Cindy Grimes
Myth of the box tree
My husband enjoys telling the story of the Box trees which dot the flat around our home.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Mary Tierney
Promise of regeneration
As neighbours helped us extinguish flames of a bushfire threatening our farm in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, we feared for Quails nesting under a bush on the edge of the timberline.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Kristen Flynn
Daisy flesh
The Phoenix is a symbol of the never-ending cycle of life and death.
2020 Exhibition Photography
Guy Breay
Beyond the black stump
This sculpture is carved from a salvaged Budgeroo tree stump that survived a bush fire many years ago.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Trina Hartwig
Hotspots, waves and clusters
As humans we are a single strand of fibre, we are delicate, fragile and weak; but when we are spun together or gathered in groups our strength increases.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Sharleen Smith
River cycles
Water in our waterways changes and goes through different cycles depending on what is happening around it.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Carol McCormack
Regeneration
I recently visited bushfire areas in various areas including the Snowy Mountains and Gippsland.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Christopher Rigg
Lost and found
This work explores fragility.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Kerrie Fountain
The rising Phoenix
I have always found the mythology of the Phoenix intriguing.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Guy Breay
Phoenix the fire bird rising
Inspired by the natural shape of a salvaged, bushfire damaged tree stump, this artwork depicts the legendary Phoenix as a graceful fire bird rising from its ashes.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Roseanne Steele
Australia arising
This painting is a patriotic picture sending a message that we as Australians will arise despite what confronts us.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Karen Gaskell
Emu
Out of the ashes, cracked dry earth, remnants of forest and a new virus, a new life emerges.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Dion Cross
Fearing the fire
Australian fire hawks had long been thought of as an Aboriginal myth until recent studies have proven their existence.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Jo Kucks
Life on the street
Sometimes we find ourselves lost, covered up by all that happens – to us, by us, for us.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Kay Joyce
Out of adversity: new beginnings
The Australian Landscape is often subjected to extremes of flood and fire, but plants have evolved to survive these catastrophises.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Cindy Grimes
After the rain
The calendar year of 2019 saw our part of the Western Downs measure a mere 100 millimetres of rain which sounds much more impressive than the equivalent four inches in old speak.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Anna Vogler
Beyond the yesterdays
Beyond the yesterdays is my interpretation of this year’s theme, ‘Phoenix’.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Anna Moeba
Reward II
A few years back while on holiday on Fraser Island, I saw this trawler grounded not far from the Mauhino shipwreck.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Jodie Adams
Life after ashes
As the ashes settled on bushfire devastated land, nature began the long journey of recovery. Darkness and despair were felt by many Australians and is represented in the artwork’s dark depths and layers of background. The Rainbow Lorikeet is the centre of this artwork. Its beauty has been captured in abstract ways to evoke a sense of hope and recovery. The use of bright and bold colours evokes a feeling of a light at the end of the tunnel.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Patricia Hinz
Reawakening
Using the story of the Phoenix and how it rose from the ashes into new life as inspiration, I worked intuitively with a limited range of colours.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Jodie Adams
Flowering gum
I painted this flowering gum as raging bushfires burned across our beautiful country.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Sharleen Smith
Animals dreaming
Unfortunately, not all animals survive, but the spirit has risen and travelled on to the spirit world.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Kardia Stokes
Deep history
‘Deep History’ is a time warp about the darker past of the Tara Shire.
2020 Exhibition Photography
Alicia Streten
Eos
Rising from the ashes is a difficult process that every person faces.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Meg Stevenson
Resurrection
The bush fires destroyed so much of our forests and the devastation was catastrophic.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Jean Cuskelly
Nutmeg
Sometimes I whisper to myself, “Just take one step, balance, breathe, then take another.”
2020 Exhibition Painting
Jo Kucks
True colours
This multimedia piece celebrates the rebirth of our community through inclusiveness and acceptance.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Sharleen Smith
Survival
The earth may burn but the animals will survive.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Anna Moeba
The light within
Is the sun rising each morning, the journey of the sun? Or is it the journey of your soul?
2020 Exhibition Painting
Kylee Cooke
All about that paint, 'bout that paint?’
When darkness surrounds…
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Corrine Reynolds
Tempest
This work represents the perspective of a risen phoenix looking from above, using a palate of blue tempest.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Trina Hartwig
Josie
I was shattered…
2020 Exhibition Painting
Roseanne Steele
Out of the ashes a new era dawns
2020 has been difficult with lockdowns because of the Covid pandemic.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Helen Dennis
Ephemeral lagoon
Like the Phoenix, the Ephemeral Lagoon, also known as a billabong, has its own cycle of life.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Kylee Cooke
Silver lining
The world we recognise seems to be crumbling and burning down around us.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Stretch
Reclamation
The inspiration for my work Reclamation came from an unusual piece of wood destined for the firepit one night.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Amanda Marchant
Le kiss
The story of this painting is of two jilted lovers that lost all hope of finding passion in another.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Mark Morrison
The secret garden
The secret garden – you never know what is around the corner.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Helen Dennis
Chinchilla gold
Chinchilla Wattle (Acacia Chinchillensis), is one of the 600 plus species of wattle distributed across Australia.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Elizabeth Graetz
Self-portrait
No person is an island.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Patricia Hinz
Regeneration
For years we have been consumed with fears about terrorism, drought, fire, flood, climate change and now the pandemic.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Kristen Flynn
The gardener
The gardener is a self-portrait that retells the Greek myth of the Phoenix through a personal lens.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Shirley Makin
Aftermath
On 18 May 1980, Mount St Helens, in Washington State, USA erupted, decimating everything in its path.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Kay Vidler
Seeds of renewal
The body of this piece represents the chaos the world is facing.
2020 Exhibition 3D
Kylee Cooke
What the frack?
What the frack!? Poor cows and their… bottom burps… have long been blamed for the depletion of the ozone layer leading to the demise of the planet.
2020 Exhibition Works on Paper
Mark Morrison
The house
This house gives me the opportunity to draw straight lines, it makes me feel secure.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Mary Penfold
Nature restores
After fire destroyed the house and garden on this property at Yaraka, this resilient Bougainvillea showed us that there is always a way to start anew.
2020 Exhibition Painting
Sharleen Smith
Women dreaming
Life can be a turmoil, but this painting made me feel calm and relaxed.
2020 Exhibition Painting