Artists

Yvette James

Through a sculptural and spatial practice, Yvette James creates visceral landscapes expressing the fragmentation of our bodies via digitisation.

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Foong/McGrath

Angus McGrath is an artist, writer, and performer whose work is about the limits of text, the limits of the body, and suburban failure.

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Red Inc.

Red Inc. is a collective of eight East-Asian Australian artists – Casey Chen, Chris Chew, Rosemary Lee, Tya Tey, Yu Xin Jia, Morus Quin, Alicia Zhao, and Richard Chaohsi Wu – whose practices imagine what emerges from diversely hybridised cultural experiences.

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Bryan Foong

Bryan Foong is a queer artist of Chinese-Malaysian heritage. They make writing and painting installations that examine the processes of territorialisation and colonisation within contemporary biopolitics.

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Ryan Andrew Lee

Ryan Andrew Lee is a conceptual new media artist whose practice explores alternative ontologies and epistemologies which are strongly informed by First Nations people and community.

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Hussein Kahil

Hussein Kahil developed a passion for Arabic classical singing and learned Maqams inspired by Abdel Wahab and Om Kalthoum.

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Antoine Razouk

Antoine Razouk is a dramaturg and actor based in Sydney, participated in acting roles since 2019, he studied theatrical studies at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus and Acting at the Lebanese University.

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Hajer

Hajer is an Iraqi-Australian writer, actress and founder of the Iraqi Diaspora Creatives Network.

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Nicole Barakat

Nicole Barakat works with deep listening and intuitive processes, with intentions to transform the conditions of everyday life.

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Matthew Clarke

Matthew Clarke is proud of his achievements as an artist. These include being a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize in 2019 and a finalist in the Paul Guest Drawing Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery in 2020.

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ANTE

As a music and arts collective comprised of BIPOC, ANTE aspires to create spaces and events that allow for non-western histories, cultures and knowledge to take primacy.

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