About the Artist

Group Exhibition

Charlotte Robertson  /  Emily Anderson (McDuff)  /  Frances Powell  /  Jasmine Mansbridge  /  Kitty Horton  /  Nyx  /  Rene Garza  /  Sharlie Wise  /  Shonnie Lea  /  Suzi Novak  /  Andrew Sleeman  

Charlotte Robertson 
Charlotte Robertson (b.1983)  is an artist and somatic therapist living in Dunedin, New Zealand. She works with oil paint on ply and paper, creating works that are talismanic in nature. Influenced by personal mythology, the natural world and visionary states, she creates altar-like compositions that invite the viewer to embark on their own journey of interpretation. Charlotte is a self taught artist, actively exhibiting in group and solo shows across New Zealand and internationally. She has been selected for the Wassaic Project artist residency in New York and will be attending in 2026

Emily Anderson
Emily Anderson is an emerging artist and illustrator based in Meanjin/Brisbane. She creates introspective mixed-media work that is driven by process, intuition, and emotion. She uses symbolism, the human figure, pattern, and text to explore the relationship between inner, outer, and imaginary worlds with particular interests in mental health, identity, and the systems we use to make sense of ourselves and the world.

Frances Caro
Frances is a visual artist & arts facilitator in Magandjin (Brisbane), Australia. In her practice, she explores the concepts of personal introspection, object importance and the senses through visual art, written word and installation.

Frances utilises making as a mode of personal processing; of an inner world, found conversation, and social compositions. Her work hopes to shine a warm light on deeply human encounters, inviting the open-ended question of “this is what I see, what about you?”.

She studied a Bachelor of Fine Art (Studio) and Business (Marketing) at the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 2021. Currently, she works as a visual artist and events facilitator & marketing consultant. Frances has exhibited in Australia and internationally in Greece and Norway.

Jasmine Mansbridge
Jasmine Mansbridge is an artist based in Australia, known for creating deeply considered works that explore geometry, symbolism, and the unseen layers of human experience. Over almost three decades, she has developed a unique visual language that speaks to both the intellect and the spirit — using colour, form and structure to explore questions of connection, transformation, and purpose.

Kitty Horton
Kitty Horton’s artworks often explore the materiality of oils, mixed media and drawing as primary mediums in her visual art practice. Inspired by contemporary and modernist painting techniques, Kitty investigates her surroundings by creating distorted shapes, forms and motifs. Mark-making and the study of individual marks extend the relationship between painting and drawing. Kitty engages with spatial configurations of interior objects and design forms to provide compositional structures. The mediums of drawing and painting enable Kitty to investigate further the hard and soft duality of opposing, sometimes complimentary forms/marks.

NYX
Nyx is an artist and vulvactivist, determined to advocate for (all) women’s rights through the proliferation of pussy power. Her work explores the language and symbolic potential of the vagina as a source of female empowerment, lived experience and a vital site for activism. “We must have agency over our own bodies, the right to choose, self-determination, medical autonomy and access to information. We must celebrate ourselves, claim space and take back the language of our bodies in celebration of our embodied dynamism and in protest of the continued violence against women’s (including queer and trans) bodies — be it physical, political, social or through the limiting of rights, education, representation and bodily control.” Nyx uses humour, language and abstraction to cross the borders of her internal and external experience and explore the disparity between how women are perceived and how they feel about their bodies.

René Garza
René Garza is a contemporary artist inspired by pop culture and modern life. Their work draws from current events, media, and shared social moments, transforming them into simple, emotional visuals that reflect what it feels like to live now.

Sharlie Wise
Sharlie is a mixed-media artist, based in Meanjin, interested in exploring the emotional contradictions of being a woman in the digital age, where connection and disconnection coexist in every scroll. Through nostalgic Australian imagery paired with themes of girlhood, spiritualism and vulnerability, she investigates how our longing for “simpler times” mirrors the very impulse that drives us online—a search for home, belonging, and community. Sharlie’s paintings are often heavily textured or layered, generally with many earlier paintings hidden underneath (or found objects embedded within), which speaks to the various versions of ourselves that exist hidden beneath our current appearance.

Shonnie Lea
Shonnie is a Brisbane/Meanjin–based artist whose drawings give form to intense emotional states. Her practice explores themes of shame, guilt, turmoil and frustration, translating her inner world into figurative works that are raw, vulnerable and cathartic.

The figures she depicts are often altered, bleeding or fragmented, offering a surrealist nod to the hyperreal figure. Yet beauty and quiet stillness emerge within this vulnerability, as Shonnie explores her emotional landscape through black-and-white drawing. She is actively interested in the ways the body and symbols can express inner turmoil—through a pose, a shadow or a recurring motif.

Though not formally trained, Shonnie’s intuitive balance of detail and restraint has earned her drawing awards, acknowledging the skill she has carefully honed. Her work positions vulnerability as a gesture of connection, inviting understanding, belonging and shared emotional resonance.

Suzi Novak
My art practice centres around exploration of female sexuality through a lens of personal strength and power. I often recall a memory or feeling that evolves into a theme that guides my next piece and continues my body of work. Through this process I reflect on my odyssey as a woman and as a lover, and what it means for those identities and experiences to be interrelated.

Framing traditional notions of intimacy between man and woman my art is a memoir and oracle. Being a lover is inherently feminine to me, and therefore my work also encompasses love for oneself, other women, and mother nature. Embracing the feminine, I use my practice to manoeuvre through mythology, music, nature, memory, and fantasy. My pieces consciously centre animals as symbols of personal power and I find their intuitive nature an important factor in reflecting the relationship of woman as lover. In this way, I often do not plan my work or sketch things out, I allow for inspiration through all my mediums to guide each piece on its own journey.

Andrew Sleeman
Andrew Sleeman is a Brisbane-based artist working primarily with oil and acrylic paint. His practice explores a range of subjects including still life, interiors, the body, and landscapes, but his enduring focus lies in capturing people in everyday moments. Andrew is particularly drawn to scenes that share a sense of quiet observation, offering the viewer quiet glimpses into contemporary life, moments often overlooked in the everyday, the banal, and celebrating the beauty found in those moments. Andrew’s paintings are held in private collections throughout Australia.

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