lc2009 artists

site::unseen : artists

Adrian Davis

Graduating from Falmouth College of Arts (UK) in 1996 with 1st class hons in visual arts, I began a career in the film industry on my return to Australia, working in various guises for the next 6yrs; sculptor, scenic artist, props and model maker and concept design.  After acquiring a huge wealth of experience in the industry the lure to re-establish an arts practice proved too strong culminating in my first exhibition in Australia in 2003.

My practice very quickly developed into a full time collaboration with Lubi Thomas   formerly established in 2004 under the banner of Davis-Thomas.  Supplementing our gallery practice I continued designing and fabricating for theatre, film sectors and for Brisbane based Themeing companies until 2005.

Since 2005 Davis Thomas has enjoyed several public art & private commissions that has enabled our practice to explore often on large scale, sculptural elements and installations.  These works incorporate our interest in interactivity, materiality and ephemerally of objects, as well as ideas of transference and the participatory experience of the audience. Conceptually underlining our practice is the notion of the sublime and creating fragmentary moments; which through subtle ruptures within our sensorial mode question the causality with which we normally perceive our place, time, dimensionality and influence.  It is this underlying interest that we apply to our gallery based arts practice and, where possible, to interweave into commissioned public art project briefs.

With the success of public art commissions I have been able to establish a fabrication business called Mt Nebo Studios, of which the realisation of projects are created from Davis-Thomas concepts on a full time basis.

www.davisthomas.com.au

Simone Eisler

Simone is a Brisbane based artist whose diverse sculptural practice interrogates relationships between Nature and Culture. Through the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate but familiar objects and unusual materials – and via intertwining processes of painting, drawing, video, performance and sound – she creates mystical installations that evoke transformative worlds in which anything is possible.

Simone has exhibited her work internationally in the Philippines, Indonesia, New York, Belgium,Paris and within Australia.  During the last eight years she has received several commissions from private, local Council and State Government clients to respond to a variety of indoor gallery and site-specific outdoor environments. Significant public commissions across Queensland include 175 Eagle Street, Prince Charles Hospital, Rocks Riverside Park, Sandgate Foreshore Parklands and Federation Park, Toowoomba.

www.simoneeisler.com

Sebastian Moody

Communication is both sanctioned and sanctified in the conceptual art of Sebastian Moody. Placed in situ and out of context, Sebastian’s work delivers familiar messages about who we are. Central to this, is the question of how we use information to create and share rituals of selfhood.

Sebastian’s text works have appeared in swimming pools, personals ads, kitchen splashbacks and as shopping receipt ‘portraits’; elsewhere, his messages have manifested as idealised physical environments. Most recently, Sebastian applied market research techniques to study focus groups and gain data to inform the creation of a brandless billboard advertisement for This is Now, his contribution to the Next Wave Festival 2008.

In addition to his art practice, Sebastian is currently studying a Masters in Museum Studies at the University of Queensland. Sebastian is also a member of the artist group The General Will.

Sebastian’s projects have appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Next Wave Festival 2008, Linden Contemporary Art Space, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Queensland Art Gallery, Livid Festival, Kings ARI, Museum of Brisbane, The Goodwill Bridge, The Queensland University of Technology Art Museum and Southbank Parklands.