Translations
Romy Durrant, Caitlin E. Littlewood, Indya Pearce and Samuel Woodman

The desire to process and understand the world around us is a relatable quest. Who decides what stories get told? How do we remember them? How do you render experience and what transforms it along the way? Translations sees Gasworks Short-Term Studio Program’s current and alumni resident artists Romy Durrant, Caitlin E. Littlewood, Indya Pearce and Samuel Woodman explore these themes. 

Pearce’s practice examines ancient mythologies and archetypes, exploring the contrasts and echoes to contemporary issues. Littlewood similarly delves into the collective consciousness, currently focusing on the house as both a physical and psychological space. Both Durrant and Woodman use abstraction as their method of distillation. Durrant transforms the sensory into intuitive mark-making. Woodman methodically recontextualises our world into diagrammatic landscapes.  

In Translations, the artists find meeting points at the intersections where one thing moves into another.   

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About Gasworks Short-Term Studio Program  

Gasworks Short-Term Studio Program is an opportunity for emerging and mid-career artists to join our creative precinct and develop their practices. The program has seen local as well as interstate artists from a range of disciplines make their home in artists’ studios that skirt the edge of Gasworks parklands.  

Gasworks is excited to present part of our 40th birthday celebration, Translations, a group exhibition of Gasworks Short-Term Studio Program’s current and alumni resident artists Romy Durrant, Caitlin E. Littlewood, Indya Pearce and Samuel Woodman. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS 

Romy Durrant 

Romy Durrant is a Naarm-based artist working with relationships between abstract painting, poetry, craft and society. Her process often begins with writing and drawing, with paintings emerging through intuition and ekphrastic response. Romy is particularly interested in how abstract mark-making and method can convey sensory relationships with language, memory and environment. Her work explores themes of interconnectedness and sanctuary, more broadly. 

Romy is making paper works from foraged plants while in residence at Gasworks, in preparation for a collaborative exhibition at Library at the Dock in November this year. She has previously exhibited at Incinerator Gallery (Niddrie Library), The Dax Centre and CLIMARTE, been awarded grants from City of Melbourne and Arts Access Victoria, and was a 2025 Kingston Arts Magnify: Artist in Residence. Romy holds positions working with disabled communities and also cares deeply about nonhuman life.   

Instagram: @romydurrant  

Caitlin E. Littlewood  

Caitlin E. Littlewood is a Melbourne-based visual artist working with analogue and digital photography, installation, publications and the miniature diorama format. Her imagery and expanded lens‐based media undertake investigations into visual archives and collections that form part of our collective past. In combining found photography with her own studio photography and research, she creates new contexts for historical events. Her work most recently has focused on the personal archive and the concept of the house as both psychological site and domestic space.  

Since graduating from the Master of Fine Arts, Photography (HDK‐Valand, University of Gothenburg, 2020), Littlewood has been a 2024/25 recipient of the Konstnärsnämnden (Swedish Arts Grants Committee) two-year working grant and has exhibited in solo exhibitions at CFF Stockholm and at Photo North, Oulu. Numerous group exhibitions include the National Photography Prize 2022 at MAMA, Albury and ‘We’ve Been Sent a Strange Sign’ at Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden. Littlewood was the inaugural recipient of the Robyn Beeche Foundation Prize 2017, presented during her Bachelor of Arts, Photography at RMIT University. Public collections include Region Skåne (Sweden) and several Australian institutions, including the State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia. She was short-term artist in residence at Gasworks from November 2025 — February 2026.  

Instagram: @littlewoodphotography

Indya Pearce 

Indya Pearce is a visual artist and oil painter based in Melbourne. Her practice centres around recontextualising ancient mythologies, drawing parallels between archetypal narratives and contemporary issues. Through depictions of the body and portraiture, she explores themes of identity and relationships, navigating social, political, and internal struggles. 

Pearce employs expressive brushwork and fine detail, layering human and animalistic forms to create dense symbolic imagery. Blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, her paintings invite prolonged engagement and reflection, as audiences are not often immediately aware of what they are seeing. In a time defined by rapid information consumption and short attention spans, her work encourages slower, more reflective engagement and connection.  

Drawing from diverse cultural narratives, including Norse folklore, the Finnish Kalevala, Ancient Indian Shaktism and Greek mythology, she reframes mythical and religious characters such as Sleipnir, Fenrir, Durga, Kali, Leda, Aino and the Minotaur through a personal and feminine lens. These stories become vehicles for exploring autonomy, the body, motherhood, ritual and identity. She presented her debut solo exhibition titled Marrow & Myth, at the Changing Room Gallery, and has shown works across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. She has completed a Bachelor of Visual Art at the Queensland College of Art and undertaken an international Artist Residency in Finland. 

Intsagram : @indyapearce.art 

Samuel Woodman 

Samuel Woodman (b. 2003) is an emerging artist based in Melbourne, Australia. From a young age he has been fascinated with diagrams. Due to this, his practice is a form of contemplative rendering, trying to realise and picture immaterial systems. He works in diagrams, visualising a system of embedded meaning within each work. Taking inspiration from diverse sources: scientific notation, religious symbols and philosophical concepts are distilled and recombined into paintings of an inner world. Each made an effort to understand how we process thought.  

Banner Image caption (left to right)

Embrace [after Sijan], Indya Pearce, Oil paint on Wood, 2025.

Untitled #1, Caitlin E. Littlewood, 2024, from the series Slash and Burn, 61 × 73 × 61 cm, inkjet prints, clay, acrylic paint, mount board, foamcore, corrugated card, styrofoam, synthetic fibres, medium-density fibreboard, wooden boards.  

Installation image: Caitlin E. Littlewood, Slash and Burn, Galleri Gamla Farsot, Göteborg, 2024. 

Currently Untitled, Samuel Woodman, 2026, Oil and Watercolour on paper, 2026.

Transmission, Romy Durrant, oil on linen, 101cm x 76cm, 2025