Portal (evening wonder)
Fiona Omeenyo & Michael Eather Portal (evening wonder) 2021 acrylic on canvas 150x100cm
FIONA OMEEYO
Born: 1981 Lockhart River QLD
Region: Eastern Cape York Peninsula
Language: Umpila
Lives & works: Cairns, QLDBorn in the remote community of Lockhart River on the Eastern Cape York Peninsula, Fiona Omeenyo was taught the traditional ways of the area including fishing and gathering food, activities she still enjoys passing down to her children and grandchildren. Fiona was also a founding member of the Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’ established in the 1990s.
Fiona is best known for her figurative arrangements symbolic of ancestral spirits and nurturing family stories. Fiona has exhibited nationally and internationally and travelled to the USA and UK with her exhibitions. In 2016 she began a series of new sculptural commissions of her work for both private and public locations in Brisbane.
MICHAEL EATHER
Born: 1963 Launceston, TAS
Education: 1980-83 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture Major) Visual Arts Teaching Tasmanian School of Art/University of Tasmania
Lives and Works: Brisbane, QLD
Born and educated in Tasmania Michael lived and travelled in the Northern Territory before settling in Brisbane. Since 1985 he has continued to work as a multi-disciplinary artist as well as a gallerist, project curator and consultant with extensive experiences across contemporary Indigenous art forms and issues. In 1990 he co-founded Campfire Group Projects aligned with collaboration and cross-cultural initiatives. He is Director of FireWorks Gallery, a commercial enterprise established in 1993. In 2019 he established Ghost Ship Studio in Newstead where he continues to make sculpture and painting including collaborative artworks. Michael has had 25 solo exhibitions and been involved in over 50 group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
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