UNMUTED
SPACE 1-2 & WINDOW ROOM
Exhibition dates : 5 - 17 May 2026
Opening reception : Wed 6 May 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm
UNMUTED brings together eleven artists united by bold, authentic expression. Diverse in style yet connected in energy, this group exhibition explores what happens when creativity is no longer filtered or softened. Raw, layered, and unapologetic, Unmuted is an invitation to witness art that speaks freely and to feel the power of being fully seen and heard.
Christine Quigley
Christine Quigley is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice brings together abstraction, gesture, and atmospheric depth to explore the emotional and perceptual subtleties of painted space. Working primarily in oil with integrated mixed-media processes, she builds layered surfaces that hold rhythm, tension, and quiet luminosity. Her work invites a slow, contemplative encounter, encouraging viewers to sense rather than interpret.
Influenced by early experiences of rural landscape and classical music, Quigley’s visual language is shaped by movement, memory, and the natural world’s understated poetics. These foundations inform the fluidity and sensitivity of her mark-making, resulting in works that feel both grounded and ethereal.
Her paintings have been exhibited across Australia and are held in private collections. Quigley continues to refine a practice centred on presence, materiality, and the evolving emotional resonance of both figurative and abstraction, offering viewers a space for reflection and connection.
Criss Chaney
Criss Chaney is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Berwick. Over the past decade, she has exhibited internationally across the United States, the UK, Austria, and Australia, and contributes to Melbourne’s creative landscape through both studio and public art.
Her practice is grounded in Urban Pop Art and neo-feminist art, blending expressive painterly techniques with graffiti, collage, and bold typography. Working across acrylic, oil, ink, spray paint, cyanotype, and gold leaf, she builds layered, tactile surfaces that mirror the complexity of competing identities.
Solitary female figures positioned within richly layered visual environments anchor her work. Her paintings invite viewers to slow down and engage with the space between what is seen and what is felt—exploring the shifting boundary between external perception and internal experience.
Drawing from the grit of city walls, fluorescent pinks and purples reclaim softness as strength. Her work explores vulnerability, power, gender, and cultural value systems—holding space for contradiction, curiosity, and subversion.
Cyndy Broekers
Cyndy Broekers is a Melbourne-based mixed media artist known for her evocative, story-rich paintings rooted in personal memory and shared cultural nostalgia.
After a long career in the corporate world, she made a bold pivot into art, where she now explores themes of belonging, childhood and the emotional resonance of everyday moments.
Her layered, expressive works are influenced by retro aesthetics, family slides and the simple joy of growing up in Australia in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Cyndy’s work invites viewers to reconnect with their own histories; those moments from the past that shaped who we are today.
Her paintings have been featured in local council exhibitions, acquired for public and private collections and showcased in group shows. With a background in coaching and supporting creatives to navigate uncertainty through self-trust, Cyndy brings a deeply human lens to everything she creates.
Doaah Albatat
Doaah is an Iraqi-born artist raised in Australia and based in Melbourne. She has pursued art her entire life and refined her professional practice through the Art Mastery program with the Milan Art Institute. Influenced by faith, spirituality, and multicultural experiences, her work explores diversity, belonging, and nature through a thoughtful lens. Working in inks, acrylics, and oils, she blends abstract realism with mixed media to create layered, emotive narratives. Doaah has exhibited in multiple group shows and presents her current collection, “Earthly Fairies,” celebrating ethereal, feminine, nature-inspired forms, alongside her broader portfolio on her website.
Elena Simak
Elena Simak is a Melbourne-based mixed media artist whose work explores emotion, light, and the quiet stories we carry. Migrating to Australia in 1995 from Padina, Serbia, she found art to be a universal language while navigating a new country and culture. In Year 12, she was selected for Top Arts, exhibiting at the National Gallery of Victoria, and later completed a Diploma of Arts and Visual Arts. Elena has exhibited widely, created commissions since 2009, supported charities, and refined her practice through the Milan Art Institute, working intuitively and layering each piece with meaning.
Julie Fenna
Julie Fenna is a London-born, Australian-based artist whose vibrant mixed-media and oil paintings are deeply inspired by a lifelong love of animals and the natural world. Julie has dedicated her practice to capturing the spirit of her chosen country by creating art that explores resilience, challenge, joy, and the simple beauty found in nature.
Guided by the belief that art should capture the full spectrum of emotion, Julie’s work serves as a bridge between the mundane and the extraordinary. Through a masterly use of intense contrast and vibrant hues, she distils the beauty of the everyday into scenes of curiosity. Each piece is a gentle command to the viewer: stop, smile, and find wonder in the small things.
Kimberley Cardow
Kimberley Cardow is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist inspired by exploration, travel, and a deep love of nature and everyday moments. Raised in Sydney, her early connection to adventure continues to shape her creative path. Since moving to Melbourne in 2008, her work has evolved through observing Australia’s diverse environments and experiences abroad. Kimberley’s paintings are known for their vibrant colour, pattern, and texture, balancing expression with intimacy. While her earlier work focused on floral details, her practice now also embraces birds, people, and place. She believes painting is a powerful way to share feelings and invite others to see the world through her eyes.
Lydia Beker
My art is an intuitive journey where I explore new ideas and possibilities, allowing each mark to guide the next. I love to experiment with mixed media, building layers that unfold naturally as the painting reveals its own direction. I finish my work in oil paint, which brings richness and depth to the surface.
Nature, in all its beauty and mystery, is a constant presence in my work, along with a touch of fantasy and wonder. My paintings move between abstract and recognisable forms, evolving freely and allowing what I love to shine through.
Through my art, I hope to spark curiosity and connection, an invitation to pause, explore your imagination, and rediscover your own creative spirit.
Mary Ann Fox
Mary Ann Fox is a mixed-media artist with an abstract, realistic style. Working with pastels, oils, acrylics and various mixed media, Mary Ann infuses her work with an element of realism, sometimes symbolism or storytelling that can at times be combined with a touch of humour.
Mary Ann’s art reflects a deep appreciation for both the natural world and the human experience. Her work has been recognised for its originality and emotional depth, most recently winning 1st Prize at the Crib Point Art Show.
Through her art, Mary Ann invites viewers to see the world through her eyes, offering a fresh perspective on the familiar and a playful twist on the ordinary. Her pieces are a testament to her belief in the beauty of realism intertwined with the unexpected, creating a visual dialogue that can be thought-provoking and sometimes delightfully surprising.
Narnie (Natalie Lapthorne)
Narnie is a rising Australian artist, returning to creative expression following a healthcare career that has spanned more than 20 years. Born and raised in Melbourne, Narnie has spent years working with Victorian families through roles in NICU, Midwifery and Maternal & Child Health. She weaves her own experiences of childhood and parenting with those she has observed to explore themes of nostalgia, joy, and authenticity.
Narnie’s work has a core focus of remembering who we were before the world told us who we should be. Using vibrant colours and expressive brushstrokes, Narnie’s work calls us to remember, reflect, and find our own way back to our authentic selves.
Tracy Lee Warusevitane
Tracy Lee Warusevitane is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist working in abstract realism. Her practice explores growth, resilience, courage, and transformation, capturing moments of emotional intensity and personal awakening. Inspired by global travel, human connection, and her own evolution, she creates work that balances recognisable form with expressive abstraction.
Working in mixed media and oil, Tracy builds layered surfaces alive with movement, texture, and luminous colour. Her compositions often feature the human figure, wildlife, and symbolic elements, inviting reflection and emotional connection.
Exhibited in group shows and collected privately, her paintings resonate with those drawn to personal development and purposeful living, offering refined contemporary works that embody strength, expansion, and the beauty of becoming.