Ponderings

Portrait of Debra Hood, an iconic Brisbane based artist.

Debra is a great inspiration and support to artists in her community as well as having some involvement in the petitioning for maintaining the local history and architecture. This has brought Debra an avenue to engage on the issue of Brisbane’s urgent need for preservation for her iconic domestic architecture.

This passion of hers also brings great disappointment, frustration, anger and sadness when she sees these unique houses lost to what she calls bland beige architecture. She says in her bio "The loss of the Queenslander in our streets is changing the dynamic of how we live and engage as a community. The social impact of this will be of significant social consequence in the next generation."

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Kat is a self taught mixed media artist who resides in Currumbin Valley, Australia. She works with all types of media, with her favourites being acrylic and collage. Throwing in some unusual material into her work to add texture and layers and mood to express emotions and depth. Her work is spawns from her passion within to constantly create and the therapy it provides for her in her busy life with 4 young kids. Kat is influenced by her children and her life experiences, bringing to life a lot of raw emotions on paper. Most of her work is based around beautiful and strong women with influences in the lowbrow/pop surreal as well as the fantasy genres. She finds Persian miniatures very fascinating a lot of her work has been inspired by the ancient miniature paintings originating from India, Egypt and Persia.