Sarah Elson is an artist who has pursued an interest in traditional metalsmithing and its use in contemporary visual arts practice for over 30 years. Her work examines the nature of preciousness and the preciousness of nature. She graduated from Curtin University’s former Jewellery and 3D Design course in 1991 where she went on to teach as a casual tutor for 24 years.

In 2001 she was the recipient of a Samstag Scholarship and holds an MFA from the Chelsea School of Art and Design, London. Sarah has exhibited locally and internationally including solo exhibitions Anigozanthos (eudaimonia hybrid) at Galerie Düsseldorf in 2007, phloem poetica at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) in 2010 and Fasciation – expectations of growth, Art Collective, Perth 2020.

Her work is held in numerous collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. She is a member of the Art Collective, Perth and currently lives and works on Whadjuk Boodgar and teaches Visual Art at John Curtin College of the Arts in Walyalup (Fremantle). 

A painter of large, vibrant images, Brisbane/Meanjin artist De Gillett Cox captures intensity, optimism and joy with her brushes and knives. Her highly textured canvases demand our attention, shouting off the wall with a vibrant new take on familiar subjects.

De skilfully orchestrates highly developed drawing techniques together with a kaleidoscope of colour across her canvases. Contrasting opacity with transparency, positive with negative; she fills her contemporary interpretations of landscape, flowers, and figures with colours of exuberance, sumptuous celebration, and an organic neo-futurism.

Steve Makse is a Fremantle-based visual artist working across a diverse range of media, including oil painting and digital design. Steve can often be found painting ‘en plein-air’ (outdoors) around Fremantle and in rural WA.

He has been a three-time finalist in the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture (before it became The Lester Prize), and participated in two artist residencies in China. He also works as a freelance graphic designer/illustrator and teaches graphic design at Curtin University.