Amalgam is a photograph by Sydney photo-based artist Fiona Henderson of glass jars and metal objects that were melted and fused together by the devastating bushfires in south-eastern Australia over the 2019-2020 summer. Drawn from a series titled Fragile and Traumatised, the artist obtained permission from victims of the fires to trawl through the ruins of their homes, collecting the only objects that survived – melted and fused metals, stones and glass twisted into new forms that, in the artist’s words, “carry stories of trauma and loss that connect them to the people who owned them, to the country in which they were located and to the wider climate crisis affecting us all”.
Instagram: @fionahendersonartist
Website: www.fionahendersonartist.com
Artist bio:
Completing her HSC in 2023, Jesse Heriot has already been exhibited and received awards in art competitions on Sydney’s northern beaches and is in her first year of a Bachelor of Creative Arts. The artist explains that this work “follows the visual narrative of the land of Sydney harbour, a space brimming with energy and excitement, capturing the essence of a generation navigating a rapidly evolving urban landscape … the fantastical elements represent the subconscious mind of the city’s people, where the natural and urban landscapes merge with personal and collective memories, dreams, and experiences”.
Instagram: @morbid__mayhem
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Since graduating from ANU’s School of Art & Design in 2017, Skye Jamieson has developed a painting and drawing practice that engages with water, light and her environment. She is particularly interested in transitory and ephemeral nuances of the natural world, allowing herself to absorb the shifting atmosphere and attempting to capture that experience in materials she describes as “gentle”, such as stone, water and chalks. This particular work is from a series of paintings made in response to the lunar eclipse earlier this year.
Instagram: @skyejamieson_
Website: www.skyejamieson.com
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Based on Gadigal land and currently completing an MFA in Drawing at Sydney’s National Art School, Elena Larkin regularly exhibits in landscape themed exhibitions in different parts of Australia. She paints en plein air in the Australian bush, attuned to the rhythm of the natural environment, the characteristics of its flora and traces and sounds of its non-human inhabitants. She conveys into her work this intense experience of place, conceiving her paintings as “an instinctual response, an exploration, engagement with the environment and the other beings”. This work was created on Wiradjuri land at Hill End, NSW.
Instagram: @lennylarkin
Website: www.elenalarkin.com.au
Artist bio:
Just one year out of art school, Sydney artist Tara McIntosh has had her work included in the 2024 Mosman and Gosford art prizes, and has also shown in artist-run and emerging artist galleries in inner Sydney. Her abstract paintings explore intersections and overlaps between the human natural worlds. In this painting, pigment has been applied to hessian with a sponge, creating marks which are removed and reapplied over some weeks, capturing the passing of time.
Instagram: @taramcintosh
Artist bio:
Jasmine Mowbray is an emerging Sydney artist currently in her final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts. This work, made with charcoal, wax and oil paint, is from a series exploring geometries and forms found in the natural world. She states: “The forms remind me of synaptic pathways and things observed by night, positioning the work as something that could be a reflection of the subconscious”.
Instagram: @jasminemowbray_studio
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Adrienne Watson is a First Nations artist working with the Injalak Arts centre in the Northern Territory. She lives and works in Gunbalanya, an hour from Kakadu in remote West Arnhem Land. Still in her mid-20s, Adrienne is learning from her family members to pass on Djung (dreaming) and culture, experimenting with traditional weaving with and innovative sculptural forms. This work represents a sea turtle (Manbiri), a traditional food source for her community that continues to represent their connection with the land and sea.
Instagram: @injalakarts
Website: www.injalak.com
Artist bio:
Casseyanne Woods was born in Nyapari in the APY Lands, the granddaughter of celebrated Tjungu Palya artist Maringka Baker and daughter of established artist Elaine Woods. She is based at Nyapari and earlier this year, aged 24, began painting at the APY Art Centre Collective in Adelaide. This painting, rendered in the green and blue hues of water, earth and sky, depicts elements of the landscape marking the journey through her ancestral lands from South Australia to the Northern Territory.
Instagram: @collectiveartcentre
Artist bio:
Lake Conjola resonates in the recent memory of Australians as a site of devastating bushfires five years ago. For photo-based artist Sarah Woodward, the place has a resounding sense of home. Yet she is also cognisant of earlier traumas, not just natural disasters but the displacement of First Nations peoples over generations. Here she aims to capture that paradox by creating an image infused with a sense of disquiet, yet also conveying the natural beauty of this sleepy coastal hamlet on the south coast of NSW.
Instagram: @sarah_woodward_mostly
Website: www.sarahwoodward.com.au
Artist bio:
Callum Worsfold is a Sydney based artist working primarily as a painter on works based around observation and life experiences. He specialises in interiors and suburban landscapes such as this one, creating compositions of that juxtapose light in an attempt to convey the psyche of a place. According to the artist, light and dark are a fundamental duality symbolising conscious and unconscious aspects of being: “Most of us exist in a state of half awareness where we may think we understand ourselves, but truthfully much of our psyche remains hidden, vague and obscured behind a mental fog”.
Instagram: @callum.w_art
Website: www.callumworsfold.com
