Steve Glass

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Steve Glass is a contemporary abstract painter and arts-worker, creating work on canvas and paper in various media, while executing large-scale figurative murals for government and community groups. His current studio works are the result of research into instinctive drawing, letterform manipulation and impossible forms. 

Steve completed his visual art degree in 2004, returning for an honours year in 2007 to research the history of formalist painters with sound to colour synesthesia, after many years of creating works based on his own experience of the condition. He has been featured in several documentary films regarding the phenomenon. Developing an interest in aerosol art following his honours year, Steve's work has bounced between letterform graffiti and geometric abstraction, and has been featured in street art festivals, community arts projects and commissions by clients including Red Bull.

"The art of Karma Phuntsok is a unique and dynamic expression of contemporary Buddhist Art. Though formally trained as a traditional Thanka painter, Karma applies different techniques and materials in his work, often creating futuristic expressions of the time-honoured craft. The startling beauty and richness which graces his work is influenced by his diverse life experiences: from a childhood in Tibet under Chinese oppression to life as a refugee in India; his love life in the Australian Bush, and the veneration with which he holds His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Internationally acclaimed, Karma's work is scattered throughout the world, in private collections and galleries, and in Australia at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery." (by David Templeman)