Meet the Associates… First Year 2026
JamFactory’s highly acclaimed Associate Program provides outstanding career development opportunities for emerging artists and designers working in the fields of glass, furniture, ceramics or jewellery/metal.
The program is designed to accelerate development of the professional and entrepreneurial skills required to establish and maintain a successful and sustainable creative career.
The program provides a platform for network building and peer to peer learning within a dynamic creative hub that attracts leading art, craft and design industry figures from across Australia and around the world.
Meet our 2026 First Year Associates!
Ceramics
Lily Trnovsky
Lily Trnovsky is a contemporary ceramicist living and working on Kaurna Country. Her practice explores giving tangible objects to the intangible and ubiquitous human experience. Through vessel forms and repetitive motifs, she provides a visual resting place for the abstract thought - creating what she calls ‘emotionally functional objects’.
“I’m ecstatic to be a part of JamFactory’s community and look forward to utilising the generous support of everyone in the studio to build upon my professional practice. Being granted the space, time and facilities to do this is an incredible opportunity.”
Jessie Croshaw
Jessie Croshaw is a self-taught ceramicist with a visual arts background, living and working in Tarntanya (Adelaide). Her work explores the complex experiences of human connections to objects and place. Jessie combines various art disciplines, often focused on using found and recycled materials. Her processes are driven by play to offset heaviness in life.
“To be given the time, space and facilities to experiment and learn is incredibly special. I am excited for the opportunity to develop my skills and artistic language further amongst the skilled community at JamFactory!”
Furniture
Riley Hearn
Riley Hearn is a multidisciplinary designer-maker from Meanjin (Brisbane). Since completing training at the Sturt School for Wood, he has focused on producing functional furniture and objects. Drawing on his background in Games Design, Riley’s work explores the utility of play, and designing delight into everyday things.
“Being at JamFactory, surrounded by passionate artists and makers, brings me a feeling of total abundance. I look forward to exploring methods, developing my practice, and soaking up shared expertise. I can’t wait to see what this next chapter brings.”
Antoine Roille
Antoine Roille is a French-born Australian maker working between furniture and sculpture. Guided by tactile feedback and simple forms, his playful work celebrates the inherent beauty of materials and their enduring connection to millennia of human culture, gesture, and lived experience.
“JamFactory offers me the space to experiment with unfamiliar processes and materials, shaped by dialogue with the artists who form this community. By the end of the program, I aim to further develop my visual language and create a series of works that are both personal and relatable.”
Glass
Megan Wilkinson
Megan Wilkinson is an emerging glass artist exploring tension, transition, and the quiet negotiations between control and fluidity within the material. Working across glassblowing, kiln forming, and coldworking, they investigate dualities of strength and fragility through sculptural exhibition works, alongside refined functional objects produced under the name ‘Peggy Glass’.
“Through the Associate Program, I hope to deepen my technical confidence while expanding the conceptual scope of my practice. I’m excited to refine a sustainable production line alongside more ambitious sculptural work, and to learn how to balance experimentation with professional and commercial viability.”
Lily Morin
Lily Morin is a glass artist and designer whose work explores the intersection between art, design and utility. Embracing the contrast between the refined crafting techniques and raw, tactile surfaces, Lily combines traditional glass-making techniques with industrial materials.
“Being surrounded by, and learning from, the extraordinarily skilled artists across JamFactory’s studios is an absolute dream come true. As an Associate, I’m excited to learn through hands-on making, playful exploration, and experimentation with new materials as I continue to hone my skillset and develop my artistic voice.”
Ember Satyn
Ember Satyn is an emerging glass artist working on Kaurna Country. Her practice spans sculptural and functional works, exploring how colour, surface finish, and transparency shift perception. Using glass’s material qualities, Ember recontextualises familiar forms, inviting them to be re-perceived.
“Through the Associate Program, I’m excited to grow my skills through hands-on training and access to JamFactory’s facilities. This will give me the opportunity to experiment, refine techniques, and really push my practice forward.”
Ember Satyn is the recipient of the 2026 JamFactory x Helpmann Academy Scholarship.
Jewellery and Metal
Chloe Burton
Chloe Burton is a jeweller and artist currently creating on Kaurna Country. Whilst studying at the Sydney College of the Arts, she became captivated by the quiet agency of objects and their capacity to hold meaning beyond function. Chloe crafts pieces that invite the wearer to adorn everyday moments with self–expression and mindful presence.
“The Associate Program is as an exciting opportunity for transformation. I’m grateful to be able to draw on the shared expertise and material exploration accessible at JamFactory to grow my practice and refine my creative identity.”
Ciara Steggerda
Ciara Steggerda is an emerging artist and jeweller from Naarm (Melbourne). Through a combination of ancient and contemporary handcrafting techniques, Ciara investigates how these methods mark the time and identity of the maker. Her talismanic forms seek to materialise comfort, protection, and ritual.
“This year I’m excited to push my creative practice forward in a supportive and passionate environment. In my time at JamFactory I aim to hone my technical skills and deepen the conceptual narratives within my work.”
Teegan Horat
Teegan Horat is a jeweller and multidisciplinary artist whose work is grounded in a love for materials, objects and the stories they carry, often taking influence from historical forms to create pieces that evoke reverence and encourage sentimentality.
“My goal for the Associate Program is to expand my current jewellery practice and explore the creation of functional objects that are beautiful to both view and use.”