Artists

Nadia Hernández is an emerging artist originally from Mérida, Venezuela, currently based in Sydney, Australia. Her visual arts practice is informed specifically by the current political climate of her home country and her diasporic experience as a Venezuelan woman living abroad.

Rainbow has performed extensively including live appearances at Sydney Opera House, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Old and New Art, and Iceland Airwaves.

Quishile Charan is an emerging artist living and working in Aotearoa, New Zealand of Indo-Fijian heritage. Charan uses traditional modes of textile making to reflect upon the landscape of Indentured Labour and the on-going neo-colonial affects on the Indo-Fijian community.

Formed in 2014, Snack Syndicate (Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks) is a critical art collective that produces installations, video and sound work, texts and talks.

Grace Blake a a digital and installation artist based between Canberra and Sydney. Blake creates digital spaces and scenarios that explore relationships between technology and its human users.

Yonel Watene was born 1989 in Aotearoa, and is of Māori (Ngati Maru (Hauraki)) and Greek descent. Since 2016 Watene has created a diverse oeuvre that grew to include painting, photography, sculpture and video.

Phebe Schmidt (b. 1993) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work explores consumption, self-image and identity in a branded, surveilled contemporary culture.

Paris Norton is a Gamilaroi woman from North Western NSW. Norton’s work is a visual response to her emotions, identity and cultural heritage and their relationship to contemporary Australia.

Lisa Sammut is an artist based in Sydney. She explores cosmic-oriented philosophies of being and belonging through material production including kinetic and prop-like woodwork sculpture, video art and immersive model-based installation.

Amy Jane Parker (b.1990, Narrm/ Melbourne) is an artist currently living on the unceded lands of the Palawa people in nipaluna/ Hobart. Her sculptural practice considers how affective energies are passed between and indexed within earthly matter.

Loc Nguyen (b. 1996) is an emerging artist based in Sydney working across video, sound and performance.

Anna Pogossova is a Moscow born, Sydney based photomedia artist, whose work is concerned with the experience of familiarity in fiction.

Blake Lawrence was born and raised in Palmers Island, Northern NSW, across the lands of the Yaegl, Bundjalung, and Gumbaynggirr nations.

Elyas Alavi is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. He is primarily working in the form of painting, installation, performance art and recently video art.

Tom’s solo and collaborative practice utilises fragmented moments and symbols as potential sites for contemplating the psychological frameworks and technological networks that surround us.

Jelena Telecki is interested in representation in painting and sculpture. Installation plays an important part in creating a dialogue between painting and sculpture and is used as a means of articulating her sense of personal and shared narratives, internal and the external.

Jade Boyd is a visual artist and PhD candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, researching occulted energies in nature and technology.

Andrew Christie is a Sydney-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice expresses the ability of aesthetics to occupy and negotiate political landscapes while paradoxically admitting the futility of arts own efficacy.

Kai Wasikowski is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Sydney, Australia. In familiarising rapid environmental and technological change, Kai’s artistic practice maps an intimate connection with the threat of impending ecological disaster and explores the emotional reverberations of a relationship with such disproportionate scale.

Megan Kennedy is visual artist currently residing and working in Melbourne. Seeking intersections between art and the everyday, Megan ‘tinkers’ with found and manufactured objects to create spatially considered installations.