Tina Cherry

Tina Cherry

  • Artist’s Statement

    For me, as an artist, delivering a form of ecological aesthetic for the purpose of sensory education for the preservation of our naturel world, addresses the absurdity of the Anthropocene epoch which paradoxically is leading humanity towards extinction.

    Having exhibited my work in both solo and numerous group exhibitions, I have had considerable feedback from those within regional Queensland communities of their concerns pertaining to local environmental instability’s, notably coal seam gas operations, open-cut mining, water pollution, urban development, land clearing, and endemic flora and fauna loss. There is a collective environmental anxiety, and it is a driving force that inspires my art practice, in the attempt to make social, environmental, and political change through the narrative of a visual form of effect and consequence.

    My chosen medium at present is graphite, I do drawings from which the construction of synthetic and natural environments are built from monochromatic plains within my work, conceptually exploring both the felt experiences (the physical reality), and the unconscious experience (intuitive reality). Through non-representational and realistic imagery within a picture plane, based on the formulation of an autonomous perspective, the use of restriction within the space, keeping it minimal, and emphasizing the diminished scape artistically conveys the effect human development has had, and will have, on the physical place we exist. My aim is for people to recognize what is missing, and be reminded of the value of what is being lost environmentally.

  • Biography

    I am an artist based in the small town of Crow’s Nest in regional Queensland. The desirability to pursue a career as an Artist began in the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, being my home for 29 years where I received my early education. My father worked for the Bureau of Mineral Resources, and it was through my family’s extensive travels across much of Australia’s remote regions on lengthy surveys with the BMR I was introduced to the diversity and beauty of Australia’s Naturel Environments. Only later would I come to understand that the mineral surveys conducted through the BMR would later lead to the mining boom across much of our country. In turn, this led me to become an ecological artist, via understanding the significance of our natural heritage through the lived experience.

    Moving to South East Queensland in the late nineties, in 2001 I enrolled in a Diploma of Visual art at the Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE. I then enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Southern Queensland in 2006, where I received the Rosemary Lakerink Memorial Award for Strongest Studio Performance in Level 3, at the School of Creative Arts USQ. Currently I am doing a Bachelor of Sustainability at the University of New England, the studies of which I endeavor to integrate into my art practice, to relay the importance of ecological diversity, and the safeguarding of finite resources and eco systems.

  • Influences

    The Earth

  • Awards

    2016 Curator's choice for Things that mattered forgotten; Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwilli) 2016, Graphite on
    paper,76.5 x 56.5, 30th Downlands Art Exhibition, Downlands College, Toowoomba, QLD
    2016 Selected work for the Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artists Award Exhibition, and acquisition of artwork,
    Train of thought: Keep the coal contained, selected for Artist-Led: Crates on Wheels exhibition, touring
    Toowoomba Region’s schools in 2017
    2008 Rosemary Lakerink Memorial Award (Strongest Studio Performance in Level 3, School of Creative Arts,
    University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD
    1999 Second Prize (Mrs L. Burgess Memorial, Any Subject Any Medium for Those Residing in Crows Nest's,
    Crow's Nest Agricultural Horticultural and Industrial Society, Crow’s Nest, QLD
    1999 Third Prize, Animal or Bird, Crow's Nest Agricultural Horticultural & Industrial Society, Crow’s Nest,QLD

  • Exhibitions

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS
    2019 Instudeo Art Trail, Crows Nest Arts and Crafts Inc., Basement space, Crows Nest, QLD
    2018 I Spy; with my little eye, Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery, Crows Nest QLD
    2016 Little Matters, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
    2016 Toll.. a travelling exhibition, Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery, Crows Nest QLD
    2014 Toll.. a travelling exhibition, Chinchilla White Gums Art Gallery, Chinchilla QLD
    2013 Toll, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
    2010 The Painters Cornucopia, Attic Art Space, Toowoomba, QLD
    2010 τόπος λόγος “Place Study”, Attic Art Space, Toowoomba, QLD
    2007 Placescapes, Crow’s Nest Regional Art Gallery, Crow’s Nest, QLD
    2004 Elemental Femininity, C7 Café, Toowoomba, QLD
    2003 Moving Walls, Southern Queensland Institute Of TAFE, Toowoomba, QLD

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    2018 32nd Downlands Art Exhibition, Downlands College, Toowoomba, QLD
    2017 Here, There and Everywhere USQ Alumni Exhibition, the 50th anniversary of DDIAE/UCSQ/USQ and the
    25th anniversary of USQ, USQ, Toowoomba, QLD
    2017 Artist-Led: Crates on Wheels exhibition, touring Toowoomba Region’s schools in 2017, Toowoomba, QLD
    2016 Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artists Award Exhibition, Toowoomba, QLD
    2016 Hampton Festival, Hampton QLD
    2015 Fastplant: A Skateboard Exhibition, No Comply & Kontraband Studios, Toowoomba, QLD
    2015 Toowoomba Grammar School Art Show 1015, Grammar School, Toowoomba, QLD
    2012 ImpACT, Arts Council Toowoomba Members exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba,
    QLD
    2011 12th Group Exhibition, Made. Creative Space, Toowoomba, QLD
    2010 Gallery 53 June & July Exhibition, Gallery 35 Russell, Toowoomba, QLD
    2009 Changing Times, Kath Dickson Community Art Space, Toowoomba, QLD
    2009 Hampton High Country Food and Arts Festival, Hampton, QLD
    2009 Abstract Realities (curetted by Kyle Jenkins & Robert Kronk) University of Southern Queensland,
    USQ Arts Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
    2008 Graduart, USQ Arts Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD
    2008 How I See It:Works In Progress Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba,QLD
    2007 30 X 30 Exhibition Air Space Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
    2007 Art Market, Kath Dickson Community Art Space, Toowoomba, QLD
    2007 Our Art, Our Children, Our Community (Kath Dickson Art Award), Kath Dickson Community Art
    Space, Toowoomba, QLD
    2007 O Week – Women Passionate About Art, Women’s Network Room, University of Southern Queensland,
    Toowoomba, QLD
    2006 Student Gulled First and Second year Bachelor of Vis Arts Exhibition, Clive Berghofer Recreation Centre,
    Toowoomba, QLD
    2006 Volly Show by Vollies, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
    2005 The Inaugural Art With A Heart Exhibition and Art Prize (Supporting Drug Arm), The Downs Club
    Toowoomba, Toowoomba, QLD
    2002 Evocative (Second Year Diploma of Visual Arts Students), Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE,
    Toowoomba, QLD
    1999 Crow’s Nest Show, Fine Arts Hall, Crow’s Nest, QLD
    1990 Stirling Art Group (Public Display), Collamon Court Shopping Centre, Canberra, A.C.T

  • Website

    http://tinacherry-artist.blogspot.com/

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Tina Cherry

I Spy; Native black cockroach 2018
55 x 75 x 0.5 cm Framed: 56.5 x 76.5 x 1.5 cm Graphite on paper (Drawing) $300.00

Tina Cherry

I Spy: Mosquito larvae 2018
55 x 75 x 0.5 cm Framed: 56.5 x 76.5 x 1.5 cm Graphite on paper (Drawing) $300.00