Adrian De Vries is an artist working on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country (Melbourne). He approaches abstract painting with a historical reverence and a playful sensibility, producing experimental paintings and installations. Since 2016, Adrian has regularly participated in various group and solo exhibitions throughout Australia and has completed a residency in Timkarik (Queenstown) Tasmania. Adrian graduated from RMIT University in 2018, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours).

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Adrian is Coordinator in our Stretching and Warehouse Departments. 

Alexei is our specialist in acrylic cases within our Furniture Department

My practice navigates between the realms of commercial tableware and narrative art. I am presenting a collection of utilitarian objects, specifically a tea set, crafted over the last year. While this set can be perceived merely as handmade objects for daily use; my approach to ceramics is always rooted in their functionality, intertwined with the memories of my ancestors.

This particular set Bound by Salt evokes memories of my grandmother and the last afternoon tea we shared. During our ritualistic gathering I noticed she had inadvertently added salt to my tea, a sign of her early-stage Alzheimer’s.

The blue lines on the set symbolise the mangrove trees, particularly their roots as well as the blue lagoon where I spent my childhood with my grandma. The woven seaweed signifies the deep bound we shared, the salt that crystallised that moment eternally, and the sea that kept us apart for many years.

This work is not for sale but can take on commissions through the gallery.

Anne is our Front of House Manager and specialist Framing Consultant.

Connor Grogan is an oil painter. His imagery often refers to filmic or photo media that may or may not be real. These paintings are from a larger body of work titled “Hypercene”.

Connor Grogan was born in Dublin Ireland, he studied at the Wimbledon School of Art in London and has lived and worked in Melbourne since2008. He has held a number of solo shows in Melbourne and Dublin, and been included in curated group exhibitions and awards including Banyule Award, NotFair and Imagined Worlds at The Town Hall Gallery.

Connor is Head Framer and Manager of our Framing Department.

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Damien Hinds is a portrait photographer exploring masculinity and queer identity.

Damien is an expert Fitter in our Framing Department and assists Front of House.

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Darren Tanny Tan is a Singapore-born artist based in Melbourne/Naarm whose practice pushes against the limits of photography as both medium and metaphor. At once examining and betraying notions of the image and history, he interrogates how visual records are constructed, fractured, and rewritten. His approach is defined by experimental and deliberately disruptive processes—chemical interventions, physical abrasion, and digital manipulation—that rupture, obscure, and reconfigure the photographic surface, revealing the instability of representation.

Tanny Tan’s work has been exhibited widely, including presentations at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, The Lennox, Lindberg Galleries, and Stockroom Kyneton. He has been shortlisted for major photographic awards, among them multiple editions of the Bowness Photography Prize, the Olive Cotton Award, the Nillumbik Prize, and the Mullins Contemporary Photography Prize. He holds a Bachelor of Photography from Photography Studies College and a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

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Darren is an expert art installer in our Delivery & Installation Department.

Elmira Ng
Designed in Hong Kong
Made in Naarm

Elmira's art practise incorporates multi-culturally shared iconographies, visual merchandising and craftsmanship to explore dynamics within global-industrialised supply chains (Capitalism), the division of labour, reification, commodity fetishism, and other economic psychologies and mechanisms that do harm to people.

Elmira assists in our Art Materials Shop, Front of House and cbOne Gallery.

Felix has been Manager of Fabrication on our Framing Department, and is recently become our Social Media Manager and in-house photographer. He is an artist, film-maker and co-curator of Quality in our 1B Studios.

Ivo Botev graduated from the National Academy of Art in Bulgaria in2005. During this time he was living and working in London UK. Integrating Art and the craft of cabinet and furniture making, restoring and creating. Australia was next and his career led to Chapman and Bailey. He works primarily in Figurative art, mural painting, furniture making, wood carving, and restoration.

Ivo is our specialist cabinet maker in our Furniture Department.

I was born in Melbourne but largely grew up in the Northern Territory in Central and Northern Australia and moved back to Melbourne around 8 years ago. My recent work explores the shifting landscapes of Melbourne and the everyday detritus left by people living around the city.

Jamie is a stretcher in our Stretching Department.

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Julie Vinci holds a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts. 

Using photography, sculpture, painting and textiles, Julie examines the politicised space of the female body, utilising her own lived experiences as reference. 

Julie has held solo exhibitions since 2002 at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Westspace,TCB ART Inc., Bundoora Homestead and Incinerator Gallery and Five Walls Gallery and has participated in a number of group exhibitions such as Sarah Scout Presents, Counihan Gallery, Craft Victoria and participated in Notfair Art Fair, Fringe Festival and Next Wave Festival. 

Julie was awarded the winner of the No Contest Art Prize and was a finalist in the Naked and Nude Art Prize, Tatiara Art Prize, Gosford Art Prize and the Waverley ArtPrize.

Julie’s work is held in the Justin Art House Museum and private collections around Australia.

Julie is Wholesale Manager in our Art Materials Department. 

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Driven by an interest in ecology and navigating one's enmeshment within it during the contemporary age, Kohl Tyler often looks to the natural world, sciences, archives, and phenomena as starting points in her sculptural practice. Ideas of interconnectedness, life's ephemerality, and notions of ecological grief are explored through a material pursuit. She works predominantly in ceramic sculpture, and occasionally in watercolour and social practice.

Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist who’s been based in Naarm/Melbourne since 2018. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 2016 and was awarded the Artist Alliance Graduate Award in 2016. In 2017, she won the Estuary Art and Ecology Award at Malcolm Smith Gallery in Auckland, NZ and in 2024 she won the Omnia Art Prize People's Choice award. She has presented solo exhibitions in Aotearoa and Australia including; All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (2024),sub- super-, Quality, Melbourne, VIC (2024), and Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Ceramics Now, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2024) and Ceramics, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC (2024). In 2022 she presented Offerings, a social art installation held at the UNESCO heritage-listed Carlton Gardens in Naarm, Australia, supported by the City of Melbourne Art Grants. Her work is held in the collection of the Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC and in private collections throughout Australia, Aotearoa.

She is represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne.

Kohl is a specialist with Jarman Framing and assists in our Framing Department and Front of House.

Lotte Frances is an emerging artist living and working on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country (Melbourne). A graduate of Fine Art Honours from RMIT University in 2020, their work explores the complexities of queerness, loneliness and memory. Lotte’s visual language is playful, yet vulnerable and intimate. Lotte has exhibited locally and internationally including Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Laid Bug in Tokyo, Filet in London, and has recently just completed a residency at La Place Artspace in Barcelona, Spain. Lotte has published two artist books through Stray Pages Press.

Lotte specialises in bespoke stretcher bars in our Stretching Department and Warehouse.

The source material for this series of paintings is my old VHS tapes of music video clips that I recorded off the TV in the mid to late 90s.They were meticulously and obsessively curated videos which sought to document and preserve that time in my youth. Now they are superseded by internet accessibility to all these clips, plus more... thus retrospectively making my hard work redundant and inferior.

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These paintings revisit and reinterpret the tapes, and follows on from my previous series of television image paintings. 
In these paintings I render the VHS aesthetic in all its deterioration and saturation glory, that captures an essence or mood of the songs without the sound. Visually the paintings are random from one to the next as the series resembles a mix tape of songs without the sound.

Luis is the Manager of our Stretching Warehouse.

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Madeleine Palmer is a Naarm based painter born in 1997. Her practice examines the vitality of natural ecologies and how they can be accessed and described through the language of her contemporary painting practice. It considers how the tradition of oral still life painting can be recontextualised through a contemporary lens by redefining the experience of current environmental and ecological issues and its relationship to her as an artist.

By imbuing the quirky forms with an energy that speaks to the essence of fecundity, the subject matter acts as a vehicle for talking about growth, movement and change in the natural world. Even though the work pays homage to the traditions of the still life, it seeks to escape the confines of stillness and rather seeks to capture and convey a sense of vital energy…..an unstill life.

Maddie is Front of House and consultant for our Framing Department.

Mark Chapman is Founder and Director of Chapman & Bailey.

Natalie Tromiuk is a Naarm/Melbourne based visual artist. She graduated from the Master of Contemporary Art at the Faculty of the VCA, University of Melbourne in 2016 where she was awarded the Ursula Hoff Institute Inc Drawing and Printmaking Award and the Faculty Graduate Student Assistance Grant. She graduated from the Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at The University of Ballarat (Federation University) and was awarded the University of Ballarat Travel Award in 2005. She has held numerous exhibitions across Melbourne, including at Kings ARI in 2017, Trocadero in 2019 and most recently at Five Walls in 2023.

Natalie is a fine art materials specialist in our Art Materials Shop.

Necessitating a slowed-down process of looking, Nicholas Aplin’s paintings rework the edges ofAustralia’s urban landscape through studied colour compositions, restricted palettes, and flattened perspectives. His works emerge from photographs and sketches of the inner-city, where he isolates and reframes municipal structures, residential towers, community sports grounds, public parks and forgotten shopping centres. In these spaces, rigid geometries intersect with encroaching flora, exposing a quiet contradiction between architectural order and organic sprawl.

Working with a deliberately limited palette, Aplin abstracts these familiar environments into planes of saturated colour, distilling the scene into patterns and tonal shifts that heighten a sense of estrangement.

Repetition becomes both a formal and conceptual device within his practice, where subjects are revisited, cropped, and reassembled across works, allowing subtle shifts in colour and composition to suggest the fragmentary nature of memory and observation.

Rather than offering direct narratives, Aplin’s works sit in a suspended state - familiar yet distant - inviting the viewer to confront how the disconnection between built and natural environments has become embedded in Australia’s landscape. His paintings resist easy resolution, instead positioning these ordinary, often ignored spaces as sites of tension, control, and quiet reflection.

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Nicholas is an expert art installer in our Delivery & Installation Department.

Nik Kennedy hosts a number of alter-egos in the underground Noise/Grind sound arena. You may know them as Spasmoslop, Clogged, Spew Balloon, ESP Mayhem, Holy Boner or Umbilical Tentacle playing gigs regularly in Melbourne and Japan.

Nik is specialist fabricator in our Furniture Department.

P lives with B and Puss in a home that is rented, upon land that is stolen. If he had to choose he’d probably go Amnesiac over Kid A but like only just.

Pat specialises in custom framing and fabrication in our Framing Department.

Paul's journey as a potter started as a ne art student. Facing financial troubles, he could no longer afford oil paint. At this time he began using any materials he could find. Stumbling upon a construction site full of clay, he began researching processing, pit ring and hand building. After graduation he set up a studio as pottery became his main media of choice.

Painting is always a long process, a winding road. This painting is the second of a series of works each painted over a year. Still life where the empty space is just as important as the objects, and an exploration of colour and painting in grisaille as a colour blind artist.

Paul is the specialist at mounting and matting works on paper in our Framing Department.

Talitha Kennedy consistently works with black leather for its tactile corporeality and macabre context to embody the fraught intimacy with the natural world. Her hand-stitched soft sculptures simultaneously lifeless and budding with new growth, personify natural forces in a constructed world.

Talitha has shown installations, sculptures and drawings widely throughout Australia with solo shows including Artisan Brisbane, Stockroom Kyneton, Chapman & Bailey Melbourne, MARS Melbourne, Umbrella Townsville and NCCA Darwin. Her work has been curated into survey exhibitions including PRICK! Needlework Now RMIT Gallery Melbourne, Fresh Material: New Australian Textile Art, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville, Fecund: Fertile Worlds Artback NT Touring Exhibition, and Legacy: Reflections on Mabo which toured through Visions Australia (2019 – 2023) to 10 public galleries. Talitha is based in Naarm Melbourne and holds an MVA from Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT.

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Talitha is cbOne Gallery Manager and assists Front of House.

My work is deeply inspired by David Abram’s philosophy in “Becoming Animal,” which emphasizes the interconnectedness of humans with the more-than-human world. Abram’s exploration of animism and phenomenology informs my artistic approach, encouraging a re-engagement with the sensory and sentient aspects of our environment. Through my art, I aim to dissolve the perceived boundaries between humans and nature, highlighting the vibrant, expressive qualities of the living world. This work seeks to awaken a sense of wonder and reciprocity with the earth, inviting viewers to perceive themselves as integral participants in a dynamic ecological tapestry.

Tara is the Manager of our Delivery and Installation Department.

Ying Huang is a Manchurian-Chinese-born Australian painter and printmaker. She studied at RMIT and majored in printmaking. Since then, she has held a number of exhibitions. Ying’s illustration style painting tells the story of her rescued greyhound Kiddy, a creature who shows her curiosity about other tiny little creatures.

Ying is our specialist in ornamental moulding and frame restoration in our Framing Department.