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Riss

b.1972

Based in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

A multi-passionate and multi-qualified Australian creative artist, project manager and lover of painting and colour, Riss' creative interests include contemporary art, creative projects, song writing, and playing bass.

Through favoured mediums of painting and textiles, Riss explores colour, techniques, sustainability and spiritually, while often extending creativity into 'everyday items' such as prints and books, fashion items, crafted jewellery, and homewares. Having first learnt textiles at an early age, passed down from both grandmothers and mother, it wasn't until a 1992 diagnosis and in her late teens that Riss felt innately inspired to paint. With no high school, nor formal art training behind her, Riss successfully dared herself to apply for a Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in painting and textiles (USQ, 2001), and then on to complete a Graduate Certificate in Art Authentication (MelbUni, 2005).

It has been through art and music, … as my salutogenic coping mechanism, a way to express and release the array of emotions and meanings throughout this journey. I am still on this journey of finding me, and of being all of ‘me’, …including as a positive person… more publicly… nearly 36 years after contracting HIV, and nearly 32 years after being given only 5 years left to live.

It Takes All Sorts
Up the Garden Path
IAS2023 Positive Lounge (Collaborative Community Creativity)
A Bougain Vista
Adornment
Decked Out: #GEN CMYK
Visual Verse: Improv. Final Act
Enough Already
Emerging Green: Cats Whiskers
Deep Dark: Phantasma
A Stitch in Time...
KnOwn
Clinging (to flowers) too
Decadence: Diamond Life/Time is Precious
Black & White: Time Lines
2020: Call to Action
Four Seasons
The Missing Piece detail
The Missing Piece
First Fruits
Anchored
Mellow Yellow: A moment
Sanguine Reframed
Reframe
Daily Thanks
A new Jerusalem
Figments of your Imagination
Flight
Confused
Double Window
Single Window
Summer 2002-2003
Marbles
North South
East And West
Delicatus I-Pabulum (food)
Delicatus II-Potare (wine)
Delicatus III- Artes (arts)
Delicatus IV- Musica (music)
Delicatus I IV Series
Daring To Unite
Rebirth
Sanguine II
Sanguine
Rebirth Series
Rebirth series
Untitled - Fractured
Untitled - (Reeds at Sunset)
Untitled - Contemplation
Untitled - Rain
Untitled - Flowers
Untitled - Riss
Untitled - Hand
Untitled - Lily
Untitled - Man
Untitled - Flower (BumTittyBum)
Untitled - Flower
KnOwn: Wiradjuri to Yuggera (S)
KnOwn: Boon Wurrung to Yuggera (M)
KnOwn: Boon Wurrung to Yuggera (F)
KnOwn: Woi Wurrung (MM)
KnOwn: Eora to Woi Wurrung (MF)
KnOwn: Kaurna to Boon Wurrung (FM)
KnOwn: Kaurna to Boon Wurrung (FF)
KnOwn: Woi Wurrung (MMM)
KnOwn: Woi Wurrung (MMF)
KnOwn: Wiradjuri (MFM)
KnOwn: Eora (MFF)
KnOwn: Kaurna (FMM)
KnOwn: Kaurna (FMF)
KnOwn: Kaurna (FFM)
KnOwn: Kaurna (FFF)
KnOwn: S
KnOwn: M
KnOwn: F
KnOwn: MM
KnOwn: MF
KnOwn: FM
KnOwn: FF
KnOwn: MMM
KnOwn: MMF
KnOwn: MFM
KnOwn: MFF
KnOwn: FMM
KnOwn: FMF
KnOwn: FFM
KnOwn: FFF
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My creative interests explore colour, techniques, sustainability, and spirituality while reflecting a serendipitous journey of responding to and capturing a hope and faith in living a full life with impact, purpose and meaning, ...despite all odds.

Since 1992, the creative act of making and engaging in visual arts practice has intuitively been my self-therapy and salutogenic coping mechanism for dealing with diagnosis trauma. My artworks burst with colour and movement, and aim to impart positivity, hope and faith... lifting one from the subfuse of daily life.

In 2017, I resumed sharing my creative works publicly with increasing opportunity to participate and exhibit both locally and more recently abroad. As events since 2020 continue to disrupt our world, knowing and owning one’s self-identity is more important than ever and inform my current creative works and visual investigations.

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Based in Tivoli, Queensland, Australia

Education:

  • Master Research Management & Commercialisation at Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Graduate Certificate Art Authentication at University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Graduate Certificate Academic Practice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Bachelor of Visual Arts at University of Southern Queensland, Australia
  • Associate Diploma Applied Science Horticulture at University of Queensland, Australia
  • Cert IV Project Management at Australian Institute of Management, QLD & NT, Australia
  • Cert IV Training & Assessing (TAA40104) at TAFE QUEENSLAND, Australia

Memberships:

  • 2019+ Arts Connect Ipswich Inc, Queensland, Australia
  • 2019+ Visual AIDS, New York, NY, USA
  • 2018+ National Association for the Visual Artists (NAVA), Australia
  • 2018+ Flying Arts Alliance Inc, Queensland, Australia
  • 2009+ Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)

Grants & Awards:

  • 2023 Artists+ Material Grant recipient, Visual AIDS, New York, NY, USA
  • 2020 stART Grant, Arts Queensland, Australia
  • 2020 Artists+ Material Grant recipient, Visual AIDS, New York, NY, USA
  • 2002 Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) Grant Bursary recipient, Cooloola Shire Council, Gympie (McGregor Summer School 2003 – egg tempera master-class with International artist-in-residence Willi Gilli, Germany)
  • 2002 McGregor Bursary Grant recipient, McGregor Summer Schools 2003, USQ, Toowoomba (egg tempera masterclass with International artist-in-residence Willi Gilli, Germany)
  • 2001 Hugh Child Memorial Award, Visual Arts – Academic Performance, University of Southern Queensland

Exhibitions:

  • 2023 'Creative Collaborations', Positive Lounge, IAS2023, 24-26 July, with Visual AIDS Materials Grant.
  • 2023 'That's Hot Magenta' Group Exhibition, ARTtime Gallery, tpswich
  • 2023 'On Paper' Group Exhibition, ARTtime and Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, lpswich
  • 2023 'Postcards from The Edge 2023', Visual AIDS Group Exhibition Fundraiser, online, NyC, USA
  • 2022 'Off the Wall’ Group Exhibition, ArtsConnect Ipswich Inc, Ipswich Community Gallery
  • 2022 ‘Crisis Relief' Group Exhibition, Visual AIDS, NY, online, curated by Sur Rodney, NY, USA
  • 2022 ‘Riss Retrospective: 1994-2022’ Solo Exhibition, Banshees Bar & Artspace, Ipswich
  • 2022 ‘Decked Out’ Group Exhibition, ARTtime & Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, Ipswich
  • 2022 ‘On Paper’ Group Exhibition, ARTtime & Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, Ipswich
  • 2022 ‘Visual Verse’ Group Exhibition, ArtsConnect Ipswich Inc, Ipswich Community Gallery
  • 2022 ‘Ipswich Art Awards’, Ipswich City Council, Tulmur Place, Nicholas St, Ipswich
  • 2022 ‘Engaging Green’ Group Exhibition, ARTtime & Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, Ipswich
  • 2021 'Deep Dark', Group Exhibition, ARTtime & Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, Ipswich, Qld, Aust.
  • 2021 'knOwn Collection', Solo Exhibition, ARTtime & Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, Ipswich, Qld, Aust.
  • 2021 'Postcards from The Edge', Visual AIDS Group Exhibition Fundraiser, online, NYC, USA
  • 2020 'Off the Wall' Group Exhibition, ArtsConnect Ipswich Inc, Ipswich Community Gallery, Qld, Aust.
  • 2020 'Ampler Than Loneliness: Documenting Collective Resilience' Group Exhibition, Visual AIDS, NY
  • 2020 'Ipswich Hospice Care Art Awards', Ipswich Hospice online, Qld, Aust.
  • 2020 'Black & White' Group Exhibition, ARTtime and Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, Ipswich, Qld, Aust.
  • 2020 'Postcards From The Edge' Group Fundraiser Exhibition, Visual AIDS, Bortolami Gallery, Tribeca, NYC
  • 2019 'Off the Wall' Group Exhibition, ArtsConnect Inc, Ipswich Community Art Gallery, Ipswich, Qld, Aust.
  • 2019 'Faith' Group Exhibition, ArtsConnect Inc, Ipswich Community Art Gallery, Ipswich, Qld, Aust.
  • 2019 'Mellow Yellow' Group Exhibition, ARTtime and Drawing Point Gallery & Studio, Ipswich, Qld, Aust.
  • 2018 'Ipswich Art Awards' Exhibition, Ipswich Festival, St. Paul’s Church Hall, Ipswich, Qld, Aust.
  • 2002 'Kenilworth Arts Festival' Exhibition, Kenilworth Public Hall, Qld, Aust.
  • 2000 'Zeitgeist', Graduarts Group Exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld, Aust.
  • 2000 'USQ Student Guild' Art Exhibition, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
  • 1999 'Works in Progress' Group Exhibition, Arts Foyer Gallery, University of Southern Qld, Toowoomba
  • 1999 'Cent$less' Group Exhibition, Art M@trix Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld, Aust.
  • 1999 '3rd Artist’s Books & Multiples Fair', School of Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, Aust.

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