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Art the Plate - Artist Designs
We're grateful to the talented artists based in and around Sydney. They demonstrate how limitless imagination can be. Even on something
as simple as a plate.
Lucy Donnelly
Lucy Donnelly is a self-taught painter living in Sydney. "Capitalising on the recent cult popularity of the bird, I thought the humble ibis was overdue for a respectful ceramic portrait."
Samantha Tsang
Samantha Tsang is a Sydney based artist, specialising in pen and ink illustration based off video games and popular culture. "I always enjoy branching out into new artforms and working under different briefs, as at the end of the day, it all culminates into a deeper love for art. I am blessed with the ability to express emotions and to reconstruct memories through art, and thus my greatest motivation is knowing the lasting impact my pieces have in inspiring others to create and to also reflect on past experiences and memories."
Amanda Dwight
Amanda Dwight is a developing artist based in Sydney with multidiciplinary interests, particularly in performance art, ceramics and culinary arts. In collaboration with artist Ella Byrne, they recently launched a new experimental dining performance series called Strange Table. https://www.strangetable.com
Alexander Veddovi-McCaughan
Alex Veddovi-McCaughan is a freelance multidisciplinary artist/graphic designer with a passion for graphic art, manga, Buddhist art and illustration. He is “a third culture kid” whose life experiences embody a melding of Eastern and Western culture depicted often in his works. Through drawing in either material or digital mediums Alex’s work is a representation of the countries he grew up in. By means of symbolism or patterning associated with those countries he hopes people can see his migration.
Connie Pan
Connie Pan is a Sydney-based artist with a penchant for 国画 (traditional Chinese painting). 国画 themes and techniques are clearly displayed in her artwork: in the delicate brushstrokes, the humble colour tones, the spiritual absorption, and the harmonious and circular congruence of nature. "Sit among the lotus flowers. Meditate to the ripples magnifying from the swirl of a goldfish's tail. Breathe in the fragrant ramen broth mingled against the blossom-scented breeze. Rest awhile in my Chinese garden."
Sinead Condell
Mahmood Hussain
Mahmood lives in Sydney and enjoys drawing, although he hasn't painted on ceramics before. He inconsistently dabbles in art, but consistently enjoys it when he does. This bowl is an eclectic assortment of images that flew into Mahmood's mind when he thought about ramen.
Giorgia De Biasi
De Biasi uses performative practices to consider the paradox of measuring the immeasurable. Her process-oriented work is often driven by chance, situating forms of navigation and communication within real and imagined landscapes. De Biasi’s works encode subjective or inner experience using the language of physical and quantitative processes. In this piece (titled STRONG FINISH) De Biasi says “The top step on the podium — and the champagne — belongs to the driver who crosses the finish line first. Some never do, while others have made the winner’s circle their home. In this circuit I seek respite, or is it a reconciliation, in a world that we can touch and see”.
Alyssa Kulyk
Alyssa Kulyk is an artist and designer currently based in the Sutherland Shire. “This piece depicts two anthropomorphic frogs happily sharing a meal together, an image inspired by images and stories in folklore and fairy tales. The aim of this piece is simple, to bring a smile to the viewer and encourage living in the moment and enjoying the simple pleasure of sharing a meal with a friend or loved one. Working on this ceramic bowl was a totally new experience for me, as someone who mainly works digitally, aside from printmaking and crafting jewellery, overall it was a fun and rewarding experience.”
Gabby Malpas
Gabby Malpas works with liquid colour on paper, canvas and clay, challenging the genre of Chinoiserie with her own narrative. Malpas is an exhibiting and licensed artist from NZ, currently residing in Sydney. "‘Herrings’ is a whimsical piece inspired by previous works on paper, modified to compliment the form and properties of this ramen bowl".
Christopher Zanko
Christopher Zanko is an artist from Wollongong who works primarily in wood block carving and painting. "I wanted to paint something that contrasted with the organic nature of how the bowl was crafted."
Claire Low
Claire Low is an Australian-born Chinese-Thai artist who spent the pandemic drawing graphite on paper works every day. "Why are pop culture's most famous mermaids usually redheads or blondes? Where are the Asian mermaids? Representation matters, even if you’re mythical.”
Carrie Feng
Carrie Feng is a Sydney based, Chinese-Australian designer. Through her work Carrie examines the at times provisional and complex lived experiences of diasporic subjectivities, to interrogate what it truly means to be an Asian-Australian in the contemporary day and age.
Mira Nurdianti
For Marrickville-based artist Mira Nurdianti, making art is an avenue for storytelling. Under the banner of Melancholy Memento, Mira's work is inspired by femininity, melancholia, witchcraft and nostalgia; all of which are embodiments of her personal search for identity.
Manuela Veddovi
A fascination with the representation of Neko ( cats ) and classic training in Japanese art forms comes together. Manuela Veddovi brings together her many experiences in learning traditional Japanese art forms together with a love of water colour to produce kawai ( cute ) images of cats.
Marione Lozano
Marione Lozano is a Sydney Photographer, shooting commercial and documentary style photography. 'I sought to explore storytelling, with minimal colour and shapes with childlike wonder at the fragility of life through flowers. The flowers were my late grandparents' favorites."
Rhys Gordon
Rhys Gordon is a Sydney Based Tattoo Artist specialising in large scale Japanese tattoos.
Rhys has been tattooing for 30 years working in 20 studios worldwide including, the U.K. Thailand and The Netherlands.
The history of Japan and its Folklore plays a major role in his work providing the foundation for bold and meaningful tattoos.
Rhys Gordon
Traditional Japanese tattoo artists.
"Water is a subject that has always captivated me, it can take any shape, create powerful movements or be completely still, combining this with a Japanese theme I wanted to express beauty with a simplistic design that would become apart of the Bowl."
Rhys has been tattooing for 30 years working in 20 studios worldwide including, the U.K. Thailand and The Netherlands.
The history of Japan and its Folklore plays a major role in his work providing the foundation for bold and meaningful tattoos.
Rhys Gordon
Traditional Japanese tattoo artists.
"Water is a subject that has always captivated me, it can take any shape, create powerful movements or be completely still, combining this with a Japanese theme I wanted to express beauty with a simplistic design that would become apart of the Bowl."
Danielle Palmer
Danielle is an Art Teacher at Tempe High School.
Kane Dawson
Kane is an Art Teacher at Tempe High School.
Jiho Jong
Jiho Jong is a Korean Tattoo Artist and Painter based in Sydney.
Jiho Jong has been Tattooing and Painting for 5 years inspired by Japanese and Korean mythology.
"I wanted to capture the simplicity and delicatessen of Peony flowers with simple color blend to show balanced strength around the bowl"
Jiho Jong has been Tattooing and Painting for 5 years inspired by Japanese and Korean mythology.
"I wanted to capture the simplicity and delicatessen of Peony flowers with simple color blend to show balanced strength around the bowl"
Som Nakburin
Fine Art Major turned tattoo artist, Miss Orange (Som Nakaburin) is a highly skill painter, sketch artist, and tattoo artist.
Hailing from Pathunthani,Thailand, a small province close to Bangkok, Som began tattooing in 2007. In 2008 Som permanently moved to Sydney Australia to further her skills in Tattooing.
Heavily influenced by asian culture, particularly that of the Japanese people and their ancient practice of tattooing, Som’s unique take on traditional Japanese pieces sees her booked out solid for months at Little Tokyo
Miss Orange has built a strong customer base and customer following in her years tattooing in Australia, and her work continues to adorn customers.
Hailing from Pathunthani,Thailand, a small province close to Bangkok, Som began tattooing in 2007. In 2008 Som permanently moved to Sydney Australia to further her skills in Tattooing.
Heavily influenced by asian culture, particularly that of the Japanese people and their ancient practice of tattooing, Som’s unique take on traditional Japanese pieces sees her booked out solid for months at Little Tokyo
Miss Orange has built a strong customer base and customer following in her years tattooing in Australia, and her work continues to adorn customers.
Alice Ayja
Alice Ayja’s artworks are frequently inspired by natural splendour and her fondness for Fauvism. She believes in the sheer expressive force of colour – this is reflected in her palette. "The sunflower is a symbol of glowing optimism and alacrity – the same radiant cheeriness you experience after devouring a steaming bowl of ramen. So eat up, and bask in the sunny after-glow."
Jacqueline Tran
Amy Vuong
Amy Vuong is a Sydney based artist that works in traditional and digital painting as well as making handmade jewellery and accessories. "The painting process for this was quite different from acrylics in how the glaze dried and the pigments resisted blending and so, I tried to adapt by creating a simple yet effective illustration. The work I made is a playful surprise for those who eagerly finish their ramen and soup. I wanted to incorporate Japanese themes with a glutinous tanuki as the focus (similar to the ones in Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko), recognisable ramen ingredients that swirl to the round contours of the bowl and clouds that also swirl and echo the overall curves of the bowl. The clouds also reference traditional Japanese paintings and float around the edges to create a border for the illustration."
Ashley Bundang
Ashley Bundang is a musician from Wollongong who creates and collaborates across a number of genres including dream pop and ambient. The motifs used reflect the repetition of shape accompanied by their own idiosyncrasies. Through the performance of collaborative ambient music Ashley will often play each set in response to the environment of the performance. Similarly to the motifs painted in the bowl, the marks may be the same fundamentally however they are determined by the inconsistencies and nuances of the hand shaped bowl.
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