The VAS Hansen Little Coterie

Andrew Li is a painter who works both in traditional and digital mediums.

Caterina Leone is a Melbourne-based artist known for revitalising the silverpoint drawing technique to explore themes of gender, the social construction of meaning from physical appearance, and the human relationship with nature.

Jemma Cakebread is a Melbourne-based artist working in the fields of painting, textiles and fibre. Her work reflects an interest in the workings of the body, both animal and human, death and decay, and the natural world. 

I have drawn the world around me for as long as I can remember. This love for working from life is foundational to my practice, alongside a respect for process, craft, and deep research.

Working mainly in oil paints both in studio and plein air, I aim to create pieces that represent the glow of the natural world and my subject(s).

Swathi is an award-winning artist whose love for oil painting flourished at a summer course at the Florence Academy of Art which led to formal training at the Julian Ashton Art School. Swathi identifies as a South Asian artist driven by a passion to increase representation of people of colour painted by people of colour.