Feature Artists
Dennis Massoud
Sand in your Eyes
Since being “discovered” in 1999 on a beach at Lorne, Victoria, he has worked in the Gobi Desert, co-building a vast array of creatures from snakes to dragons out of 60,000 tonnes of sand. He’s built giants and castles in the mountainous sci-fi landscape of China’s Yunnan province, and blitzed the world championships of sand sculpting in Denmark in 2003 by turning a three-metre-high pile of sand into a terrified shipwreck victim! This year he will be presenting his craft at the Tasmanian Craft Fair.
See Dennis create a wombat, Tasmanian Devil and a dragon at the Showgrounds.
Brad Blaze has been voted Australian Entertainer of the Year with his speed paintings of celebrities in just a few minutes using paint, smatterings of glitter and even fire to create these works. Brad has performed for heads of state across the globe, corporate events and now he brings his entertaining show and artistic talents to our main stage at Venue 1A Community Complex.
This year, we are drawing a lucky attendee who has already bought their ticket to win their choice of either a speed painting of their favourite celebrity or a portrait of themselves by Brad Blaze on stage. These paintings sell for thousands of dollars each and Brad rarely does public portraits, so this is an exciting opportunity!
Brad Blaze
Speed Painter
Bianca Templar is a Proud Truwulway and Bunurong artist and social worker whose cultural knowledge was passed down from her grandmother, born and raised on truwana / Cape Barren Island. Taught to shell as a child, Bianca has returned to this practice in recent years, expanding her work to include baskets, water carriers, jewellery and contemporary paintings inspired by palawa/pakana petroglyphs. Through her art, she shares that Aboriginal Cultural practices are living, adaptive and continue to thrive today.
Bianca utilises traditional knowledge to create contemporary crafts. Bianca will be doing a different demonstration on each day highlighting the intrinsic nature of First Nations technologies; Friday - Stringing Demonstration, Saturday - Rope Bracelet Demonstration and Sunday - Coil Weaving Demonstration. Bianca will be joined most days by her realism artist brother Tristan Templar.
Venue 2B - Meander Pavilion
