Meet the team

Darcie is an emerging artist specializing in ceramics, creating organic, dynamic forms influenced by the natural environment and her own life experiences. Having graduated high school last year, she is currently enrolled in an arts and culture administration program and plans to continue her study focused on fine arts at university in 2025. Darcie's interests extend beyond ceramics to all areas of art, including lighting and music, with hopes of creating immersive installations in the future.

In the early stages of her artistic journey, Darcie's work is characterized by experimentation as she hones her unique style. She is drawn to the tactile nature of clay, embracing the freedoms of push-pull, build-takeaway, and rough-smooth techniques to capture movement and shape. Her abstract organic forms hold special significance, serving as physical representations of herself, created during times of personal growth.

Structurally, Darcie's works are organically formed with large curves and natural connections. Movement, tension, and evolution is seen reflected through abstract representations of naturally occurring patterns.  Her works reflect these patterns seen in both micro and macro organisms, on land and in water throughout the natural world.

Darcie's practice heavily depends on her emotions and experiences, with her works often changing and adapting over time. She explores variations of form through building onto clay or carving away at it. Her rapid shaping and expressive manipulation of clay aim to create visually appealing and harmonious works that reflect her sense of emotion, harmony, and flow.

Luke is a registered architect and has been working with local firm Curious Practice for 6 years following study at the University of Newcastle. Beyond architecture, Luke maintains a personal art practice and most recently in 2024, held a solo exhibition “The Park” at Gloucester Gallery which explored the mythologised narratives of self and identity.

Irini is completing a Master in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies and an Art Appreciation course, whilst having completed a double Bachelor in Development Studies and Law (Honours)/Diploma of Legal Practice and a Certificate IV in Arts and Cultural Administration (Galleries and Museums). Her interest in art and culture stems from having grown up in Greece and having moved to Australia at the age of fourteen. Her aspiration is to be instrumental in conserving and advocating for the human right to preserve tangible and intangible cultural heritage with dignity, whilst engaging with cultural material in a respectful and appropriate manner. By promoting cultural protocol and the engagement of communities, in preserving their culture through artworks and artefacts.  

Shân Primrose is a Burmese-Australian multidisciplinary creative living on Awabakal land originally from Boonwurrung country (The Mornington Peninsula in Victoria).

She has been making and teaching for over a decade. Her primary practises include drawing and painting on paper, canvas and found objects. She also designs digitally, and hosts workshops for young people and adults.

She completed her Bachelor of Visual Art and Design at ACU in 2018, and in 2019 she undertook an Artist Residency in Puebla, Mexico. Here she began exploring self-identity and the complexities of her own cultural background. In May 2023 she embarked on a second overseas residency in Naples, Italy for 3 weeks. In this time she developed her practice with the use of new mediums and techniques.

Over her career she has worked with brands such as Converse, Platypus Shoes and Splendour in the Grass. In May 2024 she launched an artist collection with iconic Australian brand Dangerfield.

Vaida is a multidisciplinary visual artist, with a focus on fine line illustration work alongside photography, writing and some digital design. With an ongoing fascination for life and death, Vaida’s practice attempts to capture the delicate balance between dark and light, inspired by connection, interpersonal relationships and the world around us.

Outside of the studio Vaida has an enthusiasm for being in and around the arts, having volunteered at The Lock Up for a time, and can often be found behind the sales window at Onwards Gallery on opening nights.