George Street Festival Artists

We are thrilled to share details of the artists who will be sharing their works at the pop-up exhibition at East Fremantle's George Street Festival on 1 December 2024.

The exhibition will take place next to Mint Real Estate. Displayed works will be available for sale, with payment and collection to be arranged directly with the artist after the exhibition.

With thanks to sponsor Petit Homes.

Artist	Work
Name: Jane Barwell Title of work: Turning Medium/size: Ink on paper, 30cm x 50cm Price: $500 About: My practice currently centres around drawing and works made with and on paper. The mediums I use are graphite, charcoal, ink, plaster and acrylic. My practice also includes life drawing, and this is often the starting point for artwork. The subject matter for my work is figurative and usually incorporates human forms and botanic elements. I am interested in representing the constant movement and change which I see in natural environments, and the nuances of meaning created by human gesture.
Name: Marcus Beilby Title of work: View from the Left Bank Medium/size: Oil on canvas, 20.2cm x 10.1cm Price: $990.00 inc GST About: Marcus Beilby is a well-known realist painter nationally and internationally. Marcus has won the prestigious Sulman Art prize and has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize. Marcus was a foundation artist in the first Australian realist art movement - the High Street Studio realists. He is a long-term resident of East Fremantle.
Name: Patricia Burvill Title of work: Amazon Medium/size: Acrylic, 1200mm x 900mm Price: $1,200
Name: Julie Excell Title of work 1: Sheep Medium/size: Sheep - Stoneware clay, 10cm x 19cm x 8cm Price: $250 Title of work 2: Flo Medium/size: Stoneware/ceramic, Price: $300 About: My motivation as a ceramic artist is to explore the tactile materiality of clay through hand building to create finely balanced asymmetrical objects where form is harmoniously integrated with surface. Over the winter months I have worked on a series of small, handheld sculptures. Sheep (top image) is one of the few pieces that survived a lengthy making process culminating with a saggar firing in my electric kiln. This alternative approach to firing my work is a deliberate aesthetic choice to maintain the materiality of raw clay during its transformation into ceramic. Unglazed, the unique surface enhancements are entirely derived from the interaction of combustibles with fire, inviting a palpable response from the viewer. Flo (bottom image): This ceramic vessel is the result of recent experiments in creating surface texture by layering glazes with their raw materials. Subsequent high temperature firings caused the materials to fuse into a frosted amalgam of melted porcelain, feldspar and kaolin. Its title, “Flo”, meaning layer in Old Norse, references the cracks, fissures and glassy green depths.
Name: Judith Forrest Title of work 1: A Woman's Space Medium/size: Gypsum/polymer/paint, 18cm x 15cm x 15cm Price: $550 A Woman's Space recalls the space race and, as the snappy title suggests woman's part within it. Title of work 2: Succulent Size: 21.5cm x 19.5cm Price: $325 Title of work 3: Potted Plants Size: 25.5cm x 31 cm Price: $400 Title of work 4: Spot the Fly Size: 20cm x 26cm Price: $350 About: Judith Forrest produces two-and three-dimensional art and public artworks informed by old age and lots of practice.
Name: Jocelyn Gregson Title of work: Maritime XXIV Medium/size: Acrylic on canvas, 90cm x 90cm Price: on application About: Jocelyn Gregson has a Diploma in Advanced Ceramics, Bachelor of Arts Visual Arts, Post Grad. Dip Painting. She has taught various subjects both privately and at a number of different institutions, most recently and for many years at Fremantle Arts Centre. She exhibited ceramics in the 1980s and was invited to exhibit paintings at the then Galerie Dusseldorf in Mosman Park and her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions. Painting themes have been Still Life, Landscape including a series titled The Memory of Trees and the Maritime series with a focus on activities at Fremantle Port and Gage Roads.
Name: Joyce Hawke Title of work: Assorted Silver jewellery Medium/size: Silver jewellery Prices: 1. $70.00 (necklace #1) 2. $80.00 (flower ring) 3. $80.00 (Opal ring) 4. $70.00 (necklace #2) About: Silver jewellery.
Name: Malcolm Hundley Title of work: East Fremantle Oval #11 Medium/size: Acrylic on canvas, 20cm x 30cm Price: $500 About: Malcolm Hundley is an Australian artist whose main medium is acrylic on canvas. His motivation is to share his perspective of the everyday scenes and objects in the urban environment. Collectors are drawn to the familiarity of Malcolm's subjects. His paintings encourage a closer look at places that might otherwise be overlooked on our daily walks or drives, highlighting details and nuances and connecting us through a joy of shared discovery.
Name: Michael Knight Title of work: Jetty, Bicton Medium/size: Oil on canvas, 111cm x 136cm Price: $7,000 About: This painting is the second version of the same view but more focused on the jetty aspect of the composition. I was drawn to this scene because of the unique bent shape of the jetty and the way it separated the picture plane. This combined with the shimmering mood of the place has identified my love of East Fremantle and the places nearby.
Name: Susie Marwick Title of work: Albany waters Medium/size: Acrylic on board, 22cm x15cm Price: $300 About: I live in North Fremantle. I am a mainly a representational landscape painter, also create sculptures and small assemblages with porcelain ceramic components.
Name: Lyn Mazzilli Title of work: Spring morning with Raven Booyemabarra Park Medium/size: Mixed medium on paper, 68cm x 50cm (mounted and framed) Price: $470 About: I studied visual arts and art teaching in WA and then furthered my studies in painting in Italy. I have exhibited in solo, and group shows overseas and in galleries and venues around Perth. I now live and work in my studio in Fremantle. I am currently inspired by my daily walks in Booyembarra Park, an oasis of bushland in suburbia, home to many birds and a resident group of ravens. In this work I hope to capture that moment when, deep in thought as I walked, I realised I was being watched! I looked up to discover that I was indeed not the observer but the observed, an object of intense scrutiny by a watchful raven, who like me, was enjoying the peace and solitude of the bush in that moment.
Name: Lesley Munro Title of work 1: Breathing, Space Medium/size: Watercolour on paper, 22 x 34.5cm unframed, 42.5 x 53.5cm framed Price: $375 Title of work 2: Hamersley’s Clear Light Medium/size: Gouche Price: $375 About: Breath, Space is an early watercolour study from 1992. Over my 50 years of diverse art practice in WA I have spent much time working with landscape themes, having grown up in the country towns of Nannup-on the edge of the bush, in the wheatbelt, at York; and in Kalgoorlie. Travelling through the bush – sitting, working, and observing the masses and spaces have gone hand in hand with learning to understand the medium of watercolour. This small study reflects the peace and the return to that meditative state that such solitude brings.
Name: Ken Rasmussen Title of work: Affectionately Yours Medium/size: Oil on linen, 1.2m x 1.2m Price: $6,800 About: Ken Rasmussen grew up in Broome, Marble Bar and other Western Australian country towns. He was educated at Scotch College and attended the University of Western Australia (B.A Literature and one year at Law School). He subsequently completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts at the West Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University), majoring in painting. Since graduation Ken has painted professionally, gaining a reputation for realist drawing, watercolour and oil painting skills. More recently Ken has evolved as a modern realist impressionist painter.
Name: Agnes Tregonning-Barwell Title of work: The Living Room Medium/size: Etching on paper, 40cm x 60cm Price: $100 About: As an emerging artist studying visual arts, my current practice is centred around the exploration of identity. This work investigates ideas around the collection and accumulation of objects as a representation of how identity is constructed over time. Depicted is an amassed chaos of personal history and artefacts of my family's artistic endeavours.