These panels are a living amulet—Hawthorn, medicine of the heart. Guardian of thresholds, she encourages strength to open our hearts courageously, while offering the protective wisdom of the thorn, so we may be safe in our vulnerability. 

Gustav Fischer, The Spore Print Collective, whose artistic expression unfolds through captivating mushroom spore prints. His work serves as both a biological catalogue and a creative response to the beauty he observes in the natural world. Extending beyond the physical, Fischer also creates intuitive digital works inspired by these spore prints.

DJ Kundalini (Mari Kundalini) is a respected and long-standing figure in Melbourne’s underground electronic music scene, with over three decades of creative evolution across sound, performance, and installation art. With roots in theater, classical singing and opera, her early foundation in the performing arts laid the groundwork for a multidisciplinary ride that has since become deeply embedded in the electronic music scene, with an unwavering commitment to the culture.

Grooveyboots, also known as Postman Pat (AUS), was a fixture of Melbourne’s underground breaks, trance, and psy-scene from the mid-1990s through to around 2010. A frequent selector at Triptmind gatherings, warehouse parties, and other underground events across the city.

An ethnobotanical light experiment where fungi gossip with roots, photons flirt with leaves, and the forest reveals its secret systems. A mad professor’s ode to emergence, ecology, and accidental enlightenment.

Dexter is a multi-instrumentalist and yoga instructor whose work blends ambient minimalism, blues, and world music to create transformative sonic experiences. With a background in continental philosophy, multimedia, and improvisational performance, Dex specialises in transcendental and experimental sound that engages the nervous system and explores the edges of perception. His approach brings an embodied listening practice into the space between sound, body, and mind.

Zoë Rayne is an oil painter living on Wurundjeri country, in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria. With a deep connection to the more-than-human world, Zoë has always felt called to depict humanity’s inherent inseparability from nature.

As an artist working in the psychedelic and visionary traditions, Xenodimensional is inspired by the rich, colorful, and often surreal inner world of the imagination. Xenodimensional seeks to capture and communicate the beauty and complexity of the mind's eye through a wide range of media, including digital art, airbrushed pieces and 3d prints.

Mickey Space is a genre-fluid DJ, movement guide, and breathwork facilitator known for creating immersive sonic journeys that uplift the body and expand the soul. His sets fuse tribal percussion, psychedelic bass, downtempo grooves, organic house, and earthy electronica — weaving a soundscape that invites deep embodiment, ecstatic movement, and moments of transcendence.

By 2024 the Victorian government announced the end of native forest logging, only for it to continue in more insidious forms. Film maker Lewi Haskins made himself a promise that if his forest community came under the threat of logging, he would protect it the best way he knew how - through film.

…there is an idea of Hel Waters, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hold your gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable:

I simply am not here.

Clerke is a multidisciplinary artist and creative producer blending performance, writing, and visual art into bold, socially engaged works. In 2025, she received the Melbourne Fringe Artform Shaker Award and a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.

Installation to explore nature, light and consciousness, merging organic forms and spiritual symbolism through an immersive experience.

Using nature as a canvas, O.E.V highlights the beauty of the Australian bush using a combination of lasers, UV and smoke to illuminate and transform the night into a visual spectacle of colour and depth.

The Australian forest fires are a stage of the forests life, the seeds germinated from the extreme fire tempretures are not dissimilar to our own lives and the faith we hold in life after death, nothing more than our creativity stirred by the fires of our imagination.

I remember seeing something strange at a party 20 years ago. What was that? Is this that? What am I watching?

Sit back and take in Absurdist cinema for absurd times…

Futurelic presents a costume ritual totemizing the animal world. A science fiction nature deity like Titan & Noah's Ark to represent and acknowledge the creatures in nature live. 

Guardians, layers paint and leaf imprints, depicting a healer with Amazonian plants and animals—sacred allies in Indigenous traditions—used to cure illness, restore balance, and amplify healing.

Hearing Humus, Sighting Soil is a text-based installation and meditation on human-soil intimacies. The artwork explores the ways we might heal by simply spending quality time with wild soils.

Bradlee likes to try everything. High school choir. Metal drummer. Singer-songwriter. Sold-out EP & album launches for a rock band you've probably never heard of. Mashing up Marilyn Manson & Infected Mushroom at Triptamind. Primus & Ol' Dirty Bastard at Somatica. Ambient soundscapes at Rainbow Serpent. Kava bar shows in California. And seven years as resident muso at the mighty Foragers Drop.

No originals this time, just the familiar taste of random covers for your EGA enjoyment.