About Kingscliff
Artist + Web Designer
Michael Bryant
Photography + web design
Drawings, painting, writing + multimedia tuition
One on One tuition and all an all Curious Digital Photography workshops
commencing February 2012 facilitated by photography artists Tracy Jay Gold Coast and Michael BryantKingscliff. Classes will held at the Curious Art Gallery in a studio environment located by the tranquil setting of Chinderah Bay.
Click here for more information about the artist and News of current ventures and projects
A piece of Art History in progress
2001
With daughter Vanessa and some like minded Tafe associates he pursued an idea to form a core Art group/art movement with Gallery space based in the popular coastal town of Kingscliff NSW. Kingscliff was then home to the Art, food and Jazz Festival held annually.
In May the Curious Art minus zero no limits Co-Operative Ltd was officially registered and opened its retail Art Gallery only a few minutes drive from Kingscliff at nearby Chinderah Bay by the Tweed River in September 2001.
He has been the Manager and one of the Directors, since the formation of the Co-operative until the present time.
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Exhibitions
1998 Caldera Restaurant Kingscliff Tafe NSW
1998 Art, Food & Jazz Festival Kingscliff, NSW
1999 Tweed River Regional Gallery Muriel NSW.
A Tafe group exhibition, featuring a dedicated interactive art space “Brain, the bottle and eyes” by the artist.
2000 Flying Colours Gallery, Fingal, NSW (now Sheoak Shack)
2001 " " " "
2002/2004 Art Food & Jazz Kingscliff NSW
2002 Choux Box Cafe Kingscliff NSW
2002/2003 Tyalgum Classical Music Festival as visual artists in residence (Curious Art Group) and exhibition at Literary Institute Hall and 11:11 Tyalgum Café Gallery
2003 Collaborative exhibition with Vanessa Bryant
“A Bridge Across” at Curious Art Gallery
2004 Josephine Ulrich Photography Prize Entrant Tweed River Regional Gallery
2005 Border Art Prize Tweed River Regional Gallery
2008/09 The Laughing Cat Gallery - Tyalgum
Continuous representation with Curious Art Gallery Exhibitions from 2001 to the present time.
Professional work
He teaches one on one lessons in Creative Digital Media
Image editing - Digital Photography -
Beginners Welcome.
Web Design - Manages several websites.
His artwork is exhibited primarily at Curious Art Gallery.
Solo Exhibitions
2003 A Bridge Across - Collaboration with Vanessa Bryant
2005 North by North East
2007 Inverse
2010 Field of Vision
2012 Coming up in April - The Hungry Ocean
Book Releases
2005 North by North East
2006 North by North East - Magnetic Directions
2007 Inverse
2007 A Stones Throw from Paradise
2009 3 Points North
The conclusion to the trilogy of North by North East Books
2010 Field of Vision
All images, verse and web design:
Michael Bryant Copyright © 2012
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The photograph above titled Abandoned Window was shot on location at an old Brisbane home. It later featured in the solo exhibition, Inverse with some poignant words about the decline of the human spirit from Alzheimer's disease.
(rollover image for the words)
Forming a kind of symbiotic relationship with the imagery of words and the poetry of detail, has produced a body of work in recent exhibitions such as Field of Vision and Inverse. The concept of fusing images and verse began some 40 years for the artist.
How it all began...
He started writing short stories and verse at age 15 and later began drawing on the interior walls of a rented house in Sydney accompanied by random verse. Late 60's graffiti art! Some things just never change! Although the current house walls are not available these days. Pity.
Photography + Web design has in fact become the medium for the bulk of Michael's work for the last few years. His work is exhibited regularly at Curious Art Gallery and manages several websites including Curious Art.
Below is a location map and view of the Gallery.
News and Latest Ventures
2012 Curious Digital Photography Workshops
Commencing February 2012 artists, Tracy Jay and Michael Bryant from Curious Digital Photography will be conducting innovative workshops for beginners to intermediate digital photographers.
The workshops are aimed at cultivating photographic skills through
an enjoyable creative process. Participants will develop the skills to enhance the marketability of their images. Today a broad range of
photographic equipment is accessible to everyone.
Curious Digital Photography welcomes all levels of experience for these workshops, as they will include creative briefs which are not dictated by expertise.
The workshops will be held in a studio environment at the Curious Art Gallery, situated in a tranquil riverside setting with expansive panoramic views across the Tweed River to Wollumbin/Mt.Warning.
Participants are expected to bring a camera (any variety i.e. Digital SLR, 35mm film SLR, compact point and shoot etc.)
Computers are available in the Gallery to preview and critique work from assignments.
Tracy and Michael are aware there is a lot on offer for digital photography workshops and have this to say about their classes:
"There are many photography courses out there. Photography workshops are available in Brisbane, the Gold Coast to Tweed Heads and in Byron Bay. However what we are offering is quite unique.
The final outcome of our classes provides students not only with increased creative and technical skills and motivation but also an opportunity to exhibit in a special exhibition for the students in an established Art Gallery near Kingscliff."
An open day workshop at no cost will be held Monday 20th February. Starts 10.30am e.d.s.t.
Limited spaces for this available.
Sign up for the full 8 week course commencing 5th March 2012 can be completed on the day.
(Cost is $240 per person 2 hour sessions for 8 weeks)
To register your interest please contact:
Tracy or Michael at curiousdigitalphotography
Michael: 0488 073756
|| Tracy:0406 525246
Education Upgrade
During 2010 he decided to upgrade Web Design skills and returned in 2011 for a more in depth web learning curve of e-commerce. And yet more in 2012 doing ICT Advance Diploma.
From the TAFE class of 2010
a great network of very serious minded web developers has been formed...
Links for some of their websites
Our Web Guru : Urshula Beere
If Ursh doesn't know it...she will
Mystery Lunch Design
Irenic Publications
Mishy Dee Designs
Eye Capture Dezigns
Katrina Reddel
Tracy Jay
Kingscliff Spider Web Designers
(photos by Web Designer Irene Estepa)
January Art News and Events 2012
International Year of Cooperatives
- 2012 has been recognised as the International Year of Co-operatives by the United Nations. This is an acknowledgement by the international community that co-operatives drive the economy, respond to social change, are resilient to the global economic crisis and are serious, successful businesses creating jobs in all sectors.
"Co-operatives are a reminder to the international community that it is possible to pursue both economic viability and social responsibility."
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General
"In 2012, I hope everyone comes to better understand the transforming power of co-operatives all over the world including Australia."
Hugh Jackman
- Curious Art will present as the first exhibition for 2012 "Empowered by Art" - International Year of Cooperatives
- The Queensland Festival of Photography 4, is coming up in April 2012 and will be celebrating photomedia in all its forms during the month of April next year. In its fourth edition the festival has already expanded to include 46 participating venues, from Cairns to the Gold Coast.
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