In line with our mission to make great art more accessible, we are taking you inside the studios of our artists - featuring one artist per month in this special behind the scenes look into their practice. A huge part of our mission is to demystify the art world by making it more transparent and inviting. While a work of art might appeal to you on an aesthetic level, that appreciation can be deepened with an understanding of the artist and their process. We want you to have a connection to your favorite work and the artist that created it. This month we are featuring the studio of artist, writer and academic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. To read a great interview with the artist, check out BOMB Magazine by David Shapiro. [caption id="attachment_11904" align="alignleft" width="750" class=" "] Works in progress in the studio of Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe[/caption] Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe’s (b.1945) paintings challenge contemporary ideas of aesthetics and purpose in art from within the art world itself. He was awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism as well as a Guggenheim fellowship in painting, and was presented the 1998 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association. His visual work is included in prestigious public collections, including the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL. [caption id="attachment_11905" align="alignleft" width="711" class=" "] Racks that house the finished work of the artist[/caption] [caption id="attachment_11910" align="alignleft" width="716"] The artists paint selection laid out[/caption]  

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TWFineArt is pleased to be collaborating with James St on their cultural project RESORT! We will be launching the Chris Trueman exhibition - Alchemy in the Gallery on the 23rd of October and featuring art on the street by Melbourne based artist Briony Barr on the 24th.

RESORT is coming…

From October 23 to 25, James Street will transform into an urban vacation, hosting presentations and parties from sunrise to sunset.

Easton Pearson will be launching their Cruise ’14 Collection Show, and the street will come alive with a showcase of contemporary Queensland art-works curated by the IMA.

On Friday October 24, all of your favourite James Street retailers will be staying up past their bedtime during RESORT After Dark. The street will transform into a balmy party under the stars where you can enjoy pop-up shops, in-store exclusives, designer meet and greets, as well as exciting music and art experiences.  It’s going to be one hell of a street party!

Stay tuned for the official program with events including discussions with international tastemakers, exciting in-store collaborations and events from the precincts most creative and innovative residents across fashion, design, art and global trends.

Mark it in your calendars ladies and gents, because RESORT is sure to become an essential fixture on the cultural calendar. We look forward to checking you in at RESORT.

We will be lounging pool side with our RESORT partners: Audi Centre Brisbane, MAC Cosmetics, Bank of Queensland, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Airport Corporation and Stylecraft.

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This week we collaborated with US artist Matt Sheridan to bring you his AMAZING work in limited edition print.

Sheridan's aim is to relocate, redefine and re-materialize spirituality in the age of the algorithm.  To that end, Sheridan imagines how the mediums of painting and video -- made concurrently and complementarily in his practice --  combine through orchestrated movement, location, and editing.  His paintings -- hand-painted actions spliced together on canvases originating from film editing techniques -- inform his videos and vice-versa.  Each painting compresses the time of its video counterpart into object; likewise, each of Sheridan’s “painting-in-motion” videos unpacks its painting analog into experience in the form of architectural projections and video sculptures.  Sheridan received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and his BFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts in New York.  He has exhibited his work internationally for two decades, most recently in Miami, the XXII Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia; France, Brazil and New York (all 2014).  Since a teaching stint in Singapore ending in 2010, Sheridan has participated in six prestigious artist residencies on three continents while receiving grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and SECULT--Secretary of Culture, Bahia, Brazil.  For more information, please visit: www.msheridanstudio.com

[caption id="attachment_11617" align="aligncenter" width="448"] Analog Feedback Loop B, 2013. Art by Matt Sheridan[/caption]

We are so excited to bring you work by such an internationally respected and critically acclaimed artist! Visit his page in our SHOP.

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This week we have added a selection of very recent work by Californian artist Emily Silver.

Emily throws tradition out of the window, approaching her drawings as extensions of her sculptural work. Surfaces are built with an eclectic mix of sculptural materials in addition to paint & pencil. The results are innovative and exciting. As subject matter she looks to funerals, parties, parades and carnivals, using iconography, materials and colors associated with these events to create her artwork. On a conceptual level Emily's work examines the space between the celebratory and the tragedy. Often comedy is used through the incorporation of a written 'punch line'. While crude, funny or devastating, Silver uses comedy to make a poignant comment on the resilience of the human spirit and the role of ritual in our lives. Visit EMILY SILVER to see the full portfolio of work. Prints start at $85.00 AUD.

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This week we release a series of limited edition prints from a collaboration with the fantastic artist Nicolas Jorcino.

Nicolas Jorcino is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who has lived and worked in Louisville, KY since 2001. While attending architectural school in his hometown, Jorcino was introduced to painting during weekly sessions at a local master's workshop. He quickly began conducting his own experiments, which led him to become a full time muralist for the next eighteen years. Today his work is still informed by some of the same problems, pursuits and processes of architecture and design; as a social and physical science and also as a fine art. About his work in this exhibit, Nicolas writes, “My formal training is in architecture and urban planning. I began this series of paintings a few years ago while exploring different aspects and similarities between these two disciplines and painting. Identifying light as the primary material of architecture, I looked for a way to present it with the same weight and hierarchy as the concrete structures that control and shape it in the works of some of the masters I admire... In these images, the process is revealed more as an intellectual exercise than a physical execution.”

Nicolas is currently exhibiting at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in Kentucky with another TWFineArt artist and favorite, Rebecca Norton. The is exhibition titled In Between and runs until October 11, 2014.

To see our limited edition print series visit our SHOP.

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