For its first show of the young year 2022, KEPK exhibition will feature artists who have been cooking art within KEPK’s warm felted walls.

Anna Jackson @black.cactus.studio

Anna Jackson works predominately with natural and found objects and recycled materials. She imagines forms where organic and synthetic matters spontaneously merge together.

Sidney Herbst @sidneyherbstart

Sidney is an artist specialising in drawings and poetry. His work evokes emotion particular to each individual viewer, asking them the questions only they can answer. Every piece is driven by emotion, life from a focused perspective and aims to capture humans in their purest form, as a part of the natural world, co-dependent, unified, and separate only through the illusion of control.

Poem:
Line by line, as it’s seen
Seen and not known
Just like all of it really

Rhiannon Daly @rhiharm

Aotearoa born, Meanjin based Fashion Designer and Visual Artist, Rhiannon Daly (Ngati Kuri, Ngati Porou), is mostly a self-taught painter who had help in her teachings from her Artist father growing up. Surrealism, homoerotism, feminism and fashion are themes which are portrayed evidently through her clothing collections and artworks.
Rhiannon’s subject matter experiments with creatures of sexual desire, femme figures, water symbolism and phallic metaphor. Her technique uses oils and acrylics on canvas, often weightless in varying gestures of movement and stillness.
Rhiannon’s works for the Simmering 22 Exhibition showcase her fabulously peculiar and outlandish imagination, eccentric style of subject matter and amused disposition on life.

Clementine Belle @clementinebelleart

Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist from Gilgandra NSW, Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Wailwan country. McIntosh’s expanded painting practice comments on the relationship of art within the non-human environment through the construction of place-based works.

Sonny O’Brien @sonnyobrien

“Your creations are what I imagine the inside of a black hole looks like: A mishmash of bizarre but cool things for my eyes and ears.” Sonny is an interdisciplinary artist mixing forms into a gooey, iridescent mess of collage. Fusing photographic sampling, digital design and an anachronistic mingling of cultural references, there’s an order in his chaos that feels both reckless and elegant. Colour is an obvious inspiration, both the subversion of abrasive combinations and its absence altogether, in work that hopscotches between being eye popping lurid and classically monochrome. He has a fascination with experimenting in digital and analogue mediums, spawning a growing portfolio of music, animations, photography, 3D design, collage, film and video and generative art.