21 – 27 June 2025 (Exhibition may extend until 4 July)

Le Grange Gallery | Creative Asia Art Centre

World Trade Centre Melbourne

Level M, 18–38 Siddeley Street, Docklands VIC 3008

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About the Exhibition

 

AMACC & CAF are proud to present Emerging Art Beat 2025, a bold and dynamic group exhibition featuring 26 rising artists from across Victoria’s multicultural, diasporic, and underrepresented communities.

 

Spanning painting, installation, photography, digital media, sculpture, performance, and text-based works, this year’s exhibition explores the theme:

 

Of Memory, and the Worlds We’re Yet to Make

 

This evocative collection invites audiences into artistic landscapes shaped by memory, identity, displacement, ecology, queerness, intergenerational reflection, and the speculative futures artists imagine through form and language. These works traverse cultural thresholds and timelines—offering intimate rituals, ancestral echoes, fragmented archives, and embodied futures.

 

Each artist presents their unique vision of how personal and collective memory can become a catalyst for transformation—and how acts of remembering, reimagining, and reclaiming shape the world to come.

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Program Highlights

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Opening Night Celebration

 

Friday, 20 June 2025 | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Celebrate the official launch of Emerging Art Beat with exhibiting artists, curators, and guests.

Enjoy live music, thoughtful conversation, immersive artworks and light refreshments in a welcoming creative environment.

 

RSVP essential — limited capacity.

 

Artist Talks & Public Programs

Throughout the exhibition week, join a series of workshops, talks, and guided sessions led by participating artists and curators. Learn about the stories behind the works, the cultural traditions and lived experiences that inform their practices, and the experimental processes that bring them to life.

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Collect Original Works

Many featured artworks are available for acquisition. Support the next generation of talent by collecting original pieces from emerging contemporary voices. Prices and purchase inquiries available onsite or at legrangegallery.com/emergingartbeat 

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Featured Artists

 

Discover 26 emerging artists who challenge, reflect, and reimagine through their diverse practices:

• Amy Kim – Melbourne-based visual artist whose poetic abstract works explore memory, emotion, and connection.

• Austin Eaton – Long-exposure photography and atmospheric painting exploring impermanence.

• Erica Olina – Mythic and psychological portraiture inspired by the zodiac.

• Connie Wong – Abstract expression through emotive colour and gesture.

• Sinead Rush – 35mm analogue photography capturing intimacy and nature.

• Tianyun Zhao – AI-enhanced digital dreamscapes rooted in fashion and Eastern thought.

• Regina Yu – Spiritual painter creating mystic, healing iconography.

• Janie Platakis – Feminist graphite and text-based installations inspired by Greek mythology.

• Ruisi Rose – Emotional landscapes exploring care, memory, and migration.

• Zhen – Traditional Chinese lacquer, calligraphy, and poetic self-reflection.

• Demi Kromidellis – Archival-based photography examining cultural memory.

• Ellen Jury – Paintings of suburban stillness and emotional dissonance.

• Imogen Gailitis-Gerraty – Multimedia identity explorations using prosthetics and self-performance.

• Jonathon Fisher – Print and drawing practice rooted in environmental and personal history.

• Juliet Collins – Textile sculptures on female memory, labour, and care.

• Simon Beuve – Urban decay and poetic impermanence through mixed media.

• Natalie H. Reed – Installation works blending ritual, theatricality, and absence.

• Sherry Liu – Post-human sculptures and digital relics blending nature and tech.

• Crystal Li – Intimate acrylic paintings capturing quiet emotional shifts.

• Pinky Qian – Sensual, psychologically charged work blending pop and classical references.

• Paul Zhao – Anime-infused oil painting with themes of nostalgia and identity.

• Sherry Wang – Minimalist figuration exploring emotional and psychological pain.

• Holly Sutherland – Paintings of imagined interiors filled with liminality and tension.

• Kamilla Musland – Norwegian photographer using textile transfer and nostalgia.

• Baillie Jackson – Queer practice of preservation through photography, clay, and text.

• Morgandy Walker – Installation work exploring memory, ritual, and identity archives.

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Curatorial Statement

Of Memory, and the Worlds We’re Yet to Make is not merely an exhibition, but a living conversation — between generations, cultures, disciplines, and imagined tomorrows. It asks:
What might we build, remember, or dream—when memory is our starting point?

Through creative language and form, these artists invite us to listen, to linger, and to imagine forward.

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Acknowledgements

 

Emerging Art Beat 2025 is curated and produced by the Australia Multi Art & Culture Council (AMACC) and Creative Asia Foundation, and proudly hosted at Le Grange Gallery | Creative Asia Art Centre, located within World Trade Centre Melbourne.

 

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Victorian Government and the broader arts community. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the 26 exhibiting artists and the curatorial team for sharing their vision, vulnerability, and creative urgency.