Visual Artist Meaghan Shelton engages her trans disciplinary practice to address the ineffable aspects of female experience through the lens of traditional craft practice. Based in the Surf Coast Shire of Victoria, the artist draws from her own story, a fourth generation Irish- Scottish/ Anglo, Australian woman.

Relying on the evocation of memory within domestic spaces, her exploration of the craft/ fine art nexus challenges the connection between historical marginalization of art made by women and its hierarchical valuing of materiality.

Currently undertaking her Doctorate studies with Queensland University of Technology, Meaghan was the recipient of the Surf Coast Shire Covid Recovery Grant in 2021. Working alongside Lorne Community Connect she piloted and developed the new Lorne Artist in Residence program. Meaghan is currently working on her creative practice whilst writing her thesis amongst other projects including her upcoming curatorial role for Lorne Community Connect’s Easter photographic exhibition.

Michelle has been a textile artist for ever, colour and texture surround us in all we do, they are the essence of her textile art works.

She has taught and exhibited in Australia and internationally. Her textiles creations become art works that she currently sells through Seaview Gallery in Queenscliff.

Michelle has entered and won many prizes in art shows in the past but now purely enjoys a full creative life of designing and making whenever and whatever her heart desires - this includes wall art and art garments.

Michelle has also produced a lovely table top book full of her art images and words to explain how she sees the world.

Michelle loves teaching as she believe the skills she has acquired, being completely self taught should be shared and built upon by students. She feels it is important that as an artist she shares her creativity in hope that these skills can continually evolve and can inspire those that follow this journey.

Michelle's textile art works are not an actual depiction but rather places she has visited or wishes to visit, gardens she loves and wishes to discover, places of the heart and the joy of life.

Irene Pagram's art embeds a personal narrative and a connection between us, our past, and our surroundings.

She is particularly interested in women's work, and in the environment. From India Flint she learnt to re-love natural dyes which she had experimented with many years earlier but abandoned for its dun-coloured sameness or use of toxic metal mordants to achieve brighter colours, often with copious amount of salt used as fixative.

Eco-dyeing repurposed fabrics with a renewable resources such as gum leaves or use of weed species and vegetable scraps, with the dye cauldron as mordant and fixative, sits well with her efforts to live in as sustainable way as possible.