A collective of artists, friends and shared studios creating unique artworks through a diverse range of mediums in response to the word ‘Collect’. The exhibition also features an insight into the inspiration and creative process of the artworks through moving images. Artists: Elizabeth Barnett, David Booth, Kat Chadwick, Hamish Freeman, Georgia Janetzki, Kim Lam, Ellie Malin, Klarissa Pfisterer, Danie Pout, Cat Rabbit, Jess Racklyeft, Shelley Steer and Anna Walker.
St Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent
19th April - 4th May
St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford 3067
Wed–Sat 9am–11pm
Sunday 3pm–9pm
Elizabeth Barnett
Elizabeth Barnett’s vibrant still life paintings introduce exotic and visually compelling botanicals to domestic scenes of treasured objects, books and furniture.
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Kat Chadwick
Kat is a lover of hand drawn lines, especially inky ones. She really enjoys the feel of the pen nib sliding/dragging/scratching on paper and all the little accidents that happen along the way. Kat has illustrated a wide range of projects for all sorts for clients, including the Washington Post, Monocle Magazine and the NGV.
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Hamish Freeman
With a background in Graphic Design and Landscape Architecture, Hamish has always had a fascination with geometry, places and spaces through time. Hamish works mostly in print, primarily on book projects big and small with fellow publication designer Klarissa Pfisterer at the Abbotsford Convent arts precinct.
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Georgia Janetzki
Georgia has worked as a communication designer, editorial illustrator and visual artist for the past 30 years. She worked in studios FHA and Nexus, and The Age newspaper before establishing her own business, freelancing since 1995. She is an academic in the Communication Design program at RMIT University and exhibits her work regularly.
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Kim Lam
Kim Lam is an illustrator, writer and reader. She is a Comic Arts Workshop alumni (2022), Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow (2020) and FCAC Emerging Cultural Leader (2019). Her work explores innocence, agency and death, often in blue.
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Ellie Malin
Ellie Malin is a Melbourne based artist working in relief woodblock printing and painting. Her visceral artworks are made up of a language of bold geometries and chromatic compositions. Inspired by observations from life, she translates her ideas into an intuitive world of layered fields of colour echoing place and memory.
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Klarissa Pfisterer
After working in design in Australia and the UK, Klarissa is one half of the publication design collaboration, Pfisterer + Freeman. Klarissa’s creative interests cross from image-making on the page to garment design and textile constructions, where her imagination moves into the sculptural dimension.
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Cat Rabbit
Cat Rabbit is a textile artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Using felt, recycled and vintage fabrics, Cat hand stitches plush sculptural works of her imagined characters and the worlds they might live in. From children’s books to large scale felt installations to magazine editorials, Cat works with the aim of bringing softness and warmth to the viewer.
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Jess Racklyeft
Jess Racklyeft is an illustrator and more recently author based in Melbourne. Jess loves working with watercolours and digital illustration, and finds inspiration in the laneways and city, as well as Merri Creek and trips out of town to the beautiful country surrounding Melbourne.
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Shelley Steer
Shelley Steer is a Melbourne-based textile designer and artist specialising in watercolour. Inspired by the timeless tradition of botanical illustration, her work is often rich in colour and meticulous detail. She has worked with a variety of clients including Anthropologie, Petite Friture, The Plant Society and Vogue Living.
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Anna Walker
Anna Walker is an illustrator and author of picture books for children. Her stories are inspired by the quiet and sometimes joyful details of life. Anna lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne surrounded by feathery and felt creatures.
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We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, make and exhibit work. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future.