The Old Firestation is the backdrop for six artists' original works in the final weekend of the 2014 Artists Open Studios.
Jodi Clark, Mike Marsh, Jo Giddens, Wendy Caldwell, Judy McIntyre, and Alison Lundy's art is as diverse as their creative backgrounds.
Clark, who started her BFA in the '90s at the Quay School of the Arts and finished at Elam, says she has gone full-circle with her paintings, influenced by the Asian experiences when she and partner Geoff Mackintosh lived for two years in Hong Kong followed by five years in China.
"Some of my symbols are trans-cultural," Clark says of her large paintings with a graphic influence, in which she says she is "creating a new vocabulary".
Marsh, another graduate with a BFA from the Quay School of the Arts, says Pop Art influences his painted "t-shirts" of Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo, Alice Cooper, Robert Smith from The Cure and Brian Eno. Ben Stiller's character in Zoolander is painted on a Nissan Laurel bonnet, which Marsh first showed in the Edith Gallery last year. Working full-time, Marsh says he fits his art around his day job.