Patsy Payne (Head of Workshop
Patsy Payne's work spans a broad range of disciplines: drawing, painting, varied print techniques and, more recently, she has worked in China and Thailand on projects involving ceramic objects. In 2003/4 she spent six months working in Lunuganga, Sri Lanka on an Asialink residency and in 2008 worked in Bristol, UK and then in Thailand producing work for exhibition. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, and her work is held in a number of major Australian collections.

John Pratt
The shifting character of landscape and our ephemeral presence within it has been a central theme in John Pratt's work over the recent past. A short residency in Switzerland in 2000 was catalytic in generating a sequence of drawings which documented the transient qualities of the local terrain. While these works owed much to the specifics of a particular site they seemed to indicate a broader and more generic condition.
While the provisional nature of drawing is critical to my current work the mediation of mark through relief print and etching is an enduring aspect to my practice.

More recent projects have involved site specific projections in public spaces which have been generated in response to current political circumstance. These have been driven in part by a belief that prints can again play a significant role in the discourse of public affairs.

Peter Jordan
Any statement about my work is usually prefaced with the following from Charles Baudelaire:
"Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subjects nor in exact truth, but in a mode of feeling".

My choice of subject is often people, a figurative representation of feeling in relation to inner perception of the world and experience around us. Some have a more social aspect, others an internal, personal aspect. Suffice to say that something of yourself is in everything you do.
The Bright Empire is an example of a more social metaphor, made as it was under the current political situation it could be seen as some kind of spectre of propaganda. Sear Me 2 is more internalised, a figure that has suffered and survived wearing the scars of its ordeals. Datura is by far the most upbeat, a mythic archetype enjoying a contented peace either real or imagined.