Damien Shen is a South Australian man of Ngarrindjeri and Chinese bloodlines. His artistic practice is embedded in histories, revisiting the people, places and stories that shape the world he occupies.

Image: Damien Shen, A message from God to the Blackfellow – Taplin (detail), 2018.

Tristan Kerr’s influences include typography, urban art, contemporary public artwork and the revival of the decorative arts movement of hand sign-painting.

Image: Tristan Kerr, Going Nowhere But Here Mural, Adelaide, 2015. Photograph Tash McCammon.

Christian Hall is a designer and maker whose practice spans sculpture, jewellery, furniture and everyday objects.

Image: Christian Hall, Hex Pendant, 2016 Stainless Steel and Silver, Silver Trussed Brooch, 2016, Silver. Photograph Grant Hancock.

Gus Clutterbuck embraces risk and experimentation to keep his work fresh and interesting, and constantly evolving. His work is inspired by direct immersion in place, experience, personal history and the potential of broken and discarded objects to tell stories about our culture.

Image: Gus Clutterbcuk, Plastic Geology, 2011, Private Collection Shanghai. Photograph Grant Hancock.

James Dodd is an artist who works across a wide range of mediums. He is interested in the splashes of creativity that can be found in public spaces, especially suburbia. This has many manifestations, from simple paintings to strange contraptions or sculptures that look like they have been “home-brewed in the garden shed”.

Image: James Dodd, Painitng Mill (detail), 2018.