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Now Open: Noosa Open Studios Art Trail

This week we took to the backroads, byways and beaches of Noosa to meet some of the artists opening their workspaces for Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

From today to October 9th, Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 brings together 117 artists on 5 art trails across 9 days. Now that the artists have put out the welcome mat, the general public can meet artists and view their work in their usually private domains – their studios.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022

The free event showcases the diverse and vibrant Noosa visual art scene giving art lovers the chance to explore the coast, the hinterland and the villages that make up Noosa to discover celebrated and emerging artists.

While the Noosa region is renowned across the globe for endless stretches of white sand beaches, the Noosa Open Studios Art Trail allows visitors and locals to discover dozens of ceramicists, sculptors, painters, mixed-media and 3-D artists that call magnificent Noosa home.

Now in its seventh year, Wallace House at 1 Wallace Drive Noosaville remains the Noosa Open Studios Hub. Volunteers will aid art lovers in planning their trail journeys, and artwork from each artist is on display. Pick up a Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 guide at Wallace House. Or download it at https://noosaopenstudios.com.au/art-trail-guide/ The guide gives you a short bio, an address, and opening times along with Instagram and Facebook handles to see more work.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

This Magnificent Life met painters Kate Florence and Rosie Woods, who share studio space in Noosaville. Margie Gibson and Julia Vail also share a studio at Doonan, as do Rowley Drysdale and Sarah Therese at Cooroy. Renton Bisphoric is Mr Pottery for the Planet at Noosaville. Also at Noosaville is painter and mixed media artist Rosie Lloyd-Giblett, while sculptor and former chef Pierre Otth resides at Peregian Beach. Silversmith and jewellery artist Anne Everingham is on Trail 3 at Eumundi.

Trail 1 Noosa
#16 Kate Florence – page 29

Contemporary painter Kate Florence works mostly in acrylics. She feels she is still exploring how to work with paint and approaches each piece without a defined outcome in mind. With a background in Fine Art and textiles, her work is reminiscent of post-modern expressionism and Matissian composition.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
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Noosa Open Studios This Magnficent Life Kate Florence

#27 Rosie Woods – page 38

Rosie is a muralist, street artist and abstract realist painter who works predominantly with aerosol paint. Her vivid work feels otherworldly with broad cascading veils of iridescent colour and hyper-realistic texture. She sees her art as “a dance between the materiality of painting and the slick aesthetics of the digital”.

#25 Renton Bisphoric – page 37

Born to potters, Renton Bisphoric naturally took up the family ‘business’. His practice successfully straddles the commercial and the art world. His ‘Pottery for the Planet’ brand was born to help eradicate single-use culture and plastic waste in Australia and beyond.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

Each hand-made keep-cup, travel bowl, mug and plate are made ethically, sustainably and creatively. Likewise, the packaging is recycled and re-purposed to eliminate plastic, and their wholesale model allows the public to buy locally and minimises freight packaging and carbon emissions.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
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#26 Rosie Lloyd Giblett – page 38

Rosie’s local Noosa natural environment shapes her artistic direction to paint her colourful, expressive paintings. While she works on paper and canvas, Rosie sometimes incorporates collage and uses natural brushes from sticks and leaves she finds in the National Park. Working mainly en plain air, she incorporates different textures in her sometimes colourful and sometimes more muted work.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tonia Cecil

She wants to entice viewers of her work to “smell the foliage, view the colour pathways and understand the tune of the natural world”.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tonia Cecil
Trail 2 – Beaches
#58 Pierre Otth – page 65

Born in Lausanne, Pierre began his creative process as a chef and is a Noosa culinary legend. Today, he shapes limestone, not food, into marvellous organic, sensual shapes.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

He came late to sculpture, and seeing Auguste Rodin’s Andromeda in Paris inspired him to pick up the tools and create.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography
Trail 3 – Tinbeerwah to Eumundi
#68 Anne Everingham – page 74

Anne Everingham’s jewellery is bold but classic, earthy but refined and always head-turning. Incorporating semi-precious and precious jewels, stone, shells, gold and silver, each statement piece tells a story.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

One of the most unusual pieces on display during Noosa Open Studios is a white jade teething ring reimagined into a stunning necklace.

#84 Margie Gibson – page 89

Margie Gibson is a contemporary painter, sculptor and ceramicist. Working from her charming studio, she creates refined sculptures and bold paintings that are born from the land, sea and rockscapes.

Her interest has always been in hand-built forms focusing on curved, tactile and asymmetrical vessels with one form inspiring and leading to the next.
Image: Tim Bond Photography

Her highly refined sculpture contrasts with her stylised painting.

#79 Julia Vail – page 85

Born in Paris, Julia studied at the Bath Academy of Art where she graduated with a B.A. in Three Dimensional Design (Ceramics). Julia’s ceramics are curved, asymmetrical, ethereal and bold in their simplicity.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life

 

Her interest has always been in hand-built forms focusing on curved, tactile and asymmetrical vessels, with one form inspiring and leading to the next.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life

Trail 4 Cooroy
#101 Sarah Therese – page 108

In a former life, Sarah Therese worked in marketing for big-name Australian fashion brands. She now creates wheel-thrown ceramics and embellishes with the ancient ‘sgraffito’ method of layering colour and then ‘scratching’ the superficial layer to reveal the base colour.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

Sarah is a former President of Noosa Open Studios. Her highly detailed ceramics reflect her love for colour, flowers and nature. Unlike anywhere else Rowley and Sarah’s patch of paradise in Cooroy is pure inspiration.

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#99 Rowley Drysdale – page 107

As one of Australia’s most celebrated ceramicists, Rowley Drysdale is no newcomer to the Noosa Open Studios Art Trail.

The land and, in particular, the spectacular rainforest landscape that surrounds Rowley and Sarah’s ‘Quixotica Art Space’ sparks his imagination and creativity.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

When Rowley isn’t sharing his knowledge and skills to his workshop students he’s usually making or firing in the wood kilns on the property.

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2022 This Magnificent Life
Image: Tim Bond Photography

 

 

 

 

 

Liz Bond

Liz Bond comes from a PR background and loves fine wine, great food and rewarding travel - all the magnificent things in life. She prides herself in meeting famous celebrities at baggage carousels.

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