The Hungry Workshop
The Hungry Workshop is a contemporary letterpress printmaking and graphic design studio. We create unique printed works by exploring every aspect of the letterpress process – from design to paper stocks, ink and plate surface.
Larisa Lategan
Larisa Lategan is Fine Art student in her last year of study at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. Her work is an expression of her obsession with the process of stitching and drawing, a labour intensive process she finds meditative, and that produces highly detailed and sensitive works on paper. She is influenced by her childhood drawings and the act of creating detailed patterns by repeating a simple mark like the humble line.
Carmel Dunne
Carmel Dunne explores the subtle romance of watercolours bringing her pencil-drawn creations to life,
using moments of sparsity alongside heavily detailed sections. The beauty lies in the nuanced approach to colour, concentrating its presence in a contained area, and exploring variants of the one shade to create a curiously busy environment.
Whether romantic or geek-chic with thick-framed glasses, Carmel’s figures explore the beauty of the human face. The gorgeous girl, the handsome boy and the captivating androgyny between.
Rachael McCosh
Racheal loves flipping to a fresh page in her sketch book. She loves blunt pencils, bright colours and all things tactile and handmade. She may have a slight obsession for bears with scarves, small dogs and large towers of hair, but there is also a space in her mind filled with her other obsessions of the glorious world of typography and graphic design.
Erin Flannery
Self taught artist and lover of all things black, white, weird, wonderful and fashion related, Erin Flannery turns her daily observations of the ruthless fashion world into works of art using aerosol, acrylic, pencil, watercolour and hand stitching. Always highly amused by chic young things who religiously follow trends sporting their topknot hairdo’s and killer heels, Erin tries to find beauty in new and unusual places. “I’ve always been really amused by trends and the lengths that people
go to to fit in and be a part of the pack. I always laugh when I see a group of girls all looking the same and now guys are doing it too…” These raw women on linen, cotton and sometimes paper challenge fashion by exaggerating what they hate most and still manage to look effortlessly cool even with one arm. The next trend you ask? Peg legs, get in before the rush.
Tyler Hill
Tyler Hill is a Gold Coast based freelance graphic designer and illustrator. He likes to draw strange things that he often can’t even explain. He has a strong passion for skulls, the human anatomy and morbid/macabre themes as evident in the majority of his work.
Elvissy
[el-viz-ee]
1. a collection of ideas and creations; Image, motion, texture, sound, sense and vibes. (as created by 2.)
2. a person, Elvira Wilkinson.
Elvira is a creative who works and plays across a variety of mediums, she holds a degree in Communication Design and has also studied in the field of Photography.
Over the years Elvira has found that her dreams and skill set have seen her designing and art directing within the music industry for bands, record labels, festivals and those alike.
It is now that Elvira plans to delve deeper into the filmic and textile worlds, with a hope to head overseas next year to create, play and soak up the global juices.
Shida
Despite his age, Shida is one of Australia’s street art heavyweights and has been well received by both Australian and European galleries. His futuristic mystics inhabit a distant universe and traverse multiple dimensions.
Shidaart on Flickr
Mariam Arcilla
Mariam Arcilla is a cultural developer, curator and artswriter based on the Gold Coast. She is co-director of rabbit+cocoon, a multi-arts hub providing artists and organisations with creative space and resource. Previously, she co-founded 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, and for two years as its director, facilitated its monthly exhibitions and professional development programs. She was also project director of ‘tinygold’ artist-run initiative, which used alternative spaces to showcase local artists. In 2009 Mariam was featured on the front cover of the Gold Coast White Pages for her contribution to the arts community. In the year after was nominated for a Gold Coast City Council Cultural Achievement Award. She has coordinated numerous arts events in Gold Coast and Brisbane. These community projects and collaborations are mostly volunteer-based, and have appeared in ABC TV, Art Monthly, Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gold Coast Bulletin, Courier Mail, Time-Off, Triple J Radio, fourthousand, Electrofringe and Naked City-Guide.
Hannah Smith
b.1986 Hannah Smith lives and works in Melbourne, and graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2008. Her works explores a labour intensive and detailed surface for drawing utilising pencil, ink and embossing. The image constructs itself according to basic rules beginning with a line, stroke or mark, a process. In working through these components, all elements evolve their own language to produce a repetition of mark making. As a result, these works end up as (intricate) patterns that recall organic or microscopic imagery. The work builds in a generative manner, mimicking natural forms.
Hannah Smith completed a Bachelor of Visual Media in Fine Art (Drawing) at the Queensland College of Art in 2008. In 2009, Hannah received Highly Commended in the Lloyd Rees Youth Art Memorial Prize in Sydney, and has been shortlisted twice in the Prometheus Visual Arts Award. She has exhibited widely nationally, and internationally.
Jae Copp
Fantastic illustration, experimental stitching and paper treatments, cool post-apocalyptic themes and surrealistic excursion? Such is the work of Jae Copp, a man who has been featured in various publications, sites and has already had work in a huge range of shows.
Josh Rufford
Josh Rufford likes to draw, paint and animate using pens, ink, acrylic, watercolours and any kind of found objects to create interesting visual compositions. Josh currently works as a graphic designer by day and freelance illustrator/animator by night.
Rhiannon McLay
Rhiannon McLay is a Brisbane based freelance illustrator & designer.
Rhiannon graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Illustration major) from the
Queensland College of Art in 2003, and with a Masters in Digital Design (Web Screen
Specialisation) in 2009. Since graduating in 2003 she has worked as a graphic designer in the signage industry, had her illustrations published in 5 children’s books & her artwork exhibited locally.
“I grew up a little bush kid- living in both Townsville & Mount Isa. My childhood was wonderful – Full of barefooted summers, lazy afternoon walks home from school in 40 degree heat, boat rides to the Great Barrier Reef, misadventures with treehouses , tar stained heels, sunburnt knees, grazed elbows & sore cheeks from smiling. I was a constant scribbler- annoying those around me on long car trips with the constant ‘scritch scritch scritch’ of my colouring in pencils (all colour-coded in their box of course).”
Shani Bijoux
Emerging artist Shani Bijoux delves into the realm of magical creatures and historical heroines in her deceptively delicate illustrations. Soft colours and wistful expressions are contrasted with bloodshed and brutality. She explores the flaws intrinsic to beauty, the mesmerising nature of youth and decadence. Her dreamscapes represent an other-worldly perfected imperfection.