Emerging Art Beat Exhibition

RSVP Now Open | Emerging Art Beat: Of Memory, and the Worlds We’re Yet to Make

21 – 27 June 2025 (Exhibition may stay until 4 July 25)

Le Grange Gallery, Creative Asia Art Centre, World Trade Centre Melbourne

Level M, 18 -38 Siddeley St, Docklands VIC 3008

We are thrilled to present Emerging Art Beat 2025, a vibrant, week-long exhibition featuring 25 rising artists from Victoria’s multicultural, diasporic, and underrepresented communities.

Exploring the theme “Of Memory, and the Worlds We’re Yet to Make,” the exhibition gathers works across painting, photography, installation, digital and textile art, sculpture, and performance. Together, these practices speak to memory, identity, displacement, belonging, and the speculative futures that artists are actively shaping through creative thought and form.

Highlights

Opening Night Celebration

🗓️ Friday, 20 June 2025

🕠 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Celebrate the exhibition launch with featured artists, curators, and guests. Enjoy thoughtful conversations, immersive art, wine, and refreshments in a welcoming community setting.

Memory Circle Workshop

🗓️Saturday, 28 June 2025

🕠 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Draw, write, and share a moment that lives in your memory.

Artist Talks & Public Programs

Engage in a series of artist-led workshops and dialogue sessions focused on cultural storytelling, personal narratives, and creative experimentation.

Collect Original Works

Many of the exhibited works are available for purchase. Support emerging talent and build your collection with distinctive pieces by the next generation of contemporary voices.

RSVP Required

Attendance for the Opening Night and public events is limited.

Come for the art. Stay for the stories, the voices, the wine — and the worlds we’re yet to make.

Meet the Artists

1. Austin Eaton – A multidisciplinary artist exploring memory and impermanence through long-exposure photography and atmospheric painting.

2. Erica Olina – Model, performer, and art therapist in training whose zodiac-inspired artworks fuse myth, psychology, and emotional symbolism.

3. Connie Wong – Abstract painter whose colour-driven, gestural works embody emotional release and the sublime in motion.

4. Sinead Rush – 35mm analogue photographer whose hand-developed prints reflect intimacy, nature, and quiet emotional depth.

5. Tianyun Zhao – Moving image artist blending AI, fashion aesthetics, and Eastern philosophy to construct surreal digital dreamscapes.

6. Regina Yu– Painter inspired by mysticism and inner healing, creating spiritual iconography and contemplative imagery.

7. Janie Platakis – Graphite and installation artist reinterpreting Greek mythology through a feminist lens and fragmented poetic text.

8. Ruisi Rose – Painter and photographer crafting emotional landscapes that reflect displacement, care, and cycles of memory.

9. Zhen (Zhenjoy) – Poet-artist blending traditional Chinese aesthetics with personal reflection in lacquer painting, calligraphy, and photography.

10. Demi Kromidellis – Greek-Australian photographer exploring cultural memory and generational fragmentation through archival material and installation.

11. Ellen Jury – Painter of mundane suburban spaces that quietly reveal isolation, nostalgia, and emotional dissonance.

12. Imogen Gailitis-Gerraty – Multimedia artist using photography, prosthetics, and performance to explore identity through self-transformation.

13. Jonathon Fisher – Drawing and printmaking artist reflecting on Australia’s whaling history and environmental legacy through personal lineage.

14. Juliet Collins – Textile and sculpture artist who excavates female memory, care, and visibility through poetic installation.

15. Simon Beuve – French-Australian urban artist inspired by graffiti and decay, capturing the poetics of impermanence.

16. Natalie H. Reed – Installation artist blending theatricality, ritual, and melancholy to reflect on self-construction and absence.

17. Sherry Liu – Sculpture and digital artist building post-human floral futures and “cyber relics” from natural and synthetic materials.

18. Crystal Li – Painter translating quiet emotional growth and self-awareness into intimate acrylic works.

19. Pinky Qian – Artist fusing sensual aesthetics with psychological tension, inspired by classical painting and pop music icons.

20. Paul Zhao – Illustrator and painter blending anime, nostalgia, and oil painting into emotionally rich fantasy portraits.

21. Sherry Wang – Young emerging artist exploring psychological pain and vulnerability through stark monochrome figuration.

22. Holly Sutherland – Painter of imagined domestic interiors that evoke spatial ambiguity, memory, and psychological tension.

23. Kamilla Musland – Norwegian photographer using textile image transfer to reflect on homeland, nostalgia, and belonging.

24. Baillie Jackson – Queer artist combining photography, clay, and text to preserve ephemeral emotions and inner truths.

25. Morgandy Walker – Installation artist exploring gender, ritual, and memorialisation through sculpture and embodied archive-making.