Featured Artists
Carly Marchment
Carly Marchment (b. 1980, Macleay Valley Region) is a disabled Australian artist based in Crescent Head, NSW, whose practice sits at the intersection of emotion, identity, and lived experience. Working across painting and mixed media, Carly primarily uses oils to create deeply expressive portraiture and figurative works that feel both intimate and quietly powerful.
Rooted in her surroundings, her work explores the relationship between people and place capturing not just what we see, but what we feel. There’s a softness in her approach, but also a strength that speaks to resilience, presence, and truth.
Carly’s current body of work delves into themes of inaccessibility and discrimination within the disability community, informed by her own lived experience and mobility challenges. Through a shift toward simplicity and abstraction, her practice is evolving, stripping back form to reveal something more honest, more raw, and more human.
Her work doesn’t just ask to be viewed, it asks to be felt. It invites reflection, sparks conversation, and holds space for stories that are too often overlooked, creating moments of connection that linger long after you’ve stepped away.
Kate Teal-Spicer
Kate Teal-Spicer is a multidisciplinary creative based in Newcastle, NSW, working across art, writing, and filmmaking. Her practice is bold, vibrant, and expressive using colour, abstraction, and storytelling to explore themes of identity, community, culture, feminism, environmentalism, and activism.
Moving fluidly between mediums, Kate brings a strong visual language into everything she creates. Her work is grounded in connection to people, to place, and to the stories that shape us resulting in pieces that feel both energetic and deeply considered.
Her career spans a diverse range of projects, including solo and group exhibitions, production design for Luca Brasi’s Party Scene (2022), and art direction for the feature film Beat (2021). Her award-winning short film My Favourite Place (2019) highlights her strength in storytelling, while her recent work as a researcher on Compass (Series 38, 2024) through the NSW Createability internship reflects her growing presence in factual media.
In 2022, Kate began her PhD at the University of Newcastle, developing her documentary Diagnosis: Female. Travelling over 9,000km across NSW as a solo filmmaker, she captures the lived experiences of women navigating the healthcare system continuing her commitment to amplifying voices, challenging perspectives, and creating work that resonates beyond the surface.
Emily Rose Lloyd
mily Rose Lloyd is a proud queer Wiradjuri artist, born and raised on Awabakal and Wonnarua Country. Their practice is deeply rooted in storytelling, exploring the journeys we walk, the connections we form, and the layered emotional landscapes that shape who we are.
Through visual art, Emily creates space for stories that are often unseen or unspoken. Their work invites viewers to slow down and reflect on the human experience encouraging empathy, understanding, and honest dialogue through themes of emotion, connection, and the meaning we carry within our own journeys.
Drawing from lived experience, including navigating Borderline Personality Disorder and surviving both childhood and adult sexual assault, their practice is grounded in truth, vulnerability, and strength. Their art becomes both a form of expression and a tool for healing transforming deeply personal experiences into something shared, seen, and felt.
At its core, Emily’s work centres the importance of emotion not as something to hide, but as something to honour. Through their practice, they remind us that within our feelings lies power, resilience, and the possibility for connection and healing.
Julia Jay
Julia Jay is a freehand pen, watercolour, and gouache artist whose work is infused with wonder, play, and a touch of magic. Believing the world could always use a little more sparkle, Julia uses art as a way to reconnect people with their inner creativity and sense of joy.
Her practice is inspired by the tiny details of nature, the fairy realm, and the full spectrum of human emotion translating these into soft, expressive works that feel both whimsical and grounding.
Beyond her own creations, Julia is passionate about community and connection. Whether hosting workshops, running art jams, or sharing her work at markets, she creates welcoming spaces where people can explore, create, and simply be.
Her artworks aim to evoke feelings of calm, hope, and quiet magic like a gentle reminder that there is beauty, softness, and sparkle all around us, if we choose to see it.
Maddison Jones
Maddison Jones is an Anaiwan and Darug woman and emerging artist, born and raised in Nowra on the NSW South Coast. Her practice is deeply connected to culture, storytelling, and the relationships between people, place, and journey.
Through her work, Maddison celebrates Country, community, and the paths we walk in life reflecting themes of learning, healing, and growth. She creates space for viewers to pause, connect, and feel empowered by the stories being shared.
Inspired by the landscapes of the South Coast the ocean, bush, and surrounding environments alongside the strength of the women in her life, her art carries a strong sense of resilience, kinship, and belonging.
Centred around women, healing, and community, Maddison’s practice continues to evolve with care and intention honouring Country while creating welcoming spaces for others to reflect, connect, and grow.
Ashlee Jedrzejak
Ashlee Jedrzejak is a multidisciplinary artist based in Newcastle, whose practice explores emotion, identity, and the unseen landscapes of inner experience. Working across painting, mixed media, sculpture, and textile-based forms, her work is guided by intuition, colour, and an embodied creative process.
Her visual language is playful yet deeply felt defined by organic shapes, layered textures, circular motifs, and vibrant palettes that hold both softness and intensity. Drawn to imperfection, movement, and the in-between spaces where vulnerability and strength coexist, Ashlee’s work reflects themes of belonging, connection, and quiet resilience.
Nature subtly weaves through her practice in form, rhythm, and material mirroring cycles of growth, rupture, and renewal. Through layering, mark-making, and tactile experimentation, she creates works that feel both intimate and expansive, inviting a sensory and emotional response.
At its core, Ashlee’s practice is an act of remembering a return to instinct, colour, and creative freedom. Each piece becomes a conversation between inner world and outer expression, offering space to reflect, feel, and reconnect.
Seong Gurung-Hannouf
Seong Gurung-Hannouf is a non-binary artist originally from Dhangadhi, Nepal, a serene village nestled at the foothills of the Himalayas. Now based on Awabakal Country in Newcastle, their practice reflects a rich blend of cultural heritage and a deep connection to their new home.
Working primarily with watercolour and ink, Seong captures the sweeping landscapes and coastal beauty of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. Their work balances intricate detail with striking colour, offering a perspective that feels both personal and expansive.
Each piece becomes a reflection of journey exploring themes of belonging, identity, and connection. Through their evolving practice, Seong weaves together past and present, place and memory, creating works that speak to the experience of finding home across cultures and landscapes.
Callam Lindfield
Callam Lindfield is a Newcastle-based artist balancing life as a dad, a publican, and a painter. Creating in small, often limited windows of time, his practice is shaped by the reality of making art when and where he can.
His work is raw and direct built through bold marks, repeated faces, and layered forms. There’s an immediacy to the way he paints, letting instinct lead and leaving space for things to feel unresolved.
Working across surfaces both in studio and out in the world, Callam’s pieces carry a street-informed energy, expressive, unpolished, and honest.
At its core, his practice is about showing up and making something, even when time is tight.
Fiona Tsang
Fiona Tsang is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She has written a Masters thesis on graphic novels. In 2019 she was awarded the Illustrators Australia Best Traditional Art prize. She both takes client commissions and works on her own projects as writer/artist; her current focus is Swing Time!, a 1920s version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. A proud member of the queer community, telling LGBTQIA+ narratives is a high priority for her. Her secondary job as a live-in pet-sitter means she gets to do her two favourite things all day, often simultaneously: hang out with cute dogs and draw stories.
Hollie Kent | Authete
Hollie is a Newcastle-based artist working on Wonnarua land, specialising in small-batch, experimental ceramics. Her practice centres on the idea that everyday objects hold the greatest potential to shape our experiences.
Guided by a philosophy that the mundane deserves just as much attention as the extraordinary, Hollie elevates common forms through thoughtful design and artistic intervention.
Her work invites a shift in perspective encouraging us to find value, beauty, and intention in the objects we use every day.
Aria Amoré Middlemost
Aria Amoré is a 20-year-old emerging artist working across a range of mediums including oil painting, sculpture, textiles, songwriting, and poetry. Their practice is driven by experimentation, moving fluidly between forms to explore different ways of expressing ideas and emotion.
Drawn to surrealism and abstraction, Aria’s work reflects a curiosity for both material and meaning blending visual and written elements to create pieces that feel layered and personal.
At the core of their practice is a desire to explore, push boundaries, and evolve embracing process as much as outcome while continuing to shape their voice as an artist.
Georgia Jane Byrnes
Georgia Jane is a proud Gomeroi Yinarr artist working primarily with acrylic on canvas. Her practice is vibrant and contemporary, grounded in her connection to Country, family, and culture.
Through bold colour and pattern, Georgia uses art as a form of communication a way to express, explore, and connect. Her work reflects both personal and cultural narratives, carrying a strong sense of identity and belonging.
Currently in her final year studying Social Work, Georgia is passionate about the intersection of art and healing. She sees creative practice as a powerful tool for expression, wellbeing, and social change with ambitions to merge her art practice with her work in community.
Recognised as a young leader, Georgia is committed to empowering younger generations through culture and creativity. Her work aims to increase the visibility of emerging Aboriginal artists while creating space for connection, storytelling, and strength through a contemporary lens.
Elloise Ansell
Elloise Ansell is an emerging artist working on Awabakal and Worimi Country. Her practice centres on the use of rich, expressive colour to explore emotion, sensitivity, and inner experience.
Through her work, Elloise connects with the vibrancy of feeling, using colour as a language to reflect the nuances of relationships, self-perception, and the emotional world.
There is a sense of playfulness within her practice, inviting quiet contemplation and encouraging viewers to consider the brightness and complexity of their own inner landscapes.
Shân Primrose
Shân Primrose is a Burmese-Australian artist and designer whose practice spans painting, drawing, and contemporary visual culture. Their work explores themes of identity, belonging, and cultural navigation reflecting the experience of moving between places, communities, and perspectives.
Blending bold visual language with a sense of play and narrative, Shân’s work carries both immediacy and depth. Their practice sits at the intersection of fine art and design, allowing ideas to move fluidly across mediums while remaining grounded in personal and cultural storytelling.
With a growing presence both locally and internationally, Shân has presented solo exhibitions and undertaken residencies abroad, alongside collaborations with major brands. This breadth of practice speaks to a dynamic and evolving creative voice that continues to expand across contexts.
At its core, their work invites reflection on identity and connection creating space for conversations around culture, place, and the complexities of belonging in a contemporary world.
Wayde Clarke | Alejandro Lauren
Wayde Clarke, also known as Alejandro Lauren, is a queer Aboriginal artist whose practice explores emotion, identity, and the human experience through bold colour, shape, and storytelling. Based in Newcastle, his work reflects a deeply personal journey one that embraces both vulnerability and celebration.
Working across painting, design, and wearable art, Wayde creates pieces that are vibrant, expressive, and emotionally driven. His work often draws on memory, feeling, and connection translating life’s complexities into visual forms that invite reflection, healing, and joy.
At the heart of his practice is a desire to help people reconnect with themselves. Through colour, symbolism, and intuitive mark making, he creates space for audiences to see their own stories, emotions, and experiences reflected back at them.
As Alejandro Lauren, Wayde steps fully into a bold, unapologetic expression of self celebrating individuality, queerness, and the freedom to exist authentically. His work is a reminder that within both softness and strength, there is power, beauty, and the ability to transform.
Eden Hobbs
Eden Hobbs is a queer artist living and working on Dharawal Land. Her recent work explores themes of feminine confidence, identity, and the patterns that shape our relationships questioning how and where lesbian identity exists within a male-centric world.
Through her practice, Eden challenges expectations of what it means to be a woman, rejecting fixed definitions and embracing fluidity, strength, and self-determination. Her work holds both confrontation and empowerment, inviting viewers to reconsider the spaces they occupy.
At its core, her practice is a call to take up space, physically, spiritually, sexually, and creatively. Eden encourages her audience to step fully into themselves, unapologetically and without limitation.
