POP-UP: Waxing the Hearth

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• Alanna Baxter ›
• Anna Pearl ›
• Ella Skuza ›
• Jessica Guo ›
• Lily Walker ›
• Mandeep Singh ›
• Miracle Mak ›

• Alanna Baxter lives, works and makes on the unceded water ways and land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land. Alanna seeks to examine ideas of feedback, emphasizing ever-evolving notions of storytelling, ideology and care. How do we deconstruct the sacred in the absurd; reference in the meaning? Intertextuality seeks to question preconceived notions of community and desires, and what we might define as universal language.
• Anna Pearl is a multidisciplinary artist living and creating on unceded Bunurong land. She creates ornate pieces crafted from embroidery, fabrics, blades and clay. Through her maximalist approach, Anna builds dreamlike spaces of spectacle and wonder.
• Ella Skuza is an artist living and working across unceded Wurundjieri and Waddawurrung land. Her practice explores themes of heritage, tradition, and language to unpack unconventional family dynamics and connect with lost culture.
• Jessica Guo is a Chinese-Australian multidisciplinary artist, based in Naarm. Her focus is on story-telling, making capsules based in phenomenology, evocations of personal memories, human connections and emotions. Through exploring the fragments of her lived experiences, and sharing those stories in her practice, Jessica aims to better understand herself and her positionality, her work becoming a constantly evolving 'self-portrait.'
• Lily Walker is a Naarm-based artist who primarily works in oil paint. Her work explores ideas of care, intimacy, and value through the subject matter of the everyday . She is interested in how both the strange and the special emerge through the processes of looking, modes of representation and the act of painting.
• Mandeep Singh is a South Asian artist living, learning and working on unceded Wurundjeri land. She employs experimental photography, painting and sculpture to explore themes of cultural and personal memory, her practice allows her to relearn her Sikh identity from a diasporic positionality. A major interest for Mandeep is collaboration and connecting with community. This can elevate work and create a space for artists and materials to speak with one another.
• Miracle Mak is a multidisciplinary artist who is based in Naarm. Her works mainly focus on memories and emotions in private/public spaces. She started the “Potato Project” in 2022, her goal for this is to delve into the silly and absurd aspects of her love for potatoes, and explore how a food object can transcend life experiences and bring people together.