Essential Making

Grounded in the belief that creativity is essential to living, artmaking becomes a practical way to navigate pain, assert agency, and reclaim control.

For the artists of the SICK AF Collective, healing is not a separate outcome; it is embodied within the act of creation. Spanning textiles, photography, writing, jewellery, and installation, the exhibition gathers works born of necessity.

Notes, repetitions, and fragments sit alongside finished pieces, extending each work beyond its final form and into the conditions that produced it. Here, constraints are negotiated and adaptations are embraced as vital components of the creative language. Across these works, individual voices emerge through personal systems of meaning and repair.

Creating Space invites viewers to reflect, respond, and expand upon their own creative practices – in studios, at home, in the gallery, or in the quiet moments between.

Lucinda Crimson

visual artist, educator, advocate
(WA, Australia)
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Catherine Higham

contemporary artist
(regional WA, Australia)
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Shayne O’Donnell

artist
(VIC/WA, Australia)
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Annamaria Weldon

writer, poet, photographer
(WA, Australia)
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