Artists

For Ali Noble, textiles are soft contrarians in hard spaces. Textiles communicate adaptability and ‘soft power’ in typically hard-edged gallery environments. Skilfully subverting the implied power structures (architectural and ideological) of ‘stability’ and ‘permanence’, textiles embody fluidity, versatility, and eroticism.

Amanda Bennetts is a new media and installation artist, based on the Sunshine Coast (Kabi Kabi Country). Living with a progressive neurological disease and a rare muscular disease, Bennetts draws on her experience to critically dissect issues relating to care, sickness and disability.

Recently graduated with BA/BFA Honours in Fine Arts from UNSW Art and Design, Vedika Rampal is an Indian-born Australian emerging artist practicing on the land of Darug and GuriNgai peoples. Using a post-disciplinary poetics within an expansive installation practice, Rampal’s work seeks to excavate histories, objects and sites from her cultural past within her diasporic present.

Charles Levi is an expanded textile and installation artist. His practice positions itself amongst the radical potentialities of the queer archive as well as the nuances of bodily labour present in textile methodologies.

Corey Black is an artist based on Gadigal land, choreographing the marrow of numerous industrial and post-industrial fabrication methods. Black works alongside each material, craftsperson, laborour and machine through disruptive modalities.

Phyllis Stewart is a Dharawal/Yuin painter, drawer, shellworker and weaver. She was born in Berry, NSW, in 1954 and has lived her whole life on the NSW South Coast. As with many South Coast Aboriginal women, Stewart was taught the art of shellworking objects as a child, in particular miniature shoes and slippers.

Samantha Snedden is a Dunghutti and Wiradjuri emerging artist and curator, who has grown up on and was born on Darug land. Connecting to culture and community has always been a passion, which has been passed down from her grandparents.Her late grandfather, David Wright taught her stringing, a weaving technique, as a young child. Years later Samantha reignited her weaving by learning to weave baskets, bracelets, and earrings.

Shahroud Ghahani is an Iranian-Australian inter-disciplinary artist based on Gadigal land. Her artworks bridge together rich images from disparate cultures and her experiences of them.

Olga Svyatova's work addresses the complex links between memory, relationships, and identity, through a multidisciplinary practice spanning photography, printmaking, and textiles. Svyatova appropriates their own personal experience of different cultures and histories in order to compel viewers to reflect on the connections that sustain our lives.

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.