Martin Claydon
Martin Claydon was born in London, England and is now based in Crescent Head, Australia. His practice pivots around neo-expressionist painting and its capacity to render representational imagery charged with emotional and symbolic depth. Claydon’s works frequently grapple with complex human themes — mortality, vulnerability, and the psychosocial dimensions of being.
He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts consisting of time at both Middlesex University, London and the National Art School in Sydney. His work is held in public and private collections across the world.
Nicole Zhang
Nicole Zhang’s practice centres on genre painting and its potential to respond to the complexities of everyday life — to document encounters between the mundane and the sacred. Zhang’s work engages with and reinterprets the pictorial vernacular of modern and contemporary figurative painting. Through compositional strategies, patterning, and the use of recurring symbols and motifs, her paintings acknowledge the duality of quotidian tasks as at once prosaic and spiritual. This tension gives her work a quiet reverence for the rhythms of daily existence, where gesture and ritual converge in the intimate theatre of domestic life.
Sophie Lampert
Sophie Lampert’s sculptures operate as abstract portraits that illuminate the achievements of women throughout history, from the creative visionary to the unrecognised support role women played in innovation. Upholstered in black velvet and intricately adorned with bead embroidery, they embrace the history of textiles and craft, traditionally embedded in the female experience.
Tracey Jones
Tracey Jones is a Sydney based painter working within the realist tradition. She creates still life and figurative paintings often using prosaic objects as tropes to explore how we store and protect our intimate thoughts, memories and experiences.
Tracey graduated from RMIT Fine Arts Honours first class in 2023. In the same year, she was the recipient of the RAD Artist Residency and the RAD exhibition awarded by Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery.
She has been a finalist in a number of art prizes including the 2024 Meroogal Art Prize and the 2024 Macquarie Emerging Art Prize. Her recent exhibitions include CBD Gallery, Sydney and Sydney Contemporary.
Michelle Van Eimeren
Michelle Van Eimeren is an emerging Australian artist based in Robertson, NSW. Her work explores the intersection of nature, memory, and the human experience.
A deep reverence for the natural world infuses Michelle's abstract paintings. Her ecological prints are a visual distillation of seasonal locally foraged plant matter. Each collected specimen is a fleeting treasure, preserved in time through pigment and imprint.
Van Emerin’s work honors the impermanence of nature and the marks left by experience, allowing each print to speak of recognition, care, and the enduring strength of the cycles of life.