David Sayer
$440 Oil on canvas, 20 x 25cm
Through the textural layering of paint, David Sayer explores the play of light and colour in the urban environment. He explores the busy inner-city environment, areas often overlooked as transient and creates focal points for memory or nostalgia. His images find creative form in capturing a disappearing landscape in a modern developing world.
My work contains the urban spaces and ground that is often seen as something that is unimportant. Streets, old buildings, railways sidings and areas that are travelled through by busy people rather than dwelt upon. Areas that have a history that reveal a time passed. Through painting I explore this space and the interplay of light and colour. The love of texture in both mediums characterizes the work and provides a vehicle for this direction.
Final Instant Artwork Write-Off
The 2025 Federal Budget has brought to an end the decade-long ability of eligible small businesses to claim artwork purchases up to $20,000 as a 100% tax write-off.
The relief, first introduced on 12 May 2015 as part of the Small Business Measures legislation, will cease on 30 June 2025.
Federal Budget 2025-26: instant artwork write-off to end on 30 June 2025
Tuesday’s budget removes the ability to write off some artwork purchases from the end of this financial year.
Michael Bond
New Day
$8,500 Acrylic on linen in Tasmanian oak frame, 143 x 143cm
Catherine Cassidy
“This work came about through my musings and travelling through Deep Time, which if you’ve spent any time sitting on a rock in the outback, you can’t help being overcome by. The great swelling passage of time you can feel coming up out of the ground into the soles of your feet. I couldn’t help thinking that rain then is rain now. All water falls and comes back to us, over and over. in a great cyclical fashion. In Australia, great masses of water like The Great Artesian Basin store these million year old raindrops. Sometimes they surface hot, briny and bubbling- just to remind us of this other secret, subterranean world. Precious water.”
Million Year Old Raindrop
$6,500 Mixed media on polycanvas, 152 x 152cm
Conchita Carambano’s style is highly recognisable and yet profoundly enigmatic. There is an elegance and a maturity in Conchita’s abstract paintings infused by an instinctive gift with colour, line and form. The Australian landscape, our earth, has been a constant source of inspiration. It has fuelled her exploration and creativity.
Conchita Carambano
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$5,200 Mixed media on canvas, 76 x 153cm
Peter Watts stands as a distinguished landscape artist, gaining acclaim as a finalist in the 2021, 2022 and 2024 prestigious Glover Prize. Renowned for his adept portrayal of ephemeral moments, he expertly captures the interplay of light and shadow in the expansive skies and rural settings of Southern Australia.
Upcoming Exhibition Tempest’s Light at Art2Muse Gallery 6 – 19 May 2025
The Valley Track
$14,800 Acrylic on Belgian linen in a black inset frame, 185 x 139cm
Olivier Rasir’s hessian artwork in a Perspex box features in Albany House by Carla Barton Design
Interior design @carlabarton_
Builder @wyattprojects
Joiner @intrendjoinery
Stylist @olgalewisstyling
Photographer @dave_wheeler
Residue Matter White Grey Yellow Pink
$2,900 Mixed media on Hessian floating in Perspex box, 83 x 65cm, 6cm deep
“My art is a continuous journey of discovery as I explore, through painting, our incredible and diverse environments around the country. I look deep into a landscape and extract the subtleties and connotations that lie within. My aim is to evoke emotion and a sense of place through my paintings. I create connections with the Australian environment to allow for a deeper understanding of the compelling beauty, the wild, the rugged and the mystery of our unique landforms.”
Paula Jenkins
The Junction Waterhole
$6,500 Oil on canvas in light oak frame, 122 x 152cm
Conchita Carambano’s vehicle for expression has been boundaryless, and the potency of her work has fuelled an extraordinary career that continues to gather momentum. Awards, acquisitions, civic and corporate commissions, solo exhibitions and the attention of private collectors in Australia, Asia and the Middle East punctuate Conchita’s burgeoning 30 year career.
View Conchita Carambano’s Exhibition Grace at Art2Muse Gallery until 21 April 2025
