“Overgrown”
ENOKi, Fressie (f3ral), Hannah Hallam-Eames, Ingrid Hollis, Ronen Jafari and Aisyah Kirana
3 Dec → 5 Dec 2025
Collingwood Yards
A series of paintings were created for the planter boxes in Collingwood Yards as part of West Space's Overgrown project, an experimental, long-form collaboration between local artists and Yarra Youth Services, Fitzroy.
Led by local artists ENOKi, Hannah Hallam-Eames and Ronen Jafari, artists from the Yarra Youth Studio program and West Space Volunteer program created this series of paintings together in the courtyard following a workshop exploring the intersection between horticulture and social culture, and the way people and plants might facilitate relations and connections between one another.
The paintings are now on permanent display in the Collingwood Yards courtyard.
Overgrown is supported by the City of Yarra and Collingwood Yards.
ENOKi is a proud Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta Blak Fulla based in Naarm (Melbourne) from a studio in Collingwood Yards. A multi-media artist with a focus on digital media, ENOKi explores themes of Blakness, Queer Identity, gender, sexuality, the body and identity. They draw inspiration from native flora and fauna, comic books, animation, and artists and pop culture of the 1980s, ’90s, and early 2000s with a strong connection to the practices of Keith Haring and Basquiat.
Fressie (f3ral) is a silversmith and printmaker who draws inspiration from the ornaments and fabric of the urban environment, inspired by her career as an urban planner. Focusing on materiality, she creates dialogues between crafted objects and the individual experience to reveal how place and memory influence personal connection.
Hannah Hallam-Eames is an artist, bushland regenerator and researcher from Aotearoa, based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her multidisciplinary research is explored through sculptural installation, combining processes and non-human materials. Inspired by field and laboratory methods found within environmental science, Hallam-Eames explores the earth's geology as a dynamic machine which distorts anthropocentric thought, as opposed to grounding it. Through remote hiking, she diagrams, photographs and records volatile terrain such as volcanic eruptions, glaciers, crude-oil well sites, and meteorite impact craters.
Ingrid Hollis is a Naarm (Melbourne) based artist working across a painting and sculptural practice to explore the complexities of grief and religious experience. She abstracts and re-contextualises deity symbols, architectural elements of religious institutions, and national symbols of identity and grief.
Ronen Jafari is an artist with a focus on sustainability through culinary practices. Jafari frequently holds food-based projects across Naarm (Melbourne) and beyond, and self-published a cookbook offering ways to integrate plant-based cooking into a busy, low-budget share house kitchen. He was West Space Administrator from 2023-2026 and is currently co-Director at Liquid Architecture and on the steering committee of TCB Gallery.
Aisyah Kirana is a multidisciplinary artist with an intuitive-led practice, working across performance, object, and manifesto. Focusing on the intersections of embodiment and ontology, she uses her body as a medium, Kirana’s own muse, and a translator to play, pray, and as a way to see the world.
