Current Artists

OKA - New album in store now.

New Album OKA LOVE

COASTAL BAND MAKE HUGE WAVES OVERSEAS.

OKA boys have just arrived back in Australia to release their new album "OKA LOVE" .
They spent the northern summer touring extensively through Canada.
After their performances at the Quebec Summer festival '09, out of 380 bands, OKA were voted in the top five most memorable festival performances alongside festival headliners, Sting and Kiss.
Oka have a big summer planned, festivals including Australasian World Music Expo, Mullum Music Festival, Island Vibe Festival, Subsonic Festival, Open Arms festival, Peats Ridge & Rainbow Serpent as well a whole bunch of venues Australia wide, spreading the "OKA LOVE".

My Space Review:
OKA consist of Chris Lane & DidgeriStu. Chris plays slide acoustic guitar, across his lap wired up through various guitar effects which gives the band a spacey, dreamy vibe. Stu plays, guess what? The didgeridoo of course but this is not the didgeridoo of Rolf Harris. This is didgeridoo from the planet Zog! Played through amplification and guitar effects pedals. Today they had a keyboard player and a drummer which created an incredible, dreamy, laid back sound. Try to imagine Bob Marley meets Stevie Wonder via the chemical brothers, on acid, playing in a steaming rainforest with a didgeridoo and you are getting close.

Bronwyn Lloyd

Hand cut paper original

Primarily known as a paper artist, Bronwyn is also an accomplished sculptor.
Paper Virgins is a series of paper-cuts and three-dimensional works by Bronwyn Lloyd. Bronwyn lays her Catholic subconscious out for all to see in stark black and white. Simple darkly humorous cut outs, are loaded with feminist irreverence. Shades of grey lay beneath in the murky subtext of society, religion and female iconography.

“I see many traditional images of women as the propaganda of social control. The Paper Virgins depicted are empowered by their own physicality and possibility of change.”

Paper cutting as an art form has been practised for hundreds of years in the East and West, each cultural group developing its own particular styles and symbolism. The method used to illustrate Paper Virgins is primarily a combination of silhouette and Chinese free cuts where the inside of the design is cut into. The challenge of working in black and white is to convey nuances of meaning that would otherwise be expressed in greys.
“Previously my creativity had been sporadic at best, dropping out of art school, writing and directing student films, acting plus dabbling in oils, pastels and numerous craft mediums. But the whole time I was constrained by my upbringing to be a 'good' girl, not to ask questions and be polite! It was a trip to England and Europe where I saw loads of religious art that finally made me question my need to be perfect in the eyes of all I met.”
Returning home I began on The Foolish Virgins just for fun, then Seven Saints and lastly The Life of A Virgin. It wasn't until I'd finished that I realized my unconscious had unrevealed itself in black and white for all to see!

Amanda Margaret Designs

Record Lamp

Amanda has always been interested in graphic design, and photography. Well travelled and easily inspired, her preference is for third world countries that reinforce her philosophy of indulging in the simple pleasures that living life simply can bring.

Amanda has accumulated diverse skills and interests on her adventures, including traditional jewellery making techniques from Tibetan craftsman. Her current exploration utilising lamps and recycled materials enable her to bring all her passions to bear.

Amanda is committed to a vision of the future where contemporary jetsom is continually being recycled and reinvented into new forms. Where character and history take precedence over the thrill of shiny and new. Her pieces are practical yet nostalgic, acknowledging the source and revealing its hidden potential. Coaxing old treasures back out in to the light.
We like to think of it as Conscious Kitsch.

Settling on the SSC 7 years ago, following a happy accident where she fell into a clutch of artists, sharing a large communal work and play space where all members including the infamous Ghost Boy, encouraged all householders to create and share resources and ideas.
A self funded arts hub if you will. It was here that Amanda began painting, sewing and drawing regularly, developing slowly into her current lady of the lamps persona.

Amanda is happy to create
personalised pieces
to order.

One Peso

Things Funky Librarians Would Like

Born and bred Nambour designer Rhiannon O'Dell brings to bare a range of kooky influences in her selection of hand made brooches.

With a background in clothing design, she is a self confessed "hoarder of crap" heavily influenced by 80's fashion and 50's kitsch. Well travelled and free spirited this visually oriented treasure creates for the pleasure of others. The collection features lovingly made felt brooches incorporating images of yesteryear, when children were silent and obedient, and analogue sound in all its crackly warmth ruled the airwaves.