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Premier Design Award finalists for PainTrain – My Health Summary

2024-10-18T11:08:30+11:00August 1, 2018|

We are thrilled that PainTrain – My Health Summary has been shortlisted for a significant Australian design award. Established by the Victorian Government in 1996 as the Victorian Design Awards, the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards recognise and reward Victorian designers and businesses that display excellence in the way they use design. The awards provide an opportunity for businesses and the community to better understand the role of design in making products, services, spaces and [...]

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Our new venture – Queenscliff Gallery

2024-10-18T11:08:30+11:00December 20, 2015|

Together with exhibiting artists, directors of ooi Soula & Theo Mantalvanos celebrated the beginning of their new business venture Queenscliff Gallery in our refurbished Wesleyan church... And more thanks to: Lesley Alway, Andrew Gunnell, Ray Threadwell of Bellarine Peninsula Homes, Handmade Films, Jason Reekie Photography, Yarra Valley Cherries, Terindah Estate, Goodie catering, local galleries – Salt Contemporary and Seaview – for welcoming us into their local arts community. Contact and social media [...]

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Destination next: Queenscliff

2024-10-18T11:08:30+11:00June 4, 2015|

It is with great thanks (and much mixed emotion) that we announce our next destination of life - Queenscliff. We are thrilled to reveal that ooi will grow its creative formula into a new public space named, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop (QG&W) More details to come... We will be keeping our current subscriber list but will soon contact you again to give you the option to specify what news you would like to [...]

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Intermission, the opening

2026-04-30T11:59:26+10:00March 17, 2015|

IntermissionSelf-portraits by SOULA MANTALVANOSOpening Sat Mar 7, 2015 at 4:30pmby Australian Artist BARBIE KJARExhibition dates: MAR 6 – 25, 2015LOCATION 187 Liverpool Street Hobart TasmaniaEMAIL & PHONE info@pennycontemporary.com.au03 6231 5655pennycontemporary.com.au INTERMISSION

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Sitting for Barbie Kjar

2024-10-18T11:08:31+11:00November 13, 2014|

Who would have thought staring at the back of an easel could be so inspiring! Not only inspiring, we were enthralled in this simple form of art on the eve that The Australian's Sharon Verghis was publishing her article that questioned whether drawing was dead. From an artist's perspective, Soula particularly felt her own practise validated witnessing the push, pull and struggle she also experiences when drawing and aiming for likeness. Barbie is [...]

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The Hurting Strings – An Artist’s Story of Pain

2024-10-18T11:08:31+11:00May 10, 2014|

Click on the image above or visit The Hurting Strings on www.reelhouse.org Let's watch The Hurting Strings I'd like to express my biggest thanks firstly to Peter Lamont for taking this project on and for communicating my invisible message with such perfection even after realising what was going to be a four-minute documentary was turning into something much longer. And to all of you who either contributed through crowd funding, or supported me [...]

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Sorina Williams, Practicing What we Preach

2024-10-18T11:08:31+11:00November 5, 2014|

(Above: John Kelly’s art for Moo Brew) We love art and design equally at ooi. In fact the only thing driving the choice between art or design in our studio is the client’s brief and which of the two we feel will answer the solution best. So when Sorina Williams asked if we could give feedback on her uni assignment that was about the value of illustration in design, we were happy to [...]

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