Our Featured Artists
At Meet@566, we pride ourselves on featuring an eclectic range of artworks by local and internationally renowned Australian artists. We hope the environment inspires you. Here is some information about just some of our collection, and be sure to click their names if you would like to learn more.
Charles Blackman is one of the most celebrated Australian figurative artists of the 20th century. An excellent draughtsman as well as a painter, he created imagery – often in series – based on personal, literary and musical themes.
Blackman's work is associated with dreamlike images tinged with mystery and foreboding.
Born and establishing himself in Melbourne, Guy is a self-taught artist.
Over many years he has developed a unique style of painting and drawing that can be likened to an archeological process: a kind of layering of visual information that he cuts back by sanding, polishing and scraping the surfaces to unearth subtle, often revealing and confronting psychological landscapes. He defines his practice as a “means of expressing depth, vitality and sensuality”, which aims to inspire continuous questioning in his viewers.
Katherine Hattam is an Australian artist. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Artbank, Heide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Deakin and La Trobe Universities, Warrnambool Art Gallery and Bendigo Art Gallery.
Born in Melbourne, Greg Irvine studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School between 1963 and 1966.
He started his career as a set painter for the Australian National Ballet, but also had a prominent body of work in printmaking, ceramics, and figurative ceramic sculptures.
Bruno Leti lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Born in Italy, the artist emigrated to Australia with his family as a child in 1952. Taking art history studies at the University of Melbourne as well as a course at the Melbourne Teachers’ College, Bruno was primed for a career which would weave education, art practice and workshops for printmakers.
His disciplines are painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and book arts. He is represented in national, state and regional galleries, as well as university collections across Australia.
Ross Moore is a Melbourne-based artist, academic, and writer who came to prominence in the 1990s for discussing issues around the gay body and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Moore's work employs popular graphics from his childhood to reconfigure current issues. Moore made a series of works dealing with kitsch representations of Aboriginal identity, tracking a difficult terrain, Moore as a non-indigenous artist made parallels between experiences of homophobia and racism.
John Olsen is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. In a career spanning more than seven decades, he created a unique vision of the spirit and character of this country.
Olsen’s preoccupation with capturing his immediate responses to his environment brought him to great prominence in Australia in the 1960s. For much for the decade, his work focused on the Australian natural environment. His creative output was immense, and throughout his long career he retained an extraordinary passion for art and life.
Ken Barker is an artist who creates rich textures using collage and acrylic paints on both paper and canvas. Ken combined his passion for art with a career as one of Australia’s leading freelance textile designers.
“My art reflects life with it's basic structure, interrupted by the unexpected happenings
of life. I'm interested in textures and surfaces of weather beaten walls with peeling paint and graffiti. These walls are silent witnesses of the past and canvases for the future.”
-Ken Barker
Arthur Boyd was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both.
Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.
Graham Fransella is a figurative and abstract painter. Born in Harrow, England, he later moved to Melbourne in 1975. Graham Fransella lives and works in Melbourne and is represented by galleries across Australia
Graham Fransella’s work is represented in many public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Parliament House, Print Council of Australia and Artbank.
Frank Hodgkinson was a noted Australian printmaker, painter and graphic artist.
Hodgkinson displayed many talents, talents, but above all his unusually strong affinity with and attraction to Aboriginal country and culture set him apart from his contemporaries. He was very much an ‘Australian artist’, despite spending many formative years abroad.
Born in Ballarat Victoria, David Larwill is a distinctive and charismatic figure of Australian art. He rose to prominence as a co-founder of ROAR Studios in 1982, one of Melbourne's earliest and fiercest artist-run-initiatives. While populated with naive childlike forms, his images emanates raw, primal energy.
Larwill is represented in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Art gallery.
Julian Martin is an Australian artist, known primarily for his pastel drawings and self-portraits.
Martin resides in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster, and has worked from his Northcote-based studio at Arts Project Australia since 1989, where he has also had numerous solo shows. He has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally.
Sir Sidney Nolan, born and raised in Melbourne, was one of Australia’s most significant modernist artists; best known for his depictions of the history and mythology of bush life in Australia, including the 1946-1947 Ned Kelly Series.
In 1978, his work titled “Beckett” reflected on literary or personal figures, illustrated with oil pastels on paper.
John Taylor was educated at the University Of Melbourne where he majored in Art History and English Literature; the Victorian College Of The Arts where graduated in painting and Christ College where he received a graduate diploma in Arts Education.
He has pursued painterly abstraction for a considerable period, certainly after studying in New York in the late 1980s. Exhibiting regularly since the early 2000s, Taylor’s works are held in collections across Australia, Canada and the United States; with over twenty five solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney.
