Artists

Kirkbright is an educator and facilitator, focusing on educating and empowering disadvantaged minorities and Aboriginal people. Using mediums such as installation, multi media and performance she delves into the uncomfortable and essential corners of the human psyche.

110% (Kieran Bryant, Beth Dillon, Lachlan Herd) create performance and video installations that develop from a shared interest in playing with amateur choreographies of bodies in space; the value of artistic labour; and the dynamics of hosting.

Her work explores a mythopoetic landscape of colour, shape and motion; unravelling mountainous stories embedded in the folds, depths and boundaries raging against storming skies.

Pixy Liao is a multi-disciplinary artist who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is mostly known for her photo series ‘Experimental Relationship’, which depicts her personal relationship with her younger Japanese boyfriend.

Tom Smith is a Sydney based artist, curator and musician. His current interests include the tyranny and poetics of the generic, aesthetic standardisation in music production, and the emancipatory potential of default media platforms.

Monica Monin is an artist, designer and teacher. She lectures at the University of Technology Sydney within the Visual Communications Design program and is currently undertaking a PhD at University of New South Wales Art & Design.

Jenny is an emerging Sydney-based writer, curator and program coordinator currently completing a bachelor of Art Theory at UNSW Art & Design.

Get To Work is the collaborative practice of artists Tracy Quan, Georgia Taia and Paris Taia. Their collaboration focuses on the body, amateur dance and performance to playfully explore quirks of contemporary living, social behaviour and cultural identity.

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.