Axiogenesis: Failure and Other Lies

Seirian Kitchener is an early career artist based on Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. She graduated from the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2015 with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours). Her paintings embrace the traditional techniques of classical realism while pushing into contemporary methods and concepts. 

Samuel Leighton-Dore is an interdisciplinary artist, screenwriter and author based on the Gold Coast. Working predominantly across ceramics, illustration and animation, his art brings colour and levity to themes of mental health, identity and sexuality. His work has appeared on the cover of the Journal of Australian Ceramics, been acquired into the Gold Coast City collection and the Tweed Regional Gallery collection, and selected three times for the biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards. In 2019 he was named Visual Artist of the Year at ACON’s Honour Awards, recognising his creative contribution to the LGBTIQ+ arts community. He has released two books, How To Be A Big Strong Man (2019, Smith Street Books) and Wow It’s All A Lot (HarperCollins, 2023). He and his husband run Sad Man Studio, a production company focused on boutique animation, and have a coming-of-age animated series in development with Ludo Studio, the producers of Bluey.  

Min Wong’s sculpture and installation practice examines metaphysical and cultural esoterica of 1970’s countercultures, ‘New Age’ spirituality and recent renewed interest towards self-help and therapeutic culture. Her installations use strategies of appropriation, corporate branding techniques and nomadic meanings that are contingent and subject to the contemporary dilemma of spirituality.  

Min’s practice explores utopias and esoteric practices to reimagine a renewal of connection between nature, community and spirituality in coexistence. By looking back to past and present spiritual movements, Min’s installations investigate illusory hopes, desire, failure and seeks to remodel speculative worlds as possible futures within the contemporary dystopic.  

Min Wong has participated in international residencies in Spain, China and Los Angeles and recently exhibited at Housemuseum Galleries, Newcastle Regional Gallery, Verge Gallery, Hugo Michell Gallery and Firstdraft. Min has exhibited in prizes such as Churchie Emerging Art Prize and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and in 2019 was the recipient of the Sculpture prize for the Ghost Fisher Art Award Prize. In 2022 Min was a participating artist in the Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art curated by Sebastian Goldspink and in 2023 she was awarded the Samstag Scholarship, in which she is currently undertaking study at Braunschweig University, Germany. 

Min Wong is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery

Zaachariaha Fielding is an Adelaide-based multi-disciplinary who hails from Mimili community on the APY Lands in far north South Australia.

In 2020 Zaachariaha joined the APY Art Centre Collective’s Adelaide Studio and developed a newfound commitment to his visual arts practice. Zaachariaha comes from a long line of multi-disciplinary artists and after a successful music career over the last decade, most notably as one half of the duo Electric Fields, he is now exploring the visual language of his culture through painting. 

Since beginning his visual arts practice, Zaachariaha has undertaken highly successful solo exhibitions and has been featured as a finalist in the ATSIAAs, Ramsay Art Prize, Sulman Prize, Wynne Art Prize, in 2023 was awarded the Wynne Art Prize, The Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

Zaachariaha Fielding is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery

Ashleigh Keller is an emerging artist living and working on Kaurna Land in South Australia. After graduating from a Bachelor of Visual Art from AC Arts in 2021, Keller has continued to bring to life and exhibit evocative ceramic sculptures that explore ideas around family, memory, and self.