Silvio Apponyi lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia. His work is mainly sculptural and his subjects are almost entirely native Australian animals. Silvio works in a variety of media including: wood, stone and bronze.
His bronze works are all cast using the lost-wax method, and the majority of his wooden creations are also made into bronzes. Other media include silver and vegetable ivory. He has also experimented with other arts such as drawing and wood-block print making.
Silvio has been sculpting for around 40 years. His style has progressed from entirely abstract creations still used in fine details and larger pieces, to an astonishing level of detail and realism.
1973 Cricklewood Gallery, Aldgate S
1983 University of Adelaide Union Gallery
1986 Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, East Sydney
Greenhill Galleries, North Adelaide
1988 Holdsworth Galleries, Woollahra, Sydney
Greenhill Galleries, North Adelaide
1989 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
1990 Flinders University of SA Art Museum
1991 Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1992 Holdsworth Galleries, Woollahra, Sydney
1994 Greenhill Galleries, North Adelaide
1995 Holdsworth Galleries, Woollahra, Sydney
1996 Greenhill Galleries, North Adelaide
Makers Mark, Melbourne
Woollamooloo Restaurant, Paris
1997 Framed, Darwin
1999 Bungendore Woodworks, NSW
2000 Greenhill Galleries, North Adelaide
Bungendore Woodworks, NSW
Dridan Fine Arts, Hardy's Tintara Winery, McLaren Vale SA
2001 Framed, Darwin
2002 Bungendore Woodworks, NSW
1979 Mildura Triennial
1983 Whyalla & Iron Triangle SA, Arts Council of SA
1985 National Wood Design Award, Design Centre Adelaide
1987 Association of Sculptors of Victoria
1988 Aptos Cruz, Stirling SA
Carrick Hill, Springfield SA
Beehive Gallery, Adelaide
1989 - 92 Grand Prix Exhibition, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide
1990 Greenhill Galleries,
North Adelaide
Beaver
Galleries, Canberra
1991 Framed, Darwin
Jam
Factory, SA Crafts Council
1992 Greenhill Galleries Azalea Room, Burnside SA
8 Woodworkers at Reade Art, Glenside SA
State Bank Great Hall, Adelaide Festival of Arts, National Endangered Species Exhibition
1993 Adelaide Zoo, "Noah's Art", SA Crafts Council
Framed, Darwin
Kongoso Gallery, Okayama Japan
1994 Adelaide Zoo, "Noah's Art", SA Crafts Council
Kongoso Gallery, Okayama Japan
1995 Framed, Darwin
Dridan
Fine Arts, Middlebrook Winery, McLaren Flat SA
Aptos Cruz, Stirling SA
Hilton Hotel, Adelaide
The Mall Gallery, London
1996 Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham Vic
Adelaide Zoo, "Noah's Art", SA Crafts Council
1997 Monarto Zoological Park, SA Wildlife Society
Petronas Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Greenhill Galleries 25th Birthday Show
Dridan Fine Arts, Hardy's Winery, McLaren Vale SA
1998 Greenhill Galleries Australia Day Show
Dridan Fine Arts, McLaren Vale SA, Festival of Arts
Show
Royal Art Society of NSW
Hill-Smith Adelaide
1999 Banrock Station Wine & Wetlands Centre
Art Space Gallery, Okayama Japan
Kuraya Gallery, Tsuyama Japan
2000 Wildlife Art Documentation Centre (CDAA), Meaudre,
France & La Defense, Paris
2002 Dridan Fine Arts
Royal Art Society of NSW
1992 "Artfile" ed. Ken Lockwood
1993 Craft Arts Issue 28, "Captivating Fauna"
Architect/South Australia, Issue 25
1996 Woodcarving (UK) issue 24, "Natural Passion"
1997 "Masters of their Craft" ed. Noris Iannou
1999 Mesa Journal (Primary Industries & Resources SA) Vol 1999 Craft Arts Issue 46, Events & Reviews, "Macro & Micro
Sculpture"
1981 University of Adelaide’s Waite Institute, “Aries”, granite
ram’s head, height 1m
1985 Goulburn NSW, “The Big
Merino”
St
Patrick’s College, Goulburn, life-sized St Patrick
1986 St Dominic’s College, North Adelaide, granite St Dominic
1988 Tamworth NSW, Bi-centennial Park, 67 stone sculptures
& reliefs
1989 State Bank Tower, Adelaide, laminated wooden relief,
(4.1×4.2)m
1990 Mt Annan Botanic Garden NSW, sundial of human
involvement - with Sundials SA
Flinders University of SA, bronze & marble “Squid &
Prey”
Kingston SE SA, Maria Creek beautification, granite
sculptures & sundial
Berri SA, “A Special Place for Jimmy James” - with
Bluey Roberts
1992 Henley Beach Catholic Church, granite baptistry & Mary
with Child (RAIA Award)
Granite Island off Victor Harbor SA, granite sealion
carved in
situ
Healesville
Sanctuary Vic, bronze “Laughing
Kookaburras”
1993 Adelaide Zoo, life-sized granite sealion (donated by the
late Dr D Crompton)
Victor Harbor SA, bronze “Whale Tail” fountain
Flinders University of SA, granite “Woman Washing her
Hair”(donated by Mr B. Dangerfield)
Ashford Special School, relief carving on granite
(donated by the Advertiser Art Foundation)
Townsend School for the Blind, granite birdbath with
bronze tortoise (donated by The Advertiser)
1994 Australian National (Rail) Terminus, Keswick SA, life-
sized bronze Wedge tailed Eagle
Regency College of TAFE, Pt Adelaide Campus, granite
& brass marine sculpture - with Catherine Truman
1996 Wagga Wagga NSW, granite reliefs of waterbirds &
goannas for Mr R Price’s country estate
Lutheran Homes, Hope Valley SA, granite fountain
Healesville Sanctuary Vic, life-sized bronze Kangaroo
and Emu with Chicks
1997 Spring Hill Estate SA, wooden carvings, stone reliefs,
bronze sculptures
Burnside Shopping Village SA, granite fountain
Monarto Zoological Park SA, granite & bronze goanna
birdbath (donated by the artist)
1998 Dudley Park SA, Children’s Cemetery, bronze Pelican &
Chicks
Eden Hills SA, Colebrook Home site, granite “Fountain
of Tears” - collaboration with indigenous artists
1999 BRL Hardy’s Banrock Station Wine & Wetlands Centre,
Kingston-on-Murray SA, bronze Pelican & Chicks
University of Adelaide’s Waite Institute, bronze West
Highland White Terrier for Greg Johns’ tribute to Mr
Waite
Eden Hills SA, Colebrook Home site, life-sized bronze
“Grieving Mother” - collaboration with Shereen Rankine
Darwin NT, Herritage Walk drinking fountain w Chinese
theme, collaboration with Aladar Apponyi
Bio
Belinda Broughton grew up in remote North Queensland, south of Charters Towers, west of Bowen. Her early education was by correspondence, School of the Air and by nature. She boarded at Blackheath College for secondary school. She first contemplated being an artist at the age of ten and consolidated the aim throughout the terrible teenage years at boarding school. Thus after secondary school she went to The Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba (now University of Southern Queensland) where she did a diploma as well as sex, drugs and rock and roll. She majored in printmaking, afterwards she came to South Australia and she had a few years drifting and being difficult, not doing much except feeling indignant.
In her early twenties she had a relationship with artist Ondrej Mares and they had a daughter but the relationship didn’t last. In 1985 she joined her husband Ervin Janek and together they brought up their three children. Broughton practiced art only sporadically throughout this period because she found her creativity fulfilled by raising children and the business that they ran together - Janek Toys. They produced screen-printed wooden educational toys for the preschool market most designed by Broughton. By 1995 she was practicing art again and had a major show in 1997. From then until 2004 she committed herself obsessively to visual art, the result being by 2004 she was exhausted and developed an antipathy to visual art in general and her own in particular. It lasted several years. She applied her creative energy to poetry and began to take it public in 2006. She has since become a respected member of Friendly Street Poets (.org.au) She has been published in anthologies and literary journals and has won or been placed in several competitions. She was Arts SA’s featured poet in ArtState # 22.
In the meantime, while she was not doing any visual art, she looked one day and an exhibition had been produced by the elves, so she exhibited it in 2008.
Her early interests as a visual artist were figurative, cathartic and forgettable. Her main subject remains nature, in particular pattern, e.g. in the growth form of plants, the structure of woodland, the random fall of leaves, sticks and stones, and the surfaces of things: rocks, bark, lichen. She also is interested in the marks made by people and animals: scuff marks, cut marks, tracks on land, scribble, doodle and script. Overriding her whole oeuvre is a fascination with the cycles from order to chaos to order and also life, death, and regeneration. She is interested in the vitality of regeneration. Recently her aesthetic concerns have been in producing spare and minimal works that sit calmly on a wall but contain a complex inner activity. Presently she is also working on some transitory fragile works that, through doodle, contain words and her plan for the future is to find out what happens next.
Statement
Presently I am interested in creating works that reward slow viewing with something akin to meditation: a calmness, clarity or simplicity. Paradoxically this aim seems best served by highly complex works composed of many repeated details but where nothing is dominant.
On a formal level theses works are about mark and a form of minimalism created by extended activity. But underneath they are about my usual theme. I am interested in chaos/order cycles, how order also is a temporary state and even chaos is unstable and tends towards order. In a classic decay scenario like a compost heap, the apparent chaos of teeming micro-organisms has a tremendous underlying order. This order/disorder dichotomy leads to fertility and regeneration. It nurtures life.
Fabric is a metaphor for the whole, for everything, but is also a chaos of fibres teased and carded, then spun and woven into a very structured order.
I have been enjoying the monochrome palette. Contrary to our usual expectations, I find black calm, open, spacious and fertile with possibility whereas white sits on the surface of things like a screen. It seems almost superficial as if it was a metaphor for matter, and black; a metaphor for spirit or life force.
In any case doing these works involved a lot of rhythmical repetitive movement and was in itself meditation. I hope they elicit a similar response in the viewer.
1979 Dip Arts (Creative) Darling Downs IAE, Toowoomba, Queensland
Solo Exhibitions
“Drawings and Mixed Media”, W.A.M. Adelaide, SA
“Tragedy and Love”, Zone Gallery, Adelaide, SA
“Torsion”, Travelled Country South Australia with Country
Arts SA
2000 “The Sheltering Curve”, Flightpath Architects, Hindley St, Adelaide and Arnold Gallery, Mannum, SA
2001 “Beached and Bleached (Still Life with Flotsam)”, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide, SA, Artist of the Month (June)
“The Smallest Dead Leaf”, Art Images Gallery, Norwood, SA “Written Without Words”, New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide, SA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1997 “Human Vessels”, Petaluma Winery, Bridgewater, SA
“Looking Backwards Moving Forwards”, The Tin Fish, Hindmarsh, SA
“Kaleidoscope”, Shop Art, Hindley St, Adelaide
“Figures and Flesh” (images from) Arts SA Window Space,
Adelaide
“Figures and Flesh”, Art Images Gallery, Norwood, SA
“An Abstract View”, Art Images Gallery, Norwood, SA
“Inaugural Exhibition of Country Artists”, National Wine Centre Artspace, Adelaide, SA
“Twenty Big Ones!!” Art Images Gallery, Norwood, SA
“Landmarks”, South Coast Regional Arts Centre, Goolwa, SA
“Red + White” (poetry), New Land gallery, Port Adelaide, SA
“Couples”, Blue Bush Underground, Riverton, SA
Publications
The Adelaide Review, number 231, December 2002
dB Magazine, issue 169, 22 April - 5 May 1997
Community Projects and related
Presentations and demonstrations to Adelaide High School students regarding installed works with natural material, in particular works from the Written Without Words exhibition.
For Carambano, the painting process begins with an intuitive sense of the medium. It is the act of standing in front of the blank canvas or paper and feeling automatically inspired about what to do with the paint. Thoughts and feelings are manifested in a visual language using layers of oil paints to create a dialogue that is both abstract and expressive. While it is the artist that determines the character of each painting, Carambano accepts that a painting will often dictate its own direction.
In addition to the personal feelings and emotions that stimulate her work, Carambano is also inspired by the diversity of nature. Aspects of this theme are suggested in her paintings through earthy hues synonymous with the Australian landscape and by the conceptual line work that evokes ideas of an urban setting. Using symbolism, shape, and colour, Carambano pushes inventiveness to the limit.
EDUCATION
1983-84 Completed Post-Graduate Course – Fine Arts
1982 Completed Graduate Course – Fine Arts
1981 Completed Fine Arts Course, Sydney School of Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Gallery One, Petersham, NSW
Holdsworth Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW
Bonython Meadmore, Darlinghurst, NSW
The Rocks Gallery, The Rocks, NSW
Naïve Gallery, Woollahra
Eaglehawk, Glebe, NSW
Hester Gallery, Newtown, NSW
Old Baker’s Gallery, Sydney, NSW
SOHO Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Mahoneys, Melbourne, VIC
Gallery 482, Queensland
Gallery 368, Crow’s Nest, NSW
Salmon Gallery, McMahon’s Point
Manyung Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Quadruvium, Sydney, NSW
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Bonython Meadmore, Darlinghurst, NSW
The Rocks Gallery, The Rocks, NSW
Eaglehawke, Glebe, NSW
Istral, Woollahra, NSW
SOHO Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Mahoneys, Melbourne, VIC
Gallery 482, Brisbane, QLD
AWARDS
2003 Open Winner, Camden Art Prize
2002 Highly Commended Works on Paper
2001, Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
1998 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
1995, Highly Commended, Hunters Hill
1994, Highly Commended, Hunters Hill
1993 Highly Commended, DMAS Award
1992 Highly Commended, Hawkesbury City Council
1991 Winner, Camden Art Prize
1991 Open Section Winner, Camden Art Prize
1990 Acquisitive Award, Hawkesbury City Council
1988 Open Section Winner, Camden Art Prize
1987 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
Selected Biography
2009 Exhibition artist assistant, South Australian Museum, South Australian
Bio diversity Gallery
2008 Visual Arts board member Feast festival
2007 Public art works, paintings commissioned for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Inpatient Building Department
2006 "River of Dreams", Public Art, Women's and Children's Hospital , S.A.
2004 Arts Facillitator for concrete and tiling project, the community arts component for the award winning ‘Creating Places' project with City of Onkaparinga Council
2002-2004 Painting Technician for Annette Bezor
Education
2003 Certificate 4 in Workplace Training, TAFE, Adelaide
Bachelor of Visual Art and Applied Design, Adelaide Centre for the Arts, Adelaide
1997-2001 Advanced Diploma in Applied Visual Arts, North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide
1997 - 2002 Private Tuition - Painting and drawing, Painter/Sculpter - Robert Hannaford
1999 Physiology and Anatomy, Holistic Learning Centre, Adelaide
1990 Yoga Teacher Certificate, Hatha Yoga Institute, Adelaide
Solo Exhibitions
2009 New Works, Art Images Gallery, SA
2008 Artworks exhibited in C.E.O conference room, Art hire, Department of Premier and Cabinet, S.A, State Administration Building
"Indian Red",SALA Festival, La Boheme, SA
2007 New Works, Art images Gallery , Adelaide, SA
2005 New Works, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
1999 Day dreams from Deckchairs, Port Adelaide Community Arts Gallery, Adelaide
1996 Scarlett Colours, Queen Street Café, Adelaide
Group Exhibitions
2009 New Works 2009 , Aptos Cruz, Stirling
2008 The Advertiser 2008 Contemporary Art Award - Finalist
Wishlist, Sala Festival, The Space Between
Summer mode, Art Images Gallery
Art Melbourne 08, Royal Exhibition Building, Victoria
2007 The WaterhouseNatural History Art Award, finalist, SA Museum
Artistic License Gallery, Adelaide
Loreto Art Exhibition,Loreto college, Adelaide
Urban Myth Art Auction, Carclew House
Arts SA window, Hindley street, SA
WishList, Chesser street Gallery, SA
Not the Big Picture, Greenhill Gallery, SA
C'est Mon , la Boheme , Adelaide Fringe festival
2006 FAME auction, Leconsfield winery and online
Pra'pel'fer, Sugar artspace, Adelaide
Loreto Art, Lareto College, Adelaide
Stirling Fine Arts exhibition, St Catherines, Stirling
Not the big picture, Greenhill Galleries
Art Sydney 06, Fox Studios, RHI & Hordern pavillion, Sydney
Summer Mode, Art Images Gallery, SA
2005 Nexus members show, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide
Arts S.A windows, Hindley street, S.A
Not the big Picture, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
Elements, Stirling Fine Art exhibition
Brisbane Art Fair, Brisbane Convention centre
Art Sydney 05, RHI & Hordern Pavillion, Sydney
Optus House, foyer and boardroom, Adelaide
>2005 Preview Exhibition, Art Images Gallery
New Works, collaboration with artist- Peta Cowen, GAS conference, Kintolai Gallery
2004 ‘Works on Paper', Dalian Art College, N.E China
The Waterhouse international art prize, South Australian Museum
Ngapartji Ngapartji, Adelaide University, Adelaide Fringe
Flamingo, Urban Cow Gallery, Adelaide Fringe
2003 Whimsical, Arterial Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Bloom, SALA week, Kintolai Gallery, SA
Spring, Arterial Gallery, SA
2002 Adelaide Women in Art, Curated - Craftsouth
Exhibition Hall, Adelaide showgrounds
Krill, Graduating Students- AIT Arts Light Square Gallery
Maestro and Apprentices auction, Adelaide
Equator Lounge, Adelaide Festival of the Arts Fringe Event
Tapas Restaurant, Adelaide
2000 Shop Art, Adelaide Festival of the Arts Hindley Street, Adelaide
Awards
2004 The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize,
Winner 1st Prize - category A - painting
2003 Minter Ellison Award ‘Emerging Female Artist Sponsorship
Collections
The Treasury, Medina, Adelaide
Private collections in Boston USA, Tuscany, Taiwan and private collections nationally around Australia
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA, Adelaide campus
Stillwells Management Consultants, Adelaide
Madeleine Woolley, Director of Adelaide Institute of Tafe
Department of Immigration, Federal Government, Australia
Department of Families and Community, SA