ART

Diego Faivre // The Blooming Vessel

Diego Faivre is a French designer and artist based in Melbourne. His work explores time, making, and transformation through hands-on processes.

Using a colourful air-dry clay, he covers everyday objects and structures, turning them into playful, sculptural forms. His project Minute Manufacturing invites people to see how things are made in real time, often involving the public in the process. For Uncontained, Diego transforms a shipping container into a growing collective artwork where visitors can shape and add their own clay forms.

Clarice Tan // In Good Stead

Clarice Tan is a designer by day and an artist by night. In Good Stead reimagines the traditional horse painting, a symbol long believed to bring prosperity into the space it sits in.

In this version, the horses travel between worlds in joyful arrival, bearing gifts of good luck and well-wishes for your journey ahead. 

Erth Visual & Physical Inc. // The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things is a captivating celebration of the natural world within built environments. Led by Fauna, an inflatable puppet creature born from mycelium, the underground threads connecting forests. This work invites audiences to reconnect with nature’s wonder and heed its urgent plea for care.

In collaboration with Shopfront Arts Co-Op, their dedicated team will activate a swarm of luminous firefly puppets throughout the Festival.

Image credit: Leo Infantas

UNSW // Illuminate

Inspired by Kogarah’s name which means place of reeds, we invite you to experience Resonance as a living memory of the river's rushes and banks.

Don't be afraid to touch the grasses and watch the ripple of light travel through the entire field. At its centre, find a meditative well, take a moment to peek inside, what will you find?

ENTERTAINMENT & ACTIVATIONS

Kaleidoscope Dream // Afterglow

Afterglow is a high-energy, live LED drum show featuring some of Australia’s leading session drummers.

Afterglow is built around custom illuminated drum kits and tightly choreographed drum performances.

Artists in Public Places // The Playful Plate

Ali Gordon and Alicia Gonzalez are the creative duo behind Artists in Public Places, a performance collective dedicated to crafting unique, offbeat, and deeply human encounters in public space.

Blending visual poetry, theatrical clowning their work invites audiences of all ages to slow down, connect, and rediscover the delight of shared experience. 

Image credit: Syl Marie Photography 

VOiiiD Collective // The Voiiidians

VOiiiD Collective is a force of creative chaos, empowering independent artists to unleash raw, vulnerable, and unforgettable stories. Fusing dance, sound, wearable art, and visual theatre, we create hyper-sensory experiences that challenge perspectives and shake realities.

Built with sustainability and inclusivity at every step, each creation is a recycled rebellion, 80% trash and 100% unapologetic.

Image credit: Adam Plant

Tahlia Henderson // Just wing it

Tahlia is a local landscape painter and current Georges River Artist in Residence. Her bold watercolour paintings capture bushland wildlife, flowers and insects of the bushland she regularly visits. These paintings are full of colour with many layers of hidden details to discover.

At the event, you’ll have the chance to create alongside her—colour in her original designs or make your own moth!

Image credit: Tahlia Henderson, Moth symmetry.