Friday 26 June 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Studio 8 Currumbin
Join us for the opening night of AFTERGLOW, a vibrant and emotionally resonant group exhibition bringing together the work of artists Meli Axford, Trish Tait, Sue Axford and introducing Jeanette Lindores.
Set within the beautiful Studio 8 Currumbin space, AFTERGLOW explores colour, memory, materiality and the emotional traces that remain after moments of connection, transformation and care. Spanning painting, ceramics, textiles and glass, the exhibition brings together four distinct creative practices united by a shared sensitivity to atmosphere, surface and storytelling.
Opening night drinks offer an opportunity to experience the exhibition in an intimate and celebratory setting while meeting the artists behind the work. Guests are invited to wander through the exhibition, enjoy conversation and refreshments, and immerse themselves in a richly layered visual environment where colour and material become emotionally charged.
Meli Axford’s large-scale figurative paintings explore themes of love, safety, visibility and freedom for women and girls through vivid poolside landscapes that balance realism with abstraction and cinematic colour. Alongside these works, Trish Tait’s hand-built ceramics and watercolours create quiet conversations between object and image, while Sue Axford’s sculptural stone pieces and enamelled glass vessels bring further texture, tactility and Jeanette Lismore’s textile works add depth to the exhibition.
AFTERGLOW is both visually immersive and deeply personal — a show about what lingers emotionally after experience, and the ways creative practice can hold memory, vulnerability and joy.
Whether you are a collector, creative, designer, curator or simply someone who loves being surrounded by art and conversation, we would love you to join us for an inspiring evening celebrating contemporary practice, connection and community.
Drinks and light refreshments provided.
All welcome.
meet the artists
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.
Introducing Janette Lindores
Janette Lindores is a textile artist whose practice weaves visual narratives through intricate embroidery, knitting and crochet. Working primarily with upcycled raw fabrics and found materials, she builds richly layered surfaces through stitching, repetition and the accumulation of small, deliberate gestures.
Her work explores the quiet relationship between material, memory and transformation. Threads, fibres and reclaimed textiles are carefully assembled into organic patterns that echo natural systems of growth, erosion and renewal. Through slow and highly tactile processes, form is not simply represented but physically constructed — held within the density of stitched surfaces and layered materials.
The use of upcycled fabrics brings a sense of history and lived experience into each piece, allowing traces of past lives to remain embedded within the work. Time becomes visible through repetition, inviting close attention to texture, detail and the meditative rhythm of making.
Through her textile practice, Janette creates works that feel intimate, contemplative and materially alive, celebrating the quiet poetry found within process, patience and transformation.
Sue Axford
Sue Axford is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans enamelled glass and stone sculpture, exploring the quiet relationship between nature, form and material. Drawing inspiration from the native flora, insects and surrounding landscape of her garden environment, her work reflects a deep attentiveness to organic structure, texture and the rhythms of the natural world.
Her enamelled glass bowls and plates are delicately illustrated with botanical and insect imagery, each piece combining fine detail with luminous surface and translucency. Alongside these works, Sue creates hand-carved sculptures in limestone and soapstone, shaping fluid, organic forms that feel both grounded and quietly meditative. Guided by intuition and material sensitivity, her sculptural process allows the natural qualities of the stone to inform the final form.
Practising for more than 25 years, Sue’s work celebrates slow making, observation and tactile connection, inviting moments of contemplation through objects that feel timeless, personal and deeply connected to place.
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