Artists

Dominic Byrne is a Sydney-based artist who uses both performance and studio-based models of art-making to investigate the modes in which people constitute themselves and others online.

Informed by studies in philosophy and choreography, Helen Grogan uses sculptural, photographic, and filmic means to approach space and spatial concepts as material(s). Her works directly engage exhibition sites as situations to be expanded and opened in material, ontological, and political ways.

Emma Hamilton is a Melbourne-based artist who has a keen interest in the materiality of the photograph.

Charlie Donaldson was born in 1991 in Brisbane, where he lives and works today. Donaldson studied a Bachelor of Photography at Griffith University in Brisbane from 2009 to 2012 and returned in 2014 to Griffith University in order to complete his Honours classification.

Szymon Dorabialski was born in Sydney to Polish migrant parents. He is currently a candidate for MFA at SCA.

Caroline Garcia (Sydney, NSW) is a culturally promiscuous, performance maker. She works across live performance and video through a hybridised aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery.

Athena’s practice spans sculpture, drawing, and writing. Her practice is driven by the desire to generate an atmosphere by which queer life is sustainable.

Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore the formation of nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye.

Ben Leslie is an Adelaide based artist and founding Co-Director of Fontanelle Gallery and Studios. He has a Masters of Research in Visual Art and currently holds a lecturing position at the University of South Australia School of Art.

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.