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the 2012 International Contemporary Masters edition V
The Volume V International Contemporary Masters, is now for sale through Amazon.com and all leading galleries, museums around the world .
INVITATION ONLY to exhibit in any edition - After the initial invitation you are required to submit 6 images of your best work accompanied by an informed resume of your art career. A panel of curators, art buyers and gallery owners from around the world select artists to be represented and printed.
Dispina Tunberg and Thomas Tunberg created the book, which is now used by art buyers and curators as a 'bible'.
Thomas Tunberg says, 'The 'Masters' series has become a highly regarded presentation of the latest work of truly noteworthy artists who deserve to become well known if they not already. Galleries and curators, art critics and collectors contact us waiting for the next series" Thomas also says, 'with the cumulative works from all series, it will be both immense and very useful for art historians."
Despina says. "the masters V edition is for lovers and connoisseurs of art than the artists themselves". she also says, "thousands of artists do not make the selection as the main criteria is interest, originality, beauty and above all Proficiency. it sounds simple, but it is not. In modern art and particularly with a growing variety of media , it is very hard to follow rules. In the years I (Despina) has been a curator and art gallery owner, together with the experience and knowledge of the other members on the selection committee, we must see things for the "first time" - on reflection, this is the most desirable response a work of art can provoke, and the works that create this feeling almost will always make it into the Book."
The senior partners of Suedwind Equestrian, Henrik and Philip Holzapfel both said, " we can breed champions but talents have to be born"!!
I have more than enjoyed my art career over the last 10 years and each year becomes more exciting, if not somewhat overwhelming. I live in my own private world of thoughts and constant ideas - enabling me to express myself and give myself up completely to a canvas. 2012 will be no different with exhibitions at the Lavender Bay Gallery, Sydney May and the Amsterdam Whitney Fine Art Gallery, New York in September.
AMSTERDAM WHITNEY
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Dear Sophie Mill
Thank you for your fine submission of beautiful landscape and floral paintings.
AMSTERDAM WHITNEY International Fine Art congratulates you on being accepted to our distinguished “Family of Artists.” After carefully reviewing your artwork, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery’s Curatorial Committee has formally selected you to participate in our elite museum-caliber Representation Program. Our Curatorial Review Committee was particularly impressed by your brilliantly colorful landscape and floral paintings resonating with a profound visual message. We were engaged by your love of nature and the positive energy that is conveyed in your floral work. In addition, we enjoyed your powerful and joyful color palette with its exciting tonal combinations which passionately reveals the eternal quality of nature. We delighted in the timelessness of "Secret Pond" which reflects your universal vision of the natural world with its luminescent hues. The textural quality and myriad hues of your compositions radiate a beautiful serenity. AMSTERDAM WHITNEY GALLERY would be pleased to schedule a 2011 or 2012 exhibition.
AMSTERDAM WHITNEY Gallery bears my husband's distinguished Family Name and is a premier, museum-forum curated gallery located in the “Heart of Chelsea”- the global epicenter of the art world. AMSTERDAM WHITNEY Gallery, widely known as one of Chelsea’s most distinguished museum-caliber, Contemporary Masters’ art galleries, offers the artist outstanding credentials, prestigious reputation and famous, pre-eminent world class international name recognition. AMSTERDAM WHITNEY Gallery is emblematic of the highest standard of excellence, noteworthy art world status, and international prestige. We are deeply dedicated to the advancement of the artist’s career amongst distinguished collectors, art cognoscenti, art consultants, and international VIPs. Our elegant gallery, known as “the most beautiful gallery in Chelsea,” will offer you a stimulating and exciting, museum-quality environment to dynamically and professionally promote your art.
With 40 years of the highest expertise, academic background and consummate experience in the art world, including Museums, influential Madison Avenue Galleries and Auction Houses, I look forward to working with you in the advancement of your art career and the attainment of your finest art credentials. Please find attached AMSTERDAM WHITNEY Gallery’s Contract. Kindly respond to the Gallery’s Representation Invitation By: OCTOBER 29 as the gallery’s promotional, publicity, and exhibition programs are arranged well in advance
Cordially Yours,
Ruthie Tucker
Executive Director – Curator
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery
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Newcastle artist to exhibit in Italy Preferring to let her artwork speak for itself, Mill said crying aliens was ‘‘very personal’’ and added to the emotion of her call on Sunday. ‘‘You have no idea how excited I was,’’ she said. ‘‘I never get up at sunrise. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the sun rise in my life but I did on Monday because I was far too excited to sleep. The excitement since then has been incredible.’’ Mill and her husband, Stuart, arrived in Newcastle five years ago and knew instantly it was the right place for them. They had lived on Sydney’s North Shore, Mexico, England, the US and in NSW country towns of Orange and Bingara. ‘‘When we moved to Newcastle we took a rental but within two weeks we knew we wanted to live here,’’ Mill said. The Italy exhibit is on October 23. Mill will return to Newcastle for four days before heading to Moree for a solo exhibition.
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Last week she was exhibiting a further selection of her work at the Moree Gallery, in Moree – where half her 20 large paintings were sold by 10am and a total of 70 per cent have sold altogether.
She said having her work chosen for the international exhibition had marked “a tremendous and exciting time”.
Certainly it is a memorable high in a fascinating life involving many highs and lows, not least battles with mental illness, finding true love – and then tree- and sea-changes.
This brave and vivacious lady, who now calls Newcastle home, has certainly ridden life’s roller coaster, including early years suffering debilitating manic episodes.
Her creative and busy mind was shaped early, largely by annual visits to England to visit her grandmother.
Sophie’s mother left England in the mid-1960s on a “10 pound ticket” to escape the broken heart of her first fiancé being shot down over enemy country at Yemen.
A new country and a new life were some kind of salve for an unbearable wound but Joan Beaumont, Sophie’s grandmother, would pay for Sophie’s mother, Dianna, and later Sophie to make pilgrimages back to the homeland.
Joan’s sister, Florence, was an artist, and it was with her that Sophie’s true first love began.
Sophie was raised in Sydney, enrolling at the National Art school, Darlinghurst, and the Julian Ashton School at The Rocks in her twenties.
Then at Cowra’s Wyangala Dam at a New Year’s Eve party in 1998 she met a “shy and good looking” farmer, Stuart Mill, from Bingara, and they married exactly a year later.
Happy to flee city for farm life at “Nooroo”, Bingara (Stuart’s family farm), seven years later it was a shock when the old demons of depression began nipping again as a sense of increased isolation and loneliness set in.
“I tried everything from creating beautiful gardens to working on the farm when I could,” Sophie said.
“I painted and raised two gorgeous sons, but there was an overwhelming sadness looming in me.”
Sophie suffered a breakdown, and spent two months in hospital, which led to a further crisis.
“I knew I couldn’t stay ... but asking my husband to leave his farm and life behind was sheer torture.”
But Stuart readily declared the farm to be second to his wife and best friend’s needs, so the couple moved to Newcastle and a new life near the beach.
Sophie says she has “rediscovered equilibrium”, a process no doubt helped by forging a place as one of the Hunter’s most followed and loved artists.
She has also exhibited at Sydney’s Fox Studios, Pymble Gallery, Montville Gallery, Rothbury Estate and Olympic Park.
A stint in New York for two months to study contemporary art with Sotheby’s Institute of Art has been part of the most recent whirlwind, and her autobiography is due out next year.
“I tried everything from creating beautiful gardens to working on the farm when I could,” Sophie said.
“I painted and raised two gorgeous sons, but there was an overwhelming sadness looming in me.”
Sophie suffered a breakdown, and spent two months in hospital, which led to a further crisis.
“I knew I couldn’t stay ... but asking my husband to leave his farm and life behind was sheer torture.”
But Stuart readily declared the farm to be second to his wife and best friend’s needs, so the couple moved to Newcastle and a new life near the beach.
Sophie says she has “rediscovered equilibrium”, a process no doubt helped by forging a place as one of the Hunter’s most followed and loved artists.
She has also exhibited at Sydney’s Fox Studios, Pymble Gallery, Montville Gallery, Rothbury Estate and Olympic Park.
A stint in New York for two months to study contemporary art with Sotheby’s Institute of Art has been part of the most recent whirlwind, and her autobiography is due out next year.
“Creative energy”, and the Este Castle opens up to the world
Ferrara, 23-31 October: Trevisan International Art presented a fascinating exhibition of works by contemporary artists from all over the world
“The title of this exhibition and the ideas behind it stem from my recent trip to Australia. Its striking sceneries and landscapes provided me with numerous stimuli and inspired me deeply, and so did the country’s high-quality and varied contemporary art. This also explains my fondness for the Australian art exhibited at ‘Creative Energy’ and my wish to host Australian artists, whom I thank very much for accepting to come”. So comments Paola Trevisan, the curator of the exhibition that opened in Ferrara on 23 October, in the Imbarcadero of the Este Castle, hosted artists from all over the world, and closed on 31 October.
An explosion of colours and shapes, a hymn to creativity and to the pleasure of painting, sculpting and photographing, the international group exhibition “Creative energy” offered visitors to the fascinating rooms in the Este Castle the chance to range geographically and emotionally from artist to artist, from culture to culture, from talent to talent. “I wish to thank every single artist for bringing in and presenting their wonderful works, and for letting me into their beautiful artistic worlds, – says Paola Trevisan – because each artist agreed to reveal to me the uniqueness of their own artistic but also human vision”.
And it is precisely this entering different worlds – each hosting its own research, suggestions and power – the main effect that the vernissage of the 23rd had on visitors: a roundup of different works, three or four per artist, sharing the creative energy that informs those who choose to seriously and successfully walk the paths of art. As for the subjects, they ranged from pictorial universes in bright and enthralling colours, to refined decorative research made into fascinating canvases, to sculptures in which the powerfully moulded matter spoke, to very elaborate black-and-white pictures full of details and hosting untouchable secrets. All this resulted in an undoubtedly fascinating event, also thanks to its fabulous setting inside the Este Castle.
Mostly abstract, the works on exhibition brought together artists from all over the world. The rooms hosted art from four out of our five continents: from Oceania (New Zealand and Australia, a country that – as said earlier – enjoyed a leading role in the exhibition), to Europe (Holland, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Britain, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy), to Asia (Japan, Israel, Singapore, Cyprus, the Philippines), to America (Canada and the United States). Almost all the authors were present at the vernissage, which was further highlighted by the official visit of Aura Acosta, a representative from the Consulate of the Philippines, who came to promote and celebrate the art of her fellow countrywoman Maria Pureza Escano.
This cosmopolitan meeting of artists resulted in a composite and varied event, open to the public for free for eight days, and aimed at testing the trends in contemporary art and building bridges between different worlds, which still retain different features deriving from their different roots even in times of globalization. It is much too easy to just look in one’s own back garden, or pick celebrated names that attract visitors by the thousands, as happens with ninety per cent of Italian exhibitions: it is much harder and more meaningful to bet on good and successful artists by looking them up in the most different corners of the world and inviting them to measure themselves up against each other. The perspective is wider, the visual and mental horizon opens up: both for the spectators and for those who actively set up and participate in the event.