Art Exhibition III - Hemmant's List

Hemmant's List art Exhibition III

We are pleased to announce the launch of our third exhibition, featuring works by Queensland artists, including Rachel Wolfe, Kate Barry, Paul Fairweather, Steph Markey, Damián Vásquez and Caroline Yuen.

The Hemmant’s List Art Program provides a platform for artists not represented by galleries to share their work with new audiences.

Featured Artists:

Rachel Wolfe

Rachel Wolfe is a Tasmanian-based emerging artist currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at the University of Tasmania. Before returning to art, she worked in law as a solicitor in Brisbane and later as a police prosecutor in Cairns.

Her painting practice examines the ways history is remembered, represented and inherited, with a particular interest in how familiar images and national narratives can shift when viewed through contemporary knowledge. Drawing on historical imagery, objects and archival sources, her work combines humour, ambiguity and the uncanny to reconsider what we were shown, what we were taught to see, and what becomes visible when we look again.

In 2026, Wolfe was awarded the Jon Lajos Prize in Fine Arts, UTAS and was selected as a finalist in The Percivals Portrait Painting Prize. She was also the winner of the 2025 Poochibald Art Prize.

Painting After Knowing brings Wolfe’s former legal career and contemporary painting practice into an unusual dialogue, exhibiting new work within the Brisbane legal community where her professional life began.

Email: rachelwolfeartist@gmail.com

Website: rachelwolfe.com.au

Kate Barry

Katherine is a Christchurch-born expressionistic abstraction painter living and working in Brisbane, Meanjin. Katherine’s painting is driven by instinctive and emotional responses to landscape and the energy of human interconnection. Losing herself in a dense subtropical environment through her ritualistic running practice, Katherine’s experiences are processed through the artist and shared with viewers via distinct gestural mark making. Sources of inspiration are created with qualities of mystery, sensuousness and nostalgia in an intuitive, spontaneous application of paint. Works explore feelings of space, manipulation and the chance of built-up layers finding a voice on the canvas. Compositions arise from balancing opposing angles and strokes with the vitality of colour and texture. As defiant marks wander the canvas, layers build and textures emerge and animate the painted surface. By immersing the viewer in the rich and fecund terrain of her paintings, a synchronicity between nature and organic movement encourages a connection and almost primitive emotional reaction to Katherine’s art. As we pass by we allow ourselves to be drawn in.

“My paintings are a physical demonstration of my imagination, memories and conversations. Painting pulls me between reality and the subconscious, as I get lost in the series of painted marks chartering a rough course across the canvas. Visual passages travelled and traces of snatched emotional responses are left upon the surface”.

After a hefty 25 years graphic design and illustration experience in the book publishing industry, Katherine returned to her abstract painting practice 12 years ago and has achieved successes, being recognised multiple times as a finalist in the Clayton Utz Prize

Email: katebarryartist@gmail.com

Website: katebarryartist.com

Paul Fairweather

Paul is a Brisbane-based Artist and Author, and a former award-winning architect; co-founder of Fairweather Proberts Architects (now Bureau Proberts).

Paul was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2001.

Over the years, Paul has worked with printmaking, ceramics, installations and video. Paul’s primary media are now oils and watercolours. His work ranges from wordplay to figurative, still life, landscape and seascapes.

He has recently published his first book, Bold, Brave and a bit Quirky. Ideas, illustrations, and stories about squeezing the creative juice out of life. Part memoir, part manifesto, illustrated with his quirky watercolours.

He was once described as equal parts Zen and Espresso, and likes to tickle parts of people’s brains they didn’t know they had with both his images and his words.

Paul is also co-founder of TEDxBrisbane and is co-host of The Common Creative Podcast.

Website: paulfairweather.com

Email:paulfairweather@me.com

Phone: 0418 775 714

Steph Markey

Steph is a Brisbane artist with a current hyperfixation on fish (despite lacking the patience to actually catch one).

In 2025, she quit her corporate job to travel around Australia in her troopy (Barry), and got to paint everywhere from a wedding in Melbourne to croc infested rivers on the Gibb.

Now back in Brissie with a studio and heaps of inspiration from this beautiful country, Steph’s painting reflect her journey around Australia.

Email: stephkmarkey@gmail.com

Website: stephhuntley.com

Damián Vásquez

Damián Vásquez is an Ecuadorian visual artist in continuous movement. His practice is centered on painting, illustration, tattoo and art direction, creating worlds that invite reflection and critique. A dominant black line, expressed through shadow, texture, or repetition, threads across his varied formats, including paper, walls, textiles, and skin.

His work it’s a reflection of his daily life, where Damian chooses the medium to create a paradoxes of life. Damian is navigating between oil painting murals and tattooing with now almost 20 years developing custom artworks & projects. His work has been exhibited worldwide in cities like Paris, Sydney, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Gold Coast, and lately finalist of Rotary club Exhibition in Brisbane. Sharing his fusion of ancestralism in a contemporary vision.

Website: disaikner.com

Instagram: @disaikner

Feel free to to contact him for commissions: info@damianvasquez.com

Email: info@damianvasquez.com

Caroline Yuen

Caroline Yuen is a Malaysian-born, Brisbane-based qualified architect with a B.Arch from the University of Western Australia, and an emerging artist. Her design sensibility is akin to interior architecture, from custom joinery and furniture to lighting installation. Her artistic practice spans many mediums including canvas, metal and clay. Previously represented by Code Red gallery in Claremont, Yuen has since exhibited at Redhill Gallery in 2026, Flinders Lane Gallery in 2022, Innerspace Contemporary Art in 2019 and 2017, Metcalfe Gallery at the Brisbane Institute of art in 2017, and Monart Gallery in 2004.

Yuen’s artistic and architectural endeavors have seen her featured multiple times the Sunday Times and Australia House and Garden between 2002 to 2012. Her work is held in private collections throughout Australia.
Influenced by the Australian landscape, geometry and modernism, Yuen’s works focus on the study of form, spatial tension, and volumetric space through the medium of sculpture. Yuen manipulates basic materials of steel rods and sheets into contrapposto geometric forms. She encourages viewers to experience her works from multiple standpoints, to look in, around, and through. Not dissimilar to her own process of manipulation, the viewer creates and manipulates their own new experience of space.
Her sculptural practice balances between land and built form. Yuen’s artistic philosophy combines an appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of Australia meanwhile navigating her role as an artist and architect. Her involvement in the RAIA Queensland Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and sustainable practices in architecture further informs her work.

The artform considers different ways of artistic interpretation through a migrant’s perspective.

Email:yuen.caroline.com.au

Phone: 0414 382 169

Please contact the artist listed above to purchase artwork or to enquire about the pieces below.

Please note: Work will be marked as SOLD in the catalogue once payment of the purchase price has been confirmed with the artist. Please notify us once payment has been made and we will confirm receipt of payment with the artist.