Artists Voice

Our Aims Are: Joining Artist's Voice Criteria for Admission to the Artist's Voice Current Members

• To provide a point of contact for emerging and established visual artists.
  

• To provide opportunities for artists to show their work through regular group and/or solo exhibitions at various venues.
  

• To share ideas, resources, experiences and enthusiasm at regular gatherings.
  

• To encourage best practice and the pursuit of excellence from our members.
  

• To raise awareness of local art and local artists within our community.
  

• To support local organisations and events through exhibitions, displays and demonstrations.
  

• To interact with educational organisations and assist senior school exit students to maintain an active interest in the visual arts.

If you wish to join the Artist's Voice, please submit the following Information to
The Artist's Voice, PO Box 494, Mount Barker, S.A. 5245:

• Name:
  

• Postal Address:
  

• Phone:
  

• Email:
  

• Areas of Interest - Painting, Sculpture, Photograhy etc:
  

• Experience, Qualifications etc. - 'Please attach CV:

• Is the work submitted original, not copies of other art works.
  

• In the case of painting, drawing or mixed media: - Does the work indicate that the artist has a mature grasp of media, techniques and composition?
  

  In the case of sculpture: - Does the work show developed modeling, carving or construction skills?
  

  In the case of photography: - Does the work show individuality of vision significantly beyond that of a snapshot?
  

• Does the work demonstrate an original or individual approach?
  

• Has at least some of the work been presented in a manner suitable for exhibition?
  

• Does the C.V. show a level of formal art education or experience of professional exhibitions?

Current membership of The Artist's Voice includes the following artists:
Please contact the members directly if you require further information and/or details of their work.

• Kym Dean Afford - Email: afford@bigpond.net.au
  

  Kym is a self taught artist in sculpture and caricature. Caricaturist to both The Chronicle and The Stock journal during the ‘70’s and early ‘80s. During this period he explored and developed wood and steel sculpture, following his nose through rubbish dumps for found pieces. He developed welded figures in direct welded bronze after Nathan Cabbot Hale of America. Kym remains an individual here using this method. He had a foundry and has cast bronzes for commissions.
  

• Inta Alander
  

• Kay Bridge
  

• Donna Brink-Reid
  

• Alison Brown
  

• Penny Choate
  

• Cameron Doyle
  

• Joanne Freebairn
  

• Val Grapentin
  

• Kon Heyer - Phone: (08) 8278 8892, Email: konheyer@bigpond.com
  

  Kon's paintings and sculptures are executed in an 'abstract expressionist' style, experimenting with different media and colour. Chance, accident and incident, along with the element of surprise, all play an integral part of his work. He divides his time working in his home studio and 4WD-ing in the outback.
  

• Margie Hooper
  

• Clair Hamdorf
  

• Robyn Haworth
  

• Vitas Jurevicius - Phone: (08) 8398 2051, Email: vit@internode.on.net
  

  Cast aside rational exploration and let the senses lead the mind into another sphere enhanced by the fluid calligraphic embellishments of energized brush marks. Vitas' paintings bring dreams to people's homes. They can be shared with him if the viewer allows aesthetic pleasure and meditation to be his or her companions on their journey into this empowering other world.
  

• Pamela Kouwenhoven - Phone: (08) 8391 0649, Email: pkouw@hotmail.com
  

  Pamela uses found and discarded materials, often from unlikely sources, in her art. She is intrigued with the potential she sees in discarded objects when they offer ideas (related to their history) that she can work with and in the process offer a 'new life', by re-presenting them as works of art.
  

• Bob Landt
  

• Anni Luur Fox - Phone: (08) 8388 7235, email: alfox@picknowl.com.au
  

• Tess Magor - Mob: 0422 444 094, email: tmagor.art@gmail.com
  

  Tess has been exhibiting her paintings, printmaking and other works for a number of years both in South Australia and Victoria. Ideas about society, nature, history and beauty inspire her. Tess loves the creative process as much as she gets satisfaction from the final work. Colour, mystery and the poetic are elements in her work.
  

• Norma Mansell
  

• Jeffrey Missen
  

• Monika Morgenstern - Email: monikamorgenstern@hotmail.com
  

  Travel and relocating from Dattenfeld in Germany to Australia has been fundamental to Monika’s work. The colors and textures of this landscape continue to influence her. Her work synthesizes the notion of conception, birth, growth and death. Her work is highly symbolic and combines her understanding of color and form.
  

• Andrea Num Glover - Phone: (08) 8389 9503, Mobile: 0401 571 099, Email: woodhang@bigpond.net.au
  

  Andrea explores the spatial dynamic of the picture plane, searching through traditional idioms with contemporary processes and mixed–media. The vastness of the Australian landscape ‘seen aerially’ is experienced in general aviation by Andrea. Using her imagination she takes universal elements to suggest intrinsic qualities.
  

• Kathleen Munn
  

• Justin Pearson
  

• Donald Richardson BA, Dip Art, T Dip Art, RSASA - Phone: (08) 8398 2185, Email: donaldar@ozemail.com.au
  

• Colin Rogers - Phone: (08) 8388 3310, Email: colrog@bigpond.com
  

  Colin taught senior secondary art/design in South Australian schools for far too many years. He now practices as a full time visual artist from his studio at Meadows in the Adelaide Hills. His paintings and drawings cover a range of themes including Portraits, Landscapes and Natural History in a style that sits somewhere between realism, impressionism and illustration. His sculptures, in ceramic or metal, are a little more whimsical, a bit cutting and often humorous. They are certainly more abstruse.
  

• Dave Smith
  

• Peter Surguy
  

• Gordon Thurmer (aka Thurkettle) - Phone: (08) 8388 9414, Email: thurkettle@adam.com.au
  

  Gordon has had no formal training, and his work has emerged from an interest in numerous styles. He still is not sure if he has his own. As for the subject matter, he is not so afraid these days to illustrate, as best as he can, the frailty of the human condition, and yet the tenacity and humour above all. Truth and humour, the first made more palatable by the second.
  

• John Wiggins

Between 6 and 8 group exhibitions are held each year. Some are thematic while others are linked with recognized events such as SALA, Adelaide Festival of Arts, the Fringe or the Heysen Festival.
Opportunities also exist for members to mount solo or small group exhibitions. Our exhibitions include painting, drawing, sculpture and print making in a variety of media and styles.

The Artist's Voice exhibit on a regular basis in the upstairs gallery of the Hahndorf Academy. It is definitely worth the climb up the stairs to view the exhibits.