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 Supplies Department. 

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Steven Rendall’s work is littered with references to technology, art history, horror movies and pop music. Materials, images and meanings are scavenged and rearranged in various ways.

Rendall was born in the UK in 1969. He moved to Melbourne in 2000 where he currently lives and works. Steven Rendall is a lecturer in the School of Art at RMIT University. He has a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours)from DeMontfort University in Leicester, undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London and completed a PhD at Monash University in2015.

Rendall has staged numerous exhibitions in Australia and the UK. His work is in various collections including The National Gallery of Victoria, The Monash University Collection, Artbank, RMIT University Art Collection, The City of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and St. Helier Hospital, London.

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-Steven Rendall (courtesy of Niagara Galleries)

Olivia Mròz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice predominantly centers on photography. Her work delves into the exploration of themes central to the human experience: queerness, sex, identity, and the complex interplay of trauma and emotional states. Employing a self-reflexive approach in her art, she manipulates her figures through layers of distortion and erasure, reflecting her subconscious psychological processing while simultaneously acting as grounding catharsis. An integral part of her creative process is creating images with any available photographic device embracing spontaneity, freedom and versatility. The immediate access to a work space enables a relaxed workflow and effortless immersion into a flow state. 

My collage centred practice draws form a wide range of influences including feminism, sculpture, architecture, film and mythology. I am interested in the innate tendency of human psychology to find connections, patterns and familiarity. Yokai amambie and L'or des fous are the result of my ongoing investigations into marrying seemingly heterogeneous subject matter to create new and ambiguous readings. These assemblages are compelling and perverse, disjointed and harmonious, a celebration of the strangely beautiful. They inhabit an uncanny space and reveal a narrative that is divergent from the original purpose of the source material.

Ingmar Apinis is a Naarm/Melbourne, Australia based artist who has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at a number of galleries including C3 Contemporary Art Space, Rubicon ARI, Kings ARI, Artereal Gallery, and Linden New Art.

Ingmar’s creative practice explores the role of the internet in everyday life. Working in a range of mediums including paint, screen printing, plaster and water transfer printing (an industrial production process also known as hydro-dipping) Ingmar’s work poses questions about online subcultures, digital queerness, future histories, and representations of the virtual and physical body.

In 2020 Ingmar was awarded the Ursula Hoff Printmaking Award.