AUGUST 16, SUNDAY
1pm-2pm

++ tinygold ARTIST TALKS ++

tinygold ARTIST TALKS featuring 5 emerging Queensland artists: Pia Robinson, Simone Eisler, Dhana Merritt and Benjamin Werner, who are currently exhibiting this year, and Nick Chalmers who exhibited in our first tinygold show.The tinygold artists talk is held in conjuction with Tales from the Cold Ghost III, currently showing at 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace until August 22.

Bio:
NICK CHALMERS
In 1998 Nick (Nicholas) Chalmers was awarded with the primary school Creative Arts award at his school’s end of year awards night, which gave him a trophy (wow!) and his first ever cheque which was to the sum of one-hundred dollars (big WOW!). His art teacher at the time told him to never stop painting, so from that night on he never did. He actually hasn’t slept since* and courtesy of this has looks to kill but none the less has enjoyed creating art in a variety of mediums including ink, acrylic, short films and zines. Chalmers’ has been part of several group shows and art projects throughout Australia and staged his first solo exhibition at Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane earlier this year. *He may have slept a few hours here and there…only a few!

PIA ROBINSON
Pia is an emerging artist who is equally passionate about working in the Visual Ars Industry. She recently graduated from Queensland College of Art majoring in Gold and Silversmithing, since then she has started a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management at Queensland University of Technology and has completed ‘Marketing the Visual Arts’ at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. Her previous employment is diverse as Production Design Assistant on an Australian Film, Volunteer Tour Guide and Activity Supervisor at the Queensland Art Gallery, Archivist at Fire-works Gallery and Art teachers Aide. Over the years Pia’s artistic practice has been channeled through traditional black and white photography. This medium has captured several journeys and echoes of memory through time. As an emerging artists she has been involved in several group exhibitions during and after her territory studies but plans to have has first solo show during 2009.

SIMONE EISLER
Simone Eisler is a Brisbane based artist whose diverse sculptural practice interrogates relationships between Nature and Culture. Through the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate but familiar objects and unusual materials - and via intertwining processes of painting, drawing, video, performance and sound - she creates mystical installations that evoke transformative worlds in which anything is possible. Simone has exhibited her work internationally in the Philippines, Indonesia, New York, Belgium and Paris and within Australia. During the last eight years she has received several commissions from private, local Council and State Government clients to respond to a variety of indoor gallery and site-specific outdoor environments. Significant public commissions across Queensland include 175 Eagle Street, Prince Charles Hospital, Rocks Riverside Park, Sandgate Foreshore Parklands and Federation Park, Toowoomba.

BENJAMIN WERNER
Benjamin Werner is currently working at the QUT art museum as gallery assistant on all shows under the guidance of curator Simone Jones whilst being involved with documenting the entire collection for the new digital database. He is a Brisbane based Australian artist who is committed to ongoing artistic output with bi-annual solo shows of new bodies of work and various self funded/self edited publications including “the facebook”, 2008. He has taught in Art Theory, Fine Art, Design and Professional practice as well as worked for various galleries and arts related businesses. Recent acquisitions by Mater Hospital and Brisbane City Council’s Lord Mayors Business Awards.

DHANA MERRITT
Dhana Merritt is an artist/curator/arts worker, and studied fine arts at Brisbane Institute of Art prior to graduating at Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Visual Arts. After graduating Dhana travelled to New York and worked in a Chelsea Gallery and established artist run space Gallery a go go after returning to Brisbane. Art residencies include paper making in USA and Sumi-e (ink painting) in Japan. Dhana studied curating at Central St Martin’s College in London and has curated serval exhibitions and exhibited in Group and Solo shows. Currently Dhana is Curator and Gallery Manager of artist run space Flipbook Gallery and studio artist of studio collective Old Space.