October 3-7  |  Starting at $500

24-30 JUNE

@STUDIO8 CURRUMBIN

Afterglow brings together four artists working across painting, textile, glass and ceramic whose practices are connected through colour, materiality and the emotional resonance of objects made slowly and with intention.

The exhibition explores the lingering warmth that art can bring into a home and a life, works that hold presence beyond the immediate moment and continue to reveal themselves over time.

INTRODUCING

❋ Meli Axford

Meli Axford is a Northern NSW-based contemporary oil painter whose work explores colour, space and the emotional environments we create for ourselves and those we love. Her paintings often centre on her daughters within vivid poolside landscapes that balance realism with flattened fields of colour and architectural calm.

Drawing on themes of belonging, visibility and contemporary femininity, Meli’s work constructs imagined spaces where connection, freedom and care are embedded into the environment itself. Her practice combines cinematic colour palettes with intimate figurative moments, creating works that feel both deeply personal and culturally resonant.

Meli has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, and was a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Wollumbin Art Award and Byron Art Prize.

❋ Trish Tait

Trish Tait is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between clay and watercolour, exploring the quiet relationship between object, surface and image. Her hand-built ceramic vessels are treated as three-dimensional canvases, painted with underglaze so that form and decoration evolve together through an intuitive and tactile process.

Alongside these sculptural works, Trish creates intimate watercolour still lifes inspired by the completed vessels, allowing quiet visual conversations to emerge between object and painting. Her work is grounded in observation, materiality and the subtle poetry of everyday forms, celebrating the beauty found in slow making and thoughtful arrangement.

Through both ceramics and painting, Trish’s practice invites contemplation, softness and connection, creating works that feel personal, tactile and quietly expressive..

❋ Sue Axford

Sue Axford’s practice explores the relationship between nature, material and form through hand-painted glass and carved stone works inspired by native flora and the surrounding landscape. Her botanical imagery appears suspended within luminous glass surfaces, combining delicacy, detail and transparency with a quiet sense of stillness. Alongside these works, her sandstone and soapstone sculptures use flowing abstract forms to explore movement, balance and tactility. Across both mediums, her work reflects a deep attentiveness to craftsmanship, observation and the enduring beauty of the natural world.

Her works invite slowness and close attention, transforming everyday and natural forms into objects that hold both presence and calm. Balancing fragility with permanence, Sue creates pieces designed to bring warmth, reflection and a lasting connection to nature into domestic spaces.

❋ Janette Lindores

Janette Lindores is a textile artist who weaves visual narratives through intricate embroidery, knitting and crochet. Using upcycled raw fabrics, she builds surfaces through stitching, layering and the accumulation of small gestures.

Threads, fibres and found materials form organic patterns that echo natural systems, growth, repetition and quiet transformation. Each stitch records time, slowing the process and inviting close attention.

Form is not simply observed but built, held and felt through her considered use of upcycled materials, which bring their own layers of memory and past life into the work.