Waverley Artist Studios

Remy Faint is an emerging artist based on Gadigal-land, Sydney. His practice is motivated by the desire to expand languages of painterly abstraction by examining its global histories. While often referencing collection-based objects and materials specific to his Chinese heritage, his works mediate cross-cultural and material frameworks to explore themes surrounding exchange, visibility and hybridised artistic production. Utilising a variety of mediums involving painting, textiles and ceramics, Remy’s interest in transparency is evident in his consistent use of silk as an artistic surface and the form of the folding screen. While Remy often reinstates the screen’s historical function as a barrier, divider or structural device, this cultural referencing coincides with physical acts of assembling, repurposing and combining various materials in his studio.

Remy has exhibited nationally including at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Cement Fondu, UNSW Galleries, Gosford Regional Gallery, Craft Victoria, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (Chongqing), ADSpace, Mothership Studios, Sheffer Gallery, Comber Street Studios and Kudos Gallery. In 2022, Remy was curated into the national graduate exhibition Hatched at PICA, where he received the inaugural Schenberg Art High Commendation Award and was selected to undertake a one-month residency. Remy was the winner of the 2023 Gosford Art Prize and has been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize, the Jenny Birt Painting Prize, Kudos Emerging Artist Award and was a studio resident at the City of Sydney Creative Studios. In 2023, he presented his first solo exhibition at Cement Fondu in the Project Space with his exhibition The Library and the Cave. In addition to his art practice, Remy is a Casual Academic at UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. He is a finalist in the 2024 Create NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging).

Re-Right is an artistic collective between Dennis Golding and Carmen Glynn-Braun that spans across artistic, curatorial, writing and research disciplines. The collective centres on stories of contemporary life with an approach to heal and strengthen the voices of First Nations history and experiences.

Southern Arrente, Kaytetye and Ammatyerre artist Carmen Glynn-Braun takes a trans-disciplinary approach across many mediums including painting, sculpture and installation. Her work predominantly explores lived experiences of Aboriginal women translated through gentle and experimental approaches to materials and form.

Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding critiques the social, political and cultural representations of race and identity. Working in a range of mixed media including painting, video, photography and installation, Golding explores empowering notions of Indigenous cultural identity by challenging the categorical boundaries from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experiences.

The artists co-founded Re-Right to provide a safe space for emerging First Nations practitioners to form ideas and build a support network within the cultural arts sector. Re-Right strives to expand their creative practice through collaboration with a key goal to highlight resilience and truthful narratives of history and cultural identity.

Rox de Luca is an artist based in Bondi working on unceded Gadigal land. Her art practice converts marine and industrial single-use plastics via jewellery-like processes in order to explore ideas of consumption and waste and our neglect of the environments around us.

"Most days Sydney-based artist Rox De Luca gleans along her local beach, Bondi, or a little further away at Rose Bay Beach. She is looking for flashes of colour and of whiteness against the sand, the signs that the beach – like every beach on the planet – is adjusting fragment by fragment to the deluge of plastic waste that our species generates daily. She collects the weather-worn fragments from the sand, and she takes them home to clean and to categorize by size, colour and shape. Then her defiant transformations occur." ~ Gleaning for plastics, defying wastefulness by Paul Allatson (2020)