Dave Teer studied at West Wollongong TAFE and was taught by Kevin Norton, Ivor Fabok and Elisabeth Cummings. Since 1998 he has been exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions throughout Australia. In 2005 Dave was chosen as the recipient of the Art OMI International Artist Residency in New York, USA. In 2003 he had an exhibition at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and in recent years has received private commissions to create large outdoor sculptures for many Sydney homes. Dave Teer is the first artist to be selected for the Enid Ng Artist Residency in Paris, 2010. Dave is recognized for both his silver stainless steel works and his painted mild steel sculptures. These colourfully painted works are a visual joy. His use of suspension, movement and colour enable great breadth of expression.

In 1978 Ivor Fabok completed his studies at the City Art Institute, Sydney where he graduated in Fine Art. He began exhibiting sculpture in 1982 and his work has appeared in many solo and group shows in Sydney and Wollongong.

 

His work has been commissioned for the Wollongong Regional Gallery, the American Express building, Sydney and the Hyatt in Coolum, Queensland.

 

Ivor has a passion for jazz and in regard to his art and influences has said 'I like the freewheeling improvisation in jazz. When I listen to music I see colours. I read music as forms and structures. Colour can be form. A solid piece of blue, for example, can be a real form. It's in real space, its real blue and has enough to draw you in.'

 

In addition to an active studio practice Fabok and teaches sculpture at Wollongong TAFE and the National Art School, Sydney.

 

Paul Higgs

Paul Higgs received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Winchester School of Art, UK. He has taught at the National Art School, Wollongong University, East Sydney, Gymea and Wollongong TAFE and College of Fine Arts, Sydney.

 

Paul has had twenty solo exhibitions and shown in over forty group exhibitions. In 1997 Higgs was awarded the Campbelltown Art Prize after having previously received a residency in Paris at the Art Gallery of New South Wales' studio and the New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship.

 

He is extensively represented in public collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, The Australian Club, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong University Collection, Leeuwin Estate Winery WA and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and Norway. Paul Higgs will have his fourth solo exhibition with Stella Downer Fine Art in 2011.

 

Kevin Norton

Born in England in 1952, Kevin Norton moved to Sydney, NSW, in 1983. Norton has taught at the University of Sydney, Sculpture Society in Sydney, Cumbria College of Art in England, Canberra School of Art, Auckland University in New Zealand as well as other arts institutions in New Zealand.

 

In 1986 Kevin began teaching sculpture and drawing at the Wollongong College of Art, where in 2006 he became head of the sculpture department.

 

Kevin has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand. He has completed many private commissions and received several awards, including Young Contemporaries Sculpture Prize, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1977), Barnett Newman Scholarship (1978), Hansells Sculpture Award, New Zealand (1982) and artist-in-residence, New Zealand Sculpture Project (1982). Norton's work is represented in numerous collections, including Artbank, the National Gallery of New Zealand, Rotorua City Gallery, New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand, Macquarie University, Chas Property Estates, Merke, Sharp & Dome, as well as private collections in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

 

Dave Teer, Ivor Fabok and Kevin Norton appear at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre courtesy of the Defiance Gallery, Newtown and Paul Higgs courtesy of Stella Downer Fine Art , Waterloo. 

 

Exhibition dates: 17 July - 4 September 2011