Amber Hearn
Amber Hearn is a visual artist working on Dharug and Gundungurra Land, Blue Mountains, Australia. Hearn grew up in Tamworth in regional New South Wales and Papua New Guinea, where she was immersed in nature and developed a strong connection to land, and place. Her primary practice is painting but she has also worked in installation, performance, video, and virtual reality.
Exploring notions of the feminine, birth, and motherhood, along with her personal history and childhood experiences, Amber’s work explores individual yet universal experiences. Utilising the landscape both as a presentation of current place and memory, it is also a safety lens for her to investigate often painful yet beautiful narratives. Amber draws on her long-standing relationship with the bush and the natural world she has inhabited throughout her life. Being deeply interested in ancient history, ritual and particularly women, she also explores these themes through colour, form, repetition, and primal gesture.
Amber graduated from The National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) in 2014. Hearn has been exhibiting since 2012 and represented by Curatorial+Co since 2019. She has been a finalist in several major prizes including Paddington Art Prize, Glover Art Prize, Fishers Ghost Art Award, and Blacktown City Art Prize. Amber has exhibited in both solo and group shows across Australia including Caboolture Regional Art Gallery. Hearn’s work has been featured in Artist Profile, Art Almanac, Art Edit, Inside Out and Real Living.
Portrait by Tomm Hearn
Byron Kinnaird
For the past decade, Byron’s practice has engaged with landscape, skies, spirituality, iconography, and poetry. Working through an intuitive and reflective process, he creates pieces that move between personal inner explorations and shared human experiences.
Byron’s work is grounded in the natural and built environment, shaped by geology, architecture, colour, and atmosphere, while also reaching into the unseen and the imaginative, where the spiritual and the poetic intersect.
Dalin Alejandrino
Dalin Alejandrino is a self-taught artist who creates abstract artworks, each embodying a sense of wonder and beauty in nature and its forms. Her works are a dialogue between motherhood and making as she navigates life, creativity, and her inner landscape through a world of visual storytelling.
Douglas Schofield
My work approaches themes of Landscape through the lens of gardening practice. As a gardener and horticulturist, I am attuned to the changes, both dramatic and subtle, in my surrounding climate and ecosystems. Personal experiences and social narratives around gardens interlace with themes of weather and plant protagonists to (hopefully) describe a nuanced and pervasive lived experience with Nature and Landscape. The abstract paintings are gestural, textual, dug, scraped and tenderly grown; they reach toward an atmosphere of garden spaces, celebrating the detritus and mess associated with them. Through abstraction I aim to contribute non-figurative visual language, narrating a contemporary experience of being in Landscape.
Giulia Corradi
Giulia Corradi's practice utilises art as a form of self-care. Her creative process is driven by a desire to create based on instinct and impulse. Her paintings serve as abstract representations of personal moments, relationships, and life experiences.
By working through successive layers of mark-making and fluid paint stains, the artworks often become a physical manifestation of her internal catharsis.
Since becoming a mother, familiar art supplies commonly found at home, such as craft glitter, oil pastels, house paint, and rainbow coloured markers, have found their way into her studio, infusing her paintings with a sense of magic and playfulness.
Giulia alternates between the physical challenge of creating large-scale, expansive works on raw canvas, unrolled from the ceiling to the floor, and engaging in small, intimate conversations on off-cuts of wood. Her decision to work on a large or small scale is influenced by events, emotions, or her current surroundings. Born in the UK to Italian parents, Giulia Corradi has lived in Italy and is now dedicated to her art making on Dharawal Country. Giulia studied Fine Arts at the Brera Art Academy in Milan, which expanded her experimental process into the realm of painting.
James Watkins
James Watkins is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in expressionistic mixed-media paintings. Enamoured with both the potential of colour and the materiality of mark making, Watkins explores an abstracted, organic vocabulary as a means of delivering highly pigmented work– whilst entertaining themes of consciousness, painting as a means of spiritual elevation and interconnectivity within the natural world. Having lived in both Melbourne and Sydney, London, Paris, Istanbul and Mexico City over the last 15 years - he has recently returned home to Auckland, New Zealand, where he continues to pursue his studio practice.
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are artists based in Sydney. They share a conceptual practice making artwork using textiles and sound. They create audio-visual worlds for intimate experiences, wielding personal emotions of love and friendship, sincerity, and grief.
Portrait by Jake Terry
Katie Harvey
Katie Harvey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Eora/Sydney, originally from regional New South Wales. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at RMIT University, studied abroad at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and completed a Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice at MIECAT. Traversing between semi-figuration and abstraction, her paintings layer colour-field expanses with shifting gestures and representational image-making — exploring spatial tension, movement and the sensory experience of being. Harvey’s work explores how painting can hold traces of what is felt and embodied. She investigates visual metamorphosis and the subtle slippages between technique and mark-making as ways of tracing changing psychological and sensory states. Through a sensitivity to light, colour and gesture, she examines the unstable terrain between observing and sensing — where presence and absence can continually blur.
Portrait by Tomm Hearn
Madison Baird
Based on Gadigal land, Sydney, painter Madison Baird explores the emotional landscapes of our internal worlds and the reprieve we find in nature. Working across bush landscapes, figurative works, and still life, she observes how our environments shape us, and how our inner worlds, in turn, mirror and respond to these surroundings. Rooted in observation, Baird’s practice finds meaning in stillness and the quiet solitude of the landscape after dark. In their inky night time worlds, these paintings capture the calm of evening and the gentle company found in nature.
Nathan McCarthy
Nathan Andrew McCarthy is a visual artist based in Darlington, Sydney, Gadigal Country, whose practice is profoundly shaped by his childhood on the Coast of NSW, where he experienced a prolonged period of delayed English development. As a result, his work is born from intuition and varied forms of communication, including the private language he shared with his brother and his earliest communication through drawing and scribbles. This foundation in non-verbal expression informs his artistic process—an exploration of personal history using materials like oil sticks and collage to focus on ethereal figures suspended in natural landscapes, reflecting memory and the persistence of nature.
Ruby Yates
Ruby Yates (she/her) is an emerging artist originally from rural South Australia, Nukunu and Barngarla Country, Port Augusta. She is currently based on Kaurna Country, Adelaide, operating out of Switchboard Studios. Ruby holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Art and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours), graduating from the University of South Australia in 2022. Working primarily with paint, unfolding the self plays a pivotal role in her practice, exploring themes of interconnectedness, relationships, and embodiment. Often ambiguous, her work fuses abstraction and tangibility, drawing from her interest in the theory of becoming.
Will Collins
Will Collins is a multi-disciplinary artist inspired by his connection with nature. Will takes an intuitive approach creating playful narratives with recurring motifs and themes. These pictures combine impromptu techniques, figurative abstraction and portraiture, mixed with layers of patterns and sometimes naïve symbolic imagery that suggest meditative journeys and heightened states that create a sense of perspective with a visceral colour selection.