“Coming Soon 2: An Exhibition by West Space Volunteers”
Benjamin Baker, Sarah Brasier, Isabella Darcy, Bill Hawkins, Holly MacDonald, Eva Quinn-Walters, Arthur Spirason, Charlotte Taylor, Gussie Vinall Richardson, Chloe Caday and Lotte Schwerdtfeger
23 Feb → 10 Mar 2018
In 2018, West Space kicked off the year with a short exhibition of work by the West Space Volunteers, across all galleries at our Bourke St Mall location.
This exhibition featured artworks by Benjamin Baker, Sarah Brasier, Isabella Darcy, Bill Hawkins, Holly Macdonald, Eva Quinn-Walters, Arthur Spirason, Charlotte Taylor, Gussie Vinall Richardson, Chloe Caday and Lotte Scherdtfeger.
Benjamin Baker is a multi-disciplinary artist working in Narrm/Melbourne. Their work encompasses painting and performance. Benjamin began volunteering at West Space in 2016, and took up a paid position as Gallery Assistant in 2020. Benjamin is an active member of the arts community, and is on the management committee at Trocadero Art Space in Footscray.
Sarah Brasier graduated from the VCA with a Bachelor of Visual Arts, where she spent a year in Japan studying at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo and interning with a rural community health organisation on a New Colombo Plan scholarship.
Isabella Darcy is an emerging cross-media artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice follows an interest in the systems and flux of value within consumable objects and design, reconsidering and exploring value and the alignment with ways of contemporary culture, material culture, and human consumption.
William Hawkins is a Melbourne based artist and curator whose practice explores philosophical ideas in painting using a multidisciplinary approach that spans performance, installation and film. Common themes in his work include agency, identity and humour.
Holly Macdonald initially studied architecture and engineering before discovering a passion for ceramics. Currently based in Newcastle on Awabakal and Worimi Country, her creative practice spans drawing, installation and hand building in clay to interrogate the dynamic relationship between object, memory and place.
Gussie Vinall Richardson is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist whose practice investigates the engagement of materials and form, and the relationships that manifest through this engagement.
Chloe Caday a painter based in She Oaks, Wadawurrung, Victoria. Drawing inspiration from her Filipino heritage, Caday explores her historical, cultural and spiritual connections to place and dedicates her knowledge and experiences to reshape the preconceived Western ideology of life within the tropics.
Lotte Schwerdtfeger is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring intersections between art and craft through functional and non-functional objects.