Dawn Tan

Hi! I'm Dawn. I live in Melbourne. I spend a lot of my time eating and cooking. I love food so much, it makes me make art out of it.

I create drawings and soft sculptures out of fabrics, choosing packaging I'm drawn to. But ultimately, the reason for creating food related art, comes from my intrigue with how packaged food is taking over natural, organic food. The idea of consumption becoming obsessive, how traditional made-from-scratch meals are now replaced often by instant colourful packaged food, serves as a basis for much of the work I create

Emma Sulzer

http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/articles/Tapestry-Trainers---Emma-Sulzer/

Ilka White

http://ilka.com.au/

Kate Just

http://www.katejustart.blogspot.com/

Kate Just is an American-born Australian artist known for her process-based and tactile art practice involving knitted sculpture, mixed media sculpture, collage, digital print, and video.

In earlier, nature-inspired works, Just created elaborate, knitted figurative sculptures and environments to explore mythology and her own personal experiences. These included a tree with human arms and head, a woman descending into her backyard lawn, a corn field growing from a bed, and a woman turning into a laurel bush. In each, the seemingly appealing, vivid scene also communicated themes such as loss, transformation and the affinity of women with nature.

In more recent installations of mixed media sculpture and photo-collage works, Just mines archaeology, art history, symbology and religion to present viewers with a range of archetypal objects representing women's links with bodily space. These include a giant black egg hatching an ominous branch, a pink-tongued lotus plant, a triangular spider web, a group of glass vessels, collages of fictional surgical tools and a series of over-scaled clay-modelled, black keys.

Fiona Hall

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/fionahall/

 
(b. 1953) is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists.

She first emerged in the 1970s as a photographer, but during the 1980s transitioned to using a diverse range of art forms.  Hall's choice of material, and the way she uses it, is critical to her art. Hall deliberately transforms ordinary everyday objects to address a range of contemporary issues such as globalisation, consumerism, colonialism and natural history.
 

In 1994, Hall's Biodata explored the social and political implications of trade. For Medicine bundle for the non-born child (1994), she knitted a baby's matinee jacket, bonnet and bootees from shredded Coca-Cola cans, attended by a six-pack of Coke cans with rubber nipples. It addresses notions of nurturing within our consumer society.

Catherine Hearse

http://www.leggegallery.com/HEARSE/Hearse2.html

Laura McKellar

http://www.lauramckellar.com/

Leah Emery

http://www.heisergallery.com.au/artists/emery/index.html

Lucy McRae

http://www.lucymcrae.net/

Jade Pegler

http://www.jadepegler.net/


Wollongong, Australia
She works with paper and textiles combining a range of techniques including papiermache, bookbinding, hand and machine stitching, collage and origami.

Britt Salt

http://www.perthgalleries.com.au/artists/salt.htm