Launch: Wednesday 12 November 6–8PM

GET COOKED! is a group show of emerging artist from different backgrounds, showcasing art that responds to community and food. It’s about how community and food are intertwined and how the artist's upbringing intersects with the art made bringing their communities together.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Steven Nguyen is a queer, non-binary artist of Vietnamese descent based in Naarm, currently in their second year of studying Fine Arts at RMIT. Their practice is in photography and oil painting, exploring themes of the human condition through queerness. They utilise their practice to share stories of their experiences and advocate for social change by engaging with current political affairs and exploring how the creative process can shift perspective.

Caitlyn Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist utilising and exploring how to bring materiality to the ephemeral. Often incorporating textiles and embroidery, she explores nostalgia; her love of small traditions and detail, and the cultural intersection of her Australian-Malaysian heritage. Based in Naarm, she utilises photography and painting/illustration-based processes to deconstruct and reconstruct as an act of reflective catharsis and expression.

Zed Hobbs is a Narrm-based painter, illustrator and comic artist of Sri Lankan descent. He explores the convergence of fantasy, everyday life and interpersonal relationships through his practice. Zed often incorporates humour, elements of visual storytelling and iconography from pop culture. He employs the viewer to build their own ideas around the world and characters presented in the work. These works are snapshots that imply a broader story, whether one exists or not.

Jordan Nekauluw is a self taught woodcarver based in Naarm with Javanese/Chinese, Moluccan and Irish/Scottish Decent. Jordan is an artist working with found and foraged materials who uses their practice as a method of conversation with his past Lives and ancestors. his work is a representation made through intuitive and ancestral practice and design, this is a practice that seeks not to dominate the material, but to let go of the Layers that shield the younger self and younger heart's story. Jordan's carvings are inspired by Lessons and stories passed down form all his elders of biological and close friends, relating to unfolding events and ancestral revolution and anarchy.

Image credit: Steven Nguyen, Walk with me, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 20x25cm, Photographed by Steven Nguyen