Guest Artists

Shan Turner-Carroll is an Australian artist of Burmese descent. His practice responds to both site and situation specificity, and integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film.

Laura Jones is a painter of the natural world. Her work is well observed and deftly painted. Working primarily in the genres of still life, portraiture and landscape, Jones takes these genres and makes them new.

Rosie deacon uses easily accessible materials, what may be described as ‘everyday junk’, to create pieces that blur lines between contemporary art, craft and jewellery. Repurposing everyday materials such as synthetic eyelashes together with acrylic paint, expanding foam, jewels, glittery stickers and clay, her work is a mashup of styles, objects and meanings.

Paula do Prado works with various forms of tejido/weaving. Her practice traverses her African Bantu-Kongo, Iberian and Charrúan ancestral heritage. Her practice is indivisible from her cultural and spiritual practice, family and community relationships and the spirits and ancestral tree kin she is called to work with led by Lajau (Ombú), Jacaranda and Kapok.

Brayden has a background in prop-making and stop-motion puppet animation. Since 2010, he has worked primarily in Photoshop and Aftereffects for television motion graphics.

Gabrielle Bates works across different creative platforms to produce socially engaged works that explore how we occupy and enchant place. Her recent commissions invite communities to co-create with places using costume, songs, dance and even football.

Stella Rosa McDonald is an independent writer, artist and curator. Stella publishes regularly on contemporary art and has contributed texts to numerous exhibition catalogues, magazines and artists’ projects.

Jo Bertini’s paintings traverse well-worn landscapes in an exploration of the true nature of wilderness. Drawing from the traditions of artists on scientific and ecological survey expeditions into the most remote and inaccessible regions, Bertini celebrates her long and intimate engagement with the desert.

Antonia is a French/Australian architect and illustrator based in Sydney. She combines directing the multidisciplinary design practice, studio fable, with illustrating, designing and making beautiful books, exploring all formats from experimental zines through to picture books.

Katy B Plummer makes video, sculpture and installations. She works in the messy interface between interior and collective narrative. She looks for the moment that fervent conviction and striving either ascends to glory, or tips into bathos.

Leigh Rigozzi is an artist based in West Moonah. He makes comics,  paintings, prints, objects, books and zines. Leigh is interested in wordplay, storytelling, and visual language. His output is diverse and is a way of processing complex ideas and emotions.

Through painting, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and collage Paul Williams investigates the physical and psychological experiences of domestic and urban environments. His works are often autobiographical accumulations of gestures and marks, and the processes of layering, erasure, destruction and renewal that signify the presence of the artist and in the studio space.