Let’s Meet: Nat Penney

Let’s Meet: Nat Penney

Image: Nat Penney, ‘I almost fell off my chair!’, 2022, stainless steel, European Beech timber, brass, Bus Projects, photograph courtesy Christo Crocker. Nat Penney is based in Tarntanya (Adelaide). Combining processes from timber furniture-making and metal...
Let’s Meet: Angela De Palma

Let’s Meet: Angela De Palma

Image: Angela De Palma holding Full moon grief in the city of expectations, 2023, woodblock print on Canson Cartridge, 110 x 71 cm, photograph by Josh Searson. Angela De Palma is a Queer abstract artist living and working on Kaurna land. They are the 2025 Helpmann...
Let’s Meet: Juliane Brandt

Let’s Meet: Juliane Brandt

Image: The view from outside Juliane’s studio at The Mill, 2024, photograph Bri Hammond. Juliane Brandt is a figurative sculpture artist working with charred wood and clay. Her sculptures showcase the transformation originating from an ever-changing environment and...
Let’s Meet: Swapna Namboodiri

Let’s Meet: Swapna Namboodiri

Image: Working on the finalist artwork for the Australian Wearable Art Festival, 2025, image courtesy the artist. As a multidisciplinary artist, Swapna Namboodiri’s art practice is deeply rooted in the exploration of upcycled materials, transforming discarded objects...

Let’s Meet: Sakthivel Eakambaranathan

Image: Sakthivel Eakambaranathan, The Orb, 2025, aluminium sheet metal, laser cut and folded, photograph Jackie Gu.  Sakthivel Eakambaranathan is an emerging artist and graduate architect fascinated by the potential of folding metals, where the ephemeral beauty of...
Let’s Meet: Kirsty Martinsen

Let’s Meet: Kirsty Martinsen

Image: Kirsty Martinsen, Bodiness inSPACE, September 2024, photograph Sam Roberts. Kirsty Martinsen is a painter, writer, filmmaker and performer who draws upon life experience as a disabled artist to inform her unique practice. Sustained by her love of colour and...