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29/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Gabrielle Jones
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and collage, Gabrielle Jones explores notions of excess and adornment. Her works combine intuitive mark-making with distinct nods to art history, high-lighting movement and time through expressive forms and colours, iconic patterns and textures, and layers of paint. Drawn by the drama, movement and storytelling of Baroque and Rococo art, in particular, Jones borrows their patterns, decoration and ornaments in an abstract conflation of drama and courtly accoutrements. Reflecting on paintings from artists who have been influential in her practice, Jones employs mashed memory while highlighting the embellishment, dé- cor, energy and stillness of these eras. The resulting works are a call and answer, through time and memory, with these artists, expressing the strong sense of the joy in life that is a constant thread throughout Jones’s practice. “When I was seven I nearly drowned - as in a passed-out and needed rescue type of drowning. My memories of that are framed in opposites: the pounding of my heart and the quiet of the engulf- ing water; the dark depths and the light during my ascent to surface; the speed of change from safety to danger, and the deceleration of time while drowning; the liminal place between life and death, here and gone. Looking back, I realise this has been a formative event in so much of my life, and it continues to influence my work. My forms often challenge their boundaries in a bid for freedom and release - sub- jects cross boundaries between still life and move- ment; and forms move from naturalism to expres- sionism. Many works circle back on themselves. All seek a presence beyond logic”.

Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

29/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Philippa Riddiford
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Philippa Riddiford has worked extensively with interior designers both in Australia and internationally. Drawing on her background as a stylist, she offers a highly personalised approach to art selection, providing complimentary digital mock-ups to help clients visualise artworks within their homes, commercial spaces, and design projects.

Her work is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia, with two artworks acquired by the institution.

In 2015, her limited-edition prints were exhibited as part of International Print Week in New York City.

Her large-scale public art projects include a commission from Stonnington City Council in 2020, where she created three digital murals for public spaces across Melbourne. In 2021, she collaborated with Renew Melbourne and the City of Melbourne to produce two large-scale digital murals that transformed vacant shopfronts throughout Melbourne’s CBD.

More recently, Green Collect commissioned Philippa to create a significant exterior mural for its new premises in Braybrook, Melbourne.

Through her distinctive visual language and deep understanding of interior spaces, Philippa continues to create works that bridge the worlds of contemporary art, design, and public engagement.

Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

29/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Johanna Valom
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Johanna Valom is an oil painter and textile artist based in Perth, Western Australia. Inspired by tapestries inherited from her grandmother, Johanna reflects on the paradoxical emotion of nostalgia and the fleeting nature of memory. She creates abstract landscapes which seek to explore the sublime, the joy, and the whimsy found in mundane every day scenes. Picturesque cottages, dilapidated sheds and untamed bushland all serve equally as inspiration in her works. Johanna’s practice plays with the evocative ability of colour and lucious application of paint; using striking combinations in her focus on abstraction within landscapes. She paints from both direct observation and from memories - in this she continues to consider the importance of both the breaking and preservation of traditions, and the oscillating, tacit dialogue between past and present.

Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

29/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Robert Lemay
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

“With my floral compositions, I capture that feeling you get when you first lean into a bouquet to inhale the scent. I’m conscious of creating a level of realism that is poetic while still retaining the illusion for the viewer of being right in that moment. Some passages will be more brushy and poetic and others will be more detailed. Each painting contains hundreds of these types of choices so that the viewer can be immersed in this floral experience”

Robert Lemay has been working as an artist for over 30 years and has had more than 30 solo shows. His work has been exhibited in Edmonton, Montréal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, New York, Milan, as well as London and the Cotswolds in England.

His paintings appear in collections all over the world, including the Canadian Consulate in both New York City and Sydney, Australia. Shaw Communications has named a room, The Robert Lemay Room, in Shaw Court in downtown Calgary. His work is also part of the Canada Council Art Bank and hangs at Clif Lede Wineries in Yountville, California, at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, in Edmonton’s City Hall, and in many prestigious private and corporate collections. He was the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 1989 and 1990. He was the inaugural Artist in Residence at Graceland University in Iowa in 2014 and was honoured to be an artist in residence at Pouch Cove Foundation in 2021.

Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

29/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Robbie Harmsworth
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Robbie Harmsworth is a Melbourne based artist who re-contextualises neoclassical forms and figures with a contemporary method of art making. With a Masters of Fine Art by Research (Monash University 2008), Robbie’s practice is distinguished by her multi-disciplinary embrace of ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking. Her work reflects an interest in classical mythology and the alchemical nature of materials. Robbie exhibits regularly and has been shortlisted for numerous drawing prizes. Her work has been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, Shepparton Regional Gallery and is held in many esteemed, private collections
Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

29/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Marko Hrubyj-Piper
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Born and raised in Bondi, Australia, Marko found early confidence in art and sport while struggling through much of his academic education. After being admitted to the National Art School, where he majored in ceramics, painting was always the focus for Marko after University. 
Working for years as a baker before later joining an art supply company, Marko gained rare insight into the working lives and studios of established artists. Throughout his twenties he continued painting relentlessly, searching for the breakthrough moment that would suddenly transform his work. That epiphany never arrived, but consistency did. Years of disciplined practice slowly evolved into a deeply personal and technically assured body of work.
Now based in Mullumbimby, with a studio in Byron Bay. Marko’s practice revolves around a daily commitment to painting and self improvement. His work explores contemporary figurative painting through recurring themes of beach culture, memory, light, and human connection. Balancing technical refinement with emotional atmosphere, painting has become both a discipline and a sense of purpose.
Marko shifts effortlessly between bold gestures of colour, sharp shadows, and assertive brushwork, and softer dreamlike scenes where figures drift between recognition and anonymity. His landscapes hint at familiarity while remaining just out of reach, like distant memories or places longed for but never fully possessed.
Although the sun itself is never directly painted, it remains the central force running through all of Marko’s work. Its presence is felt through the shadows it casts, the warmth embedded in the palette, and the lingering atmosphere held within each composition. His paintings emanate heat and nostalgia, offering viewers both refuge and immersion, a place to sit within the glow of summers remembered.
Through masterful interpretations of figures, light, and shared moments, Marko’s paintings evoke the sensation of salt air, fading afternoons, and sunburnt cheeks, leaving viewers suspended somewhere between memory and dream.
Words by Marko and Bella Mcgoldr

28/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Claire Sayers
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Claire Sayers is an Australian painter known for her large-scale, colour-driven landscapes that immerse the viewer in fields of movement and light. Working predominantly in oil on expansive canvases, she creates layered compositions inspired by the vitality and rhythm of nature.

Originally trained in teaching before formally studying Studio Textiles, Colour and Design, and Visual Arts, Claire’s practice has always centred on one enduring fascination - colour. Over time, her exploration across mediums evolved into a distinctive technique of building richly textured, multi-layered surfaces that feel both ornamental and atmospheric.

Her works are not literal depictions of landscape, but emotional translations of it. Fields dissolve into gesture, florals become rhythm, and colour becomes the language through which nature is intensified rather than replicated. Each canvas is designed at scale to transform architectural space, inviting the viewer to step into a heightened, luminous interpretation of the natural world.

Painting full-time from her Australian studio, Claire approaches each work as an immersive experience. She believes art should evoke emotion and uplift the spirit, creating moments of energy, warmth and expansiveness within contemporary interiors.

Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

28/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Annelie Vandendael
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Annelie Vandendael was born in Belgium (19.10.1987) and grew up in the South of France. After college she came back to Belgium to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Kask) in Ghent where she got a master degree in Photography. Image-making has always been a passion of her. After finishing her studies, she was invited to ‘La Fabrica’, the Benetton Communication and Research Center in Treviso, Italy.

Sois Belle

Look once—then look again. These luscious, surreal images challenge the unrealistic standards of perfection set by fashion photography, provoking playfulness rather than airbrushed beauty.

Inspired by the tendency of fashion photography to manipulate subjects and the human body, and believing that this process of falsifying feminine beauty is extremely damaging, she seeks to represent real, authentic people, keeping intact their imperfection.

With her Hasselblad analogue camera realizes realistic and perfect images, photographing beautiful young women in a poetic and surreal scenario. Their faces are often shaken by strange appearances, through ironic compositions and introducing strange elements like pink flamingos, red fish, cacti, ice creams and more.

In her last series, Sois Belle describes the human being, and especially the women who are protagonists of her shots, not as an object to manipulate, but on the contrary as an integral part of nature

Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

28/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Cristina Ghetti
EVOLVE Group Exhibition May 28th - June 25th 2026

Cristina Ghetti is an Argentine visual artist born in Buenos Aires whose work investigates the intersection of geometric abstraction, drawing, and generative systems.

Working through structured combinatorics, modular variations, and procedural strategies that incorporate chance and error, Ghetti explores the material and tactile dimensions of abstraction while proposing a contemporary reconsideration of geometric traditions.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, and the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo.

She has been awarded international residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Ifitry Artist Residency in Morocco, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, and MonteAzul Center for the Arts.

Her works are included in major public and institutional collections such as the Universitat Politècnica de València, the Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, and the Swatch Art Collection.

Ghetti’s work is presented internationally through galleries across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia, and she regularly participates in international art fairs.

She has a Master of visual arts and multimedia at the UPV, Polythechnic University Valencia, Spain,She is currently developing a doctoral research project proposing a feminist and decentralized reading of geometric abstraction, bridging artistic practice and critical theory.

She positions herself as a Latin American and a feminist artist, investigating the abstract movement from its edges, searching for alternative speeches and hybridizations

Armadale 1238 High Street, VIC 3143
Waterloo 3-7 Danks Street, NSW 2017
Fortitude Valley 7D Wandoo Street, QLD 4006
Cheltenham 14 Dissk Street, VIC, 3192
Melbourne CBD 625 Little Lonsdale St, VIC, 3008

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