Warooka Artists
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Adam Meyer (2)
I am from Yorketown, South Australia. I consider myself an amateur photographer that spends a lot of time patrolling the Southern Yorke Peninsula as a Police Officer, taking opportunistic pictures of the environment around us with phone, point and shoot and DSLR cameras. My inspirations are reflections, moods of the environment and differing depths of view. Steph Ball showed me a damaged bat, difficult to use for painting and spoke about what WIllo and YP leisure were achieving. I saw this as an opportunity to bring brightness and renewal to an unwanted item. The image is a wavelet approaching shore, as the sun approaches the horizon, as a jet approaches its destination, on a cricket bat that approaches a new beginning. Whilst on Patrol, I delivered some bats donated by locals to the YP Leisure crew and saw the enthusiasm of their interactions with a Police Officer. The Yorke Peninsula has many beautiful locations which I share through the SAPOL Facebook and Instagram pages. I work for an inclusive organisation and am grateful to be allowed to share my passion with others.
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Alan Borg (1)
Alan's eye for detail and ability to create art with exceptional precision and intricacy is something to be celebrated. His favourite medium is wood, driftwood specifically, and other found objects (natural and man made) collected from Australia's coastline. Alan's work is celebrated nationally and his wooden sculptures are award-winning. Alan lives on the Southern Yorke Peninsula with his creative family and enjoys watching his wife and children find joy through their artistic talents too. "As soon as Steph and Robyn approached me about contributing a bat for Warooka Bats for Will, I was excited to be a part of such an excellent community movement. Creating a thin garfish, a prolific fish off the coast of where we live (from driftwood and other beach- combed pieces) worked well on this narrow canvas. The fishing rope that can be used to hang the bat is a re-purposed piece of beach debris, showing that everything and everyone is useful and should be given an opportunity to have an important role in this world".
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Alex Flynn (1)
I am originally from Kangaroo Island, now living in Yorketown. I teach Visual Art to secondary students on the YP. I am constantly inspired by the work of my students. They show me how to see things from a different perspective, they inspire me to keep up to date with and experiment with new media, techniques and styles of working. This artwork is about my place of meditation and peace. It represents the colours, sights and sounds that make me feel at ease. The sound of wind rustling leaves, the colour and movement of the flowing ocean, and the sights of the ever-changing natural environment.
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Alice Potter (1)
South Australian contemporary jeweller Alice Potter has a Bachelor in Graphic Design, a Bachelor in Visual Arts and Applied Design (Jewellery), and First Class Honours in Visual Arts. She has worked as the Production Manager at JamFactory Contempory Craft + Design for seven years, and works from her home studio creating unique precious jewellery works, as well as mixed media artworks that reference fun and colour through wearable and wall art. "I love creating pieces that have a connection to colour and form, and I have always been inspired by pattern within my work, but there is an element of calm in my Willo Bat. I often will go hell-for-leather at a piece, but i gave this cricket bat sensitivity, restraint and respect. As one of my favourite pieces to date, it says a lot about life, routine, pattern, joy, and hidden in there is how i learned to love cricket - a game that has quiet, steady and long term results'.
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Alice Tilley (1)
An emerging artist, Alice Tilley resides with her young family on a rural property near Kapunda. Alice draws inspiration from her local surroundings and the domestic experiences of daily life to produce predominately landscape and still life oil paintings. Recently reigniting her artistic practice, Alice seeks to appreciate and express the essence and beauty of a place or moment achieved through distinctive use of bold colour and mark making to create shape and form. With the Yorke Peninsula being surrounded by the sea, the beach is an iconic place for many locals and visitors to the region. As our lives become more demanding and urbanised, a vast sandy beach, with its wide open sky and alluring blue waters offers many the precious chance of escapism. It is the simple sensory pleasure of being in nature with few outside distractions whether alone or with loved ones that is so alluring. However we chose to appreciate the beach, it is one of the few places that is truly accessible to all racial, social and gender groups. And it is not a bad place for cricket either!
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Amber Poulton (1)
Amber Joy Poulton is a nationally celebrated country singer/songwriter living near the remote southern Yorke Peninsula town of Corny Point. Amber draws inspiration from her surroundings, the spectacular southern coastline of Yorke Peninsula. Amber's her most recent song, Trouble Looks Good on You went to No.1 on the national Oz Country Music Charts and stayed there for a month (in the lead up to Christmas and throughout New Year 2019). Around the same time, Amber attended the Golden Medallion Media Awards and was awarded National Female Artist of the Year by radio broadcasters nationally. Amber first encountered the Willo story after Will Clarke visited her youngest son's school in October 2018. When the opportunity arose to paint a bat for Will, she was one of the first on board. Amber's artwork is inspired by Paul Kelly's love of cricket and insane songwriting skills. "I thanks Steph for including me, Ballara Retreat for supporting Will's dreams, Will and his team for their selflessness and Paul Kelly for giving me the idea."
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Anthony Hart (1)
Anthony Hart is a creative from Warooka and has a passion for cars. Anthony is a strong community man and generously lends his time and efforts to many community projects and people. Whilst many ideas came to him for his contribution to Warooka Bats for Will, at the eleventh hour he has created his 'rev-head' inspired artwork for Will.
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Belinda Eckermann (1)
Belinda Eckermann comes from the rural town of Rainbow in Victoria’s Mallee Region. Her current practice is intrinsically tied to the local environment and raising awareness through her art. In 2013 she completed her Masters in Visual Arts, which began her focus on working collaboratively with snails and moths, using their mark making as medium. Eckermann has exhibited regularly throughout regional Victoria since 2009. belindaeckermann.wordpress.com Eckermann heard about Bats for Will when she was organising to undertake an artist residency in Warooka to do further research on snails. Being big on community engagement through the arts and supporting those with disabilities through being both a parent and a teacher, she was enthusiastic to be a part of this project. The design for her bat therefore became a story of persistence and a reflection of Warooka and of her arts practice. Coated in snail eaten tissue paper, this bat depicts the snails climbing and clinging to the wheat stalks. On the flat side it shows a squashed snail, on a typical cherry mark. This is indicative of the frustration farmers feel about the snails and the trials being conducted to try and eradicate this pest.
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Bev Dry (2)
Since retiring some 10 years ago, I now have the time to enjoy creating my art in many varied forms. Though I've had no formal training in art other than high school, I have been passionate about it my whole life. I love to use many different mediums, challenging myself. I love to scrounge, beachcombe, finding treasures to recycle. My inspiration comes from nature, beaches, other artists, the vast ocean and my front yard. I found out about Warooka Bats for Will through following Ballara Retreat on Instagram. I felt it would be very fulfilling to help Will with his endevour to help others. He is such an inspiration to all and I wish him the very best in his journey. I wanted to create something useful with the bat I chose, something a little different, so I decided to create a recycled fishing rope vessel, using drift wood, washed seaglass and shells, including a quirky little poem that I found. My cricket stumps are a little boho / tribal in design, with hand-painted feathers, my handmade clay beads, shells and driftwood. I have thoroughly enjoyed creating my art with the beautifully prepared bat and stumps from Minlaton's Leisure Options' Willo Hub and look forward to the launch of Warooka Bats for Will.
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Cathy Gray (1)
Cathy’s work is all hand drawn in archival ink developing over the last 10 years. The delicacy is reminiscent of an embroiderer’s needlework. The complexity of design and exquisite execution are evidence of Cathy’s devotion to her work. Any one piece taking up to 250 hours. Cathy’s works evoke harmonious balance and the peace felt creating the works is transferred to the viewer. I was invited to design a bat by Ballara and was thrilled to be involved. I have worked over the last 2 years with children with disabilities in schools and continue to see art and creativity as a great outlet for children with disabilities. I designed my bat around Australia, the green representing the baggy green and the flowers and natives to our country.
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Charlotte Nankivell (1)
My name is Charlotte Nankivell and I’m from Yorketown. I've been creating art on and off for about 5 years, but now I study graphic design and have my own art business, so I am creating in some capacity everyday. I like to use a variety of mediums, but mostly digital and watercolours. I decided to paint in bright and fun colours, which reflects elements of my style. I believe the foundation of art and creating should be fun above all else. Art is for everyone. And I believe everyone has a deep well of creativity that may not be tapped into yet. Everybody deserves the opportunity to create freely!
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Chiara Castiglia (1)
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Christine McCarthy (1)
I have been exhibiting my hand coloured Lino prints for over 30 years. My interest in Australian native flowers has been a consistent theme. This has included native vegetation in the landscape particularly the coastal landscape of Yorke Peninsula. I like to explore the line, pattern and colour of form in my work. Throughout my artistic career I have been dividing my time between Corny Point and Adelaide. This is such an exciting and original idea I was keen to participate. It is humbling to contribute in a small way to this community project. The idea for my bat came fairly quickly. I wanted to decorate the bat in my favourite flower - Banksia coccinea. I love the form, pattern and line of the flower and leaves. It was fun to draw and paint directly on to the bat. The colour reminded me of the stains left on the cricket bat from the red cricket ball - perhaps a stretch of my imagination!
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Darryl Lewis (1)
Born in Adelaide quite a while ago, I started illustrating around grade six at primary school where my teacher was impressed and said I should be a commercial artist when I grew up. So I became and worked at Griffin Press as an artist, went to Messenger Press and became creative manager, ran my own graphic art business for 10 years in Laura, then went back to the Advertiser as a graphic designer and became creative manager at Advertiser Newspapers. During all this time I was still painting and illustrating in my spare time. Eventually retired and moved to Edithburgh to open my own Gallery which was reasonably successful, at the moment the Gallery is closed as I am putting my efforts into painting murals around the area. I really enjoyed the challenge of the Willo idea, turning a cricket bat into a piece of art for a very good cause .. close to my heart.
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Deb Davis (1)
Originally from Queensland Debra now lives an unexpected life with disability in Noarlunga Downs. In May 2018 she decided to nurture her lifelong passion for all things creative and taught herself to paint. She put her first acrylic paint to canvas in July and the playful journey of experimentation was born. Inspired by life and what’s possible she currently works in traditional and fluid art forms. There’s something almost spiritual about the point where the ocean meets the land, it’s a place of connection on many levels. The shoreline is sprinkled with perceived imperfections, yet the overall beauty is mesmerizing. I chose to include and work with the imperfections displayed on my bat which I finally called “Dancing Sunrise”. They lent themselves to the addition of texture and beauty. To me “Dancing Sunrise” represents the endless possibilities a new day brings. The light shines, and casts shadows, on and around us all, yet we have a chance to work within our abilities to breathe life into the possibilities we chose to embrace regardless of the shadows. If inclusion can pave the way to new understanding, richness of connection, and adventures in art, which it did for me, then perhaps it’s a metaphor for life?
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Di Griffiths (1)
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Ella Germein (1)
Ella Germein is an commonly known by her close friends and family as 'Elfie' is a South Australian Musician in Indie Pop Band 'Germein' , former Television presenter on Network Ten's 'Totally Wild', Video Producer, Photographer and Creative Artist. Ella's artistic talents were recognised by her teachers at a young age. Her unique style and and use of colour grew over the years leading her win the SABSA Art Award at the 2008 Exhibition for South Australia's Highest Achievers in Visual Art and Art Practical Subjects. Over the last eight years Ella has kept up her painting alongside her music and media career. Inspired by Nature, Animals and people Ella likes to use a combination of mixed media and rose gold leaf in her works. She believes art has no limits to style, colour and subject which is evident in her works. For the 'Bat's for Will' design I decided to paint one of my most loved subjects, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. I have such a love for the these beautiful Australian birds. I wanted the painting to appear like it was flying over the coast of South Australia with the golden leaf resembling the warmth of the sun glimmering off the crystal waters and coastline.
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Greg Mulheran (1)
Greg lives at Bilambil, in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. He has been drawing and painting since his school days in Brisbane. Greg works with acrylic paint, watercolour and pen and ink, and uses Lino-cut, Mono-print and Paper Plate Printing. His inspiration is mainly the natural world, especially birds and plant life, but he also illustrates historic buildings. I’ve chosen a theme of “Tree Frogs” for my Willo Bat. The handle of the bat suggested the trunk of a tree to me, so I worked around this and added the reeds and animals, to give it life. I chose tree frogs because they are colourful, but they also have an attitude to life that we could all learn from. They are gentle creatures, with big expressive eyes, and always seem to have a smile on their faces, and I love to hear their calls at night. I enjoy seeing them huddled together for company, and the beautiful ease with which they move.
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Jenny Murdoch (1)
"I have drawn and painted for as long as I can remember. I was a painting teacher for Connie Gordon, an American artist, going into people's homes and other venues, to teach oil painting to groups. As far as myself, I painted in all media, with my favourites being acrylic, watercolour and pastels. I 've been fortunate to study with a large number of artists, learning a lot to pass onto my students. I have been teaching art at Warooka for 27 years and am lucky to have a large studio at my home with eight students coming weekly for tuition. They paint in whatever medium they choose and we also paint memory boxes for the Adelaide Womens and Childrens Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre, for the parents of stillborn and early death children, to store memorabilia. For my bat, I chose to do a kookaburra sitting in an old gumtree (as the song goes) and because the name Kookaburra is synonymous with Australian cricket bats".
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Jess McDonald (1)
I am an artist, and mother of four little boys, from Wool Bay on the Yorke Peninsula. The media that I regularly use for my works are watercolour and Linoleum printing. I Like to depict people and to draw attention to the beauty I see in them. I Have spent several years living in remote Aboriginal communities in both the Anangu, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Lands and North-East Arnhem Land and I particularly like to use my art to depict positive, beautiful images of First Australians. This bat is asking the question of whether there is room in our society for truly inclusive communities and it is also a comparison of cultures: relationships and time versus busyness and economy, wisdom versus technology. The difference in media used to portray the cultural symbols speaks of the difference between a culture that holds onto what is lasting and a culture that grabs at what is new and fleeting. The media used is linoleum print and burnt wood/carving.
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Joan Bannon (1)
Joan Bannon is a talented wool spinner and fabric artist residing in one of Warooka's most historical dwellings near the famed Flaherty's Beach. Joan is deeply community-minded, a genuine homesteader and very environmentally conscious. She's delighted to be a Warooka artist for the inspiring Bats for Will movement. "I chose this most versatile of fabrics using handspun naturally dyed wool and wet and dry felting techniques to create the bat named Come In, Spinner. The first sheep brought into Australia were South African fat-tailed lambs whose long tails resembled hairy cricket bats. These sheep were imported to feed the new colony, but in a short time, a fine wool industry was established with Australian wool in high demand. So here Australia began its ride on The Sheep's Back!".
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Julie Aitchison (1)
Seascape resin artist Julie Aitchison convey the magic and expansiveness of the beach connecting people to that place where you can fully immerse yourself in a place to feel alive again and reconnect. Julie is a Yorke Peninsula based artist originally from Adelaide. Her artworks are inspired by where she lives, the places she has visited and nature. She uses aerial drone photography as inspiration to achieve birds eye perspective and realistic colour palet. Julie has experimented with a range of different mediums. Resin however has become her favourite and principal medium of experimentation and creativity. The medium is fluid in nature and extremely difficult to work with as it constantly moves. Using many layers, the resin creates a depth and echo of the waters ever changing body. Julie aims to create oceanic artworks that captures our imaginations and stills our thoughts. This bat represents a place for solace and peace of mind that is inclusive to all. The oceans energy is vibrant and memorable to everyone that has experienced it. It is thick with salt and moisture coming off the water being carried by the ever-present wind. Like life, it is diverse and ever-changing, it is this that we celebrate. For what would life be like if we were all the same?
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June Faulkner (1)
June Faulkner is a Fibre Artist who was born and raised on the Yorke Peninsula. Some 30 years later, June returned to the Peninsula and resettled in Stansbury. Fibre has been June's medium of choice now, for over 30 years, originally only using what nature produced, but over time began adding man-made fibres and embellishments to her work. June enjoys the visual, tactile & versatility of all fibre and recycling & up cycling is of high priority, part of her works ethos. June states "this project is just a great way to give an old bat new life while assisting people in our community. "Having worked with people needing support I thought Warooka Bats for Will what a great idea but what could I do in fibre? Then the connection came. With the respectful use of our beautiful native fibres & recognition of our first Aboriginal Cricket team to tour England just over 100 years ago in 1868, it just melded. Having lived & started my fibre journey whilst living in the Western District of Victoria (where the cricketers came from), I had read about these men & of their great athletic feats. I chose to stitch a sheath to cover the bat with three native fibres - Spinifex, Dianella & Cyperus Gymnocaulas and I used emu feather & a native seed Adenanthera Pavoning to embellish. I have included an information map of the Western District area & a stubby holder produced for the centenary celebrations of the First Australian Cricket team to tour England.
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Kathy Tape (1)
SYP has always been home to Kathy. Firstly on the farm at Warooka and then at Coobowie. Although she always loved the idea of art, she finally got serious 20 years ago when a birthday voucher offered her studio time with friends. Starting with acrylics but gently encouraged to pastels and oils, Kathy regularly turns to nature for inspiration. Succulents, rocks and still life in general are her favoured subjects. Kathy's Bat for Will: The crop is bagged, sewn and stored at grain stacks throughout the leg. Its hot, its dry, the horses are watered and fed and its Saturday. The country men and boys love nothing more than pitting themselves against each other playing cricket. My grandfather Perce and his brother Walter Hayes feature strongly in the many old black and white photos that gave me inspiration to paint my Bat for Will. In the 1920's, teams of cricketers competed in the Country Carnivals in Adelaide under the name of Warooka Cricket Team. The Gems cricket club was started in the 1930's comprising of lads who were unable to get a game in other SYP clubs.
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Kylie Borg (1)
I am from Couch Beach, on the Yorke Peninsula. I wouldn't consider myself an artist I am more of crafter. I have studied fashion design and pattern making, sewing is my number one passion but I am willing to give anything ago. I love spending time on the beach combing for the treasure and waste that I have found to create my bat. Zero waste living has become a big part of my life, I am always looking for new ways up-cycle things that others discard. I decided to create a bat purely because I was asked to. I knew nothing of this amazing cause before being invited. I have always loved sewing for charity and have been involved in a number of fundraisers in the past, doing something a little different this time has been great fun.
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Liv Robinson (1)
I have combined two passions, painting and playing cricket. I work with the WA cricketers massaging the Scorchers and Western warriors teams. I have also played cricket for years. I am a professional artist and love capturing the ocean and water. Rich blues are my fav colours to work with at present.
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Marie Parsons (1)
I live on a farm near Port Vincent, Yorke Peninsula and work in my studio, a converted dairy, surrounded by trees and birds. I have loved drawing and painting since childhood and my favourite medium is pastel. I also enjoy working with oil, watercolour, charcoal and pencil with still life and landscapes my inspiration. I want to acknowledge Phillip Hughes, a great Australian cricketer who died after a tragic accident at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Phillip Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International cricketer. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 against South Africa in Johannesburg, at the age of 20. He was a prolific run scorer and became the youngest player ever to achieve a century in each innings in the next match at Durban. He moved to South Australia and was playing Sheffield Shield Cricket for South Australia when he died, aged 25. Hughes also had success in the ODI series and represented Sydney Thunder and the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League.
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Nugget Rees (1)
In 1962, an 18-year-old Rees was taken on by David Rowe and Barry Jarman – the latter a Test wicketkeeper – to sweep floors and run messages in their Adelaide sports store. Jarman, after recognising his new employee’s passion for cricket, began inviting Rees to South Australia games at the Adelaide Oval. He quickly became a favourite of the Redbacks players and staff, and earnt the nickname ‘Nugget’ after his hero Keith ‘Nugget’ Miller, the 55-Test allrounder. Rees has since been embraced by each generation of South Australian and Australian sides to play at the Adelaide Oval.
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Peter Dixon (1)
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Richard John (1)
I am a self taught artist. I have successfully exhibited as part of SALA for a number of years, as well as at Tusk Gallery in Melbourne and the annual art show in my hometown of Victor Harbor. I paint things that I like to paint: I do mainly commissions of children and dogs, but I also paint things that I see around me, like the 50's caravan that appears in many of my paintings. There are some beautiful old vans still around and they fascinate me; they evoke childhood memories of freedom, innocence and simplicity. I have a caravan - a 1956 Globetrotter - it serves both as a "prop" for my paintings and a source of constant inspiration.
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Rick Hutchison (1)
I have always loved and done art since an early age. Visual Arts have been a passion that I was lucky enough to have a career in. Drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and ceramics are areas of interest and expression. Land and sea have been a source of inspiration for my work lately. The act of perception, abstraction process, imagination and colour are key elements in producing ideas and work. The actual bat was a starting point, its grain marks contributed to the development of the idea. The space was restrictive but a solution. Intuition, imagination and memory plays its part as a message/develops. Cricket starts innocently but has developed into something that is commercial, enjoyed by young and old, traditional and corrupt. Innocence is lost! Die Sports Bet, alcohol advertising……... Saying this is not intended to influence your enjoyment of this art work!?
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Roger Bayzand (1)
Roger is a great friend to Willo. He has painted for Bradman Bats for Will and Melbourne Bats for Will. He organised Perth Bats for Will and painted and now is painting for Warooka Bats for Will. Roger comes from an artistic family and is the 4th generation of painters and potters. Born in the Isle of Wight he now lives in Perth Western, Australia. Although he has his own distinctive style he has studied with several Australian master artist including John Wilson and Barry McCann. His artwork is held in private collections in the USA, France, Holland, Australia, South Africa, Cook Islands and the United Kingdom. Having spent over 30 years running his own charter boat he has a love of marine subjects especially beachscapes but is equally at home painting animals, portraits and landscapes.
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Rosie Kruckemeyer (1)
My name is Rosie Kruckemeyer, from Adelaide. I have loved painting and drawing since my early twenties. Faces inspire me, mixing wonderful colours inspires me and gorgeous landscapes are also a strong inspiration. I love this idea, it’s based on community. Uniting people through a collaboration process, those that sand the bats, those who create smart works on the bats, then sold at a community event, again uniting people, for the money raised to then go back into supporting such an important and wonderful charity. All people need to have equal opportunity to grow and learn, to feel successful and included in society, perfect as they are. As I started to paint my bat, my initial plan was a natural native floral scene, instead appeared a Persian man. I guess I love costume and colour and faces so alas, here is this colourful character.
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Sarah Shanahan (1)
Sarah is a food and product stylist, interior shopping tour founder with a huge love of organised interiors. Sarah wears many hats and is passionate about all these aspects of her business. Sarah has a huge love of beautiful, organised products and interiors.
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Sonya Unwin (1)
Sonya Unwin BA Vis Arts (Hons.) is an Adelaide artist, curator & picture framer. Her studio practice focuses on colour, mood and the horizon. She curates the Metro Art Space at The Hotel Metropolitan, and has been a SALA Artist-in-Residence at the SA Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). In 2018 she was awarded an Arts Mentorship with the Women’s & Children’s Hospital, and her artwork has recently been published on the cover of ‘Explore’, a science & health journal in the US. A few years ago, friends invited my family to Corny Point on the Yorke Peninsula for a summer holiday. The simplicity and beauty of YP has often inspired me, and this particular trip I took hundreds of photos. Having come from farming land in the state's South East, I was amused by the tractors sitting off shore in the water and the birdlife unfazed by the machinery. So the pelican and the tractor was a natural image to paint on the bat…indicative of YP, farming, fishing, friendships, acceptance, collaboration and horizons. Wills story found a way to my instagram feed (thanks Sarah Shanahan) and I was lucky enough to be able to be involved. I am inspired by Will's tenacity, creativity and attitude, as well as the fact that he has now connected so many people together through his passion.
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Steph Ball (4)
I came across Willo on Instagram and was immediately inspired by this unique idea. I'd been following for quite some time before I made contact. Always being a little reluctant to call myself an artist and with no real desire to paint, I was still keen to contribute to this wonderful initiative. I have enjoyed transferring my photos on to wooden boards and decided to make contact with Willo to see if this would be acceptable. I have been very fortunate to inherit a family home in Warooka. Ballara was built in 1910 for my grandfather, William Baker and his new wife Millie, who came from Ballarat, hence the name. Little did I realise that through my initial contact with Willo, I would discover so many alignments between Ballara's and Willo's values and ethos. We agree that art therapies are beneficial to everyone from children to seniors. Whether it’s drawing, painting, photography, music, writing, gardening, basket weaving, macrame, knitting, or restoring cricket bats! Using your creative mind and hands and through the process of shutting down the outside world and becoming lost in the artistic moment, can be extremely rewarding. I have created Ballara Art & Lifestyle Retreat with a vision to establish a ‘hub’ to encourage, inspire, nurture and celebrate creative expression, community involvement and initiatives, and cultural collaboration. Ballara currently features customised, art- focussed retreat experiences, one-day art workshops, children’s art classes during the school holidays, and an ambitious Artist Residency program in development. Collaborations with like-minded people and organisations are also of particular interest. I am very excited to be a part of #batsforwill and can’t wait to share with artists in our area.
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Terry Braund (1)
Terry Braund is an Edithburgh based artist who works in a variety of mediums. He has been painting for 40 years and has been influenced by many artists over this time. The design for the bat is inspired by local birds and coastal views. "My Grandson Thomas has Autism and attends the Leisure Options program".
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Tez and Lorraine (1)
Terry (Tez) and Lorraine (Lu) – two inspired sisters that are T’Louze Glass Artistry. Tez & Lu share a passion for glass, for its colour, soul and its glory. They are continually amazed how willing glass is to transform in shape and texture and are in awe of all its magnificent kaleido- scopic colours. We are a sister duo have been creating glass art work since they were introduced to the medium over 10 years ago. Glass totally captured their attention in an instance and have never looked back. We have separate studios, Tez in Wongan Hills and Lu in Wungong, Western Australia. However we are in constant contact and continue to develop most projects together. We endeavour to capture the quirky and create something very unique and special. We enjoy incorporating their glass creations with recycled steel and using recycled glass bottles. Their inspiration comes from the Western Australian surroundings – especially the flora and fauna.
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Tiff Webb (1)
I’m a born and bred Warooka girl who has always been interested in drawing and arty projects. It wasn’t until I started Ceramics around 2009 that I found my niche and love for art even more. It was also then that I realised I had an artistic flair and ability to create amazing pieces. From there I have grown from using acrylics to resin, mandala drawings and everything in between. I have a passion for art and it’s become part of my daily ritual. Many hours are spent in my studio which I was privileged enough to build with my Dad. When I was asked to take part in the Warooka Bats for Will, I felt so privileged and honoured, and it was within moments that I became inspired and had decided on two options for this project. The day I picked my bat up, my vision for one of my ideas was made clearer and I knew straight away the design I was going to create. I wanted to be able to use the raw wood as a feature and add enough detail that would bring it together. I felt the meaning behind a Mandala was fitting for this piece as it represents the universe, circle of life, creativity and a powerful existence. Being able to take part in such a special event that has involved the beautiful people from YP Leisure Options and Willo Industries has been truly rewarding. Involving people who really matter in this world counts!
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Trudie Howith (1)
I live in Sultana Point and have always liked craft, have dabbled in quite a few. I studied and gained a Fibre Certificate while the children were young which covered design, drawing and appreciation of art. I enjoy spinning, knitting, weaving and crocheting, I find this very relaxing. I've branched out into lead-lighting, pottery, quilting and later mosaics. I came forward with the ideas of mosaics on the rocks at Edithburgh of which there are 93 along the walk the Yorke path (Edithburgh to Sultana Point). I enjoyed showing residents how to mosaic, come up with a design and have it included in the walk. Futher community mosaic works include around Weaners Flat lake (via Yorketown Progress Assoc) and another work at Edithburgh with Terry Braund. I find it very rewarding sharing my skills and letting others enjoy the results. It is a pleasure to be a part of Bats for Will, a very good cause.
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Vanessa Murdoch (1)
As an artist working predominantly in kiln formed glass since 1993, I produce work of exhibition standard for galleries, commissions and unique retail outlets. I have a bachelor of Design in Glass and Ceramics from Uni SA. Working from my studio at Warooka, Yorke Peninsula my art references both coastal and rural surroundings. Using a myriad of techniques such as fusing, slumping, casting, engraving and sand blasting, I manipulate the glass, allowing me to play with the fluidity of light, refraction & reflection, expressing notions of place & solace. When thinking about cricket in relation to this opportunity I started thinking about what cricket means to me, there are memories of my Nanna who made me my first cricket bat out of a old shearing shed floor board (if only I was an illustrator) but the overwhelming association is that of heat, the heat of summer, resilience... resilience to learn to practice to overcome in sport and life. The Ashes is synonymous with cricket in Australia, and to get ashes... there must be fire then coals. From the heat of my kiln comes the burning ember of the cricket ball, hit so hard it burns a hole right through the bat. I cast the cricket ball from bulls-eye glass from Portland, Oregon. To make this, I first have to make a refractory mould from plaster and silica then fill the mould with crushed glass and fire it over 18 hrs to 830 degrees then cool it down very slowly over 30 hours - a total of 48 hours. Once cooled and broken from its mould, I then clean it in acid and polish it on a wet belt grinder. Thank you to Willo Cricket Bats, YP Leisure Options and Baker Bros Warooka for bringing this opportunity to fruition.
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Winnie Fox (1)
Bright colours and bold designs are the hallmarks of Caroline Wall (aka Winnie Fox) ultra feminine paintings. Though she is drawn to all sorts of subject matter, representing the female form in all its shapes is an ongoing project and passion. This approach is working well as she was selected by thisisradelaide.com on 2017 International Women’s Day as one of five female Adelaide artists to watch. Popular also with audiences, Fox’s 2017 SALA exhibition ‘She’ (a series dedicated to women) was a great success with over half of works sold on opening night. Fox studied Visual Art at North Adelaide School of Art and went on to study her Bachelor of Education at UniSA where she majored in Drama. This led her on the path to perfoming professionally as a children’s entertainer for years before her passion for painting was rediscovered in 2016, when she was named as runner up for the Fringe Poster design. Shining a light on the word ability in disability is a matter close to Fox’s heart. After working for years entertaining children and families in paediatric wards around South Australia and Victoria and then going on to work at a special school with autistic children this exhibition is one of my most important to date. During the design process I thought about what the bat represented in my mind. To me, that was strength. Strength of the people behind this project; the people this is for. My bat is in keeping with my feminine style and to me it reflects the colourful personalities, beauty, authentic spirit and love that Willo Industries embodies. The other reason that I chose to represent a feminine form on the cricket bat was the link between the sport of cricket and the raising of awareness for women’s health, which was why I thought it was appropriate to still paint in keeping with my artistic style.
