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Sorrow

Rebecca Leveille

2017

Oil and resin on canvas 50.8 x 50.8 cm ARTIST STATEMENT The elements of toile wallpaper, blue willow china patterns, and candy colored dots carry with them an amalgam of associations, including love, pain, trauma and conflict. The toile wallpaper and the china patterns in her recent work also bring complex cultural associations of domesticity […]

$4600

Night Call

Kildren

2017

Oil and acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm ARTIST STATEMENT Night Call – Her nights were more beautiful than your days. The enticing flower that only bloomed at night.. Bitter sweet

$4600

While Looking Elsewhere

Rebecca Leveille

2017

Oil and resin on canvas 50.8 x 50.8 cm ARTIST STATEMENT The elements of toile wallpaper, blue willow china patterns, and candy colored dots carry with them an amalgam of associations, including love, pain, trauma and conflict. The toile wallpaper and the china patterns in her recent work also bring complex cultural associations of domesticity […]

$4600

Cavernous Lens

Sarah Louise Davey

2017

Ceramic Approx 23 x 23 x 28cm ARTIST STATEMENT The art of making, for me, is very much a response to the human condition of needing to connect to one another, as well as to what lies just beyond the borders of our realities. I am drawn to the idea that art can have the […]

$1500

Au plus profond d’elle même

Edith Lebeau

2017

Acrylic and ink on cradled wood panel 50.8 x 50.8 cm ARTIST STATEMENT For the Bitter / Sweet exhibition I created two pieces inspired by the theme of the show but I wanted to do a continuity of my most recent body of work inspired by fears, dark emotions and learning to live with that […]

$1900

Bitter Thistle, Sweet Rose

Sergio Lopez

2017

(Diptych) Oil on linen mounted on board (Framed) 2 pieces – both 50.8 x 50.8 cm ARTIST STATEMENT All of my “Painted Roses” titles are inspired by flowers. The paintings allude to romance. This painting speaks to the duality of romance in there being ebbs and flows. Sometimes bitter, other times sweet.

$4700

Star

Yosuke Ueno

2017

Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm ARTIST STATEMENT White and black, light and shadow, yin and yang, and scissors and butterfly… I often use contradictory pairs such as those in my paintings. The pairs appear similarly, but have quite opposite attribution…The other day, I was served sashimi of turban shell for a dinner. That hard […]

$4000

The Rise and The Fall

Lisa King

2017

Oil, acrylic and liquitex on canvas 100 x 100 cm ARTIST STATEMENT The concept I came up with for my work was “Two divinities who fused into a single immortal “. It’s based around the androgyny. Androgyny and homosexuality are seen in Plato’s Symposium in a myth that Aristophanes tells the audience. People used to […]

$2800

Bloom

Yosuke Ueno

2017

Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm ARTIST STATEMENT White and black, light and shadow, yin and yang, and scissors and butterfly… I often use contradictory pairs such as those in my paintings. The pairs appear similarly, but have quite opposite attribution…The other day, I was served sashimi of turban shell for a dinner. That hard […]

$4000

Chikkoi Warrior – Bitter

Erika Sanada

2017

Ceramic, cold finish 7.6 x 5 x 7.6 cm ARTIST STATEMENT My work reflects the weird and the creepy; I am fascinated with the dark side. I use ceramic for making bizarre creatures. They have extra body parts such as multiple arms, legs, teeth and ears.  These are how I express my sensitive mind. For […]

$400

Entangled Wonders – Bitter

Crystal Morey

2017

Porcelain Approx 23 x 10 x 10 cm ARTIST STATEMENT In this first piece I am thinking about how emotions and pure instinct can exist inside of us and not always reach the surface and break through our analytical selves. I am thinking of a dichotomy existing in the self that is both wild and […]

$1700

Bubble Burst

Kirsten Stingle

2017

Hand built porcelain with over 20 layers of ceramic underglazes, slips and stains. Mixed Media: Vintage tufting needles, Italian glass orbs, industrial mastic, paint Approx 35.5 x 40.5 x 15 cm ARTIST STATEMENT Good/bad, win/loss, strong/weak, bitter/sweet: These are seemingly dichotomous elements in which we prescribe opposing value. One we seek, the other we deride […]

$4200

Waiting

Emilio Villalba

2017

Oil on canvas 50.8 x 50.8 cm ARTIST STATEMENT In the most basic sense, I paint portraits. Contemporary representations inspired by master works of the past. With these pieces, I wanted to explore a kind of omnipresent pressure I think we all live under. One that grows out of the clash between humanity —our unique […]

$2900

Je Réveillerai L’aurore

Harold Munoz

2017

Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm ARTIST STATEMENT I try to compose images of strange beauty, alchemy of sweetness and melancholy exalted thoughts. Give the common a high sense, to the finished the appearance of infinity. The women leave quietly, languid, so pale and so beautiful that their flesh becomes transparent blue. I would like […]

$5500

Harmonie Du Soir

Harold Munoz

2017

Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm ARTIST STATEMENT I try to compose images of strange beauty, alchemy of sweetness and melancholy exalted thoughts. Give the common a high sense, to the finished the appearance of infinity. The women leave quietly, languid, so pale and so beautiful that their flesh becomes transparent blue. I would […]

$5500

Bitter Vice

Pippa McManus

2017

Acrylic, charcoal, paint pens, soft pastel & spray paint on canvas 50 x 50cm ARTIST STATEMENT There was a definite shift in my emotional state towards the end of 2016. I’d had a particularly rough year and was coming out the other side of it while creating these two pieces. I was in the perfect […]

$1400

Presence

Hieu Nguyen

2017

Watercolour, gouache, graphite, coloured pencil and ink on Arches paper. 50 x 50cm ARTIST STATEMENT When I thought of “Bitter | Sweet”, I thought of an experience or feeling that encapsulated both — the memory of a late loved one. When we lose someone, our memory of them is plagued with pain and discord in their absence. […]

$1500

Strawberry

Kazuhiro Hori

2016

Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm ARTIST STATEMENT Japanese Junior High and High School Girls – recognizable by their school uniform – are living a dazzling and radiant existence. Surrounded by fashion, music, cute things, and sweet confections they like; they smile together and spend their time with their friends. But, at the same […]

$2700

Wave Rave 24 x 36 (1)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 61 x 91.5 cm

$1950

Wave Rave 24 x 36 (2)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 61 x 91.5 cm

$1950

Wave Rave 48×60 (3)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 122 x 152.5 cm Currently on view at QT Hotel Gold Coast

$4800

Wave Rave 36 x 48 (1)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 91.5 x 122 cm

$2900

Wave Rave 4×4 (2)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 10.16 x 10.16 cm

$190

Wave Rave 36 x 48 (2)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 91.5 x 122 cm

$2900

Wave Rave 8×8

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 20.3 x 20.3 cm

$290

Wave Rave 36 x 48 (3)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 91.5 x 122 cm

$2900

Wave Rave 9×12 (1)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 22.85 x 30.5 cm

$750

Wave Rave 36 x 48 (4)

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 91.5 x 122 cm

$2900

Humours Dark Embrace

Dean McDowell

2015

30 x 60cm Acrylic on canvas

$1200

Wave Rave 10×10

R.Nicholas Kuszyk (RROBOTS)

2015

Acrylic on wood 25.4 x 25.4 cm

$750