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Olivia Arnold is a multidisciplinary artist working on Gadigal land. Since graduating from the National Art School, Arnold has developed a practice that has a strong focus on materiality and observation of her environment. Her work creates a sense of place and presence, through mindful mark making, observational drawing, and an evocative limited palette.

Olivia has appeared in many solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne, exhibiting at both commercial galleries and artist run initiatives, including Saint Cloche, Brunswick Street Gallery, the Design Files Gallery and Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf. She has participated in a number of residencies, including Factory 49 in Paris, France, Studio FF in Sydney, and Ridge Street Artist Studios as part of North Sydney Council. Olivia has featured as a finalist in a variety of prizes including the Hazelhurst Art On Paper Award, the Gosford Art Prize, and won the Saint Cloche Award in the Little Things Art Prize. Her work has been seen in many publications including Inside Out magazine, Australian House and Garden, and Create magazine.

She currently holds a studio at OnePlus2 studios in Balmain, Sydney.

Olivia also works as an artist educator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and is passionate about providing meaningful engagement with art for all ages and abilities.

My practice is primarily site specific, documenting the trace of moving through, or sitting within my everyday surroundings. By recording in slow methodical processes, I extend the life of transitory shadows and silhouettes. Meditative mark making with pencil and thread is a key element of my work, connecting to a process driven background in printmaking, and continued exploration of drawing. The use of repetition, through stitching and hatching, provides an intimate engagement with materials.

The work seeks to connect the viewer with a sense of calm and stillness; an appreciation for the everyday moments of beauty.

Amanda Mahony is an emerging visual artist based in Eora/Sydney, who paints atmospheric, abstract Australian landscapes informed by her childhood connection to nature. Her landscapes focus on the meeting point of the sky and the land, capturing the feeling of deep connection to nature while remaining grounded and offering viewers a quiet space for reflection on place, memories, and experiences. Her process-based practice involves working with acrylics, impasto mediums and oil sticks. Amanda employs sgraffito, sanding, scoring and scraping away layers to reveal the underlying colours and textures. She also builds depth and atmosphere through layers of translucent glazes. Her work reflects observations of the bush, sky, water and mountains, focusing on colour and texture to convey the feeling of being on a bush walk or taking a road trip. Amanda works across her canvases like a tapestry, building the surface over time, which reflects the gradual, evolving changes found in nature. Amanda is a 2023 BFA painting graduate of the National Art School and holds a Bachelor of Media (Journalism and Communication) from Macquarie University. She expanded her skills by studying oil painting under the mentorship of artists Dimitra Milan and Ellie Milan at the Milan Art Institute in Arizona, USA in 2019. Amanda’s art has featured on ABC iview’s TV series OPTICS and she has been exhibited as a 2025 finalist in the ‘Fairholme Open Art Prize Exhibition’, Toowoomba, QLD. She exhibits regularly in Sydney and her work is held in private collections around Australia, Hong Kong and Europe.

Scott Elk is a multidisciplinary artist from Sydney, Australia, working on Dharawal Country in South Western Sydney, and on the traditional lands of the Northern Shoshone Bannock peoples in Idaho, U.S.A. His practice explores connection to people, to place, and to the materials that shape both.

Working fluidly across ceramics, sculpture, drawing, writing, painting, printmaking, performance, video, and sound, Scott prioritizes the idea first, then finds the medium that best serves the concept. Central to his practice is an ongoing exploration of contrast: the movement between light and dark, hard and soft, focused and blurry. This interplay becomes a way of understanding the world and locating himself within it.

My work often begins with words or sketches and evolves through a process of translation between mediums; a drawing becomes a sculpture, a sculpture might inspire a painting or a soundscape. This self-referential approach creates a layered conversation between works, each medium tells the story in their own unique voice, a hall of mirrors exchanging ideas, colours, and forms that echo and shift across my practice.

At its core, Scott’s work celebrates the joy of making. His sensitivity to materiality, whether in the texture of clay, the weight of a charcoal line, the subtle shift of colour across oil paint, or the emotional resonance of sound, reflects a curiosity about what each medium does best. His recent work reimagines the landscape genre, expanding it beyond painting to include the way glaze melts around organic ceramic forms, offering new ways to experience place and memory.

Eve Bracewell is a UK-born painter and muralist based on Gadigal Land (Sydney, Australia). Her abstract works navigate the space between the natural and artificial, where forms distort, textures glitch and the real becomes uncertain. Through painting, collage, ceramics, and printmaking, she creates tactile surfaces that reflect both the digital noise of contemporary life and the quiet rhythms of the organic world.

Guided by intuition and embracing imperfection, Eve utilises layering, pattern, and expressive mark-making across all areas of her practice. Her process holds space for tension and flow, allowing moments to unravel and re-form.

Exploring themes of impermanence, connection, and emotional fragility, her practice becomes a way to slow down and stay grounded amid digital acceleration. Each composition is an act of presence and a search for balance in a fragmented world.

Eve has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, most recently at PADA Gallery in Barreiro, Portugal. She has been commissioned by numerous local councils to deliver large-scale public artworks, and continues to expand her practice through collaborative projects and participation in artist residencies.