Coochiemudlo Artisan Collective Inc.

Introducing the art and artists on the island

About the Collective

The Collective was formed in 2019 to promote the rich diversity of visual art produced by artists and artisans living on Coochiemudlo Island.

Artworks are showcased at:

Curlew Gallery (located above the Curlew Café). Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and public holidays from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm — or by appointment.
Ross Street Gallery (9 Ross Street). Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and public holidays from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm — or by appointment.
Artisan Alley — beside the Curlew Café. Open Sundays 8.00 am - 2.00 pm (weather permitting).

Special exhibitions are organized by the Collective throughout the year.

Visit the Artisan Collective Facebook page.

Meet the artists

Featured

Catherine Bishop

Choosing her media and subjects in response to her mood and feeling on the day, Catherine Bishop’s work embraces multiple genres and finds expression in forms ranging from hand painted cards to pastel drawings and larger paintings in acrylic and oils.

Deb Wood aka DAWood

DAWood calls her type of art ‘Moodism’, allowing mood and other intuitive triggers to unfold across her canvas in rich free flowing narratives of images, symbols, patterns and mixed media textures, often surprising herself with what emerges from out of the energy of the creative process.

Deirdre Moran

Deirdre Moran’s landscape works reconnect our memories and emotional responses to place. Often inspired by island landscapes, seascapes and skies, she is captivated by the ever-changing light and colour that illuminates each scape.

Dot Knight

Dot Kight works from life and heart, using bold, simplified shapes to powerfully express the essential forms and positivity of the internal and external ‘scapes’ she presents.

Hollie

Referring to herself as a maker of odd objects, Hollie works with lightweight found objects. She gives three-dimensional form and voice to ongoing themes of life: growth, hope and renewal.

Jacqui Creswell

Within the meditative practice of weaving, Jacqui Creswell allows the character of the materials and the chaotic patterns of the bush itself to influence the shape and flow of the work.

Jenny Alderman

Working across a broad range of paint, print, ceramic and assemblage media, Jenny Alderman’s work responds to subjects from the natural world, particularly from the Island and Moreton Bay, often using photographs as a reference for extracting the essential forms of her subject.

Kerry Darton

Kerry Darton is an island-based jeweller who works largely with reclaimed silver. Her pieces are inspired by forms within the natural environment: the curves and smooth lines of the island’s silver, sea-smoothed, fallen tree roots, or the fragility of leaf skeletons, and the magic of shaping and transforming flat metal into new forms.

Merrett Keech

Merrett Keech draws inspiration from her long engagement with bay island life. She enjoys the challenge of responding directly to the materials and issues immediate to hand and heart, maintaining creative dialogue in the play, one project against another.

Neil Hann

Neil Hann is landscape artist at heart. His work reflects a personal exploration of the sublime inherent in place. Beach, mangrove and wetland walks, looking closely at the abstract possibilities of the island’s flora have therefore inspired new directions.

Ruth Tuxworth

Ruth Tuxworth’s quiet, detailed and meticulous artworks celebrate the physical and spiritual experience of natural beauty rendered through observational detail and delicate abstraction.

Terry Byrne

As an artist, Terry Byrne describes the impetus behind his creative work, both visual and written, as a desire to deeply and sensually encounter — and connect with the world around him.

Trish Miller

The themes, ideas, and intentions that inspires Trish Miller include the challenge of discovering and using new skills and techniques. “I try to make things that are both beautiful and useful. I like the tactility of the beads; the colors and finishes; the rhythm of weaving.”

Valerie Eugarde

Constructed with loose playful strokes of the brush and textured applications of thick creamy colour, Valerie Eugarde’s subject matter varies from day to day, ranging from funny/ quirky birds and animals to spiritual landscapes, abstracts and also colourful figurative works on canvas, card and found objects.