About Us

The See Saw Collective is a group of artists from south-east Queensland who studied together at the Queensland College of Art (QCA, now named QCAD, Griffith University) graduating around 2014. While some joined the workforce and others continued their studies, all were dedicated to their art practice.

Gathering in the years since to share good food, wine, and their art-making journeys with each other, the bonds of art and friendship were galvanised.

In 2020 they gathered informally for their first group show, Tie, Tether, Tangle, focused on championing the process of making. After a lengthy break due to the pandemic and lockdowns the group returned in late 2021 with their second show seeing STILLNESS, dealing with themes of isolation.

The See Saw Collective was then founded in late 2022, making their third outingĀ VAST&VIVID in February 2023 the first group show in an official capacity. The show turned that inward focus of seeing STILLNESS outward, re-embracing vast open spaces, vivid colour and imagination.

In 2024 the collective comes together for their fourth show, Re[collect], celebrating ten years since studying together at QCA, and reflecting on a decade of experiences.

Exhibitions

The Collective

Lauren Edmonds

Multidisciplinary & multimedia arts practice that includes: drawing, animation, installation and object making. Often mixing technology with the handmade.

Domenica Hoare

Visual art practice in drawing, watercolour, intaglio, and lithography, with a focus on figurative drawing, and drawing from nature.

Cholena Drew Hughes

Exploring the trace of Country and connection to it through a varied range of media and methods of making.

Marta Larzabal

Explores her interests in art and creativity with psychology and healing, through a range of mediums including painting, collage, illustration, bookbinding and photography.

Ally McKay

Minimalist work using humble materials to explore the materiality of language and the broader structures and systems that influence lived experience.

Tess Mehonoshen

Site-specific installation practice exploring the shifting emotional connections of place-based attachment, through the use of gentle labour, repetition, and haptic interactions with site-sourced materials.

Lucy Rebekah

Specialising in embroidery on paper & influenced by background in print media, with an art practice focusing on pattern & the handmade

Jo Rees-Jones

Mixing it up with light and shadow on canvas or with metal, creating a narrative for viewers to interpret through their own lens.

Maikki Toivanen

Clay, with its tactile properties and versatility, allows expression of organic forms and surfaces which entices the viewer to indulge their haptic experience of touch.