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Vipoo Srivilasa 'Central to Vipoo Srivilasa’s creative practice is art’s ability to elicit the sense of joy, whilst also acting as a conduit for serious issues...'
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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Combining a playful sense of humour and an engagement with art historical precedents, the duo's work is characterised by the deconstruction and reinvention of prefabricated structures and objects into extraordinary sculptures and installations.
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Louise Zhang 'The greatest tool in painting is colour, because colour has the greatest way of manipulating perspective.'
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Casey Chen Casey Chen’s ceramics practice references historical illustrations from an eclectic mix of folklore, mythology and pop culture.
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Luan Nguyen Luan Nguyen is a self-taught, Sydney-based artist whose work explores the negotiation of
identity between cultures. Having moved from Vietnam to Australia a decade ago, he utilises
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Mei Lin Meyers Mei Lin Meyers is a Disabled, Queer, Trans and Chinese-Anglo artist who lives on unceded Wangal Land. Mei Lin loves ginger, lemons, clutter and pedestal fans, and these motifs of familial significance, are repeated throughout his painting, drawing and sculpture practice. -
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Claire Engkaninan Low Claire Engkaninan Low is an Australian painter who often works on abandoned or pre-landfill materials. Her practice is influenced by her identity as an Asian Australian and her love of sustainability and entomology. -
Kaylee Lim Kaylee Lim is a Malaysian-Australian artist based in Sydney, working primarily with porcelain and oil paint. Drawing on diasporic experience, humour, and culturally specific iconography, her practice examines how identity is negotiated, performed, and racialised within the Australian context. -
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Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin is a senior Pitjantjatjara artist committed to passing on her cultural knowledge to the next generation of Anangu. She is a painter, and director of Mimili Maku Arts.
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Savannah Jarvis Savannah Jarvis is an Meanjin/Brisbane artist whose multidisciplinary practice investigates pain and the historical difficulties in it’s communication.
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Tom Blake Tom Blake’s practice draws on fragmented moments, looped imagery and recurring motifs as potential sites for contemplating the psychological, architectural and technological frameworks that surround us.
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Between Earth and Moon
By Dylan BattyThe Year of the Fire Horse is a season of restless energy and forward motion. It is a time defined by gut-level ambition, by the instinct to make decisive moves and leave the static safety of the past behind in favour of something more kinetic. Our latest exhibition, Between Earth and Moon, inhabits this charged space, exploring the tension between where we come from and where we are compelled to go. It is a meditation on momentum, and on the resolve required to bridge the distance between the present moment and future possibility.
In the spirit of renewal and “new life,” the exhibition brings together a considered mix of emerging voices and established artists from the N.Smith Gallery program. This is not simply a group presentation, but a deliberate convergence of perspectives. New artists are placed alongside foundational figures of the gallery, creating a dynamic exchange that oscillates between harmony and friction. Within this dialogue, tradition meets experimentation, and visual languages shift between reverence and disruption.
While the Fire Horse provides the symbolic spark, the exhibition itself is fuelled by the diversity of our community. Between Earth and Moon intentionally includes both Asian and non-Asian artists, reflecting the layered, interconnected cultural landscape in which these works are made and received. Across painting, sculpture, and installation, the artists engage with auspicious imagery, inherited symbolism, and subtly political undercurrents, allowing personal histories and collective narratives to intersect.
What emerges is a visual language that feels familiar at first glance, yet quietly subverts expectation. The works resist singular readings, instead revealing complexity through contrast, proximity, and exchange. Between Earth and Moon ultimately serves as a reminder that growth is rarely linear. It is a continual navigation between the weight of history and the pull of what lies ahead, between grounding and aspiration, between earth and moon.
