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.

Brittany Veitch

Brittany Veitch is a felt and soft sculpture artist trained as an Industrial Designer. Brittany makes handsewn toys under her label, The Vibrant City, which was launched in 2007. In 2009, Brittany collaborated with Ben Landau to present Bio-Accessories at the City Library niches as part of Craft Victoria's Craft Cubed festival program. In the same year Brittany was part of Veni, Vidi, Vici, a group exhibition at C3 Contemporary Art Space with Katie Jacobs and Rohani Osman.

Pardon My French!, 2010, felt, chain, thread

French profanity, curse with style. Hand-embroidered felt speech bubbles in black, de rigueur for Melbourne chic, slung from gaudy gold chain.

Pardon my French! is a tongue in check expression of fashion frivolities mixing cheap material, commonly associated with mass production, with traditional craftsmanship skills to bring a subtle quality to what is an essentially crude trinket.

Emblazoned in finely detailed hand stitching, Zut!, a French expletive, pays homage to Paris, France, an icon for fashion.

And so to this folly, say oui oui, and curse to your heart’s content.

www.thevibrantcity.blogspot.com

Heather Lighton

Heather Lighton is an artist and designer whose work is often centered around pop culture, celebrity, low culture and femininity. Based in Melbourne, she has exhibited at Blindside Gallery and TwentyByThirty. Heather has a BA in Fine Art (Media Arts) and a Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design and is currently completing a degree in Communication Design at Swinburne.

Lifestyle Fantasy, 2010, calico, bias tape, fabric marker, sequin

Lifestyle Fantasy is about the perceived status that one acquires through the ownership of a ‘luxury handbag’. I was thinking about big brand collaboration. I was imagining a bag plastered with every big brand logo and the amount of supposed status that could be acquired for the owner.

I am also interested in the idea of a brand battle. If two bags looked the same and one was Chanel and the other Prada which would you choose? Which brand lifestyle would you prefer to buy into?

I also wanted to explore the anxieties we have from the focus we have on how others perceive us... and our bags.

Jake Walker

Born in New Zealand, Jake Walker has lived in the US, UK and Germany before moving to Melbourne in 2008 where is currently based. Jake is a painter whose recent exhibitions include The Inland Sea with Mark Rodda at Utopian Slumps in 2007, Texticles, a group show curated by Rob McHaffie shown at TCB in 2009, and a solo show at Gallery 9 during the same year.

Things Change, 2010, found rock, liquid paper

'Things Change' is a statement designed to remind us of the only constant, i.e. change, I have been painting this statement on top of found landscape paintings for the last 3 months. As well as referring to matters cultural and environmental, the paintings were intended to be used as a pick-me-up, a reminder that whatever problem we are experiencing now, it will invariably change to some slightly different form of trouble tomorrow.

For this show I am making an edition of stones with this statement painted on them. Within the context of the show they could be seen as statement on the constantly shifting, turning world of fashion and the slower yet still inexorably changing journey of the rock it’s painted on.

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…

Michael Pham

Michael Pham is a graphic designer and photographer.

The Cliché, 2010, pressed badges, set of 5, 25mm diameter each

Fashion trends may come and go, but the clichés remain the same. Michael Pham extends this notion by playing upon these with a set of whimsical badges that express them without uttering a single word.

This enables the audience to truly live the fashion cliché, whilst being completely ice-queen cold.

Pip Carroll

Insert Life Here, 2010, paper

www.ambiguoushorse.com

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