Creative Industries Event
Images L-R, top to bottom row: Coral Guan by Eugene Hyland, Cristea Zhao courtesy of the artist, Panda Wong by George Downing and Nicholas Currie by Drew Echberg.
Guest speakers
Nicole Lawrence
Nicole Lawrence is a Melbourne based designer and maker whose research-led practice centres on furniture and lighting as formal inquiry. Underpinned by a belief in material agency, she meticulously calibrates metal, timber, textile, and glass, directing weight, grain and formal convention to resolve intent. Lawrence came to furniture and lighting through goldsmithing, and the inheritance is legible in all forms of making. In using fabrication as a process of research and testing, her work draws a considered timeline, allowing her work to be informed by craft histories but not bound by them.
Tabitha Glanville
Born in Burnie Lutruwita, Tabitha Glanville spent the first eighteen years of her life in Lutruwita Tasmania before moving to Melbourne and completing a bachelor’s degree at Monash University. An emerging curator, Tabitha situates her curatorial practice in the quiet strength of her Kamilaroi father, and the deep creative and spiritual aptitude of her mother. Tabitha enters the art world with a dedication to research and emotional accessibility, accompanied by a constant view to decolonise. Eschewing selective solidarity, she endeavours to provide space and breathe air into creative practices which follow earnest paths to truth-telling and current discovery.
Hattie Molloy
Hattie Molloy is a Melbourne-based installation artist, object maker and creative director. With a foundation in floral design, her practice has evolved into large-scale installations, sculpture, photography and objects. Guided by a surreal sensibility, her work reimagines the everyday through still life and visual storytelling, connecting with a global audience.
Caelyn Norris
Caeylen Norris’ multidisciplinary practice engages with the ontologies of objects and the performative potential of materials. His work investigates how discrete forms—each embedded with its own histories and functions—can intersect in moments of aesthetic and conceptual harmony. Through the practices of painting and sculpture, he constructs narratives that examine the increasingly porous boundaries between the digital, the physical, and the imagined.