STUDIOS - WORKSHOPS - EVENTS - CERAMIC STUDIO
Pink Ember is proudly a queer artist-run initiative.
We are a not-for-profit, which serves as an inclusive centre for artists; providing art workshops, studios, exhibitions, and events.
First established in a small shop front on Ohea Street in Coburg during 2018, we have since relocated to a large venue on Allenby Street in Coburg North. Our new space features a front workshop/event area, 14 artist studios, as well as a dedicated ceramics studio at the back of the venue.
As uninvited guests, we proudly acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which our studio is located and on which our resident artists do their work. Our organisation directly benefits from the oppression, dispossession and colonisation of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people. We pay respect to Elders, past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
Follow us on instagram: @pinkemberstudio
Frances Cannon
Frances Cannon (they/them) works predominantly in drawing and painting in ink, gouache and watercolour. Frances' diaristic work examines what it’s like to be queer and woman-adjacent in contemporary times; looking at ideas of body-love and body-loathing, anxiety, relationships, sex and sexuality, gender, and bodily functions.
www.francescannonart.com
@frances_cannon
Germ Flack
Germ (they/them) is a tattooer, artist, and zine-maker.Their tattoo practice is devoted to helping their clients access the healing and transformative power that is possible within tattooing. Their work is a celebration of colour and joy, with a focus on reclamation of the body and decorating our transient vessels with our identities.
Aaron Billings
Aaron (he/him) works through the medium of zines, comics, books, and textiles, exploring queer political power and agency, and resistance to heteronormative ways of seeing. Aaron focuses on versions of masculinities that mess with gender representation, alternatives to capitalism, and resisting homogenisation.
Aoife Billings
Aoife Billings (she/her) is a Narrm (Melbourne) based interdisciplinary artist with a dedicated practice of ceramics. She has been teaching art workshops for over seven years, including at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Shepparton Art Museum, Monash University, numerous local councils and Pink Ember Studio.
