Caves

Artist Bio’s

Aaron C. Carter (b. 1984, Donald, Australia) holds a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver (2013); a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2005) He lives and works in Naarm, Melbourne Australia. Recent exhibitions and projects include; Letter & Spirits, Laila Sydney, Thousands of Luminous Spheres, Haydens Gallery, Itch to Imprint, Holden Garage Berlin, Hi Spirit Hi Matter, Watch this Space Alice Springs/Mparntwe, System Blower, Milk Gallery Naarm/Melbourne, Natural Selections (solo) TCB, Sculpture thinking thinking sculpture, Branching Univerese Gallery, Flirtatious Energy, Bus Projects, Free Love (solo), ReadingRoom, Summer in Sikas, Växjö Konsthall, Växjö, Sweden, Bent Guesses (solo) Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne, Australia; Fluxus Now, Space Space Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Braided Field, Brunswick Sculpture Centre, Melbourne, Australia; Hot Rocks, St Arnaud Street Museum, St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia; A Boot and a Line, Malmö Showroom, Malmö, Sweden.

Amanda Florence (b.1963 Melbourne/Naarm) Fine Art, BA Hons, Camberwell College of Art, London UK, PGrad Fine Art, VCA, MA, Creative Arts Therapy, La Trobe. She has participated in solo and group shows including West Space, Gertrude Contemporary (studio residency 98-2000), Arts Victoria, 8th Asian Pacific C.F.A.E. Art Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence gallery and Craft Victoria. Collection of Artbank. After a break from artmaking, during which she focused on family life and home, Amanda’s creative energy shifted to interior design magazine photos. These images presented idyllic, human-free “daydream spaces”—containers of curated longings, often reminiscent of English country houses imbued with collective psychic energy. These rooms and furniture, dense with intangible latent energies, now become the subjects of her artistic interaction through paint, pen, and pastel. She scribbles, smudges, and traces the imagined residue of projected desires, responding to the image’s armature with color, shape, and texture. These errant energies, enlivened by paint, suggest an intimate, liminal interface between the magazine and the viewer’s gaze. The resulting interactions are conversational, interventional, and even absurd. Aloof and amorphous unconscious spaces become corporeal; thresholds are invaded by scribbled and smudged paint, asserting a messy, subjective presence that reflects painterly process, interaction, and a decorative “hijacking.” Beyond this interventional approach, Amanda also found therapeutic enjoyment in the immersive and unpredictable methods of Sumini Gashi and marbling techniques.

Anna Varendorff (b. 1980) is an artist, designer and educator working in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice engages with sculpture, installation, object design and jewellery. Anna has been a sessional academic in the fields of visual and fine arts and interior design since 2016, teaching technical making and theoretical and conceptual thinking. She has exhibited in Australia and internationally since 2004, including at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), in Milan for Salone del Mobile in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2008. She has created large public works for Brisbane City Council and various private clients. In 2016, Anna founded the design studio, ACV studio. ACV studio has received local and international acclaim, including being the winner of a 2018 Wallpaper* designer of the year award for the work Glass Half Full Vase.

Clara Joyce’s work channels the subconscious through vaporous ink stains that evoke spiritual diagrams or abstract hallucinations. Her forms hover between dream states and fugue states, offering speculative blueprints of the inner world. Engaging with the unconscious as a magnetic field — a space of both attraction and repulsion — Joyce’s work captures the tension and release inherent in psychic exploration https://unprojects.org.au/article/breathing-and-chaos/
Clara Joyce b. 1993 Walyalup/Fremantle Education 2024 - Current, Masters of Fine Arts by Research, Monash University, Caufield, Melbourne 2023 Honours of Fine Arts, Monash University, Caufield, Melbourne 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank, Melbourne Exhibitions Solo 2025 An Applied Anatomy of Spirit, Ordinance, CBD, Melbourne 2024 Breathing and Chaos, Cachè, CBD, Melbourne 2023 Clara Joyce Paintings, Cathedral Cabinet, CBD, Melbourne 2021 Vitalise Surface Clothing the Screen, Cool Change Contemporary, Northbridge, Perth Group 2025 The World is all Cut Outs Then, Goolagatup Heathcote, Applecross, Perth 2025 Boxwood, George Patton Gallery, Parkville, Melbourne 2024 Yara Away, Mada Gallery, Caufield, Melbourne 2024 A Tide is a Long Wave, Syrup Contemporary, Marickville, Sydney 2021 Majlis Traveling Fellowship Finalist Exhibition, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne 2020 Images for Cognition with Hugo Blomely as NWEB, George Patton Gallery, Parkville, Melbourne 2019 Let me sit in the corner I’ve just turned zero, VCA student gallery, Southbank, Melbourne 2019 ?A platform used for creative expression over individual projection? – D&M Gallery as part of the NWEB summer residency in Warrnambool, Victoria 2018 ___Garden, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne 2017 Donnelly River Residencies, Early Works Gallery, Perth 2016 25 Under 25, Moores Contemporary Art, Fremantle Awards 2024 RTP Scholarship Monash Masters 2023 Daniel Dorall Prize for Highest Mark in Studio Project, Monash Honours 2019 New Colombo Plan Beijing Mobility Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts

Michael Morley (b. 1963, Ahiriri Napier, New Zealand) lives and works in Kōpūtai Port Chalmers. He is a lecturer in painting and drawing at the Dunedin School of Art, Ōtepoti. His research expertise encompasses contemporary art, drawing, painting, video, and sound. He has exhibited and performed extensively across Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and his work represented in numerous important public and private collections throughout New Zealand and internationally. Best known for his work as an experimental musician, Morley is a member of seminal noise band The Dead C (together with Bruce Russell and Robbie Yeats). He also produces music under the moniker Gate, and has previously collaborated with artists Kim Gordon, Bill Nace, Lee Ranaldo, Nina Canal, Sara Stephenson, and others. In tandem with this musical career, he has consistently maintained a studio practice as a painter. https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/artist/michael-morley-10986