Andrea vargas: Where Touch, Story, and Presence Converge

Welcoming Andrea Vargas to the Romulus Folio program

Romulus Folio is delighted to welcome Andrea Vargas, a multidisciplinary Latin American artist based in Melbourne. Working across sculpture, ceramics, photography, and watercolour, Andrea brings a refined sense of material awareness to her practice, exploring how touch, story, and memory shape belonging.

Her work draws on her cultural roots and diasporic experience, blending traditional craft with contemporary visual language. Whether through the curve of a ceramic form, the texture of glaze, or the intimacy of a pendant, Andrea invites viewers to experience art through sensation and presence. Each object becomes a record of emotion and encounter. something both fragile and enduring.

In her ongoing collection Agua, Andrea takes inspiration from the poetry of Gabriela Mistral, transforming literary heritage into three-dimensional form. These pieces evoke the rhythms of water, movement, and transformation, connecting text and touch in ways that are both deeply personal and universal.

Andrea Vargas grounds her practice in the belief that objects carry stories and often respond to their environments. Her art bridges the worlds of fine art, craft, and design. In her upcoming Create Your Own Ceramic Jewellery Charm workshop November 23, she invites participants to engage with this experimental and emotionally resonant approach to making.

This November, Andrea joins the group exhibition Observer at Romulus Folio, presented from 7–30 November 2025. The exhibition brings together artists who explore perception, presence, and the act of looking. Andrea’s contribution embodies these ideas in tactile form.

Romulus Folio is proud to present Andrea Vargas as part of our 2025–26 program. Her work reflects the gallery’s vision of art as a site of transformation, where material, memory, and meaning converge.