Artists

Shannon Toth (b. 1992) is an artist based in Naarm, Melbourne, VIC. Drawing upon embodied experience they heat, bend and wear down materials to uncover their pliability. Through a discourse from engineering and cooking, they reconfigure the familiar to explore the tension between minimalism and abundance.

Emily Norton is a video and textile artist residing on Wurundjeri land. In her work, Norton uses costuming, staging and props as a method of world building. Elements of popular culture, television, advertising, and the internet are untethered and rearranged. Replication is used as a form of critique, as late capitalism’s ever-increasing dissemination of images and information, through an apparent shiny surface, is interrogated.

Dustin J Voggenreiter is an artist who communes with ancestral spirits, sharing a deep empathy for the human condition. His practice spans contemporary abstraction, digital animation and sculpture, with an aesthetic bent towards monochromatic minimalism.

Nqa Blayed lives on unceded Gadigal land. She is an active contributor and organiser in the Inner Wests’ art and noise communities. With a background in critical theory, autonomous arts, and underground culture she embraces a collaborative ethos. Her recent output includes exhibitions, gigs and workshops.

Antoinette O’Brien is an established ceramicist, with her artistic expression extending beyond traditional mediums that include concrete, ice, frozen milk, beer and immersive intervention-style installations. She is deeply committed to strengthening the connection between people and their environment by celebrating them as she experiences them.

Dawn Beasley is an artist whose creative practice examines the relationships between humans and the natural world we occupy.

Peter Blamey is an artist based in Sydney, on Gadigal land. His practice is often sound-focussed and accomplished via an economy of means, and includes performances, videos, recordings and installations.

Miška Mandić is an artist and researcher born in SFR Yugoslavia, living on Gadigal Land. Through a cinematic practice her works explore a sense of time that aims to resist colonial-capitalist structures, carving out more wily models of enmeshment with the relational ecologies of production.

Born in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), Lilah Benetti is an international award winning and critically acclaimed Artist and Director. Lilah describes their work as auto-ethnographic; an amalgamation of their personal experiences interwoven within broader social and cultural histories, foregrounding Black Queer identities. 

Jacqui Shelton was born on Barada Barna land, central Queensland, and currently live sand works in Narrm Melbourne. She makes work that explores the complications of performance and presence, and how voice, language, and image can collaborate or undermine one another.

Amy Prcevich interrogates narratives of social and public space, time, the office, language and labour – specifically the nature and value of artists’ labour. Her employment in galleries and museums and engagement with artist communities informs her conceptual, spatial and text-based practice.

Samuel Mountford is an Australian artist-filmmaker living in Portugal. He completed a BFA at the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania (2017), attended the Maumaus Independent Study Programme in Lisbon (2019), and in 2023 will be commencing an MA with the Dutch Art Institute through the support of an Anne & Gordan Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship.

Born 1994 in South West Sydney where he currently lives and works Yousif completed his Master of Fine Art degree in 2018 majoring in painting at the National Art School, Sydney. Yousif's artistic practice merges technological processes with traditional painting, employing computer software and commercial vinyl cutting equipment.

Emmanuel Assante’s art practice critically examines and reflects his identity as a young Ghanaian migrant to Australia, incorporating traditional African metaphors and cultural symbols, to evoke visual-aesthetic experiences and modes of storytelling.

I was born in Babylon, Iraq and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in 1988. I worked as a propaganda painter during the authoritarian reign. I'm an active member of art societies across Sydney and in 18 years living in Australia, I have held 10 solo exhibitions, and been a finalist and a winner of over 20 art prizes and also had a studio residence. I

Rekha Dhanaram is an artist of South Asian heritage, born and raised in South West Sydney. Her constant sources of contemplation are nature, spirit, the sacred and the human.

Anney Bounpraseuth is an Australian-born artist of Laotian heritage who lived somewhat removed from these cultural identities as a Jehovah’s Witness for 30 years. Since leaving the high-commitment faith, Bounpraseuth’s art practise now focuses on representing her self-made paradise in the present without god and religion.

Bonnie Huang is an artist playing and creating with textures and dreams on Dharug land. Often referencing queer culture, digital media, and collective histories, their multidisciplinary practice aims to create subversive spaces for reflection on desire and self-identity.

Teresa Busuttil is an emerging artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Contemporary Art from the University of South Australia. Busuttil’s practice investigates personal and familial history, diaspora and the fallibility and flexibility of truth and memory through moving image work, sculpture and installation.

atm, emoeba heartbridge is a domestic artisan, unapologetic fangirl, and auntie in-training. they resummon and redistribute intergenerational recipes and wisdoms thru body memory in response to the needs of their (queer, poc, disabled, working-class) communities; including their own (!)