• CROSSING PATHS: A GALLERY EXCHANGE
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    • Guest Artist Col Ritchie - Dogwood
    • Love Stories Group Show
    • Seasons Duo - Monique Storey + Lyn Michie
    • Marilou Palazon - Untamed
    • Kirsty Gautheron - Reverence
    • Solo show- Fiona Chandler
    • Paper & Ink Guest Artist Printmaking Show
    • 7th bday - Mini Show 2024
    • Helen Proctor - Storm Chaser
    • Misha Harrison - Floral Fusion
    • Joan Blond - Colour is Life
    • Anna Price - Beach Lyfe
    • Reuse - Group Show
    • Nanda Nasser - In the Beginning
    • Emergence
    • Black & White 2024
    • Celebrate 2024
    • Stockroom 2024
    • Deck the Walls 2023
    • Solo Show Mitchell English
    • All Figured Out
    • Misha Harrison - WALLFLOWER
    • Spring Show 2023
    • Kirsty Gautheron - Connections: Land Sea Sky
    • Marilou Palazon - Release
    • Colour Block
    • In The Frame 2023 Guest Artists Group Show
    • Spotlight Group Show, Second Room
    • 6th Birthday Show 2023
    • Interplay - Cassandra Ng + Marie Schlederer
    • Monique Storey - What The Tide Brings in
    • Joan Blond Solo - Reflective Journey
    • Art & Word
    • Summer Group Show 2023
    • David Wiggs Solo 2023
    • Deck the walls Christmas Show 2022
    • Still Life - Group Exhibition 2022
    • Marilou Palazon - Unfurled
    • Ben Waters - Landscape Within
    • Fiona Chandler - A Great Balancing Act
    • Making the show - Fiona Chandler
    • Colour Fields by Marie Schlederer
    • Studio Select - Group Show
    • Small Wonders Group Show
    • In The Frame 2022 Guest Artist Group Show
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    • Amanda Tye - Pink Antidote
    • Current Group Exhibition
    • Misha Harrison - Material Bloom
    • Kylie Sirret Home
    • Ben Lucas - Under the Same Sky
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    • New Narratives - Group Show 2021
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    • Summer Annual 2020
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    • Nightminds
    • An Autumn Afternoon
    • Sun. Shade. Soul. Katie Firth & Leigh Vardanega
    • StARTing the new year with a bang
    • The Originals - The Gang is Back
    • Guest Artist Col Ritchie - Dogwood
    • Love Stories Group Show
    • Seasons Duo - Monique Storey + Lyn Michie
    • Marilou Palazon - Untamed
    • Kirsty Gautheron - Reverence
    • Solo show- Fiona Chandler
    • Paper & Ink Guest Artist Printmaking Show
    • 7th bday - Mini Show 2024
    • Helen Proctor - Storm Chaser
    • Misha Harrison - Floral Fusion
    • Joan Blond - Colour is Life
    • Anna Price - Beach Lyfe
    • Reuse - Group Show
    • Nanda Nasser - In the Beginning
    • Emergence
    • Black & White 2024
    • Celebrate 2024
    • Stockroom 2024
    • Deck the Walls 2023
    • Solo Show Mitchell English
    • All Figured Out
    • Misha Harrison - WALLFLOWER
    • Spring Show 2023
    • Kirsty Gautheron - Connections: Land Sea Sky
    • Marilou Palazon - Release
    • Colour Block
    • In The Frame 2023 Guest Artists Group Show
    • Spotlight Group Show, Second Room
    • 6th Birthday Show 2023
    • Interplay - Cassandra Ng + Marie Schlederer
    • Monique Storey - What The Tide Brings in
    • Joan Blond Solo - Reflective Journey
    • Art & Word
    • Summer Group Show 2023
    • David Wiggs Solo 2023
    • Deck the walls Christmas Show 2022
    • Still Life - Group Exhibition 2022
    • Marilou Palazon - Unfurled
    • Ben Waters - Landscape Within
    • Fiona Chandler - A Great Balancing Act
    • Making the show - Fiona Chandler
    • Colour Fields by Marie Schlederer
    • Studio Select - Group Show
    • Small Wonders Group Show
    • In The Frame 2022 Guest Artist Group Show
    • 2022 5th Birthday Show
    • Amanda Tye - Pink Antidote
    • Current Group Exhibition
    • Misha Harrison - Material Bloom
    • Kylie Sirret Home
    • Ben Lucas - Under the Same Sky
    • Ben Lucas Walkthrough
    • ARTW**K2022
    • Artist’s Spotlight
    • Summer Show 2022
    • New Narratives - Group Show 2021
    • Jessica Watts - In The Raw Walkthrough
    • Jessica Watts - In The Raw
    • Ben Waters - Sense of place
    • A Sense of Place - walkthrough
    • Marilou Palazon - ETHEREAL
    • Ethereal Walkthrough Video
    • Fiona Chandler - I Know that Rock
    • I Know that Rock - exhibition viewing
    • Small Wonders
    • Together Alone
    • Birthday Show
    • Birthday Show Video Tour
    • June Group Show
    • Daniel Breda - Floor is Lava
    • Gail Affleck _ The Journey Home
    • May Group Show
    • Ben Lucas - La Niña Blues
    • In The Frame - 2021 Guest Artists Group Show
    • ArtW**k
    • Sculpture by the Marina
    • New Beginnings -Feb 2021
    • Summer Annual 2020
    • November Group Show
    • Misha Harrison - Piece By Piece
    • Still Life
    • September Group Show
    • Girt By Sea - Fiona Chandler
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Fiona Chandler's latest exhibition,

A Great Balancing Act,

centres on her experiences as an artist through the last few years of great change. Chandler sees responding to an ever-shifting situation and environments are a juggle that she captures in her paintings.

 This playful approach to painting, balancing and juggling the watercolour, means Chandler is not counting on anything, it is a direct response. Constantly resolving work in the face of wonder & new discoveries. Balancing has been a thing for millennia — nature adapts with trees and rocks in unlikely places. There are elements in the landscape where you least expect to find them — there is wonderment in exploration.

 For the artist, watercolour allow her to delve into this intrigue and awe of her environment. Even the change in weather effects the way the watercolour is used and behaves. Chandler pushes the boundaries of her medium to capture the complexity of the Australian landscape.

 Accompanying her paintings, Chandler has invited Larissa Warren of Ratbag Studios to represent the physicality of the landscape in clay form. The medium continues the dialogue of unpredictability, yet amazement, in art and life. Echoing her local landscape & using raw volcanic clays from nearby properties on tambourine mountain.

 A Great Balancing Act is the result of Chandler's five previous solos, a combination of the last few years of work. She reminds us to seek out simplicity — a rock, a wave, a landscape — because here, is complexity, depth, and joy. In the face of the eternal juggling act, both one of nature and art, there is playfulness and wonder.

the work always goes up on the fence while completion is considered - last stop before the framers

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Fiona Chandler - Logical Insanity
A$6,995.00
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Fiona Chandler - Enjoying the Jungles Great Joys
A$4,495.00
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Fiona Chandler - Soar to High Heights
A$3,495.00
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Fiona Chandler - The Places you will Go
A$3,495.00
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Fiona Chandler - The Places you will Go ii
A$3,495.00
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Fiona Chandler - Wonderfully Tall
A$4,495.00
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Fiona Chandler - Think & Wonder, Wonder & Think
A$6,995.00
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Fiona Chandler - Your Mountain is Waiting
A$3,495.00
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Larissa Warren - Sinking feeling
A$325.00
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Larissa Warren - Easy does it ii
A$80.00
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Larissa Warren - There to here
A$325.00
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Larissa Warren - The Perfect Dream
A$450.00
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Larissa Warren - Juggle ii
A$300.00
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Larissa Warren - Wrecking ball
A$270.00
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Larissa Warren - Pretty obstacles
A$520.00
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Larissa Warren - Pretty Obstacle
A$420.00
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Larissa Warren - Easy does it
A$80.00
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