Miranda Summers
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Miranda was raised in Sussex England and trained and accredited in Fine Art and Theatre Production. Miranda commenced a theatrical career as a Prop Maker and Scenic Artist for Russell Beck Studios in London’s West End working with the English National Opera, Royal Opera House and in Television with Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmonson. Miranda joined the team at the Designers Guild on Kings Road, London for a short spell as a visual merchandiser before taking an explorative holiday to her native homeland Australia. Falling in love with the landscape and the people she began a career with Opera Australia initially with Team Props moving on to becoming a Stage Manager and ultimately an Assistant Director. Miranda assisted with direction for the ‘Operatic World Premiere of Brett Whiteley 2019’, Graeme Murphys ‘Turandot’, David McVicars ‘Don Giovanni’, Francesca Zambello’s ‘La Traviata’ and Handa’s Opera on Sydney Harbour, HOSH 2020.
Artistic expression is paramount to Miranda’s practice/life balance, alongside ‘growing the palette knife’ in her own demonstrative style as she explores the hidden grace and beauty of Australia’s rugged landscape. Miranda was a finalist in the Port Lincoln Art Prize 2021 and recently completed an exhibition titled ‘Everywhere I Look’ at Be Brave Art Space.
Artist Statement
“I live and have a studio in North Sydney and paint landscapes, waterways and Aussie native flora. I paint impasto oils, alla prima with palette knives directly onto stretched cotton canvas. I am often drawn to vast expanses glimpsed beyond the sometimes-chaotic bush of our coastal natives. My landscapes are composed to lead the eye through chaos towards space and calm. Painted to put the viewer under and amongst tree limbs and leaves shading the viewer and framing the space beyond. My flora paintings are all about loving the chaos, the sculptural layering, the stacking of thick paint and finally seeing order as a sense of calm develops and takes hold.
My joy is to paint the story of our unique environment, the grace, humility and synergy that our beautiful trees, plants and flowers imbued with and the symbiosis of Australia’s natural habitat. I am constantly reminded that we can all coexist harmoniously like our natives to better care for her, our heartland and each other.” – Miranda
Artist CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Kuringgai Pop Up Exhibition, traffic jam galleries Sydney NSW
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Everywhere I Look, Be Brave Art Space Avalon NSW
2021 RME Downland Art Exhibition, Toowoomba QLD
2021 Flora, Dandenong VIC
2021 Grammar Art Show, Toowoomba QLD
2021 Inside this Box, The Corner Stone Gallery Orange NSW
2020 Contemporary Australian Art Display, The Corner Stone Gallery Orange NSW
2015 Emergence, Underground Art Space Warringah Creative Space NSW
AWARDS
2021 Finalist Port Lincoln Arts Prize, SA
2017 Finalist Northern Beaches Art Prize NSW
2016 Finalist Northern Beaches Art Prize NSW
HIGHLIGHTS
2021 – 2017 Volunteered Digital Illustrations, 6 books for ‘Short Stories Tall, theatre show
2020 Painting Donation, Cancer Research
2018 Painting Donations, Opera Australia Benevolent Fund
EDUCATION
HND 1996 Theatre Production Northbrook College, Sussex UK
BA 1995 Jewellery and Silversmithing, London Guildhall University, incomplete
ND 1991 Fine Art, Northbrook College Sussex UK
Sydney Rocks
This exhibition is inspired by hikes around Sydney harbour and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. “We have on our doorstep one of Australia’s most diverse geological wonders of all time, The Sydney Basin. My painting inspiration is one small section by comparison but to me its presence is huge. Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park with its beautiful Hawkesbury River backdrop magnifies the intense beauty, heightens the light and compounds the stature of the extraordinarily awesome monolithic ROCKS!”- Miranda Summers
Sydney & Surrounds
'Sydney & Surrounds' is a thematic group exhibition that will be held during the month of February and features numerous tjg artists responding to this theme. Overt or with subtle links to the thematic brief, works include sculpture, painting, collage and mixed media.
Kuringgai
To celebrate the launch of Miranda's works at the gallery we are thrilled to announce 'Kuringgai' a pop-up exhibition of exciting new highly textured works.
New work by REBECCA PIERCE 'The Lime Window' 122 x 122cm acrylic ink and oil sticks on canvas $ 4,500.00 #rebeccapierce
August 10, 2022
Geometric paintings by J VALENZUELA DIDI "pulsate between two and three dimensions, at once holding a structural form and serenely floating. Each work serves as a silent mantra, an ordered map of the intangible.” – J Valenzuela Didi
August 9, 2022
MORUS QUINN'S - Wading Home II - 90 x 100cm Morus Quin is a Sydney based artist working across, performance, printmaking, painting and jewellery. Quin’s work maps out culturally modified perspectives of the body, inhabiting both feminist and medical perspectives.
August 8, 2022
KURT HERRMANN - 'Tenerife' painting is 122 x 122cm canvas, 125 x 125cm framed acrylic on canvas with white frame #australiangallery
August 8, 2022
SIMONE READ - 'Avalon Ocean Pool' limited edition 4/100 print on Canson 310gsm photo rag paper 50 x 50cm print size, 79 x 79cm framed size 4.5kg $ 1,080.00 Free packing and shipping Australia wide! #avalonpainting
August 7, 2022
“I have created these works to allow the viewer to reflect on their own personal connection to the subject. I love when you ask someone their favourite treat from childhood and the conversation leads to other people reminiscing about theirs, usually evoking a feeling of fondness, and occasionally disgust." - LEONIE McINTOSH The Spectacle 51 x 40.5cm canvas, 44 x 55 x 5.5cm framed oil on canvas $ 990.00
August 7, 2022
"These works are reminiscent of a bygone era. When we stayed in the sun all day, lathering our bodies with baby oil and ate lemonade icy poles. The car would be overloaded with kids and our legs would stick to the vinyl seat because of the heat. You would want to have a seat by the window so you could roll it down to feel the breeze against your skin. These works show an innocent and carefree time and place" - ELISE JUDD
August 6, 2022
'Fragmented Meditation 407X' - 61 x 61cm acrylic on canvas by J VALENZUELA DIDI "The shapes are intended to pulsate between two and three dimensions, at once holding a structural form and serenely floating. Each work serves as a silent mantra, an ordered map of the intangible.” – J Valenzuela Didi #colourblock
August 5, 2022
EDGAR SCHILTER is a Sydney based artist. Edgar completed a Fine Arts degree at the College of Fine Arts Sydney in 2008. His subjects of interest are decidedly honest, with recurrent themes of architecture, mechanics, technology and science. His work focuses on the methodical and meditative reproduction of detail in the hopelessly untrendy modern tradition of artisanry. His work turns the lens over the technical and structural and blends it with the patterning and textural elements often found in nature. 'Fruit Launch 3 Apple Ring' 92 x 148cm, 96 x 152cm framed oil on canvas #fruitpainting
August 4, 2022
'Vermilion Blues #2' - edition 2 of 10- 21 x 29cm image, 26 x 35cm framed archival print on photographic paper with white matte board and black frame $ 450.00. Custom sizes and unframed editions also available. "The recent years have been a time of sudden violence, of irruption. Of heat, fires, rain, and flooding of unprecedented intensity. We have been locked down, and in. And as more and more news of gendered violence emerged, a deluge of truth irrupted. Predictably, these events created space and cause to think and reflect. Through this time I looked back on the decades I believed the narratives that society created about me, and I struggled to reconcile my intellectual understanding of coercive control with the feelings of shame and guilt associated with my own experiences. For too long, people and systems have made me feel that I deserved to be treated poorly because I am a woman. Made me accept commentary on my appearance, my behavior, my anger. Of course, the same systems and people responsible for this normative imposition are the architects of the catastrophic demise of our environment. These images capture an upwelling of compassion for myself, and the discovery of power in my rage”. – Katherine Williams
August 4, 2022
DEAN REILLY - Cassowary 122 x 92cm canvas, 125 x 94cm x 5cm framed acrylic on cotton canvas with black shadow box frame “I painted theses birds as they are connected to my history via growing up in North Queensland. I was always moved by their distinctive colouring and how they contrasted with the natural environment. To see these birds in the wild is one of the many moments I am grateful for in my life. The cassowary Image was sent to me by my cousin as it is seasonal visitor to his place at the Eubenangee wetlands near my childhood home town” – Dean Reilly Keep and eye out for more exciting works by Dean for his Solo Exhibition in September !
August 3, 2022
“My Urban Fragments are a series of geometric arrangements that I create as meditative constructs. The shapes are intended to pulsate between two and three dimensions, at once holding a structural form and serenely floating. Each work serves as a silent mantra, an ordered map of the intangible.” – J Valenzuela Didi 'Fragmented Meditation 203X' - 61 x 61cm, acrylic on canvas $ 1,350.00 with free packing and shipping Australia wide. Please contact the team for worldwide freight.
August 3, 2022
KATHERINE WILLIAMS new work to tjg !!! 'Irrupted #3' - edition 1 of 10- 44 x 59cm image, 60.7 x 75.5cm framed archival print on cotton rag paper with white matte board and black frame $ 750.00 customs sizes and unframed editions available body
August 2, 2022
“I find the world surreal. The most I could hope for is that my art gives a peek into the noisy world of my musing." - EDGAR SCHILTER New work - 'Fruit Launch 2' is 92 x 148cm, 96 x 152cm framed oil on canvas
August 2, 2022
A little bit cheeky, a little bit of humour and a whole lot of colour and fun !!! KURT HERRMANN'S - 'Thunder Panties' 28 x 30cm acrylic on birch panel #pantiespainting
August 1, 2022
Katherine Williams works often explores her interest in the intimate bond between people and nature. Irrupted - edition 1 of 10 - 54 x 81cm image, 70.7 x 97.2cm framed archival print on cotton rag paper with white matte board and black frame $ 950.00
August 1, 2022
'Looking For You' 61 x 46cm oil and collage on canvas $ 1,100.00 by ELISE JUDD. This work and more new pieces by Elise are available now to browse or buy online or at the gallery.
July 31, 2022
KATHERINE WILLIAMS - 'Vermilion Blues #3' edition 1 of 10 - 21 x 29cm image, 26 x 35cm framed archival print on photographic paper with white matte board and black frame $ 450.00. Custom sizes and unframed editions also available. "These images capture an upwelling of compassion for myself, and the discovery of power in my rage”. – Katherine Williams To view all works by Katherine please visit our website or contact the team !
July 31, 2022
Section of new work by MORUS QUIN now on display and available at the gallery and online via our website. Free packing and shipping Australia wide. "My works use paint as a tool of translation, to louden the language of the body and let it be heard. My paintings expose the sunken experiences of the past, to bring the subconscious into the conscious.” – Morus Quinn 'Wading Home II' 90 x 100cm oil, acrylic, aersol and house paint on canvas $ 2,100.00 #abstractfigure
July 30, 2022
New work has arrived by J VALENZUELA DIDI ! 'Fragmented Meditation 410X' is 61 x 61cm acrylic on canvas $ 1,350.00 with free packing and shipping Australia wide.
July 30, 2022
