MICHAYE BOULTER

Michaye Boulter is a Hobart-based painter whose landscapes, though undeniably Tasmanian, have a universal quality. 

Boulter holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania. She has exhibited extensively around the country and has been a finalist in several prestigious art prizes. Her work is held in various public and private collections throughout Australia, including the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and Parliament House, Canberra.

EMMA BUGG

Emma Bugg is an Australian contemporary jewellery artist based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Working across contemporary jewellery and object-based art, her practice is grounded in material research, storytelling, and place-responsive making. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Science Gallery Melbourne, and her work is held in institutional and private collections, including MONA and the Queenstown Gallery & Museum.

Bugg was the inaugural winner of the Bridge Art Prize and has been recognised as a finalist in the MAKE Award (2025) and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2024). She is a co-founder of State of Flux Workshop (2020) in nipaluna/Hobart, a collaborative studio supporting contemporary jewellery and object makers, and has delivered significant community-engaged projects for Unconformity, including Gilded Memories (2023) and Elemental Memories (2025).

Her practice explores jewellery as a container for memory, place, and lived experience. Known for her ongoing use of concrete since 2011, Bugg combines industrial and found materials to create wearable works that challenge traditional notions of value, permanence, connection, and intimacy. She also engages with emerging technologies, considering jewellery as an evolving archive shaped by time, obsolescence, and curiosity.

Bugg holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Diploma of Jewellery Design. Her work is underpinned by sustained studio enquiry, collaboration, and a commitment to crafting thoughtful, enduring objects.