Art for chimps!
August 9th, 2008
As some of you may know members Patrick Hedges and Leigh Rust are preparing for a large exhibition at South Australia's Monarto Zoo this October. The exhibition will raise funds for Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone. This exhibition is shaping up to be the start of something bigger as other facilities have already contacted them to do similar projects in the future.
To make way for this they have just launched www.artforchimps.com. This site wil be updated with all the works for the exhibition as well as a peek into the studios as things happen.
Latham family joins Untamed Artists!
April 6th, 2008
The Latham family have all signed on as core members of the Untamed Artist Network. For those of you not familiar with their work Karen, Rebecca and Bonnie are champions of the miniature art form, using watercolour to create amazing works of art. We look forward to their future contributions as part of the group.
UAN founder goes wild at Melbourne Zoo
February 19th, 2008
Leigh Rust has been incredibly busy this month with a string of wildlife art demonstrations and solo exhibition on the grounds of Melbourne Zoo in conjunction to the Zoo's annual Twilight series of concerts. The 4 nights were been seen by up to 5500 people and videos of the demonstrations are available to view on his website .
Daniel Taylor completes Cameroon expedition
February 19th, 2008
For those of you wondering how Daniel got on with his mammoth Cross River Gorilla project check out the link to his site for more details. It really is a wonderful read! Daniel and his wife are still on the media trail in the wash up to this event. I'm also proud to share with you the new work he has created as a result of the expedition...
Daniel Taylor takes on a new challenge!
October 18th, 2008
Just thought I'd inform you of the new exploits of our own Daniel Taylor. He is just about to start a new expedition to the Cameroon jungles for a month departing October 28th. It will be in the first time ever in the study,sketching and painting the highly endangered "Cross River Gorilla" (there's only 250-300 left in the wild) as well as teaching children in three different village schools. His wife,a brave soul to be sure, will also be supporting this trek along with the 'African Conservation Foundation'
We'll all be able to follow this highly mediated project at www.natureartists.com.
I'm sure everyone will thoroughly enjoy the series of photos, videos and journals shown throughout the month of November on this unprecedented expedition.
Alison Clark takes out award at 2007 Pastel Society of Victoria exhibition
October 18th, 2007
Congratulations to Alison Clark who recently took out the award for best animal study at this year's Pastel Society of Victoria exhibition. Alison beat out some big names to take this award and on behalf of her fellow Untamed Artists I just want to let her know how proud we are of her.
Here is a pic of the work that got her the award...
