In our latest series on culture makers, we chat with creative parents on the ultimate career balance — starting with mother of two, artist Emma Coulter.

Stephen Baker draws on high fashion and the beauty behind the sometimes toxic images of capitalist opulence and escapist retail fantasy for his latest body of work, Paris End, at Backwoods Gallery.

For her first solo exhibition, The Awakening, at Saint Cloche gallery, abstract painter Holly Terry balances the soft with the strong through colour, shape and texture, inspired by her journey as a student of yoga.

For her first solo exhibition at Saint Cloche gallery, Belarusian artist Tatsiana Shevarenkova draws on her fascination for biomorphic sculptors and soft dynamic form with All Forgiving.

Opening at Melbourne’s No Vacancy Gallery on 14 February 2022, Lores ruminates on creative life in lockdown while expanding on the stories that connect us.

Canberra-based emerging artist Bethany Saab uses still life painting to capture intimate glimpses of the colour and joy in the everyday objects of domestic life.

Byron Bay-based artist Mia Taninaka explores the themes of motherhood and the concepts of macrocosm-microcosm in her latest dreamlike body of work, The State of Things So Held at Yeah, Nice Gallery.

Saint Cloche gallery presents its first Pas De Deux for 2022 with a deeply emotive curatorial amalgam between Valerie Vigar and Giorgia Bel with Love Story.

Lilli Waters draws on her love for waterscapes in her latest ethereal photographic exhibition, Orpheus, at Metro Gallery in Melbourne.

Emerging Australian artist Ella Dunn explores a narrative around the fragility of life and the rhythms of its never-ending, forever evolving stages of existence with her first solo exhibition, Deeper Water.

Kitty Clark, founder of Saint Cloche, presents Grotto – a celebratory end of year group exhibition that invites a sensorial journey through a collection of hand-selected artworks.

Drawing from years of experience in the fashion industry, Sydney-based Meg Gallagher creates earthy, layered and organic patterns in her abstract paintings.