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Colin Sweeney |
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Tasmania was the creative point of departure for Colin Sweeney. Born and educated in Hobart, Colin studied photography and drawing at the University of Tasmania. This was the beginning of an artistic journey up the east coast of Australia.
Colin's first exhibition was held at the Thelma Ferris Gallery in Potts Point Sydney in 1991. The following year was spent studing at the renowned Julian Ashton School of Arts, the initiating aim was to develop the more traditional skills of representational drawing and painting.These classes provided the underpinnings for the more explorative nature of Colin's future development.
It was in the next move to Cairns North Queensland, that experimentation became the corner stone of Colin's art practice. A youthful exuberance in Cairns art scene centered around a vibrant Contemporary Art Group, KickArts, provided the venue for exhibiting new and inventive works. Moving between a variety of media & assemblage sculpture, printmaking and painting, Colin rejoiced in the freedom of new thoughts and changing materials.
From Cairns back to Noosa, Colin exhibited regularly including a show at the Noosa Regional Gallery in 1996.
From Noosa to the Gold Coast where Colin has lived since 2000, maintaining a fast paced existence of teaching and developing a professional art practice. A shop front studio in Surfers Paradise provides the perfect venue for ever changing mixed media exhibitions.
Colin is represented in the following galleries Dukes gallery Melbourne, Corporate Art Gold Coast, Art Space Byron Bay and innumerous national and international collections.
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