Aimie Whiting is a hands-on artist with a background in Industrial Design—Though her true passion lies in creating one-of-a-kind metal sculptures that transform hard steel into forms that feel unexpectedly soft, fluid, and full of movement. Recently she has also turned back to the potting wheel, where steel is structured and restrained, her clay works offer a playground of colour, texture, and painterly expression. Today, both mediums coexist in her studio and will be on show at this year’s fair.

WEBSITE - allthingswhiting.com

INSTAGRAM - @allthingswhiting

Anjana is a Melbourne based palette knife artist. Being a nature lover, Anjana Rai’s art pays appreciation to the organic world of florals and landscapes. Exploring these subjects in tones and textures, her work illuminates the diversity, integrity and complexity of the natural environment. While majority of her pieces begin as remembered scenes, sights and scapes, her imagination eagerly offers its own insertion, resulting in highly personalised, deeply sincere depictions of nature. Employing the impasto technique, allows Anjana Rai to create dimensional, tactile works. This approach ensures an element of free-form and steers away from rigid fixation on fine details. With the utilisation of a palette knife to execute the style, and minimal to no brushwork applied, pieces venture into abstract terrain and become intricately messy by consequence. Anjana’s art can be found in private collections in Australia and India.

WEBSITE - anjanaarts.com

INSTAGRAM - @anjana_rai_arts

Alpana Rai is a Point Cook-based visual artist known for her expressive abstract landscapes inspired by the Australian environment. Working primarily with acrylic and mixed media—including pastels, charcoal, and oil sticks—her practice explores the emotional connection between memory, place, and atmosphere. Her works are intuitive and layered, capturing fleeting moments in nature through movement, texture, and colour. Rather than depicting specific locations, Alpana creates immersive landscapes that invite viewers to experience a sense of familiarity, reflection, and personal interpretation. Since 2019, her work has been exhibited across Australia and internationally, and is held in private collections in both Australia and Around the world.

WEBSITE - alpanaraiarts.com

INSTAGRAM - @alpanaraiarts

Ben is an artist based in Altona working primarily in oil on canvas. His recent paintings focus on the deep forest interior, exploring the experience of being within the landscape rather than observing it from a distance. Through filtered light, layered forms, and compressed space, his work develops through close observation and sustained attention. His paintings reflect a quiet, contemplative engagement with place and perception.

WEBSITE - benliney.art

INSTAGRAM - @benliney

Candy Ng is a Melbourne-based artist who paints still life. Her work finds beauty in ordinary things, bowls, fabric, light through a window, the kind of moments that pass before you think to notice them. There's a quietness to her paintings that feels deliberate. She's interested in memory, in ritual, in what everyday objects carry without saying a word. This year Candy will be bringing a body of work reflecting her time in a Japan artists residency.

WEBSITE - candyngart.com

INSTAGRAM -@candyngart

Cathy Mackay Through the interplay of colour, texture, and experimentation, my artistic journey unfolds. A deep-seated passion for paint and exploration propels my creativity. Drawing inspiration from my familial and environmental surroundings, my recent artistic endeavours delve into the intersection of domestic spaces and the natural world, pondering our capacity to thrive in symbiosis. My aim is to cast a spotlight on the beauty of nature and advocate for a sustainable tomorrow.

WEBSITE - catherinemackayartist.com

INSTAGRAM - @artizzons

Carmel Cosgrove is a Yarraville based artist exploring the cultural, environmental and industrial histories of Melbourne’s western suburbs. Working across photography, mixed media and installation, she examines how landscapes hold memory, focusing on sites like Stony Creek Backwash where shifting ecologies reveal ongoing change.

WEBSITE - carmelcosgrove.com

INSTAGRAM - @cosgrovecarmel

Chara is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist whose practice explores the contemplative potential of colour, rhythm, and repetition through acrylic painting. Working with layered fields and measured mark-making, Meredith focuses on the connections between observation, process, and calm attention, creating paintings that invite slow looking and a quiet sense of pause.

WEBSITE - charameredith.com

INSTAGRAM - @chara_em

Charlotte is a British-born, Melbourne based wood artist. Stepping into a workshop for fine furniture classes in 2023 was instant love for her. She explored many woodworking fields before ultimately choosing to specialise in wood turning and carving. She is dedicated to creating unique wooden homewares & sculpture. Her passion lies in transforming wood into beautiful, functional pieces that tell a story of sustainability and artistry. Each piece is lovingly crafted in her home studio in Melbourne, using both seasoned and green wood. Every creation is unique, emphasising the beauty of the grain and natural features of the timber.

WEBSITE -charlottelitteck.com

INSTAGRAM - @charlotte_litteck

Christine presents a distinctive perspective on the Australian landscape. By layering light, colour and texture, she blurs the line between photography and painterly abstraction. Her compositions draw on design-led observations of pattern and form to create altered landscapes rooted in memory. An award-winning self-taught photographic artist, her work is collected locally and globally and was recently included in a group exhibition at Australian Galleries.

WEBSITE: christinegoerner.com

INSTAGRAM - @christine_goerner

Claire is a Melbourne based, semi-abstract, whimsical artist. Her immersive work is characterised by layered, bold colour and simplified, almost naïve botanicals which she uses as subject matter. An intuitive artist, Claire’s works are joyful, and abundant, using nature as the vehicle for emotional connection. Known for her still life pieces and landscapes, she incorporates a sense of movement, humour and abundance within her work. She finds that cosy spot, that feeling of freedom and coming home in her paintings and this is the gift she invites the audience to experience.

INSTAGRAM - @chockycc

Damien is an Australian wood artist creating sculptural bowls and vessels that celebrate the natural beauty of imperfect timber. Working under McNamara Woodcrafts, he transforms reclaimed and locally, ethically sourced wood into refined pieces that highlight grain, texture, and the quiet stories held within each fragment. His ongoing collection, Adurere, explores resilience and the art of embracing nature’s fractures through charring and copper stitching to find the beauty in the imperfections.

WEBSITE - mcwoodcrafts.com.au

INSTAGRAM - @mc.woodcrafts

David is a Naarm-based mural and studio artist whose 17-year career celebrates transformation, identity, and self-expression through bold, beautifully rendered imagery.  Best known for his large-scale public works across Naarm-Melbourne and Victoria, Pereira’s practice bridges the monumental and the intimate - translating fine-art detail and photorealism into captivating public gestures. From immense and highly visible silo works in Kaniva and Merriwa on the Australian Silo Art Trail, to important commissions for fashion labels like Gucci Australia and Adidas, Pereira has built a name for himself as one of Australia’s most respected mural artists, equally comfortable working in community and commercial contexts. His work has featured in major institutions and cultural events including the NGV International in Melbourne, the Teufelsberg Street Art Museum in Berlin, and the “Street Art Cities” project in London’s iconic Brick Lane. 

WEBSITE - davidleepereira.com

INSTAGRAM - @davidleepereira.art

Elena Kolotusha is a visual artist from Melbourne, best known for her super-realistic still lifes and animal studies. Since arriving in Australia in 1998 from Kazakhstan (Former Soviet Union), Elena has taken part in many group shows and exhibitions and over the years won numerous awards and commendations, including international prizes. Elena works in various media including oil/acrylic‚ colour pencils/mixed media and scratchboard engravings. Her favourite genres are whimsical animal and bird paintings, and observational still life drawings with a hint of quirkiness and symbolism.

WEBSITE - elenakolotusha.com

INSTAGRAM - @kolotushaelena

Elissa is a multidisciplinary creative and artist whose work explores the relationship between external landscapes and internal experience. Her work draws on organic forms, light and movement to express themes of growth, transition and emotional depth. Each piece functions as a contemplative space, inviting the viewer to connect with both the natural world and their own emotional terrain. It is also worth a mention - she can sing too !!

WEBSITE - graceworthcourage.com

INSTAGRAM - @elissaparsonscreative

Fran is a Modern Contemporary Artist from Melbourne Australia presenting natural everyday moments of life in an uplifting and sometimes comical manner. Fran’s artworks start in reality from lived experience and evolve on the canvas leaning in to memory and intuition. Fran invites the viewer to connect with her artwork in an uplifting way using imagination to complete the story in her work.

WEBSITE - artbyfranmax.com

INSTAGRAM - @artbyfranmax

Gary holds a fascination with discovering the essence of being. Over the past four decades, his Arts practice across painting and installation-based exhibitions has distilled various subjects to reveal their core and dynamic nature. Art is an invitation to experience the essence beyond words, to sense, and to recognise, what is known deep within us.

WEBSITE - garysmith.com

INSTAGRAM - @gary.smith.artist

Genevieve is a figurative artists based in Melbourne, Australia. She had her first solo exhibition at 19 years old in Melbourne’s Helen Bassett Gallery, and has since been recognised in local and national prizes including the Shirley Hannan Portrait prize, the Kennedy Prize and the Lester Prize. Throughout the past few years, she has spent time pursuing artistic and technical excellence at some of the world’s leading art institutions London, Sydney and Jerusalem. In recent years, her work has centered on capturing the beauty of people and objects through classical techniques, driven by her belief in the profound value of bringing beauty into the world.

WEBSITE - genevievegaddcarolan.com

INSTAGRAM - @gennygaddart

Irina is a Melbourne-based fine art photographer creating hand-arranged botanical still lifes and photographic collages inspired by Australian flora, coastal finds and native birds. Her work is layered, detailed and deeply connected to nature, with each piece designed to bring a sense of depth and atmosphere into the home. Each work is released as a limited edition and printed to museum-quality archival standards.

WEBSITE - eclecicbotanica.com

INSTAGRAM - @eclectic.botanica

Kartù Gallery is an artist-run organisation built on the belief that art should be accessible, considered and community-driven. “Kartù” means “together” in Lithuanian, and that idea shapes how we operate. Prioritising collaboration over hierarchy and focus on creating genuine opportunities for artists by working closely with artists to present strong, cohesive bodies of work. The aim is not volume, but quality and integrity. Beyond exhibitions and art fairs, Kartù operates as an active platform that supports artists across presentation, logistics, pricing strategy and audience development.

WEBSITE - kartugallery.com

INSTAGRAM - @kartu_gallery

Kate is a painter living and working in metropolitan Melbourne on the southern side of the Yarra River banks. Inspired by the way Melburnians, live their day to day lives, “from the way we work, act and occupy ourselves in this wonderful city”. The act of painting enables Kate to explore the 'look' of our city though a process that starts from small location based sketches though to more developed pieces in which she uses oil paints on canvas to develop the various facets of that which was seen. Continually motivated to think about line, shape, colour and weight in her paintings in order to keep the vibrancy of both the paint and the paintings alive - and very Melbourne.

WEBSITE - katebirrell.com

INSTAGRAM - @lookatmelbourne

Kate is a Sydney based artist with a background in Archaeology and Film. Her work is shaped by a lifelong connection to Australia’s native wildlife and inspired by moments in time that reflect her affinity of place and memory. Kate’s work provides a glimpse of our wildlife’s character, and shows what moments you could see if you look closer – like a pair a birds tucked in close after a storm, or a chameleon melting into the colours of the canopy. Working in acrylic paint as she believes it best captures the vibrancy and tones of the Australian landscape.

WEBSITE - katedavisfinearts.com

INSTAGRAM - @katedavisartist

Kerrie Jacobs is a contemporary mixed media artist based on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, where coastal living and everyday rituals inform her expressive, textural works. Her practice has evolved into a distinctive visual language that blends abstraction with storytelling, exploring themes of connection, celebration, and the beauty found in the everyday. Working with acrylic, collage, and layered materials, Kerrie creates tactile compositions that invite both visual and emotional engagement. Florals, tablescapes, and coastal elements are recurring motifs, symbolising gathering, nourishment, and an appreciation for life’s simple pleasures. Subtle text and thoughtfully considered titles often feature within her work, offering gentle prompts for reflection while allowing space for personal interpretation.

WEBSITE -kerriejacobs.com

INSTAGRAM -kerriejacobsart.bigcartel.com

Lara Tees explores light, atmosphere, and emotion through the language of landscape. Her work is shaped by a sense of searching — for belonging, for home. Working from personal reference material and recollection, her paintings are characterised by layers, textures and colour blends that evoke memory, distance, and connection. Lara’s paintings are described as atmospheric, emotional, and evocative, and her work has been shown in exhibitions and galleries across Australia.

WEBSITE- laratees.com

INSTAGRAM - @larateesart

Larissa is a ceramic sculpture artists that explores nature and an attempt to capture a moment; a bird in song or figure in conversation. Larissa brings humour to her audience by evoking a smile of recognition from a situation or memory witnessed. Colour is an important element in her work and brings a sense of wonder to the unique sculptural forms.

WEBSITE - laluceramics.com

INSTAGRAM -@laluceramics

Lavanya is a Footscray-based artist specialising in oil, acrylic, and watercolour landscapes inspired by the Mediterranean coast. Since 2015, her practice has evolved into a successful independent brand with over 1,000 sales globally. A seasoned participant in the Melbourne art community, she regularly exhibits at The District Docklands and Rose Street Artists' Market. Her work offers a permanent window into summer, bridging her Victorian studio and the European coast.

WEBSITE -laavarts.com

INSTAGRAM - @laavarts

Lindsay lives, works and plays in Williamstown, finding the Western Suburbs of Melbourne a rich source of inspiration, both as an architect and as an artist. In running his architectural practice Dig Design, Lindsay has an in-depth awareness of the role he plays in shaping the suburban form and as an artist he explores his interest in examining the historical footprint and evolution of the built form in Melbourne’s inner west (and beyond). Through his love of putting pen to paper, Lindsay’s hand drawn and meticulously planned images uncover often unnoticed details of our built environment revealing local places and suburban beauty, in graphic detail. To create his art, Lindsay meticulously places thousands of dots onto the page with an architect’s technical pen in a technique known as stippling. His delicate imagery is typically presented in black and white, but he recently began releasing select works with the bold addition of colour.

WEBSITE- drawnout.au

INSTAGRAM - @drawnoutbylindsaydouglas

Liv McCarten is an Australian multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) originally from Boeill Creek, NSW. McCarten’s work spans the realms of oil and acrylic painting, murals, and ceramics. Inspired by feelings of nostalgia and vibrant aesthetics her work evokes shared connections and cherished memories. McCarten completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting) with Distinction at RMIT in 2022 and has gone on to hold three solo exhibitions, co-curate two group exhibitions and participate in many group shows.

WEBSITE - livmccartenart.com

INSTAGRAM -@livmccartenart

Currently based in Australia, Marce's artistic journey has traversed continents, drawing inspiration from diverse cultures and experiences.

​Marce's artistic repertoire encompasses drawing, painting, and printmaking, with a specialization in Lithography from Latrobe University, where they graduated with distinction. Their artistic prowess was recognized early on when they won the prestigious graduate award, affording them the opportunity to embark on a transformative artistic odyssey through Europe. This journey served as a crucible for their creativity, shaping their artistic voice.

WEBSITE -markingart.com

INSTAGRAM -@marce_king_art

María is an Australian-Colombian visual artist currently based in Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Painting and Ceramics from Academia Superior de Artes in Bogotá and Master of Fine Arts (by Research) from RMIT University, Melbourne. Her career spans both Australia and Colombia, developed through exhibitions, artist residency programs and mural projects. To date, she has exhibited in solo and group shows across Colombia, Australia, Mexico, China, India, Argentina, New York and the United Arab Emirates, while completing mural commissions in Australia and Colombia since 2020. She is a figurative painter drawn to paint portraits, hands, and nature-motifs that frequently appear in both her murals and oil paintings. She works with vibrant colours and she is inspired by surrealistic and magical realistic ideas. Her intention is to create uplifting images that reconnect us with nature and reveal the inner, magical essence of humanity.

WEBSITE- mariapena.com

INSTAGRAM -@mariapena_art

Michaela is a multidisciplinary artist working from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Through the amalgamation of disparate elements, her work seeks to merge the traditional with the neoteric, the human with the ethereal, and the intimate with the monumental. Practising fine art and photography in both analogue and digital forms, she employs an ever-expanding range of mediums to construct her work. She embraces the exclusive opportunity of each medium independently continuing to explore the limitless potential for harmony and synthesis between them.

WEBSITE -michaelasandberg.com

INSTAGRAM -@michaela_sandberg

Nadine is a Melbourne based artist, a lifelong creative and self confessed perpetual daydreamer. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful, diverse beauty of the Australian landscape, including the Dandenong Ranges where she grew up, Nadine creates textured abstracts that reflect nature’s colour palettes, while also reflecting an otherworldly, dreamlike quality, and as such, fondly refers to her paintings as ‘dreamscapes’. Works are created from a deeply emotional connection to country and place, conveying mood, emotion and a tangible representation of an experience in nature with each piece inspired by a particular meaningful song or lyric.

WEBSITE -nadinehobsonart.com

INSTAGRAM -@nadine_hobson_art

Narelle is a contemporary abstract landscape artist whose work is inspired by the natural beauty of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Living close to the bay, beaches, rolling hills, farmland and vineyards, her paintings reflect an intimate connection to place—capturing not literal views, but the feeling and memory of the landscape. Through expressive layers of colour and texture, Narelle creates modern landscapes and seascapes that balance warmth, movement, and restraint. Shapes and forms are gently abstracted, allowing the work to sit comfortably within contemporary interiors while retaining a sense of playfulness and emotional depth.

WEBSITE- callencollective.com.au

INSTAGRAM -@callencollective_art

Ri is a ceramic artist, hand-building with clay to create a variety of work, from installation to individual pieces, figurative and abstract sculptures through to organic vessels. It is through this work that Ri explores and communicates the concepts and ideas that inform her world. Her art takes on many guises; it may reflect her own inner state, be playful or exploratory or it may tell the stories of others and reflect societal issues. It is not just the form that inspires her but also the type of firing. She is constantly attracted to firings that are organic and often random in their finish. For example, ‘Raku firing is hot and exciting as you open the kiln at 1000-degrees, withdraw the glowing work, placing it in combustible materials and wait to see the result’. The effects are inherently unpredictable and this is also a reflection of life.

WEBSITE -ri-creations.com

INSTAGRAM -@Ri_creations_

Sally is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne. With a particular interest in combining stitch with different media. Her work, while at first glance look like paintings are infused layers of fabrics stitched together. Her work explores the relationship that we have with place and the journey it takes to get there. Sally explores new places, observing both the natural and the built environment and this fuels her inspiration. With the aim to share some of her awe to the world with others, her intention is to highlight the beauty of the land we live in and the hope that future generations can instil a greater care to preserve and protect it.

WEBSITE -sallydarlison.com

INSTAGRAM -@sallydarlisonartist

Sarah creates contemporary abstract paintings from her studio gallery in Williamstown North, land of the Boon Wurrung. Her paintings explore the ideas of identity, nostalgia, memories and connections to place and how these are inextricably linked to our sense of self in the world. The work is emotive, gestural brushstrokes with energetic movement, creating layers of intense colour and texture. ‘Sarah’s process is the art of journaling life in colour. Through her work she hopes to connect the personal as universal and as a way of sharing our mutual connection and sense of identity.

WEBSITE- sarahlugtonart.com

INSTAGRAM -@sarahlugton_art

Serena creates paintings that reveal hidden worlds of light, water and whimsy. Guided by curiosity and a willingness to let go of perfection, her brushstrokes invite viewers to pause, wander inward and discover the places where healing and wonder meet. Serena is a Vietnamese-Australian artist practising in Melbourne’s Inner West.

WEBSITE -serenapham.com

INSTAGRAM -@serenathuypham

Suzanne is a Melbourne based photographer who from a very early age picked up the camera. Having grown up watching what her father capture moments in time she was hooked. Suzanne is passionate about capturing the outdoors, coastal, architecture and sports in action. Always eager to push the limits but taking the time to notice the little details that others may miss.

INSTAGRAM -@suzwalsonphotography

Tiffany Hunter is a proud Aboriginal woman, contemporary First Nations artist, speaker, facilitator and founder of Tiffany Hunter Studio and Nerdu Badji Education. Growing up on Wurundjeri Country in Healesville, Tiffany uses art as a powerful tool for storytelling, healing, connection and social change. Known for her vibrant contemporary style influenced by street art and bold colour palettes, Tiffany’s works explore themes of identity, resilience, mental health, cultural strength, community connection and hope. Her art often creates visual stories that inspire conversation and belonging.

WEBSITE- tifffanyhunterstudio.com

INSTAGRAM -@tiffanyhunterstudio

The In-Between Gallery is an independent curatorial project founded by artist and curator Tams. Representing a carefully selected group of Australian artists, the gallery celebrates work that exists between boundaries—between feeling and form, figuration and abstraction, certainty and exploration.

The gallery brings together artists whose work is guided by authenticity, intuition and a commitment to their own creative voice. Rather than focusing on trends or expectations, The In-Between Gallery champions meaningful artistic connections and work that lingers long after the first glance.

More than a gallery, it is a space for conversation, storytelling and discovery—supporting artists at various stages of their creative journey while connecting audiences with work that resonates on a deeply human level.

INSTAGRAM -@the.Inbetween.gallery

Vanessa is a Melbourne-based artist and designer. Inspired by nature and the beauty of everyday life, her paintings focus on colour, shape and light, often capturing quiet, reflective moments through still life and interior scenes. Her work draws on memory, experience and a strong sense of place. Alongside her studio practice, Vanessa runs art workshops where she shares her passion for creativity with others. She encourages people to slow down, connect with their surroundings and enjoy the simple act of making, creating a welcoming and supportive environment for all skill levels.

WEBSITE - vanessamaverart.com

INSTAGRAM -@vanessamaver_art

Yolanda is a Melbourne-based artist and illustrator whose work draws on every day and childlike objects, places, and moments — reimagined through bold colour and softened form. Her paintings feel playful, familiar, and nostalgic. With a pop-informed approach and use of fluoro colour, she reframes the ordinary into something more emotive and unexpected. Subtly influenced by coastal living, her work carries a quiet sense of calm beneath its vibrancy. Her practice explores how reconnecting with childlike memory can soften the seriousness of everyday life — creating moments that invite feeling, recognition, and lightness.

INSTAGRAM -@art_by_yols