Le Grange Gallery | Creative Asia Art Centre

World Trade Centre Melbourne

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

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Festival Program

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Opening Event - 15 November 2025

Australasian Contemporary Artist Talk - 15 November 2025

Australasian Contemporary Artist Exhibition - 15 to 22 November 2025

Fluid Sample Exhibition - 15 to 21 November 2025

Multicultural Art Fair - 15 November 2025

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About the Exhibition

 

ACAA & CAF are proud to present Multicultural Art Festival 2025, a dynamic celebration of creativity without borders—a vibrant convergence of cultures, traditions, and contemporary visions. Bringing together artists, thinkers, and communities from across the globe, the festival showcases the power of art to connect, inspire, and transcend differences.

 

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

 

Layered Thinking

 

This exhibition invites audiences into a constellation of artistic practices shaped by overlapping histories, cultural memory, migration, and lived experience. Rather than singular narratives, the works presented here unfold through layers—revealing how identity is formed through accumulation, contradiction, and continual negotiation across time and place.

Each artist offers a distinct exploration of how layered ways of thinking can become a creative methodology—one that embraces complexity, holds tension, and allows meaning to emerge gradually.​

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Featured Artists

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• Doaah Albatat – An emerging Australian artist whose journey spans Iraq, Iran, and Australia.

• Germaine Chan – Malaysian-Chinese artist based in Melbourne, her practice bridges creativity and spirituality, using both digital and organic mediums

• Zeya Chen – Award-winning interaction artist, designer, and researcher whose practice bridges interactive art, data-enabled design, and behavioral research.

• Fina Ferrara – Multidisciplinary artist working across contemporary dance, theatre, and visual art.

• Hovan Forbes – Emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Australia, inspired by nature, light, and cultural memory.

• Hongguang Jiang – Renowned Chinese-Australian artist blending Eastern and Western traditions through nature-inspired practice.

• Zorg (Yifan Jing) – London-based visual artist with a background in illustration, exploring migration, cultural symbolism, and cross-cultural narratives through spatial practice.

• Wenqing Liang – Central Saint Martins graduate whose practice explores sustainable textiles through poetic material and process.

• Tasmina K Majles – Bangladeshi-Australian multidisciplinary artist exploring human perspectives, nature, and constructed realities.

• Dr. Angelina Mirabito – Italo-Australian abstract artist transforming emotion and reflection into expressive, texture-rich paintings.

• Anand Manchiraju – Indian multidisciplinary artist exploring nature, spirituality, daily life, and the human figure through painting, photography, and experimental techniques.

• Yuting Wang – Oil painter currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts.

• Erica Olina – A multidisciplinary artist and performer integrating visual art, psychology, and healing to explore creativity and human connection.

• Bhavya Vemulapalli – Australia-based Indian artist using watercolour and photojournalism to explore identity and lived experience.

• Bingzhao Xiong – Beijing-based artist passionate about painting.

• Heng Zhao – Born in Shapingba, Chongqing, Heng Zhao studied drawing in Leipzig and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

• Jingjing Xu – London-based interdisciplinary artist exploring the female body, social structures, and consciousness through experimental moving image and digital media.

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Special Collaboration: NOLO LAB x JINGYI TONG

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Nolo Lab is an experimental curatorial studio founded in Naples, Italy, by three young curators — Ayina, Wu Gio, and Kaixin — from the Naples Academy of Fine Arts. The studio explores the dialogue between art, curation, and the public, approaching exhibitions as open conversations rather than static displays.

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Jingyi Tong is a London-based curator and spatial artist whose work explores identity, bodily awareness, female experience, and social engagement. Using architectural and site-specific practices, she transforms everyday experiences into emotionally and socially resonant spaces.

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“Fluid Sample” is an international art project exploring the fluidity of individual identity. Its first edition in Naples provided a platform for emerging Asian artists worldwide. The second edition is presented by Nolo Lab in collaboration with Jingyi Tong, with support from the Creative Asia Art Center, as part of the Multicultural Art Festival 2025.

 

Curatorial Statement

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Layered Thinking is not simply an exhibition, but an ongoing dialogue across cultures, generations, and lived experiences. It asks:

How is identity formed when our stories are layered, intersecting, and continually evolving?

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

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Acknowledgements

 

Multicultural Art Festival 2025 is curated and produced by the Australian Contemporary Art Association (ACAA) 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 exhibiting artists and the curatorial team for sharing their vision, vulnerability, and creative urgency.