Exploration 21

Introduction

EXPLORATION 22 artists now announced!

WINNER OF THE 2021 EXPLORATION AWARD: LUCY ROLEFF. Lucy will be exhibiting at FLG in 2022. 

WINNER OF THE 2021 EXPLORATION PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD: MELODY SPANGARO

Now in its 21st year the FLG Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition provides a platform for emerging artists to successfully exhibit their art within a commercial gallery context. The winner of the FLG Emerging Artist Award will be offered an exclusive solo exhibition with the gallery in 2022. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

PAUL SUMMERFIELDPaul Summerfield's elaborate digital artworks combine technology and nature to create uniquely hopeful realities full of serene beauty alongside implausible dream-like realities.View Paul's CV and Artist Statement

TREVOR TAGLIABUEInfluenced by model making, Japanese netsuke, jewellery design and other miniature decorative arts Victorian artist Trevor Tagliabue creates small scale wooden sculptures that draw inspiration directly from the unique Australian biosphere.View Trevor's CV and Artist Statement

KATE VASSALLOKate Vassallo is an Australian visual artist, currently based in Canberra. With an interest in process-orientated repetition, building material density and optical perception, Vassallo's artistic practice spans a number of different media including drawing, printmaking, painting and installation.View Kate's CV and Artist Statement

LUCY ROLEFFMelbourne artist Lucy Roleff's paintings explore notions of beauty and purpose. Depicting everyday items and elements of the natural world, her work seeks to gently question our desire to claim and revere such objects. View Lucy's CV and Artist Statement

MELODY SPANGARO Melody Spangaro employs monochromatic drawing-based mark making to document experience, memory, and emotional response to natural environments, while exploring the imaginary thresholds between nature, culture, philosophy and art. ​View Melody's CV and Artist Statement

ANNA CAMPBELL Anna Campbell is a West Australian artist and illustrator whose delicate ink and watercolour drawings explore themes of botanical art, portraiture and the fantastical. ​View Anna's CV and Artist Statement

LORRAINE BRIGDALELorraine Brigdale is a YortaYorta Woman who weaves and uses handmade ochre paints in her works,  drawing on her connections to both family and land.View Lorraine's CV and Artist Statement

MAHALA HILLNSW artist Mahala Hill uses clay to reflect her insatiable curiosity for nature and desire to replicate the sense of bewilderment and unknown that it arouses for her. View Mahala's CV and Artist Statement