Amber Macklin is a Naarm/ Melbourne based artist currently preoccupied with drawing, painting and metalwork. Amber completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT in 2022 and Bachelor of Fine Art Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2023. Amber has recently shown at 138 Gallery in 2024 alongside Milly James and Ange Nolan and in the VCA Honours 2023 Graduate Exhibition. Amber’s predominately workshop-based practice sees her cast and assemble found materials to produce and re-produce her objects. Through repetition, she looks to trace her desire as it shifts and circles.
Viva Hall is an artist and writer working in Naarm Melbourne, Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Monash University 2018 and Honours at the Victoria College of the Arts 2023. Viva works with themes of value, familiarity, and transience, using loaded and unusual materials, often second-hand or domestic. In her work, she employs DIY methods as an affective and material-driven sculptural device to harness fragility as a method of questioning. She has been writing for Imprint Magazine since 2020 and has exhibited in Naarm Melbourne and Te Aro Wellington, New Zealand.
Sophie Spence, based in Naarm / Melbourne, works primarily with drawing, photography and painting. In 2024 Sophie exhibited work in a group exhibition at West End Art Space and Blindside as part of a summer residency in collaboration with Adrian J. Song.