Collectable & Emerging, 2 May to 1 June, 2025

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A collection of secondary market works and emerging artists.

Adam Cullen, McLean Edwards, Panchali Sheth, Polina Karuso, j.b. Moran-Dias, Kjell Everingham.

Polina Karuso;

Karuso is an emerging artist, living and working in Wollombi, Hunter Valley - a passionate and prolific plein-air landscape artist.
She travels around, mainly Hunter Valley, capturing incredible vistas of her local area. As well as the Hunter, Polina has worked in Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge & Hill End.

As well as Australian landscape, Karuso is interested in spiritual conversations, connecting human inner being with the outside world. Discussions about the human condition, relationships and interactions between people is also a prevalent theme within her practise.

Polina uses an extensive variety of art mediums, including charcoal, oil, acrylic, water colour and others. She uses small hard wood blocks as the surface for her paintings, which are recycled from a local bush furniture maker. By doing this, her work gains unique weight and physicality.

j.b. Moran-Dias;

The Graces

In unsettled times we often look to myth, history….  we think, paint or conjure to inspire and console ourselves. The Graces will help us do that. These animals are like warnings to us about geopolitical and environmental hazards. I paint them as gestures of joy and beauty—just as the Graces are. 

In parallel to this, I began painting plants as visceral and fierce sentinels that might equally bless or warn us of our existence within the natural environment.     

Panchali Sheth;

Panchali Sheth is an Australian painter based in Sydney. She  explores Indian mythology, particularly the Gods & Goddesses in Hindu faith. She observes the paintings closely to understand narratives, abstraction, expressive colours and gestural marks. She deconstructs Indian miniatures and Indian mythology within her work.

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The abstract gestures she makes encompass the varied humans and hybrid forms of her narratives. 

​These gestures create their own personal language and stories.

​It is a significant expression of the hybrid culture in which she lives.