Life Art Worldwide
Artwork by local artist, Sally J. TheLife Art Worldwide Expo will be held at Lightspace in Fortitude Valley, from the 23rd to the 27th of September.
An international art convention in the heart of Brisbane.
The Life Art Worldwide Expo is an event designed to introduce Brisbane to visual artists from all around the world, showing their skills in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture. The Expo will be held at Lightspace in Fortitude Valley, from the 23rd to the 27th of September.
The expo will host the prestigious Brisbane Art Prize – a $10,000 dollar international art award presented at the expo. The prize this year is centred on the meaning of life – it’s significance, purpose and ultimate fate. This is an opportunity for Brisbane to view and purchase some incredible artworks. Lightspace offers an excellent backdrop to the works, with not only the Brisbane Art Prize finalist works displayed, but also 35 sought after artist booths available for viewing. The expo will also host the booth of this year’s winner of the FOCUS competition – a global photography competition run by Life Art Worldwide that is won by a people’s choice award in the lead up to the expo. The expo will have entertainment for all ages, with special children’s activities running throughout the days.
Sponsored by the Brisbane Airport Corporation, Place Design Group, QCA, Tryp Hotel, Sofitel Brisbane Central, Arts Queensland, Creative Partnerships Australia, Brisbane Marketing, Brisbane City Council, Society of Fine Arts and the University of Queensland.
For more information please see our website or contact us directly at the email address provided.
SALLY J
Sally J is a visual artist from Dayboro, QLD who this year will be featured in the 2015 Life Art Worldwide Expo in Brisbane as a finalist for the Brisbane Art Prize.
Sally J has an artistic approach unique to herself. She develops her paintings by first planning them in a drawing and assigning colours to them, and then painting them – usually on a much larger scale. Her piece for the Brisbane Art Prize was an existing piece that she had that she then adapted for the competition. Her painting focuses on the concept of keeping life simple and of life through her eyes.
Sally J has been practising as an artist for 12 months and intends on becoming a full-time artist in the future. She mainly works with acrylics in her final pieces and tries not to be influenced by any outside sources – she likes to keep her art in her own style. Since Sally J was diagnosed with Bipolar, OCD and anxiety disorders, she found that creating art works as a type of therapy for her. She creates many sets and series, all purely inspired by her own thoughts and her taste for defying the colour wheel. She creates patterns and figures that often centre on ideas that she is interested in, one of the major ones being overpopulation.
Sally J is used to working on a much larger scale than the Brisbane Art Prize size restriction of 40cm x 40cm and so found the change in size challenging, but workable. Her art is displayed in retailers throughout the Dayboro and Samford region, and is participating in exhibitions in both Sydney and Rome, Italy later in 2015.
