Leanne Xiu Williams

When viewing Leanne Xiu Williams’ painterly work, there’s a robust feeling of trying again on an intimate second of time. Although nonetheless, her items have an simple sense of motion and place – there’s nostalgia at play. 

During the last three years Leanne has explored a spread of topics inside her apply together with nonetheless life, figures and portraits – every simply as charming because the final.  

Worth level:
Ranging from $500

The place to seek out it:
Saint Cloche

Adam Leng

Yugambeh-based Adam Leng has, extremely, solely been portray for a yr, after selecting up the paintbrush on Invasion Day 2022. His hypnotic, fluid work weave collectively emotions of identification, tradition and connection.

‘My artwork is about feeling linked to my ancestors and understanding the methods the previous has affect my current. I hope individuals partaking with my work have the prospect to replicate on their very own private tales and place on the earth,’ he explains. 

Worth level:
$1000 – $4000

The place to seek out it:
HAKE Home, or contact Adam straight through Instagram or e-mail at adamlengart@gmail.com.

Emmanuelle McGlade

Emmanuelle McGlade’s refined, graphic items may very well be mistaken for work, however they’re really pastel drawings. The attract of her work lies in her deft simplicity, grounded color palette, and meticulous end.

She says, ‘I need to convey the simultaneous tensions in the environment, equivalent to simplicity and complexity; dynamism and stillness; perfection and imperfection. Issues will not be at all times as they first seem.’

Worth level:
$300 – $900

The place to seek out it:
Pepite and Gallery Raye, or contact Emmanuelle straight through Instagram or e-mail at emmanuelle.mcglade@gmail.com.

Loralee Jade

Artist Loralee Jade offers form to emotions of compassion, grief and love in her superbly painterly works. 

Pushed by emotion, her summary artwork is language for reminiscence and private expertise. It’s luscious and mesmerising, and deeply intuitive. 

Worth level:
$200 – $3000

The place to seek out it:
HAKE Home, Brunswick Road Gallery, Gallery Raye, Proud Bonney, or through her web site.

Megafauna Studio

Megafauna Studio are a household of ceramic artists; Seamus Mullen, Tessa Mullen and their mum, Mandy Mullen. Collectively, they create playful ceramic items with a rebellious aptitude with Tessa and Mandy managing a lot of the throwing and hand-building, while Seamus paints or carves the ultimate ornamental layer. 

‘We share an irreverent sense of humour and luxuriate in difficult the established classical ceramic kinds by adorning them with uncooked and vibrant imagery,’ says Seamus. ‘Our works are an expression of household life, capturing snippets of tales, reminiscences and shared expertise that join our historical past to the current second.’ 

Worth level:
$150 – $2500

The place to seek out it:
Brunswick Road Gallery, Honey Bones Gallery and Turrin Tindal. Or, contact them by Instagram or through their web site.

Melissa Ladkin

Awabakal/Wonnarua/Bundjalung lady Melissa Ladkin is a rising up to date Aboriginal artist. Her work is grounded, gradual and reciprocal, conveying to the viewer a deeper understanding of the Nation they reside, encouraging reference to what’s beneath their toes. 

Melissa works solely with ochre, her information of the land, particularly with geology, rocks, minerals and soils, giving her an intimate understanding of the cautious and respectful approach during which to gather and course of this pigment for her items. 

Worth level:
From $1500

The place to seek out it:
Ninbella, The G Modern.

Phoebe Stone

Phoebe Stone’s work seize the artistry of the mundane – or what most may assume is mundane. ‘My message is to not deny the wonder within the on a regular basis, however to experience it,’ she says. ‘Even whether it is simply discarded mussel shells on a plate.’ 

From three sardines mendacity susceptible on a plate, to an iced lengthy black beside a plate of orange slices, her work celebrates on a regular basis life, every with a welcome sense of familiarity. 

Worth level:
$500 – $1500

The place to seek out it:
Michael Reid Northern Seashores, Purple Midday Gallery, HAKE Home, Gallery Raye, The Gallerist, or straight through her Instagram.

Sally Garrett

You may’t assist however smile while you see Sally Garrett’s charming tropical nonetheless life scenes. The artist took benefit of Melbourne’s lockdowns to create quite a few pastel drawings of tableaus in her dwelling. These developed into work and led to an exhibition at Brunswick Road Gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne final yr. 

‘The artwork work was an intimate expression of every thing I used to be feeling at that specific second in time,’ she explains. ‘And out of the darkness, a vivid, joyful life is mirrored.’

Worth level:
$430 – $1200

The place to seek out it:
Via her web site, or straight through Instagram or e-mail at sallylgarrett@gmail.com 

Shannon Simm

It pays to look twice at Shannon Simm’s newest physique of labor. The artist has captured ‘moments between moments’ (subsequently the title of her final present) by a double-exposure-like model.

‘I like capturing moments in time that present the wonder within the mundane, or inside the intimate moments I share with family members, objects, area and my very own physique,’ she explains. 

The artist began portray with ink in a sensible model, however transitioned to oils throughout highschool and ‘hasn’t appeared again since’. 

Worth level:
From $2000

The place to seek out it:
HAKE Home, or through Instagram. 

Tym Yee

Tym Yee has many feathers in his cap, together with copywriter, editor and digital content material specialist. He additionally co-founded a web-based bespoke framing retailer, Framepack, and infrequently writes and information music. In actual fact, he didn’t choose up a paintbrush till 2016, after watching Anh Do’s ‘Brush With Fame’ on the ABC, for private meditative curiosity. 

‘The identical approach some individuals do yoga or train,’ he explains. 

It unlocked one more expertise within the enterprising Sydney-sider, and since 2020 he’s exhibited his painterly scenes at Michael Reid Northern Seashores Gallery, participated in group exhibits at Gallery Raye in Brisbane and Blackroom Gallery in Victoria, and was a finalist within the 2021 Bluethumb Artwork Prize.

Worth level:
$500 – $2500

The place to seek out it:
By way of his web site.