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Artists who currently rent a studio at the Arts Centre are listed below:

Mazie Turner

   Painter: oils on canvas
Mazie has described her work as abstract painting that is the result of an investigation into colour and paint and how they influence each other.

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Bill Wallin

Cartooning & animation
Bill has created his own cartoon strip. He generates animations using digital media and is painting using acrylics

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Sue Mudge

B.A.V.A Jewellery & Object Design, P.G. Plant & Wildlife Ill.
 
Sue makes jewellery using conventional materials  as well as paper.  She is interested in recycling.

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Ahn Wells

3D Fibre Artist :found materials
As a Korean born adoptee to Australian parents, Ahn Wells’ art explores identity. Ahn has drawn on her mother’s artisan abilities and craft skills. Her work centres on common notions of craft such as the repetitive and meditative experience of making and creating forms and in this, she not only draws [...]

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Tam Steele Daly

Tam is the owner and principal photographer of a commercial photographic business- Steele Photography.
Tam specialises in: product work, corporate portraits and food & wine.
He is currently making a transition to fine-art imaging with a few examples available now. At the moment he is developing a technique which uses smoke to suggest line and form, which [...]

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The 7 Painters

The Seven Painters is a group of Newcastle artists that have been painting together almost every Tuesday night for nine
years.
Though each member has a day job, currently the Seven Painters rent a full time studio (Studio 17) at Newcastle Community Art
Centre.
 
This studio and their recurrent exhibitions at the John Paynter Gallery help keep a vitality [...]

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Natalie Sherring

Sherring has taken much inspiration from her surroundings over the years and is interested in the relationships of animals and characters that are sometimes real, imagined or gleaned from books.
Sherring is passionate about creating artworks and teaching art and has gained a great deal of inspiration from the imagination and purity of mark making of [...]

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Maryanne Ireland

Photo-media
 
Maryanne has been a practicing visual artist based in Newcastle for the last ten years. Working predominantly in photo-media Maryanne has exhibited in group and solo shows in both Sydney and Newcastle. Maryanne brings a personal experience of physical disability to her role as Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Accessible Arts.

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Peter Lankas

  Painter and Fine Art Teacher
Lankas is a Newcastle artist whose work explores the essence of place and moments of the every day. These can range from the suburban landscape, a concept that has been a focal subject in his art for over two decades to the iconic water’s edge, the tropical landscape or places travelled in [...]

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Mark Elliot-Ranken

Mark Elliott-Ranken is a much travelled practising artist currently completing a PhD in Fine Arts. Mark has also been arts educator for the last thirty years and lectures at Newcastle University.

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