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Artist Profiles
Connections brings together four artists whose practices explore the subtle and powerful ways we are linked - to our environment, to memory, to place, and to one another. Across painting, wood, and ceramics, each artist works with materials that carry their own histories, revealing how form, surface and process can speak of resilience, transformation and belonging.
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Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews creates semi-abstract landscape paintings that act as emotional maps of experience. Responding to the shifting spaces between memory and place, her work explores the in-between - those liminal environments where feeling, history and landscape overlap. Through colour, gesture and atmosphere, Andrews captures not just what is seen, but what is remembered and felt.
Ceramic artist Ri Van Veen, based in Bacchus Marsh,
Ri Van Veen
Ceramic artist Ri Van Veen, based in Bacchus Marsh, works with Raku firing to embrace the unpredictable dialogue between clay and flame. Her practice is grounded in mindfulness, nature and memory, drawing inspiration from expansive skies, shifting landscapes and the intimate patterns of growth and decay. Each piece carries the energy of its making - a record of heat, chance and time.
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Joanne Linsdell
Ballarat-based artist Joanne Linsdell reimagines the everyday. Drawing from domestic and industrial objects, her practice moves between drawing, sculpture and ceramics, layering decorative and personal gestures over familiar forms. Her works gently disrupt the ordinary, inviting us to reconsider the objects that shape daily life and the emotional traces they carry.
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Damien McNamara
Damien McNamara transforms reclaimed and ethically sourced timber into sculptural bowls and vessels that honour the quiet stories held within the grain. Working under McNamara Woodcrafts, his pieces celebrate natural imperfection. Through charring, carving and copper stitching, his Adurere collection embraces fracture as a form of beauty - a reminder that strength and grace often emerge from what has been broken.
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