Artists

Dylan Batty

Dylan Batty is an artist, installer, aquarian, and racing car designer living and working in Sydney. Their practice is based heavily within post internet conceptualism, examining intimacy in the context of the internet and remediation, while also investigating the logistics and manual labour of art production.

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Sarah Poulgrain

Sarah Poulgrain is a Brisbane based artist who works across video installation, ceramics, sewing, animation and audio production.

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James Farley

James Farley is an artist and curator based in Wagga Wagga, NSW. His practice employs post-photographic methodologies in an ongoing process of developing and testing positive and inclusive ways of engaging audiences with ecological thinking and the challenges of practicing ecological stewardship.

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Nanette Orly

Nanette Orly is an emerging curator based in Sydney, Australia. Her curatorial practice is deeply engaged with themes surrounding identity development and offering alternative perceptions on contemporary society.

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Thea Perkins

Thea Anamara Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman living and working in Sydney. Perkins has an emerging painting and installation based practice and is interested in subtle disruptions of the orthodoxies surrounding these disciplines.

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Laura Hunt

Laura Hunt is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Sydney. Her music is made using both hardware and sample based digital instruments.

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Kevin Diallo

Kevin Diallo is a Sydney based artist originally from the Ivory-Coast. His practice is rooted in post-colonial discourse and more particularly within post-blackness theory.

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The Tomorrow Girls Troop

The Tomorrow Girls Troop critically and creatively engage with pop culture, making use of magazines, internet memes, commercial advertisements, and comics in a way that opens up the topic of feminism to a wide audience.

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Dalton Stewart

B. Johannesburg, 1996, Dalton Stewart is a multidisciplinary artist working from Melbourne. Through transformative optical views – transparent images, screens, and filters, he aims to reconcile our hyper-digitized present.

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Nadia Hernández

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.

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Chun Yin Rainbow Chan

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.

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Quishile Charan

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.

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Snack Syndicate

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.

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Grace Blake

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.

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Yonel Watene

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.

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Phebe Schmidt

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.

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Paris Norton

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.

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Lisa Sammut

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.

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Amy Jane Parker

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.

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