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Carla Adams is a contemporary artist living and working in Perth. She is a multi-disciplinary artist, who works across sculpture, textiles, painting, drawing, and book-making.

She received a First Class Honours from Curtin University and her work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of WA, Bus Projects (Melbourne), ARTBAR at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Verge Gallery (Sydney) and Blindside (Melbourne). Adams’ work was selected for the prestigious 2023 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of SA.

Adams’ work has been featured on the ABC, in Frankie, Yen and Vice Magazines, along with being a confident public speaker who has  spoken on many panels nationwide.

Her work is held in public collections such as the  Art Gallery of WA, Curtin University, Murdoch University, Cruther’s Collection of Women’s Art, City of Bunbury and City of Fremantle.

She is currently represented by Aster + Asha Gallery.

Emma Buswell is an artist, curator and writer fascinated with systems of government, economies and culture, particularly in relation to constructs of place, identity and community. Her current work takes its inspiration from the matrilineal hand craft and knitting techniques passed down from her grandmother and mother, as well as a contemplative investigation into the nature of kitsch, ephemera, labour, national identities and class politics.

Interested in storytelling, local mythologies as well as grand narratives, Buswell often draws upon oral histories and ancient stories in collaboration with local touchpoints as an attempt to
contextualize and understand the present. Found images and references are collaged and often overlaid with text, and then reinterpreted through stitch. Predominantly using intricate craft
techniques such as knitting, beading and crochet, her work collapses the space between kitsch and cultural expression, drawing on current day political climates as well as art history to talk to personal and collective identities. The meticulous nature of these labour-intensive processes is a deliberate act, underscoring the often overlooked gendered nature to cultural production.

Born on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land in Perth, Western Australia, Buswell has an expansive practice working in object making, writing, and arts working. Her most recent work The Pool was featured in the exhibition Codes in Parallel for the Indian Ocean Craft Triennal at John Curtin Gallery in 2024. In 2023, she was a finalist in the prestigious Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia and in that same year was featured as part of the 2023 Australian Fashion Week in a showcase of Australian designers showing at Carriageworks. In 2022, she was selected for the Churchie Art Prize at the IMA in Brisbane where she was awarded the Highly Commended Award and was the winner of the 2022 Joondalup Art Prize. That same year she was selected as the TILT artist at Goolugatup, Heathcote, a program which supports a local artist to respond to Goolugatup’s historic collection of objects which remain from the buildings previous function as an asylum. In 2021, she was also commissioned to develop a new major work responding to local
histories in Perth for Love in Bright Landscapes curated by Annika Kristensen at PICA later that year. In 2020, her work was the focus of a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia where her work was shown in relation to work from the collection.

Image: Emma Buswell, courtesy of artist.

Jacky Cheng was born in Malaysia of Chinese heritage and currently resides in Yawuru Country, Broome, WA. Cheng weaves narratives and materials drawn from her familial and cultural experiences, and maps these to the esoteric and social constructs of her physical environment and its collective surroundings. Deeply rooted in her own bi-cultural experience, a focus of her work is an emergence of identity and awareness through cultural activities, nostalgia and intergenerational relationships. Her predominant choice of medium reflects an intense relationship through methodologies and manipulation of papers and fibres in sculpture and installation.

Cheng’s work was exhibited in the National Art School (2025), IOTA (2024) at Fremantle Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (2023), The Geumgang Nature Art Biennale in South Korea (2020) and recipient of numerous awards.

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Image: Jacky Cheng, portrait, 2024 © the artist. Photograph: Michael Jalaru Torres

Jennifer Cochrane lives and works in Perth, WA. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Curtin University in 1988, majoring in sculpture. She has been a full-time practicing artist for the last 20+ years and has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, including large-scale permanent works and intimate site-responsive installations.

Cochrane works across a variety of mediums in her sculptural forms including, but not limited to, steel, wood, galvanised pipe and fittings. In recent years, she has completed ephemeral site-responsive tape works using vinyl and cloth tapes. She manages a studio and workshop at her home in Maylands.

Her works are represented in various private and public collections. Permanent public works include Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail (Tumbarumba, NSW), Victoria House (Shenton Park), Parliament House WA, Council Chambers City of Mandurah, Anzac Park (Town of Vincent), Karratha Police station and Community Justice Services and Harvest Lakes Estate (Perth). Most recent prizes and awards include second prize Claremont Art Awards, the Helen Lempriere Scholarship 2024, winner of the York Botanic Art Award 2023, the site-specific award at University of Western Sydney Sculpture Prize 2021 and highly commended at the City of Stirling Art awards (2022) and Sculpture at Scenicworld (2019).

Jennifer Cochrane is currently represented by Art Collective WA.

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Image: Jennifer Cochrane, Impossible Shadow #1, photograph: J.Cochrane

Born in Kinjarling Albany, Erin Coates lives and works in Boorloo Perth and creates drawings, sculptures and films. Her practice examines our relationship with the natural world, physical thresholds and the essence of transformed bodies – both human and non-human. She has a background in climbing and freediving, and draws on these disciplines in her work. Coates’ artworks are shown in both galleries and film festivals, in Australia and abroad.

Key exhibitions include: rīvus: 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), The View From Here Art Gallery of Western Australia (2021), Adelaide Biennial: Monster Theatres at the Art Gallery of South Australia (2020), Videobrasil – 21st Contemporary Art Biennial | Imagined Communities, São Paulo, Brasil (2019), Driving to the Ends of the Earth Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan (2018), The National: New Australian Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2017). Coates has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Erin Coates is represented by Moore Contemporary.

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Photography by Natasja Kremer

Tarryn Gill is a Boorloo / Perth, Western Australian based multidisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, photography, video, drawing, theatre design and performance.
Through her solo and collaborative practices, she has exhibited works and undertaken residency projects across Australia, in Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Through art making Tarryn seeks to create work that explores psychoanalytic ideas, bridging the conscious and unconscious, the personal and collective, the contemporary and ancient. Her theatrical aesthetics, materials and processes are informed by her 20 year background in dance and competitive calisthenics. She draws on these influences in her work as a way to assert the value of the feminine, the personal & the intuitive.

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Image: Tarryn Gill, 2023, Limber (Self portrait in relief), 90 x 65 cm, Textiles on board. Photograph by Tarryn Gill. Represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Amy Perejuan-Capone is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in design, ecology and aviation. She works between Fremantle, the WA wheatbelt, and international residencies.

Amy graduated with a BA (Fine Art) from Curtin University in 2009 and an Advanced Diploma of Industrial Design from North Metropolitan TAFE in 2014. Her major residencies include the prestigious Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park (2019), and the Asialink
Fremantle – Taipei Artist Village exchange in 2020.

Her work takes a speculative approach; transforming processes and phenomena such as weather, flight, or public services along with personally significant elements such as memory, family, and class into critical installation-based scenarios.

In 2021-2023 Amy participated in SPACED: Know Thy Neighbour 3, an immersive collaborative project with the community of the City of Melville. Also in 2023, Amy was a finalist in the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia with initial work from her multi-year Defendo project. Defendo was exhibited as part of Perth Festival 2024.

These latest projects have seen Amy collaborate with her father and delve into family history to investigate wider anxieties over ecological and social/cultural uncertainty by strengthening inter-generational communication. Her projects each seek to gain and apply skills; from ceramics, engineering, and textiles, to public engagement, atmospheric manipulation, and architectural.

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Image: Self portrait. Image courtesy of the artist.

Monique Tippett is a full-time artist, living and working in Dwellingup, Western Australia. Having trained as a designer-maker of fine furniture at the Australian School of Fine Wood, Tippett has 25 years of experience working with wood, and has developed a unique body of work consisting of wood sculptures and 3D wall installations that reflect her profound connection to the natural environment.

Tippett’s award-winning pieces highlight the beauty and fragility of Southwest WA’s landscapes and have been exhibited both locally and internationally, including Holmes à Court Collection, Edith Cowan University and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum (Japan).

In 2018, she founded Lost Eden Creative, an initiative that has supported over 300 artists through exhibitions and mentorship, fostering a vibrant artistic community. Tippett served as the West Australian Parliamentary Artist in Residence in 2019 and was honoured with the WA Regional Artist Fellowship Grant in 2020. Her recent retrospective exhibition at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery showcased works from 2009 to 2022, alongside pieces by the late Howard Taylor from the WA State Collection.

Residencies play a crucial role in her practice, allowing her to explore new ideas and techniques at places such as The Banff Centre in Canada, Nocefresca in Sardinia, and The Edinburgh Sculpture Centre in Scotland. Tippett remains dedicated to nurturing artistic communities while engaging deeply with nature through her evocative work.

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Image: Monique with Marked, self portrait. Image courtesy of the artist.

Emily Wilde is an Australian painter, writer and materials researcher, living and practising on Whadjuk Noongar country in Western Australia.

Wilde has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, majoring in Painting. She is an independent artist and researcher working from her studio in Fremantle. Her research interest investigates how the human body interacts with sound, light, materials and space; of people’s sensory response to art and how art can contribute to wellbeing and human health.

Wilde transitioned from her career in architecture to pursue her passion for fine art, driven by a vision to create an innovative semi-translucent sound space. Architecture still informs her fine arts practice, in particular painting with aspects of mark-making, line,
space, form; also contemplating the body and the material, incorporating material installation works, and most of all her sound-material project – the resonosphere, a sensory space for people’s wellbeing.

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Image: E.Wilde, Artist. Photography: Bo Wong.