With over 25 years experience in creative arts Australian artist and sculptor Shazia Imran is best known for her expressive mixed media pieces.

She has won many national and international awards including Lorenzo il Magnifico Award at the Florence Biennale 2015 and Mixed media Award at the 2017 London Biennale.

Shazia graduated with Distinction from National College of Arts (NCA) Lahore in 1994. She lived and worked in Dubai from 1998-2001. She moved with her family to Australia in 2001. She worked in Digital and marketing and practiced her art as well.

www.shazia.com.au

Andrea Hughes is a Melbourne-based visual artist who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University. Andrea loves to experiment with mixed mediums and explore different surfaces - and vibrant colours and unexpected combinations are hallmarks of her work. Her natural curiosity and passion for the creative process have led her to produce pieces across many platforms, including painting, jewellery photography and sculpture. Andrea’s work is usually driven by her own playful sense of style.

www.andreahughes.com

Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1955, moved to Melbourne in 1991. Work and live in Melbourne.

Chang uses recycled materials, household items and found objects to make painting, collage, installation and sculpture works.

Her aim is reflecting upon consuming culture and contemporary life style in a sarcastic way through her art.

www.annettechangartist.com

Hugo Mathias is a visual artist from New Zealand and currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He works in oils, acrylics, inks and digitally. Hugo is interested in national myths and how these are used to form collective memories. He explores human history and symbolism to express these ideas in his work.

Hugo has exhibited his work in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Thailand, with two of his pieces residing in the James Wallace Arts Trust collection in New Zealand. He received a Bachelor of Design in 2011 from Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Hugo works out of the Blender Studiosin Melbourne and is a member of the New Zealand art collective Young, Gifted & Broke.

www.hugomathias.net

Nani Puspasari is a Visual artist and designer based in Melbourne, Australia. She received a Master of Fine Art from RMIT University, Melbourne. Her work takes on a variety of forms, from visual art, design, embroidery, sculpture, ceramic to large-scale hand-painted murals. Her work inspired by personal childhood memories, nature, popular culture and notions of feminine to communicate feelings of innocence, naivety, loss and sorrow. She received 1st winner of Bank of Queensland Encouragement Awards in student painting category, Silver Illustrator Australia Award in 2012, Finalist of Lethbridge Art Award and Premio Combat Prize in 2015 and won Excellent Prize of Japan Illustration Awards in 2017.

www.designani.com

KEN GRIFFEN / New York (b. 1988) In 2006 he was awarded a University Scholarship for Visual Arts. He went on to graduate with excellence from AUT (art + Design) in 2009. Since his graduation, Griffen has artist-in-residence programmes in Berlin, LA, Bangkok and has held several international solo exhibitions. Griffen’s work is rooted in observations of the human condition and employs heavy, inconsistent line work and non-traditional water-color to depict people and objects.

www.kengriffen.com

Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang was born in Taiwan in 1979, moved to Perth, Western Australia with her family. After completing a further degree in Contemporary Art, she now works as a full-time artist and author in her ancestral homeland: Taiwan.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Annie’s work has been exhibited in many cities including New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Taipei. A winner of prestigious awards such as the NAVA Ignition Prize and the Young Artist with Artitude Award, Annie has been included in high-profile exhibitions such as the internationally renowned Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

www.anniewangartist.com

Gigi is an illustrator, sculptor and street artist from Melbourne painting her playful, thoughtful, and adventurous characters around the streets. Gigi is a painter and sculptor from Melbourne who brings life to her characters through the use of paint, and dark humour. Gigi explores individualism and idiosyncrasies through a range of mediums, both outdoors and in the studio. You can find her pieces in galleries and on the streets of Melbourne.

Avan is a Kurdish Australian artist born in Halabja, Kurdistan. Her family fled this town shortly before it was destroyed by chemical weapons in 1988. I migrated to Australia in 2001. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) 2015, (Honours) of Fine Arts in 2016, and Master of Fine Art in 2018 from RMIT University. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Kurdistan.

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