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current exhibition - ends 23rd MAY
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Attack of the Future Renegade Beings. Contemporary painting by AMOS Duggan
 A bold collection of works that fast forward us into a tweaked out future, where we borrow from the past and steal from the future to weave our own personal fairy tales.
The anthropomorphic state has been used throughout the ages to explain the hybrid of the divine and the mortal. With references in numerous cultures including Egyptian, Greek, Native American and African traditions, not to mention and all your favourite pagan religions.
Animal/ human behaviours and characteristics form the basis of many schools of psychology, and make regular appearances in popular culture. We can follow the white rabbit from Donnie Darko back to Lewis Carroll and beyond. Shall we talk about Jungian manifestations of the collective unconscious in society? Maybe not right now...
AMOS is a product of his environment and of the times. The environment? Right here on the Sunshine Coast. Yep a real live local local! So, if you find the work disturbing and confronting (as we know a number of you do) you must bear some of the responsibility sunny QLD! We can blame society for the rest.
Already a regular feature in the groovy galleries you're probably not cool enough to know about in Brisbane, and fresh from highly successful appearance at Art Melbourne, Amos is destined to leave us all behind in a cloud of sand as he makes his way to the light at the end of the tunnel, New York...
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Happy Ending for Broken Hart
 Once upon a start of a business there was a $5000 vase called the Crimson Rosella made by master glass artist Noel Hart. Then suddenly one day there wasn't. Well, it still existed, it just happened to be in many pieces on our tiled floor.
Almost a year later with the assistance of the lovely Joanna Thompson, we have salvaged some of these stunning shards and transformed them into elegant glass and silver pendants. Now that's what I call wearable art.
More by Joanna Thompson >>
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Young Eve Is All White With Us
 Local Designer Young Eve has released a new collection of winter white timber brooches, necklaces and earrings.
Sleek shapes on fine silver chains that sit beautifully. We loved the previous mirrored range of owls and carousels, but have decided you can't beat a neat white brooch on a snappy black jacket.
Don't know how she does it, but the range is still priced at $28 per piece.
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Move Quickly It's Semi-Permanent
 The Semi-Permanent Book 2009 has just hit the store. This is the third annual edition produced by Melbourne design house Design is Kinky.
It provides a snapshot of all that's young and fresh in art around the globe. A must have for illustrators and graphic designers in need of inspiration ($39.95)
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Irish Willow - Goddesses Keep on Keeping on.
 We are please to welcome a new collection of Goddesses and glass beads from artist Irish Willow. Lampwork Beading is an ancient painstaking glass art.
Each Goddess is unique, forming its own distinctive personality out of the flame, in a process that can take up to an hour and half to produce a single bead.
Irish Willow glass beads and Goddesses are now being sold internationally to other artists who incorporate her glass into their creations. We have a limited number of single beads, and diverse range of completed necklaces featuring mermaids, dragons and elegant spheres.
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Pillow Talk
 We have a limited number of hand made comfort cushions by New Zeland born artist Jo Lilly. The linen cushions feature her original photography inspired by fairies and flowers printed on to satin. The pillows depict individual characters and an accompanying story explaining each one's particular fairy bent.
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