Teagues
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"></span></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777"><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Steve Tierney is a self employed illustrator and designer based in Sydney, Australia. </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; "><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">He is currently contracted as Art Director of Australian Geographic Outdoor magazine and has also been designer on many of Australian Geographic's special products, such as calendars, diaries and primary and secondary school educational booklets. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Along with several other specialist publishing clients, he also counts Amnesty International Australia as a regular client for whom he volunteers much of his own time in both designing and campaigning. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">As an illustrator he has been commissioned in various industries ranging from editorial illustration to fashion prints, book covers, merchandising and other marketing graphics. He has also held solo and group exhibitions of his art and paintings in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tokyo.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">In October 2010 he visited the North East Arnhem Land Aboriginal community of Yirrkala as a volunteer with his partner Ruby Johnson. Over a period of 6 weeks, they spent three weeks working within the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Arts Centre in Yirrkala followed by three weeks living in the remote Aboriginal community of Yilpara in Blue Mud Bay, a small community of Yolngu people successfully living on their homeland. They both hope to return to the area for a longer period of time and are looking into ideas and projects that can get them there.</font></p></span></div><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">In June of 2011 Steve will be visiting Arquetopia Art Foundation in Puebla, Mexico as an artist in residence. During this residency he hopes to expand his own art practice as well as learn traditional art techniques of the area. He also intends to contribute any of his professional experience to the fantastic community art projects that Arquetopia support.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">His professional website can be viewed here</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); border-collapse: collapse; "> <a href="http://www.teaguesart.com" title="" target="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 87); text-decoration: none; ">www.teaguesart.com</a></span></p></span></div></font><p></p>