Cafe Gallery Exhibitors (downstairs)

Food & art culture often intersect ­ both are often representative of the human drive to create, the nourishment of the soul, and the connection to place and people.

Jessica Harris is a multimedia artist living and working in the Yarra Ranges. She approaches most mediums with enthusiasm but at the moment is fixated on collage and drawing.

Jaccob McKay is a young multidisciplinary artist from Silvan, Victoria whose work spreads across the fields of composition & sound art, photography, sculpture & installation, digital media and beyond.

Created in the photojournalistic style, this work was inspired by Steve McCurry’s work and National Geographic magazine during the 1980’s and uses a mix of negative and the more archival quality slide film.

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Exhibiting July 8th 2017 I’m Tracy Hambly, I’m 22, and I paint plants and flowers with acrylic paint and mixed media. I was trained in the contemporary folk art style, and I create imaginative and colourful paintings from an internal place of deep joy and tranquility. I hope they evoke ...

From the young age 7 I knew I’d be a painter, however the fear of being a struggling artist led me down a far more commercial path into advertising where I’ve spent the last 20 years as a creative, strategist, marketer, business owner and innovator. Typically, I’d describe my artwork ...

After years of studying Visual Arts, photography and delving in various types of artistic mediums Laura found her true passion in Resin.

Stephanie has been enjoying photography for 10 years and has found her passion in fine art macro photography.

With writing music being my dominant means of creativity, art/drawing has become more of a meditation to still the mind than a creative outlet.

Tania came to painting later in life. Her early working-life included ten years at The Age newspaper. fifteen years for online companies, and currently a Director of Red Bilby, a Graphic Design Studio. She began painting in her early fourties after a school holiday activity with her sons. She discovered ...

Daniel Jensen is a creative, passionate and motivated photographer. His unique attention to detail and eye for photography allows him to capture the presence of nature. Although Daniel is primarily a landscape photographer many of his pieces also focus on man-made features in the landscape he is capturing. Daniel 23, ...

This project was created by two photographers working together collaboratively trading roles creating challenges or setting shoot locations. Challenges included limited images, specific equipment and edit one another’s images. The exhibition on display is a selection of images chosen from over 3000 shots taken in 20 locations over 3 years ...

This exhibition is a collaboration between two abstract artists with different backgrounds, stories and techniques, exploring form, colour and meaning. Wilani van Wyk-Smit: “I am interested in cycles of insight and perception. My paintings are created through responses to the way objects relate to one another. How one motion affects ...

I have always had a desire to express the emotions I feel from nature. The depth and richness of the colours, the complexityof the sky – the romantic feeling of stormy clouds, the churning foam of the ocean and the sunlight playing through tall grassesas they bend and wave. From ...

Martha Silver Breninger is an artist from Emerald Victoria who specializes in many mediums from alcohol ink, acrylic, oils, soft pastels and watercolour. She has works all over the world and is very involved in the local art community. Martha is currently illustrating a book with US author Jenna Stone ...

My name is Bec Gilbert and I am a local mother of two, owner of Liquified Art and what i like to call, an opportunist artist. (Sneaking time to myself to paint at nap times and during half an hour of playschool is my game.) Creating canvas art and teaching ...

My name is Jessica White, I’m 19 years old and local to lilydale. All my life I’ve been obsessed with drawing, but only began painting 5 years ago to try something new. Today, I’m still trying new things within my artworks, predominately painting animals, landscapes, flowers, plants and pretty much ...

Anne-Maree started collecting ‘treasure’ as a young child when she holidayed with family. This love of the texture, feel and appreciation of the beautiful shells, pebbles and driftwood continued over the years.

Jesse Graham is a portrait and wedding photographer, based in Melbourne's outer-east.

Jesse Graham is a portrait and wedding photographer, based in Melbourne's outer-east.