Alan Cotton. Image courtesy of artist

Adele in yellow jumpsuit ,Adele Varcoe, image courtesy of artist

The Mystifying Amalgamation of Youth. Artist: Jonny Reding, image courtesy of artist

Weaving of underwater creatures Artist: Helen Philipp, image courtesy of artist

Carolyn Cardinet, image courtesy of artist

Elwood Foreshore Full moon, Clarine Wilmar, image courtesy of artist

Red glass sculpture, Dan Bowran, image curtesy of artist

Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios | Exhibition and Open Studios

Presented by City of Port Phillip

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Tickets

Free, No Booking Required

Dates

Fri 24 May 10:00am - 4:00pm

Sat 25 May 10:00am - 4:00pm

Venue

Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios: VegOut Community Gardens

2 Spenser St, St Kilda VIC 3182, Australia

Access

All gender bathroom, Seating available, Wheelchair accessible

Contact organiser

Come and meet some of the exciting creatives at Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios, in St Kilda. The resident artists and designers will showcase their work in a group exhibition and will welcome visitors into their studios to chat about their working process. Their practices span fashion, costume design, jewellery making, photography, glass making, craft, digital design, public art as well as fine art practices.

Set in the tranquil VegOut Community Gardens in one of Melbourne’s busiest urban environments and tourist precincts, come along and experience the synergy between artists and nature. Enter through the VegOut Community Gardens main gate on Chaucer Street, St Kilda. Walk straight down the main path, past the chickens, to the end of the gardens.

Participants

Jarra Karalinar Steel

Jarra Karalinar Steel is a multidisciplinary artist and the curator of Rising’s Art Trams. Jarra’s work explores themes of black futurism, identity, memory and ways to insert contemporary cultural visual language into the urban and digital landscape by reclaiming space and belonging.

https://www.karalinar.com/

https://www.instagram.com/karalinar_art/

Dan Bowran

A Royal College of Art graduate, Dan has over 20 years’ experience working with glass, as an artist, technician, and teacher.

https://www.offtheplinth.com

https://www.instagram.com/dan.bowran/

Adele Varcoe

Adele Varcoe is an Australian artist and designer who creates transformative experiences that explore the social effects of fashion, dress and clothes.

https://www.adelevarcoe.com

https://www.instagram.com/adelevarcoe/

Carolyn Cardinet

Carolyn Cardinet is an ARTivist that engages with society’s waste and challenge hyper-consumerism. Through environmental art, she transforms found materials, emphasising the importance of sustainability within her art installation.

https://www.carolyncardinet.com

https://www.instagram.com/carolyncardinet_art/

Helen Philipp

For Helen Philipp, the colours and forms of the natural world: plankton, cephalopods, plants, fungus, lichen, become a reference point for creating woven sculptural works.

https://www.helenphilipp.com

https://www.instagram.com/hpwoven/

Alan Cotton

Visual artist Alan Cotton combines his interest in architecture, fashion and photography to create ‘photographic sculptures’.

https://www.instagram.com/alan.a.cotton.1/

Lucia Rossi

Lucia Rossi uses natural phenomena, systems of measurement, and perspective, to explore the simultaneous sensation of near space and an awareness of the wider universe.

www.luciarossi.com.au

https://www.instagram.com/luciarossiphoto/

Jonny Reding

Jonny’s arts practice utilises physical performance, digital photography, dance, sculpture, collage, Ai and fashion to anecdote personal, spiritual and domestic experience in the context of the male human landscape.

https://jonnyreding.com/

Clarine Wilmar

Clarine Wilmar’s multidisciplinary practice explores the human-animal connection and hybrid identities, drawing inspiration from nocturnal coastal habitats, man-made suburbia and beyond.

https://www.clarinewilmar.com/

https://www.instagram.com/clarinewilmar_art/

Betty Sargeant

Dr. Betty Sargeant is an internationally acclaimed media artist whose practice operates at the intersection of art, technology and environmental science. Sargeant creates immersive environments and public art.

https://www.bettysargeant.com/

https://www.instagram.com/bettysargeant/