HOTMESS is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Sophie May and Gabrielle Miller. They create surrealistic narratives and performative art offering audiences healthy escapism. Designed to ignite your creative fire, we immerse you in a fictional world, using costume, sound, lighting and stories. Their practice takes many forms from immersive life-drawing shows to online courses, festival performances, gallery exhibitions and art direction. Sophie May is a Gamilaraay artist living and creating on Bundjalung Country. She works with ceramic sculpture, mixed media painting, and runs interactive, expressive art workshops for children and adults. She is inspired by her cultural background and using visual art as a powerful tool for self expression. Gabrielle Miller is a director and performer bringing ingenuity to the stage and screen through music, dance, acting, puppetry and mask. A chimerical storyteller with a wide reaching practice, Gabrielle trained at the Atelier für Physisches Theater in Berlin and has toured worldwide with many of her self devised shows. HOTMESS was created during the NNSW floods as an escape from the hardship, grief and exhaustion we were all experiencing.