UNRAVELING
O.Hiisi
& Brooke Munro
OUR
STORY
Gallery Alchmey seeks to represent work across painting, drawing, photography,sculpture and mixed media. With a focus on contemporary and emergingartists with the gallery featuring work with a modern, figurative sensibility that is emotionally rich and poignant, and also conveying wit and humour.
Gallery Alchemy represents emerging and established artists that demonstratea sensitivity to the conundrums of modern life. With the galleries owninfluences stretching from Artemisia & Caravaggio to Van Gogh, to YellowHouse to Duchamp, Dada, Brett Whitely and Charlie Sheard.
Featured artists often reflect a sensibility for light, colour, purity of craft and ahint of neuroses and angst of modern life that ultimately gives way to beauty. “Idon’t believe in Art, I believe in the Artist”
– Marcel Duchamp
HATTIE ZAMPA
Now based in Bangalow NSW, Hattie is originally from a small town one hour south of Darwin. Raised in the country, and one of seven siblings she is a true believer of the beauty of chaos. Now a mum, and a resident of the Northern Rivers, Hattie paints at her home studio ‘The Stable Studio’ nestled amongst the Byron hinterlands.
Although she studied law at university she has always had a deep love for her creative side and found herself drawn to her artistic tendencies.
Hattie doesn’t consider her work ‘great’, instead she celebrates its imperfections. She loves that it’s a little rough and unfinished, mostly layers of new ideas on top of old. She finds beauty in the texture left on the canvas when more paint is added to hide the previous stroke. Her belief is that art makes a house a home.
“I have always had a passion for drawing & painting. I studied law & journalism at university and once I entered into the workforce, I found it really difficult to find joy in what I was doing. I consistently found myself coming back to art. I’ve been lucky enough to travel around the world and I have fallen in love with so many beautiful homes. I think I’ve always felt that art helps create those special spaces. So for me, making art is my way of making a space or home, truly come to life. I think that after so many years of wondering what my purpose is I can see now that art really is my calling.”
O.Hiisi
Otto Hiist (O.Hiisi) .born 1995, lives and works between far south coast NSW and regional northern VIC. Infuenced by the natural landscape of these places, be it Barmah state forest on the Murray river or Gulaga national park with its forests and beaches, the work in its relatively simple structure and execution aims to emulate the rawness and texture of these environments.
" It was important to me to create a solid and recognisable style. The themes explored through the parameters of this style are varied but with an aim towards minimalism and the representation of an image in its most simple form. I look to nature and the human experience in the work and take lessons from many artists and artforms past and present."
BROOKE MUNRO
Brooke is a Southern Highlands Sculptural Textiles Artist raised in Burrawang NSW. She studied a Bachelor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University where she was under the tuition of textiles artist Virginia Kaiser.
She currently runs a small creative business with her husband called ‘Mr and Mrs Munro’ which has been featured in national publications including Country Style, Home Beautiful and Belle Magazine. Brooke draws inspiration from nature, femininity and traditional craft.
Her sculptural forms feature traditional basketry techniques such as weaving, netting, coiling and twining, but with an emphasis on more extreme texture and form.