- Acidum Project – Brazil
- Adlane Samet – Algeria
- Alburoto – Philippines
- Alvar Mena – Spain
- Amanda Adomaitis – USA
- Amanda Shelsher – AUS
- Amber Kingi – AUS
- Angie Goto – AUS
- Ariel Katzir – AUS
- Attilio Esposito – Italy
- BL2A – Spain
- BRIAN CIRMO – USA
- Beau Bernier Frank – USA
- Brad Donovan – New Zealand
- CAMERON HAAS – AUSTRALIA
- CARLOS QUIRALTE – Spain
- Caitlyn Taylor – AUS
- Cezary Stulgis – AUS
- Christina Gschwantner – VIENNA
- Christopher Lees – Australia
- Claire Yerbury – Aus
- Constance Bachmann – Canada
- David Thomas – USA
- EMMA YOUNG – AUSTRALIA
- Elina Ojakangas – Sweden
- Emanuele Tozzoli – Italy
- Erik Minter – USA
- Flora Castiglia – Argentina
- Florent Stosskopf – FRANCE
- GABRIEL HUNE – BRAZIL
- Gabo Valenzuela – Philippines
- German Jauregui – Colombia/Aus
- Glendon Cordell – AUS
- Go Suga – AUS
- HAYDEN PHOENIX – AUSTRALIA
- Hayden White – USA
- IOANA BALTAN – UK
- IVÁN MONTAÑA – SPAIN
- Ian Bertolucci – Italy
- Igor Villares Rosa – Brazil
- Iryna Maksymova
- JOAQUIN VALDEZ – USA
- JULIANA SHAFFIA
- JUN OSON – JAPAN
- Jisbar – France
- Johnny Romeo – AUS
- Jose Ramón Lozano – Spain
- Josias Figueirido – USA/Spain
- Juan Manuel Romero
- Juri Lobunko – Germany
- Kevin Sabo – USA
- LUCAS GEOR – AUSTRALIA
- Laura White – AUS
- Leisa Russell – AUS
- Linda Wallis – UK
- Lucas Lamenha
- Luciano Suárez – Spain
- Lucy Pulvers
- MART AIRE – ARGENTINA
- MS. DYU
- Marina Gonzalez Eme – Spain
- Marius Seidlitz
- Megan Puls – AUS
- Mellissa Read-Devine – AUS
- Michael Polakowski – USA
- Michelle Selway Lampard – AUS
- Mickey Mason – Australia
- Mikael Takacs – Sweden
- Nathaniel Bolarinwa – Nigeria
- Nector – COLOMBIA
- Ota – Korea
- Paolo Pilotti – Italy
- Patrick McMahon – AUS
- Philip Bosmans – Belgium
- RAMIRO SILVA-CORTES
- Rachel Morrissey – USA
- Ramona Nordal – Canada
- Riccardo Nannini (A.K.A CANE) – SPAIN
- Robyn Leoni Abbott – AUS
- Ryuzo Kojima – Japan
- SALMOS – BRAZIL
- Sally Paxton – AUS
- Sarah Beetson
- Sean Edward Whelan – AUS
- Silas – Netherlands
- Sol Felpeto – Spain
- Talita Barbosa – Portugal
- Thomas Graven – France
- Todd Romanowycz – AUS
- Tom Berenz – USA
- Tony Roos – Sweden
- Vincent Arnold – CANADA
- Wayan Sarcita Yasa – Indonesia
- YANA MEDOW – SPAIN
- Yool Kim – Korea
- Yoshi 47 – Japan
Participating Artists.
PATRICIA MADO – Into The Bloom
February 23rd - March 23rd, 2013
Artist’s Statement
I have an artistic passion for organic form. Nature inspires me; she is alive and present everywhere – in my native Brazil and especially here in my adopted home Australia. My artwork grows from this ubiquitous and primal context. The natural environment and its fragile beauty is my central motif.
My paintings, large oils on canvas, depict a lush, imagined vision of the natural world – one where plants, water, flowers, seeds, all melt, mix, and fuse in delicate, dreamlike organic forms. Vivid color is used, not for its own sake, but rather to evoke the beautiful and harmonious interactions existing in nature. My earlier graphic works revealed a fascination with the weft and warp of both natural and man-made objects; abstracted webs of horizontal and vertical lines were prominent. In my paintings, however, the horizontal has disappeared and the vertical dominates, creating the feeling that lines and shapes are “raining” down or “bubbling” up to earth from some magical source.
My art reflects my keen interest in the environment and our relationship with it. Through my paintings I hope to spark a mutual connection with the viewer to our natural world, an awareness of nature’s unique beauty and particularly of her vulnerability.