About the Artist

Kitty Horton, Claudia Mazzotta, Kymberley McElroy & Marisa Culpo

About the artists

Kitty earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) in 2013, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Education (Senior Years) from QUT in 2014. She is actively engaged in the arts industry through public art projects, workshops, residencies, and vocational teaching. Her multi-disciplinary works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Australia and are held in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, and France.

Marisa Culpo is an interdisciplinary artist and a graduate of the Queensland College of Art. Her practice is driven by experimentation, focusing on the process, materiality, and function of art. She explores the dynamic relationship between medium and meaning, investigating how materials shape expression and interpretation. Through her work, Marisa challenges traditional principle boundaries of form and shape and line, embracing a fluid and intuitive approach to making. Working across textiles and clay, she emphasises surface, pattern, and the handmade, drawing attention to the tactile nature of her materials.

Claudia Mazzotta’s multidisciplinary practice is anchored by an experimental textile process. Her work consists of hand stitching on old fabrics (often several centuries old) these textiles have been collected from various origins. With each stitch made meticulously by hand, Mazzotta engraves stories of life onto textiles, rejecting the structured tradition of embroidery. She considers her needle and thread to be drawing tools. Mazzotta begins with studies of the intended subject using various mediums. Knowing that repetition will allow for intimacy and the unexpected to take hold. Mazzotta sees the structure of her work as an investigation of ‘the intangible’.

Kymberley McElroy is an emerging multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours (Class I) at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, in 2016. Her practice explores the connections between memory, place, and object, drawing from personal experience, social history, and photographic family archives, challenging how objects and images elicit and reinterpret memory. Kymberley has exhibited her work in a range of solo and group exhibitions across Australia, showcasing her evolving practice within contemporary art.

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