Rita Bellati is an emerging artist living and working in Tarntanya / Adelaide. She successfully completed first class Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) in 2024 at Adelaide Central School of Art. Bellati adopts a materials led practice, exploring themes of care, entangled relationships and a reverence for the natural environment. Mixed media, including drawing, painting, assembling and sewing are employed to articulate feelings and engage in the energetic nature of materials. Bellati’s practice is informed by lived experience of caring for others both professionally and personally, as well as a feminist ethics of care that is inclusive and that views life and matter as a web of interrelationships. As well as exhibiting in some group art shows, Bellati received two awards at the recent Graduate Show at Adelaide Central School of Art. These include an award for high achievement as well as an opportunity to participate in a group exhibition at Gallery 42 in August 2025. Her aim as an emerging artist is to continue consolidating a visual art practice through studio practice, research, and engaging in the arts community.

Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living on Kaurna Land (South Australia). Her work explores the effects of migrant displacement and post-memory through impressionistic forms, often with other family members as subjects.

She works between the intersections of cinema and installation where the darkened room illuminates fragments and impressions of familial history. By working between the gaps of knowledge and history left from the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge, she reimagines the threads of connection within her Cambodian heritage and diasporic identity. Through the practice of filming, photographing, listening and recording to her surroundings, the collected material over several years becomes both a professional archive and a tactile body of personal memory.

Since graduating with Honours in painting at UniSA in 2014, she has made numerous films and moving image work. She received the 2022 Porter St Commission from ACE Gallery. Her works have exhibited at MCA, New York Film Festival and Visions du Réel.

Nicole Clift (b. 1994) is a visual artist and writer predominantly working in painting, tapestry weaving and installation. Nicole has exhibited across public, private and artist-run galleries including the Art Gallery of South Australia, PADA Studios - Portugal, Post Office Projects, FELTspace ARI, Central Gallery, Staff Only, Floating Goose Studios, Newmarch Gallery and Firstdraft gallery - Sydney. Nicole’s curiosity for approaches to intangible planetary phenomena (time, light, entropy, gravity etc) bleed into her abstract paintings and handwoven tapestries by way of ancient motifs, modern abstraction and optical pattern.

In 2024 Nicole was commissioned to create new work for the 2024/5 major survey exhibition Radical Textiles for the Art Gallery of South Australia, exhibiting alongside works by Sheila Hicks, Sonia Delaunay, Kiki Smith and more.

Nicole’s writing has been commissioned by fineprint magazine, the 2024 Neoterica exhibition publication, various solo exhibitions held in South Australia as well as the 2025 Wakefield Press monograph on Dr Sue Kneebone. Nicole holds a first-class Honours degree in Visual Art (2019) from Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia.

Visual artist on Kaurna Land, working across photography, film, painting, drawing and pottery. Inspired by nature and everyday life, she draws from what’s outside her front door: ocean swims, birds minding their own business, shifting skies and moments of connection. Her colourful, abstract works use gestural lines and layered textures to explore memory, identity and imagination. For Annie, art is storytelling, a chance to change the world and a way to reconnect with land, heritage and community. 

Lesley Cooper is an Adelaide-based emerging textile artist whose work focuses on global warming and its impact on people and environments. She uses textiles to explore personal and societal uncertainty, turmoil, loss and grief and slow ecological destruction evidenced in fires, droughts and destructive marine agents.  

Textiles are the vehicle for presenting the work. These materials include linen, hessian, wool, cotton and silk; all spring from the earth. Textiles have the capacity to alter their surfaces through manipulation, abrasion, burying, washing and soaking or punching. They can hide as well as reveal and easily represent loss and conflicted emotional responses to global warming.  Textiles represent a palimpsest of the violence, destruction and decay we impose on our environment. Emotional struggles are captured as populations deal with water insecurity, fires or erosion. All expose the blackness, decay and death of an environment without sustainable life.  Despite death and decay, corrosion is not inevitable. Hope, repair and reparation maintain a presence. Emotional sensitivities and the urgency of change drive her work.

In 2026, Cooper received a BVA (Honours) from Adelaide Central School of Art complementing previous academic studies. Her works are held in private collections in Australia.

Drawing inspiration from recollections of past experiences and documented material, South Australian-based painter Lee Coulthard delves into the interplay between reality, memory, and imagination. He uses controlled human-computer processes, intuition, colour, and repetitive action to create patterned paintings that evoke a distorted perceptual experience and a hazy sense of remembrance.

His interest in pursuing a career as an artist developed from a 20-year career in warehousing and logistics. Intrigued by the possibilities of creating an aesthetic using a human-computer data-driven process, he completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Art from the University of South Australia in 2023. Upon graduating, Lee was nominated for the University Graduate Creative Art Award and his paintings were selected for the Helpmann Academy Graduate exhibition. He has since been invited to exhibit in group exhibitions, completed private commissions, collaborated on paintings with other artists and been a finalist in art prizes. Lee is currently undertaking a studio program at Post Office Projects and volunteers his time teaching basic painting and photography as an alternative distraction for people dealing with mental health issues.

Lee has been a finalist in the Gallery M Art Prize and was awarded the Premier Art Prize at the invitational LoretoSpringArt exhibition in 2023. Most recently, he was the recipient of the Highly Commended Award of the 2024 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize.

Dr. Maarten Daudeij (1981, Well, the Netherlands) works in experimental crossovers between painting, collage and AV/XR. He holds a PhD and MFA from the Univsersity of South Australia, Adelaide and a BFA from Gerrit Tietveld Akademie, Amerstam. His work investigates history, karma, trauma, responsibility and joy, structure, love and beauty. He develops language-based installations, using his poetry, as well as found-text, to build soundscapes, musical installations and audio collages, most notably House of the Wind: Monument in Honour of its Absence, at the Art Gallery of South Australia, supported by Guildhouse and Creative Australia (formerly Australia Council). Daudeij has created works in Extended Reality such as All Silence Sees is Song: Recalling Wishes to the Winds, at the Palmer Sculpture Landscape and Memorial Meteorites: Echoes of Eternity, at the Adelaide City Library, supported by the Adelaide City Council. More recently Dr. Daudeij has dedicated himself to an extended period of contemplation in his studio/hermitage on the Fleurieu Peninsula, Kaurna Yerta.

Bianca Hoffrichter is a contemporary artist living and working on Kaurna Country, Adelaide. Her practice spans installation, photography, painting, textiles, and new media. A sustained interrogation of identity, ethics, and power underpins her work. Her practice is characterised by immersive installations which interrogate the role of viewers as participants, which explore our relationships with objects, and collaborative modes of practice. 

Hoffrichter completed her Specialisation in Photography Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2018, and Honours of Creative Arts at the University of South Australia in 2021. In 2018 Hoffrichter was awarded the New Colombo Plan scholarship and undertook specialised study at RMIT Vietnam. This included a major international exhibition at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum, and an artist in residence at Muong Studio. Hoffrichter has been selected for other international and local artist-in-residence programs including in Japan, Egypt, and remote Tasmania. In 2019 Hoffrichter was awarded a Helpmann Elevate Mentorship with Gee Greenslade, and in 2026 a Guildhouse Catapult Mentorship with Sera Waters. She has also received other funded opportunities, honourable mentions, and has been published in multiple arts publications including internationally. Hoffrichter’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is held in private collections across Australia.

Danny Jarratt is an emerging artist based in South Australia. His practice is project-based, with themes exploring escapism, video games as a cultural object, queerness and painting.

Danny's practice is both political and shaped by personal experience. As a queer child growing up in a heteronormative society, Danny always felt 'othered.' He dealt with this alienation by diving deep into the fantastical world of video games. His practices explore how video games can be read as a queer space, often existing outside heteronormativity with different laws and social norms.

Danny is a graduate of the University of South Australia with honours. A selection of his exhibitions include FELTspace, Adelaide; Collective Haunt, Adelaide; MOD, Adelaide; Praxis Artspace, Adelaide; Seventh Gallery, Melbourne; Metro Arts, Brisbane; Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra; and MOM-us Experimental Center for the Arts, Greece. Danny has received grant funding from Helpmann Academy and ArtsSA.

Gugada and Wirangu person with Thai ancestry based on Kaurna Yarta. With a practice centred in (re)claiming language and translation, Jayda Wilson focuses on the (re)telling, (re)memory and (re)archiving of their Gugada and Wirangu family history often told through poetics, sound and family archives.  Wilson’s work has been exhibited locally and nationally in galleries such as Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (SA), Nexus Art (SA), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (WA), Linden New Art (VIC) and Ames Yavuz (NSW), with their writing published in The Rocks Remain, Splinter Journal and Southerly Journal.