Artists

Emily McDaniel is an independent emerging curator and educator from the Kalari Clan of the Wiradjuri Nation in Central New South Wales.

Embittered Swish began as an artist conversation between performance maker Mick Klepner Roe and writer Cinnamon Templeton, responding to Jean Genet’s 1943 novel Our Lady of the Flowers.

Katy B Plummer makes immersive video projects. Her practice is materially driven, with a focus on textiles and ladycrafts.

Hayley's arts practice is influenced and informed by being a Koorie woman existing in a contemporary urban culture. She highly values her connection to culture, as place, land, identity and history are all indispensable inspiration to the construction of her practice.

Jannah Quill in an artist and musician working in Sydney. Her work takes an experimental approach to the uncasing of electrical processes and examines the role of and our relationship to technology interfaces.

Alair Pambegan belongs to the Wik-Munchan language group and lives and works in Aurukun, small community on Queensland’s West Cape York Peninsula.

Aston Creus is an emerging studio artist based in Sydney. His practice often involves both physical and digital sculptural forms, as well as interactive storytelling, electronics, and hardware and software hacking.

Borrowing forms, concepts, materials and aesthetics from the worlds of advertising and digital culture and then channeling them through his own unique cosmology, Lewis Doherty creates idiosyncratic, enigmatic and often humorous modern allegories that make monuments out of that which is considered trivial or childish.

JD Reforma is an artist, writer and curator, with a Master of Fine Arts (2014) from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. His work encompasses sculpture, performance, and installation.

Kate Britton is a Sydney-based writer and curator. She is currently the Curator – Contemporary Performance at Campbelltown Arts Centre. In 2016 she curated PASSING / PARADES at Success Gallery in Fremantle, and completed her PhD at UNSW Art and Design.

Andrew Varano is an artist, writer and curator from Perth. In 2009 he attended the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Italy, studying under the visiting professor Walid Raad.

Nikolaus Dolman is an artist and arts worker, with a BFA in printmaking at Southern Cross University, Lismore and a MA in Art Administration from the University Of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney.

Tyza Stewart’s ongoing project of self portraiture interrogates fixed ideas of binary gender by simultaneously resisting and engaging conventional archetypes.

Holly Macdonald is a maker of objects and material observations. Her art practice is founded in ceramics and combines painting, drawing, installation and hand building in clay to explore notions of memory and the uncertain nature of perception.

Emily Morandini is a Sydney based artist, educator and researcher. Her art practice explores the junction of materials and energy, using traditional and unconventional crafting techniques to search for signal in unexpected places.

Talia Smith is an artist and curator of Samoan, Cook Island and New Zealand European descent. Originally from New Zealand she is now based in Sydney, Australia. Her visual arts practice utilises the mediums of photography and video to examine the emotional and physical traces we leave behind on the landscape, the histories we build and the ruins we leave.

Oliver Hull is a Melbourne based artist working across digital media, video, instillation and drawing. Hull is currently interested in the poetic and political properties of fiction and images and their relationship to time, history and landscape.

Katherine Corcoran is an artist working in video, sculpture and performance. Her practice is led by an interest in virtual intimacy, queer embodiment and affect.

Rhiannon Newton is a Sydney based artist whose choreographic practice concentrates on the live-ness of dance and processes of repetition, problematising how a dancing spirit meets economies of production and authorship.

Jimmy Nuttall and Nick Smith are Melbourne based multidisciplinary artists. They graduated with Honours degrees in Fine Art from Monash University in 2013.