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7th - 18th January

Group Exhibition with 23a Studios

Ashton Wastney, Betty Ma, Charlotte Ivey, Charlotte Watson, George Duckett, Glen Fox, Graeme Thompson, Josh Simpson, Lana Daubermann, Priscilla Manthey, Raymond Carter, Sandra Espinoza, Valentina Palonen, Wendy Black. 

List of Artists

Ashton Wastney

Nelson raised artist Ashton Wastney approaches his works without premeditation and uses the medium to communicate methods of understanding the subconscious. Then forming bases of anatomical and physiological aspects he instinctively reveals moments of chance and emotions — this embodies a distortion of mental clarity and consciousness.

ashtonwastney.com

@ashton.wastney

Betty Ma

Betty Ma (AKA Crafty Betty) is a Melbourne-based artist and potter, who’s been in love with ceramics since 2019. Using a wide range of colour and clay selection, her work draws inspiration from her life experiences and the multicultural societies of Australia and her hometown of Hong Kong.

@craftybetty21

Charlotte Ivey

Charlotte Ivey is originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Much of her recent work is led by influences of the body – such as the illusory nature of psychological states, and how they affect our experience of external environments. She is also increasingly influenced by Australian geology and flora.

charlotteivey.com

@charlotte_ivey

Charlotte Watson

B. 1988, Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand. Charlotte Watson is a visual artist and writer. Her work expands across drawing, printmaking, ceramics and installation, often using the natural world to tell human stories. Her work sits at the edge of memory, myth and history. She is particularly interested in the stories that inhabit a place, and how place inhabits us.

charlottewatson.org

@cwatson_studio

George Duckett

Glen Fox

Glen Fox was born in Jersey in 1992. He is both an artist and a professional skateboarder. In 2011, while studying Art and Design at Highlands College, he started gaining attention for his skateboarding. His art reflects his skateboarding background—loose, free, and full of movement.

g-fox.com

@Gfox_painting

Graeme Thompson

@graeme_thompson

Josh Simpson

Josh Simpson is a Melbourne-based artist whose work explores the threshold between fantasy and reality. Filled with visual tropes and clichés his work playfully comments on contemporary experience and his place within it. Imbued with whimsy and unease, his bold use of colour, gentle gradients and layered surfaces are both arresting and unsettling.

joshsimpson.com.au

@josh_simpson_artist

Lana Daubermann

Lana Daubermann is a landscape and still life painter living near Melbourne’s Merri Creek. Lana primarily works in oils and enjoys the immersive qualities of paint and its endless possibilities in mark-making. Painting en plein air and direct from life is an important part of her practice as she explores the process of painting and drawing and the unique way it can connect us to the world. With a traditional background in tonalism, her attention over the years has shifted more towards intuition and colour.

lanadaubermann.com

@lana_daubermann

Priscilla Manthey

@priscillamantheyart

Raymond Carter

@raymondcarterart

Sandra Espinoza

Espinoza’s abstract oil paintings have been showcased in numerous local exhibitions, including several group and solo shows between 2023 and 2025. In June of 2024, Espinoza participated in a one-month artist residency with Can Serrat in Barcelona. Revisiting the works of Picasso and Miro, amongst contemporary works during her stay in Barcelona, reignited her passion for modern and minimalist art. Participation in residency opportunities has been extremely rewarding, productive and pivotal to Espinoza’s future direction as a painter and has confirmed her commitment to an intuitive practice.

@s_e_prints

Valentina Palonen

Valentina Palonen is a Finnish-Australian visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice draws on colour, intuitive impulses and automatic drawing to express affective experiences of the world. Embracing a fluid approach to painting, she invites spontaneous forms to emerge from her subconscious overlaying the mythological, psychological and experiential.

valentinapalonen.com

@valentinapalonen

Wendy Black

@macblackprintroom

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