Coco Jones is an emerging multidisciplinary artist currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts Sculpture at RMIT University. Coco’s works are predominantly formed by her own lived experiences with chronic illnesses, mental health, and identity. She often engages in various sculpture practices as well as performance and sound. Throughout her art, there are often recurring themes of resilience and rebuilding oneself. Coco’s works are always highly symbolic and provide insight into her identity. She aims for her artwork to be a voice for not only herself, but for individuals with similar lived experiences and struggles.

Emmica Lore is a Melbourne based sculpture artist exploring the human condition through humour and whimsy. Within her work, we see a love/hate relationship with existentialism as well as a knack for storytelling. Emmica is an avid op-shopper with the perfect excuse for hoarding weird stuff! Her assortment of treasures (think tiny toys, plastic dolls and compact mirrors) provide a creative jolt for her artistic processes.

Jiaxin (Lala) Shi is an emerging artist fascinated by the various aspects of installation art.

Their practice involves exploring the space around us, interweaving the unseen and the exposed to bring a sense of quiet awe and discovery to those who encounter their work. Some aspects of this exploration include a setting of boundaries, hidden rules, the scattering of remnants and the desire to archive/preserve.

Another significant influence on their artwork is a desire to delve into their own identity and rediscover Chinese culture. This can be seen throughout all their creations.

Monique (Niqi) is a visual artist living, studying, and practicing in Naarm. Her works expand from spatial compositions and assemblages as well as conceptual art. Their work is motivated by the intricacies of young adulthood, as well as personal introspection and the understanding of human nature. For Monique, her practice is a means of therapy, a visual communication of ideas and concepts experimented in physical sculptures. Additionally, these deep conceptual ideas are expressed through hard and soft materials such as metal and fabric, or through reclaimed materials; as well as a newfound interest in the expansion of sound art and performance in her practice.

Pug is a multi-disciplinary artist working out of Naarm (Melbourne). His extended practice is an exploration of the human experience, drawing inspiration from folk art, ancient cultures, myth, metal and punk subculture, theosophy, materiality and material agency.

Sophia Liddy works with a range of mediums including found and discarded objects to create semi-abstracted conceptual pieces.

Sophia’s work is focused on patterns within patterns. She sees these connective patterns as essential to life, underpinning everything from the structure of a leaf to fashion trends, construction, relationships and social change.

She is drawn to the powerful elements of fractals, including their healing, connective and structural properties. Her work aims to highlight the beauty of all forms of nature, planetary health and speciesism.

Tara Sandie is a multidisciplinary artist with Tourette’s from Naarm, Melbourne. Her practice aims to inspire curiosity in the public through subjects of phenomenology, nature and identity. Tara is constantly asking the question; “How can our personal experiences also be a means to reconnect us to a sense of oneness?”

Born in 2001 to an Italian mother and English father, Tara was raised being taught to sew, garden and cook by her ancestors on both sides. The days spent with family over tactile rituals became the core of her practice, enjoying anything she can manipulate with her hands and build a sense of community over.

Yvonne Rambeau is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm. Through intuitive yet intentional material experimentation, Yvonne’s practice explores the contrast between Hard/Soft – that is, the difference that opposes the strong and the delicate, the violent and the tender, the attack and the embrace, the revolting and the beautiful, the depraved and the pure… Her body of work articulates an attempt at allowing these contrary conditions to exist in a harmonious state.

Eva Mikelin is a Naarm/ Melbourne based artist and maker. Her works are primarily sculpture and textile based, developing works through a materially driven iterative process. Creating works in series and making intuitively, allowing material agency to determine the conceptual qualities that emerge. Her practice explores femininity, social rituals, identity and domesticity through traditionally feminine crafts. Emphasising personal history in accumulative archival collections and objects. Eva’s art practice is interwoven with broader sewing, knitting and making practices.

Anjali Hunter’s works often explore the monotony of the human experience while connecting this to spirituality and religion. She observes urban environments and closely watches the people around her. Yes, she’s aware that this is creepy. She doesn’t know who they are, where they are from or what they believe in.

She likes to observe in the evenings and notices the worn looks of people wearing similar dreary business clothes. They all blur together. Are they happy? They don’t look happy. But what does she know, she’s just a broke artist. Maybe that’s why she makes these artworks.

Jealousy.