Anita Cummins

Anita Cummins is an emerging artist who made her debut appearance with her installation Pantone Pom-Pom at Mailbox 141 in 2009. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Creative Arts. Anita is an artist who dabbles in many (usually craft-based) mediums and has recently launched a commercial range of handmade scarves under her own name. She also teaches classes in pom-pom making at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop and has big plans in the pipelines for her pom-poms.

Chad Catcher, 2010, chads, spray paint, paper, string

The Chad Catcher is inspired by office leftovers such as the ‘chad’ left behind by the hole-punch and paper from the office shredder. These paper scraps are gathered and reinterpreted by artist Anita Cummins into talismans for your home and office.

To read more about Anita, click here.

Antuong Nguyen

Antuong Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist and film director based in Melbourne, Australia.

Antuong's works have been shown both nationally and internationally, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Transmediale Festival (Berlin), Melbourne International Film Festival, Australian Centre of Moving Image, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Seventh Gallery.

He successfully completed a BFA in Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001.

Finding Each Other, 2010, Print on Paper (100gsm Free Life Smooth White), 297 mm x 334 mm, edition of 15

Finding Each Other is a text-based meditation on the chance encounters between two individuals in this modern age of technology. In this context, within the material form of a shiny little plastic capsule. By sharing his favourite line from a novel written by Banana Yoshimoto, Antuong hopes to shine a light to his psyche, brighten up someone's day, and bridge the gap between stranger and confidante.

Carmel McKie

Elise Sheehan

Elise Sheehan is currently enrolled in RMIT's Gold & Silversmithing course. This is her first exhibition.

Cabin Fever #1-10, 2010, paper, pen, string, PVA hot glue gun, beads

I am currently creating form through line work, colour blocking and the manipulation of commonly found materials. These small wearable pieces are the outcome of restless hands working their way through a long summer of drawing, painting and embroidery as a starting point to then layer stretch, fold and form. This work satisfies my need to build and desire to adorn within the confines of my home, and the limits of my empty pocket.

Kyoko Imazu

Kyoko Imazu is a printmaker who has exhibited extensively all over the Asia-Pacific including Bus Projects (Melbourne), Port Jackson Press (Melbourne), McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and the Tokyo National Art Centre.

Her work is part of collections held at RMIT, Port Jackson Press, Australian Print Workshop, Curtin University, Sydney College of Arts, State Library of Queensland, and numerous private collections in Melbourne, Sydney and Japan.

Pocket Garden, 2010, paper, cardboard, book-cover cloth

My miniature books present a secret garden, which can be carried in a pocket. I explore the idea of books as a discourse on the ideas and questions about our interrelationship with natural world. By using paper as a basis of landscape, it reinforces the notion of the delicate natural world that we seek to manipulate and construct our images and desires from.

Click here to see more images on Kyoko's blog.

www.rachelscabinet.blogspot.com

Leah Muddle

When downstairs, Leah Muddle is co-owner of clothing boutique Milly Sleeping, and a hobbyist curator. When upstairs, she is an illustrator and object-maker. Leah's recent exhibitions include Pocket Guide at Mr Tulk cafe, a collaboration with fashion designer Tam Hua for the 2009 State of Design festival and The Search for Delicious, a solo installation at Mr Tulk cafe in March 2009.

The Indispensables, 2010, paper, remnant fabric, nickel findings

Ten rosettes, each marked with a different merit or virtue, make up a series of possible answers to questions such as,

What is desirable?

What is valuable?

What is treasured?

What is indispensable?

(And so on).

And why?

www.disorganisedfashion.blogspot.com

www.millysleeping.com

Melody Ellis

Melody Ellis is a practicing artist, curator and writer based in Melbourne. She is at the very beginning of her PhD and in her spare time tries to keep alive her new goldfish.

He loves me, he loves me not, 2010, paper, ink

One, two, three, four, he loves me, he loves me not… I am thinking of you, wish you were here, will be missing you…

Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Jones is a Melbourne based sculptor who uses books and printed paper to make works which question the manner in which books are 'read'. Nicholas' exhibition Without Bias, a collaborative effort with emerging fashion designer Warren Harrison, is part of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival and is showing at Craft Victoria from 12 March till 24 April.

Declare the pennies on your eyes, 2010, paper, string

www.bibliopath.org

Pip Carroll

Insert Life Here, 2010, paper

www.ambiguoushorse.com

Sarah McNeil

Sarah McNeil is an artist and illustrator whose past contributions include the 2010 Frankie magazine calendar, Curvy magazine (2008), and several covers for Voiceworks magazine (2008).

Sarah has exhibited locally in Melbourne and Perth, as well as internationally in Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, Toronto and her work is stocked in Zurich, Edinburgh, LA and at various other stores worldwide.

Little Black Robins, 2010, paper

Sarah McNeil has been creating her paper bird brooches for the past two years. They have slowly evolved into what they are now, three pairs of tiny scissors later. A recent 10 day hike along the coastline of the south Island of New Zealand has inspired the latest pieces she has created for the Insert Coin Here show.

www.sarahmcneil.blogspot.com

Simon MacEwan

Simon MacEwan is an artist and maker of the Lost in the Woods jewellery range. Forthcoming exhibitions for 2010 include You're Doing It Wrong at C3 Gallery in Abbotsford Convent in March and at West Space in July.

A Little Breakfast, 2010, watercolour drawing, paper, pin

www.simon-macewan.blogspot.com

Simon Winkler

Simon Winkler works in radio and occasionally DJ's at various events. His collaborative project I SPY 2 is part of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Running from 14 - 21 March, I SPY 2 sees five leading fashion creatives use cameras to document their daily lives.

I SPY 2 is screening at the Atrium and Big Screen at Federation Square, Georges on collins street level winows, the Foyer Screen at City Library and Alice Euphemia.

Pinchy, 2010, paper

For Insert Coin Here I have incorporated the practice of origami, producing a series of scorpion-like forms from the pages of discarded fashion magazines. By seeking to capture the essence of form, origami offers a satisfying system of reducing nature to a series of replicable step by step instructions; moreover the transformation of a simple square into a complex form provides a neat analogue of all creative pursuits. These paper arachnida represent a versatility of form, and a defiance of function; the obscured editorial hidden in their folds hints at the sting of an old fashion tale.

Tim Fleming

Tim Fleming is The Founder of Flatland OK.

A Guide to Smoking Positions, 2010, paper

This miniature pamphlet introduces the novice to some basic hand and body postures for various social situations, the emphasis of this volume is "cool handling". Insert Coin Here seems an appropriate outlet for this guide as cigarette vending machines have been dispensing "torches of freedom" since the 1950's.

"I am a long time admirer of smoking culture and the style of personal cigarette handling."

- Tim Fleming (The Founder) & non-smoker

www.flatlandok.com