Current Studio Artists

Emmalyn Hawthorne

Emmalyn Hawthorne is an artist and writer. A process of collage investigating negative space has brought her to an expanded practice using new media processes. She is interested in how unusual juxtapositions and semantic multitudes in life foreground our need to make meaning. "There is something sad but also really human and honest in trying to narrativise the incongruous." Since completing honours at the Queensland College of Art in 2018, Emmalyn's work has been included in duo and group shows within Meanjin/Brisbane and Naarm/Melbourne and her writing has been published locally by zines and for exhibitions. She recently completed Orrery, an online project with Hannah Jenkins for KINGS Artist-Run, as well as Astrolabe, her first solo show, at TCB in Naarm/Melbourne late last year. 

Ólöf Kristín

Ólöf Kristín is an Icelandic artist based in Brisbane. She first moved to Australia for an exchange semester at the Queensland University of Technology in 2020. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Art, Design and Dissemination at Oslo Metropolitan University in 2021. Ólöf’s work explores themes of identity and the intricacies of contemporary society. She juxtaposes realistic and surreal imagery to construct uncanny images which subvert typical representations of reality. While focusing on traditional techniques, such as oil painting, Ólöf combines these methods in experimental ways to create contemporary aesthetics.

Leeroy Chapman

Since returning home from living and working in London, Leeroy’s work has been a way for him to continually reflect of what is ‘Australia’ and our recent national history. A lot of his current works have been made from drawing upon art historical processes and the material records of objects he is intuitively drawn to, These materials and processes are then coupled with his experience growing up in a working class family in Newcastle which heavily informs his interest in both natural and man made materials ranging from seeds, rocks and plants to coins, gems and precious metal castings. From these objects he considers and questions their inherent meaning by presenting and playing with archival and institutional displays, as ways to ask the viewer to look closely and consider what the objects are and where they come from, and to reflect this back to their own values and the things that they most care about. He hopes, through this recent investigation of sculpture, to offer a contemporary view on old traditions and help to create a better understanding of the beauty, materials and history of country.