My University studies concentrated on theatrical Costume Design. After graduating and moving to Chicago I realized I found as much joy in creating the renderings as making wearable creations. These renderings transformed into free standing mixed media (mostly collage and watercolor) pieces. Tearing up paper was therapeutic.

Natasja van Wyk is a textile artist residing in the Dandenong ranges. She is influenced and inspired by contemporary art with a strong affinity for colour blocking and portraying the abstract forms of nature in her quilting. Her art aims to evoke feelings of comfort and warmth together with a strong social justice theme and often portrays her personal emergence from trauma.

All of my creations have inherent layers. Whether this is layers of enamel paint on steel, layered panels of fabric on garments, or the layers of cardboard within the artworks in the ‘Paper’ Gallery.

Born in the Philippines in 1982 and arrived in Australia in 1997. Jonabelle is an emerging and multidisciplinary artist working with photography, printmaking, drawing and painting, dressmaking, and silversmithing. Jonabelle draws inspiration from her surroundings, whether from nature or urban, and finds and highlights the beauty in the mundane.

Beatrice is a contemporary Australian sculptor whose work engages with a range of themes including mythology (particularly Norse and Greek) and migration.

For the number of years, Beatrice has been examining themes of migration, journey and travel in her practice. The theme is inspired by contemporary events as well as more personal family histories. Her parents, like so many Europeans, in the aftermath of the Second World War, migrated to Australia. Traveling by boat, their journey took almost two months.

Angela Watson the Artist and Designer who creates under the name Antayjo Art pours all her overthinking into colourful, chaotic, maximalist works to de stress.

She is based in Ballarat and spends her time drawing, painting, stitching quirky subjects that centre around Fashiony, Patterny, Flowery and Portraity themes.

Lisa has been an artist/maker since her early years. Growing up in 70's Melbourne, surrounded by a prolific native garden, nature loving and creative parents, she developed a love of the beauty of the natural world and making things.

I am an Indian born, Melbourne based artist. Art was a passion of mine in my teens and twenties and I wanted to pursue it as a career, but back in those days the chances ...

Simpson Myers is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist whose main practice involves embroidery and oil paintings. Debuting professionally in 2017 with the artist's first solo show “Sexistential”, her work explored the themes of mythology & religion, women’s sexual and spiritual life, and touched on the experiences of sex workers, motherhood, intersectional feminism, death, and the afterlife.

Dawn is an artist and writer working from her home studio in Melbourne. American expatriate and newish Aussie citizen she lives with her farm-raised...

I am a Textile Artist specialising in free machine embroidery, hand stitching and mending. In my textile practice, I explore my surroundings and interpret what I see through embroidery. My work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Ute Ronacher was born is Austria migrated to Australia as a young child and attended RMIT University of Australia, receiving a Bachelor Degree in Textile Design...

From a very young age, Susan has always been very observant. Fascinated by the colours and patterns of nature, especially the minute ones, like the subtle variances of colour and the tracery on the wings of ...

Born in Germany, Sue spent her formative years travelling widely before finally immigrating to Australia in the early 70’s.

After discovering Art throughout her travels and cementing her interest during Art studies at school,..

From a very young age Ebony Balaz has been a maker of things, a tinkerer, a creator. Some of her earliest memories are associated with the results of her crafty endeavours. From sewing to painting...

Education: Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography), La Trobe University, Bendigo.
has conducted ‘writing your life’ workshops and floral brooch-making workshops.
As well she has mentored young visual artists for local community groups.

Sally is a multi–disciplinary artist, working with collage, drawing, painting, stitch, and print to create artwork in several formats including artist books and framed works.

Sally’s work explores place and the relationship that we have with place. She particularly enjoys exploring new places, observing both the natural and the built environment.

JB Knibbs is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne. Knibbs’s practice spans photography, sculpture, installation, scale miniatures, and textile works, underpinned by her background in lighting design for live performance.

I am a Melbourne based artist who aims to tread as lightly as I possibly can on our beautiful planet. I’ve been painting and drawing ever since I can remember, coming from a family of artists and creatives, and ...

CJ is a queer trans non-binary artist whose artworks focus on organic shapes and textures. They seek to de-gender embroidery, whilst honouring its perception as feminine work. He uses mostly second-hand materials to depict nature and abstracted depictions of the body. Their work has been exhibited at Brunswick Street Gallery, the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, forty-five downstairs gallery, as well as published in journals such as Baby Teeth and Antithesis. They aim to challenge our perceptions of bodies, in a cis-heteronormative patriarchal world.

CJ graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Gender Studies and French at the University of Melbourne.

He lives and creates on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country.