Art is an instinctual, sometimes radical act that is part of the expression of being human. It can transform our lives and is an essential part of the cultural experience. A portal is imagined as that which transports you to such an experience.
PORTAL STUDIO GALLERY
Portal is a collaboration of creative minds finding new ways to exchange ideas, make work + express aesthetic values in dynamic environments. These encounters are often transformative, broadening horizons and creating lasting bonds of friendship.
Portal is also an invitation to experience the unique creative vision of artists in exhibitions + open studio events such as Arts Open + Castlemaine State Festival + throughout the personal collection of Zoe Amor + Joel Sorensen who are now represented by Otomys Gallery, Melbourne.
Presenting works in diverse mediums from metamorphic sculpture, drawing + ceramics to enigmatic photographic landscapes, paintings, prints and installations – participating artists have included Hilary Finch, Briele Hansen, Sollai Cartwright, Paul Turbitt, Laura Veleff, Lliam Amor, Clare River, Zoe Amor, Joel Sorensen…
Portal projects at home + abroad include Art Life Mentoring, Drawing Projects at CCH and coming soon Amor Mundi Design and An Artist’s View of Sicily 18th – 29th May 2025 ~ An exciting collaboration between Zoe Amor and Ingrid Gaiotto of In Giro Tours.
PORTAL is Open by appointment most days from 10am – 4pm
Contact m: 0408 310 640 or e: info@zoeamor.com
ZOE AMOR + JOEL SORENSEN
Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking
Portal invites you to experience a unique creative vision and collection of artworks situated throughout the lovely studios, gallery and garden of Zoe Amor and Joel Sorensen. Casting, carving, drawing, painting and printing – their work is commissioned and exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions and held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Zoe Amor and Joel Sorensen met in 2015 with a vision to cultivate and build studios, permaculture gardens, a research library, art collection and a shared ethos to make their Art lives part of the transition towards a more life affirming way of being in the world.
Sculpting, casting, drawing, painting and printing – Zoe creates work drawing on a deep appreciation for the natural world, cultural diversity and the architecture of dreams. Combining an artistic ethos with research in sociology, anthropology and ecology, she is deeply interested in the way we respond to cultural and environmental change over time. Zoe works extensively in the arts and cultural fields as an artist, director, curator, designer, consultant, researcher, lecturer and facilitator. She has received awards, grants and has curated numerous exhibitions.
For Joel making art is a primal impulse involving an intuitive relationship to materials and forms. After completing a Bachelor of Ancient Music at Melbourne University, Joel turned to sculpture and the built environment, reclaiming materials for building homes and studios. Carving directly in stone or wood and modelling in clay, Joel creates figurative, animal or abstract forms, which are then cast into cement, plaster and bronze.
Amor + Sorensen’s compositions are commissioned and exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions and held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. Zoe and Joel are represented by Otomys Gallery, Melbourne.
