Artists

Rachel O’Reilly (b. Gladstone) is an artist/poet, curator, critic, and educator. She was previously a curator of film, video and new media at Australian Cinematheque, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and Asia Pacific Triennial, and resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands.

Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country and is of Worimi descent. He is a transdisciplinary artist primarily working across installation, sculpture and photography.

Gillian Kayrooz is an artist from Western Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

April Phillips is a Wiradjuri-Scottish illustrator, researcher and visual arts educator based on the South Coast of NSW. Working as an independent practitioner, April travels far and wide to work with young people in collaboration with national art institutions and organisations.

Amy Claire Mills is a Sydney-based artist whose art practice explores identity and self-preservation through immersive installations and performance, by which she becomes both the artist and subject. Her practice critiques and examines the politics surrounding the female disabled body.

Jenna Lee is a mixed-race Larrakia woman whose contemporary art practice explores the acts of identity/identification, label/labelling and the relationships formed between language, label and object.

Kate Bohunnis is an artist based in Adelaide/Kaurna Yarta, working in metal, mold-making, textiles, print and sound. Bohunnis holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design from Adelaide College of the Arts; and attained her Honours, Creative Arts, Visual Arts from Flinders University.

Lillian Colgan is a multi-disciplinary artist of European ancestry, originally from Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia) and currently settled in Sydney on Gadigal land.

Linda Sok is a Cambodian-Australian artist whose practice is guided by her Khmer cultural heritage. In particular, she investigates the culturally and personally significant event – the Khmer Rouge Regime – which forced her family’s migration to Australia.

Delhi-born, Sydney-based artist, Kirtika Kain examines caste and patriarchal structures that have been enforced upon and embodied by generations before her.

Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Tamara Baillie’s practice is located at the convergence of identity and memory. Her work plays with concepts of presence and absence, to explore and question accepted historical narratives.

Susan Hawkins is an interdisciplinary artist with a playful and process-oriented practice, often working with reclaimed industrial and domestic objects and testing their physical and metaphysical limits.

Eleanor Zurowski is interested in the ways in which people gather and how diverse forms of knowledge can best be shared in these instances.

Max Callaghan is a visual artist from Adelaide/Kaurna, South Australia.