Clare Rae is an artist and educator from Naarm/Melbourne. In her photographic practice Clare explores gesture, space and architecture to examine structures of power and their impacts on the body. She has been making and exhibiting artwork in Australia and abroad for over 15 years, and her work is held in major collections including the NGV, Artbank, RMIT and Monash University Art collections.

Lauren Cameron is a ceramic-based artist working on the land of Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is centered around the themes of trauma, assault, and petty emotions. Using clay and glaze, she embarks on an artistic adventure to showcase these feelings and experiences.

Lauren's art is a deeply personal and evocative exploration of her inner world, reflecting the complexities of her emotional landscape. Through her ceramics, she seeks to express the raw and often unspoken aspects of human experience, translating them into tangible forms that invite viewers to engage with their own emotions.

Her pieces often feature intricate designs and textures, which serve to highlight the delicate balance between fragility and resilience. By manipulating the clay, Lauren captures the essence of vulnerability and strength, creating works that resonate on both a personal and universal level.

In addition to her thematic focus, Lauren is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of traditional ceramics. She experiments with various techniques and materials, continually evolving her practice to incorporate new elements and ideas. This innovative approach not only enhances the visual impact of her work but also deepens its emotional resonance.

Through her art, Lauren Cameron aims to foster a greater understanding and empathy for those who have experienced trauma and assault, offering a space for reflection and healing.

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Fergus Berney-Gibson is an artist and writer based on Gadigal land whose practice explores fraternal historiography through a queer lens. Berney-Gibson addresses the politics of bodies coming together, case studied through an analysis of gendered behaviour and ritual. In his photo-sculptural practice, Berney-Gibson deconstructs and queers narrative forms - bildungsroman, gossip, and scripture - to propose alternative frameworks for connection. He combines found leathers, textiles, tools and domestic objects with fragmented photo-documentation reminiscent of film stills. These accumulated fragments form an alternative archive of fraternal interaction - one that privileges touch, experience, and non-hierarchical historiographies.

Berney-Gibson holds a BFA in Printmaking from the National Art School (2020) and a Graduate Certificate in Art Curation from the University of Sydney (2022). Most recently, Berney-Gibson was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Macquarie Emerging Artist Prize and awarded the 2024/25 Mark Henry Cain Memorial Travel Scholarship. He is due to complete his MFA at the National Art School in 2025.

Zoë Prineas is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice draws on her formative experience of identical twinship. The instinctive “double take” between recognition and estrangement underpins her engagement with material culture, where tensions between beauty and horror, the sensual and industrial, and the animate and inanimate unfold. In her work, the domestic sphere becomes a charged site where the familiar slips into the uncanny.

Working across printmaking, sculpture, installation, drawing, and airbrushing, Zoë reconfigures everyday objects through acts of creative deviation, distorting scale, material, and function. Domestic technologies become bodily surrogates: a dishwasher interior becomes a technological womb; velvet-wrapped dumbbells pulse with libidinal energy; car headlights glare as menacing eyes; and vacuum cleaners swell into anthropomorphic forms. Objects become technological doppelgängers, revealing the uneasy convergence of intimacy, estrangement, and surveillance.

Zoë holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and is completing her Master of Fine Arts at the National Art School, Sydney, where she received the Bird Holcomb MFA Scholarship.

Infatuated with colour and craft, Emmica Lore creates from a place somewhere between sincerity and irony. She is based in Naarm/Melbourne, living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Emmica's practice plays with ideas of disobedience, status and containment. Her sculptures use kitsch and absurdism to poke fun at systems that govern behaviour and taste. Emmica's work looks at the arbitrary nature of status and the ways society assigns (and then reassigns) value to objects, behaviours and symbols. She's also super into shiny things.

At the core of Emma Lyn Winkler’s practice is the question of how to deal with death as the ultimate, inevitable unknown. Emma is a Naarm-based artist who explores anxiety, failure and the absurd, drawing on experiences of mental health conditions and encounters with death. Using a personal yet playful methodology, Emma’s practice finds intersections of collage, painting and animation to create multi-media works. Through intricate paintings, layering a network of imagery, and slapstick animations with visceral textures and messy ends, Emma encourages viewers to laugh in the face of death, or at least have a conversation about it.

Emma Pinsent is an artist living and working on Gadigal-Bidjigal land in so-called Australia. Her artistic research utilises sculpture and installation methods to examine the porous material afterlives of specific locations and spaces, focusing on post-consumer materials and their relationship to ecology, industries of extraction, property, colonisation, and the built environment. Her process is guided by fieldwork, walking, archival research, and material experimentation, shaping her poetic, site-responsive installations. In 2019, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW: Art & Design, and in 2022 began a PhD (Art & Design) at the same institution, supported by the Australian Government RTP Scholarship. She has presented in group, duo, and solo exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Tasmania at publicly funded ARI spaces and a commercial gallery. She has been a finalist in several awards.

Nat Penney (b.1991) is an artist based in Tarntanya (Adelaide). Combining processes from timber furniture making and metal fabrication with found and formed objects, she makes sculptures in motion. She’s driven by an obsession and confusion over psychological states and their reciprocal exchange with our relationships, environments, and the objects we engage with. She considers the shifting nature of our surroundings and the subtle ways these rapid changes affect focus, perception, and emotional response. Recent works are drawing from experiences of loneliness and how they are shaped not only by absence, but by conditional presence. Looking into the atmosphere of familial domesticity she searches for pleasing points of interconnectedness between the familiar and the unknown; for absurdist moments that engage themselves through futile motion and maybe make you smirk.

Penney graduated from Adelaide College of the Arts with first class honours in 2017 and received the Feltspace emerging artist award. Recent exhibitions include ‘Reflections of Home’ at Rotterdam Design Biennale, NLD (2025), ‘a winter beach is a good place for seeing clearly’ at Newmarch Gallery, SA (2024), ‘making beds inside post anchors’ at Post Office Projects, SA (2024), ‘HEAVY// lite’ at Praxis ARTSPACE, SA (2024) and ‘Limits and Leavings’ at Bus Projects, VIC (2022). In 2018, Nat undertook residencies at Sanskriti Kendra Museums, India and George Street Studios, Australia. Nat was selected by Jam Factory (SA) as a 2023 Furniture Associate and is currently co-director of fab workshop (previously George Street Studios).

Lily Holmes is an artist and storyteller. Her practice involves introspection, imaginative play, and sensory exploration. Lily seeks to share memory, emotion, and fragments of her inner world by depicting inexplicit narratives in her work. Lily graduated from RMIT University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) and in 2024 completed Honours at Victorian College of the Arts.