Currently at 2 Dogs Arts Space painting for the Doctor and Xmas exhibition

Awaji Shima (Island)

 Unfinished 

acrylic on canvas

2 panels of 11m w x 1.75 m h

Currently at 2 Dogs Art Space the above painting of Awaji Shima from Akashi is still a work progress for the Doctor.  It has been a difficult painting and the detailing of the artwork is proving demanding, will soon show further images of progress but hopefully it will be completed by Xmas.

Also there is a Xmas exhibition of Western Australian Artists being organised

 and this includes the Wild Swans Art Group 

so things are busy at the moment.

There will be some new Western Australian artists in the Xmas exhibition 

this will be announced soon, thank you again for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you at the art space.

Eight Women Artists from Western Australia

Blue Series no 3  Cynthia Ellis 

Oil on Canvas 

2 Dogs Akashi Japan

Presents

Eight Women Artists from Western Australia

Lynne Norton Cynthia Ellis Connie Petrillo Chelle Bourne Sally Douglas Linda Fardoe Melissa Nolan Melissa Nolan McDougall Shelley Cowper

The contribution by woman artists who have resided in Western Australia along with their impact on the present/historical aesthetics of that’s states societal memory has been outstanding and continues to grow into uncharted aesthetic horizons which no doubt will leave a rich legacy for generations of artists to glean knowledge from in the future .

2 Dogs Art Space Akashi Japan has the pleasure in presenting this exhibition of a smallish selection of women artists who work or have worked as artists in Western Australia which is a sister state of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan where the Gallery is located. 

The exhibition has now closed many thanks to those who came and those who supported us on the internet. 

Two Dogs Art Space will be close for a month due to current projects

Many thanks again to the all the supporters who came to the events and supported them  over the past years it is greatly appreciated, we will be showing more from Western Australia in the coming months after the break, thank you.

Above is a the large painting that will be donated to a Doctor 

and the panels will be displayed as a backdrop for a opera concert

Sadaharo Horio and Jurek Wybraniec Two Avant Garde Artists

Two Dogs Art Space

Akashi

Presents

Two Avant Garde Artists from the Sister States

 of

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan & Western Australia

                     Sadaharo Horio                   Jurek Wybraniec

Horio's artwork on left Jurek's right 

Audience 

Audience 

Yoshiaki  & Shoko Kitagawa Ashiya Garo Kyoto

Driven

Driven

Artists are basically driven to create

2 Dogs Art Space Akashi

 Presents

The

Driven

exhibition

by

Western Australian Artists

Opens 13th of January to the 23^rd by appointment

Gallery Opening times1 - 4 pm Saturday and Sunday

on these days 13^th  – 14^th  – 21^st of January, 20^th 1.30 – 4pm

Lynne Norton - Caspar Fairhall -  Diokno Pasalin - Michael Doherty - Shelley Cowper -  Peter Davidson - Cynthia Ellis - Connie Petrillo

 Melissa Nolan McDougal  - Sally Douglas - Ron Nyizstor

Michelle Bourne - Kevin Robertson

John Cullinaine - Duncan Mckay - Ken Wadrop

I don’t know of any other living thing on this planet that is driven to make art wholly without reward other than humans but I might be wrong.

It is true animals can make something called art but is it a natural progression or a pavlovian series of taught tricks like dogs can do for a reward being food or affection from the master?

Whereas humans are a unique species in creating art as it appears to have been a form of communication since early rock drawings in Australia and the cave paintings in Europe, some of these images have meanings that modern societies may never know about but they were obviously important at the time for communicating ideas for the societal memory for the local inhabitants

So now back to the present time and in his exhibition there is on show artists who create art with a diverse range of studio praxis that have one obvious thing in common and that is they appear driven to construct artwork in unity and diversity.

The Driven exhibition produces one of the most interesting outcomes in humanity being how the self - motivated human mind, obsessed to create presents an artwork uniquely different from the next human.

Therefore in viewing this exhibition one hopes the audience can appreciate the determination of the artists in studio praxis with the associated aesthetic outcomes produced, whether they’re to your aesthetic taste does not matter, what matters is the artist’s drive in a range of experimentations that have managed to create a unique artwork.

Dr Peter Davidson

Acknowledgments

Interview with one of Lucian Freud’s children where she talked about what her father said about in art ‘it’s what drives you’ this stayed with me for a long time and unfortunately it was a long time ago and I can’t find site on the internet anymore.

Why Do Humans Make Art

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beastly-behavior/201709/why-do-humans-make-art

Nathan H. Lents, Ph.D., is a Professor of molecular biology at John Jay College, of the City University of New York, where he also serves as the director of the honors program and the Macaulay Honors College. He is the author of Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals and maintains The Human Evolution Blog.

The Autumn Exhibition

The Autumn Exhibition at 2 Dogs Art Space

On show now October the 8^th to 4^th of November

Open Sunday 1-3pm

New Opening times to be advised 

Jennifer Lim

Singapore /Australian

Printmaker (Peranakan)

This current show brings together a diverse group of outstanding artists exhibiting a disparate range of ideas from within their studio praxis. For example, in the above image there is the wood block print by Jennifer Lim who is currently researching her Singaporean Peranakan family history and as much of it has been built over due to the massive development within Singapore over time, there is limited sporadic remains to be seen being Peranankan ceramic tiles in some areas still attached to the  colonial buildings, these designs inspire her woodblock prints.

Ken Wadrop

Western Australian Painter

Imaginary Landscape

(From all the walking) 

Ken Wadrop is an outstanding painter based in South Fremantle, Western Australia who is currently experimenting in Plein Air painting on small rectangular wooden boards, directly observed from the nature on Rottnest Island (a small piece of land nineteen kilometres west from Fremantle). These two paintings above by Wadrop with their scintillating applied paint traces have a vitality and freshness of paint applications that remind one of Camille Corot’s small early Italian paintings.

There are very few painters in Australia that have a command of painting the structure of the coastal landscape that Wadrop has achieved with this series of artworks, he also acknowledges the Aboriginal deaths in custody in this body of work but that will be seen in an installation at the Earlywork Gallery in South Fremantle in the near future.

Melissa Nolan Mc Dougall

Painting/Drawing

Western Australia/New Zealand

Melissa Nolan Mc Dougall  drawings remind one of Francisco Goya's dark etchings but  Goya's art is not dark but a path of illumination, it allows you to observe, make choices often without collective memories to influence the choice, its hardly dark. 

Similarly McDougall's drawings give the audience the chance to engage in objects that have a kind of taboo placed upon like the skull as it appears to be often associated with darkness. But here McDougall brings an observed sobriety allowing the audience to see the beauty in the living and the dead.

Sally Douglas

Water Colourist

Western Australian

Sally Douglas must be one of the best watercolorists in Australia she is outstanding, her research into organic forms around her house in the northern coastal suburbs of Perth is mesmerizing as two of the artworks in this show stand testament too!

Ron Nyisztor

Painter

Western Australia

Ron Nyisztor runs Nyisztor Studios Melville a major art space in Perth Western Australia, he is also one of the more prominent painters within that community, his passion and commitment to art praxis not only for himself but for the community is exemplary.  

Wiild Swans Art Group and Friends 19th of August to the 2 September 2017

This current exhibition will have variable opening times due to the extreme heat in the Kansai Area, as the art space has no electricity or water we apologise for any inconvenience but if you're  in the Akashi and see the door open please drop in and view the show.

Chelle Bourne top left, Lynne Norton on right and

 Shelly Cowper bottom left 

Melissa Nolan McDougall

Michaeal Doherty

John Cullinane

Cynthia Ellis

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