Carolyn Corletto is an emerging multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of painting, sculpture, textiles, ceramics and assemblage. Using found materials, paint, clay, thread and words she contemplates and prospects the materiality of discarded domestic and ephemeral natural objects as repositories of identity and memory.
Contact: carolynacorletto@gmail.com
Since graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Art in 2016, Janine has participated in numerous group exhibitions in South Australia and interstate, and has had four solo exhibitions; Notes to self, BMG Gallery (2019); Inhabit, Lethbridge Gallery (2021); Bedtime Stories, Praxis ARTSPACE (2021); Contain, Collective Haunt (2024). Janine has also been a finalist in several Australian art prize awards, including the 2020, 2021 and 2023 Portia Geach Memorial Award and The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2019.
Her figurative oil paintings explore visual and material culture and the female experience, using narratives that reflect on the impact of cultural anxieties. She explores woman as subject, looking at contemporary issues including themes such as desire, belonging and the search for perfection which confounds women today. Deriving inspiration from personal and collective lived experience, through a playful yet provocative aesthetic, her work is layered with symbolism and speaks the language of consumer culture.
Michelle Driver is a tapestry artist whose work delves deep into the realms of gothic aesthetics, the eerie, and the sinister.
Her artistic journey is a narrative of non- conformity, a celebration of queerness, and exploration of her early childhood trauma, all underscored by a subtle but resonate dark humour.
“Shem Fisher predominantly uses oils and mixed mediums within painting, drawing, collage modalities; they also have photography, jewelery-making and installation skills. Fisher often uses found or preloved objects and natural pigments in their work because they feel it is essential to have an enviromentally minded practice. Furthermore, they are facinated with what makes up human life, including embodiment, the present moment, identity and authenticity. Fisher often uses the term’ following my joy’ when choosing why an artwork is created, and there is a wonderous mindset they will tap into during the creative process. Many of their works come from balancing in- between social activism and metaphysical, and these are seemingly at odds; however, this is a valid respnse to the nature of living in this time and space”
Michelle is a Hong Kong born artist living on Kaurna land. Her works are a gateway to spiritual awakening and self- discovery. Her intuitive, abstract works explore the mystical and sacred in everyday life, capturing overlooked moments with playful simplicity. With 18 years as a practicing artist and a background in graphic design, Michelle employs a rich language of colour, pattern and form to convey complex messages and emplys a deep understanding of colour psychology. Beyond her mixed media artworks and vivid, wearable art, she leads intuitive Art workshops, fostering transformative healing through creative exploration
Lisa Losada graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2015 and since that time has lived and worked in the Adelaide Hills. She has a daily painting practice and works mainly in the traditional mediums of oil paint on canvas, and charcoal drawing.
Lisa has been a finalist in numerous Australian art prizes, has exhibited in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and in regional South Australia. In 2019 she was award a three month scholarship to the Arts Residency Program in Civita Castellana, Italy.
Lisa’s work engages with the emotional responses we have to physical places, the slippage between observation and experience, and how we can become embedded in those places through familiarity, observation and care. It is about slowing down and paying attention, dedicating time to the (often) overlooked details of the everyday. Lisa is particularly interested in how we engage with, and locate ourselves in place and how this can act as a locus of external autobiography.
Jessie is a multidisciplinary artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. With colour and joy at the core of her practice, she captures and creates the moments that make up our every day lives, attempting to provoke in the viewer a greater understanding and experience of ‘where we are’ and transforming the mundane into something wondrous and beautiful.
Evy graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2016 and with first class Honours in 2023. She has been a finalist in several art prizes including Lethbridge Gallery in Queensland and Gallery M in Adelaide, and has exhibited in various solo and group shows in SA and Victoria. Evy is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily across sculpture, textiles, installation and painting. Her primary artistic concerns are in creating immersive and playful experiences by applying a play-based methodology and strategy to her artmaking. Evy draws on her childhood experiences where play and resourcefulness with everyday materials contributed to shaping her identity. Having practiced as a Psychologist prior to completing her arts degree, Evy has an enduring interest in the transformative potential of art and its impact on consciousness. In all media, Evy aims to employ varying texture, bold colour and humour to activate the inner child. In installation decisions, shifts in scale, colour and spatial awareness are employed to create a sense of wonder. In applying humour and absurdity to her practice, including recent performative videos, she aims to elevate the experiential aspect of her practice.
Contact: evymosarts@gmail.com
Sonali Patel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose oeuvres are metaphorical explorations of identity and human connectivity with the natural environment. She works across diverse media including sculpture, painting, ceramics, fabric, mixed media and installation.
In 2023, Sonali presented at 6 international exhibitions including the Contemporary Art Fair in Paris; Rossocinabro Gallery and La Pigna Gallery in Rome; Galleria Azur in Berlin; Nippon Gallery in Mumbai, and Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid.
In Australia, Sonali has had 6 solo exhibitions and over 60 group exhibitions since her BVA from Adelaide College of Arts and painting studies for 5 years at the Central School of Art. Sonali has been a finalist in several art prizes including Heysen Sculpture Biennial 2022;Tatiara Art Prize, Gallery M Contemporary prize, Prospect Portrait Art Prize, Du Rietz Art Award, All Connections to Unley Prize, and winner of the ACMD Art Prize in Melbourne.
In 2024, Sonali presented paintings and sculptures at The Other Art Fair Sydney as well as Manly Art Gallery, Sydney, East Gippsland Gallery and Brunswick Street Gallery. For SALA, her paintings were projected onto Karoonda Silos.
Sonali completed a residency at Chateau Orquevaux in France, and had 2 residencies at Studio Orta in Paris with contemporary French artist Jorge Orta. She was selected for the SAHMRI 2017 residency and finalist for the Advertiser Contemporary Award.
Contact: sonalipatel@bigpond.com
Hilary Stein is an emerging artist who graduated from the Adelaide Central School of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2022. Hilary has a number of works in private collections in Adelaide and Sydney, and has exhibited in group exhibitions, including in the St Peters Gallery, the Collective Haunt, as part of Sala, 2022 and 2023 and the Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide Central School of Art, 2022. She is currently represented by Hill Smith Art Advisory Board. Hilary has developed an abstract colour practice, which is material-led and plays with an interaction between purposeful and accidental mark making. She frequently uses colours which speak of her European and South African history, and which generate feelings of tranquility and optimism. Her images refer to the ever-changing nature of people and places loved over time. In this way she creates inner landscapes, or memory-scapes, of her own.
Contact: joyoldbury1000@gmail.com Works for purchase may also be viewed at Hill Smith Art Advisory
My practice is an exploration of connections between natural and human worlds. I use multidisciplinary ways of making, to draw on ideas regarding ethics of care and affect to explore interconnections that are, at heart, mysterious and complex. I draw from the transformative qualities of cinema, and the techniques of the old master oil painters: allowing me to reflect through the lens of ‘bodis’ and ‘beings’. And thus, I ponder what will rise to the surface, and what stays closer to the bone.
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