Natalie Hirschman's work portrays the subtle interplay between the real and the imagined. She strives to collaborate with her models, weaving their own moods and gestures into her creative vision, and to authentically represent their personalities in both urban and natural environments.
Julia Ulrich’s arts predominantly explore figurative themes, focusing on the elegance and grace of women adorned in long, flattering skirts. Each piece evokes a fairytale-like atmosphere, inviting viewers into a world where simplicity and enchantment coexist harmoniously. Through her work, Julia delves into the beauty of everyday moments, capturing a sense of tranquility and nostalgia that resonates with those seeking a connection to a more serene and idyllic life.
Emily Dewsnap is a professional artist based in West Yorkshire. Originally from Glossop in the Peak District, she spent her youth aspiring to be a singer and writer. However, Emily was never far from a pencil and sketch pad and sold my first painting at the age of 17. Emily's work focuses on figurative subjects with dark, magical and often erotic interpretations. She has a fascination for strong, mythical women and nature elements, and try to bring these subjects together into pieces that portray feminine strength and beauty.
Artist Emmi Mustonen (born 1987) works mainly with the old masters’ painting technique inspired by the renaissance. The main goal of the artist is to show the diversity in a light where the viewer finds something to which to connect.
Sana Yoshida, born in 1986 and currently living in Japan, explores deep within herself to express the complex emotions of women through her work. Her art envisions an imaginative world where humans are depicted with a sensitivity that evokes a tangible presence. Having honed her skills through years of drawing with pen on paper, Sana finds joy in the act of drawing lines. Her oil paintings are characterized by both a textured surface and delicate line work, each contributing to the vividness and vitality of her creations.
Alexis Marga describes her art as a diary of memories and daydreams, of reality and fantasy coexisting. Inspired by the surreal and dark themes of fairy tales and myths, her art explores beauty and melancholy, occasionally exhibiting a gentle playfulness, while using nature as symbolisms in her story-telling.
Helena Artbook is a self-taught artist living in London, originally from the Czech Republic. Her heroines are divine, dreamy, sensitive, yet very strong women, full of rich life stories. Through her pieces, Helena wishes to shine the light on sensitivity, whether it is feminine or masculine, hoping her viewers will be able to acknowledge a trait not accepted by our modern society.
Jacek Szleszyński studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He works in painting, digital graphics, illustration, animated film, interactive applications. Films have been shown at more than 30 festivals around the world.
Jana Vodesil-Baruffi was born in the Czech Republic in 1957 and from childhood developed a keen interest in art, sport and nature. After finishing five years training as an Interior Designer, she escaped communist Czech Republic in 1981 and arrived in Perth penniless but ready to work and create my own destiny.
Tom Christophersen is a Sydney based, non-binary, Queer performer and visual artist who is as petrified of beautiful things and death as much as he is transfixed by them. It is primarily the car crashing of these two themes which permeate the surrealistic, often dark portraits and films he makes. Tom works almost exclusively on watercolour paper and creates mixed media works which comprise elements of drawing and painting to produce highly rendered, tonally realistic but slightly illustrative figurative works.
Brian Hoang was born in Vietnam a few years after the war ended. Two years later, together with his parents they left the country and spent about 6 months in a refugee camp before relocating to Canada. When he was a young kid, his dad would often pose as action figures and draw them for him. Seeing how Brian was able to take a real-life object and turn it into a drawing was inspiring. Once he discovered comic books in grade 6, art became something Brian wanted to do for a living when he grew up.
Natasha Zraikat is a Gold Coast (Yugambeh Country) based artist uses a carefully constructed aesthetic vocabulary of fantastical elements and deliberately executed realism to visually rekindle man’s connection with the natural world. Born in California to Jordanian and Russian-Ukrainian parents, Natasha immigrated to Australia in 1990 where she has lived ever since.