Artists

Ali Tahayori’s interdisciplinary practice ranges from conceptual photography to the moving image and installation. Tahayori uses archival materials, narrative fragments and performative modalities to explore themes of identity, home, and belonging.

Lisa, a graduate of the Queensland College of Art, is a hearing artist. Her work explores uncomfortableness within memory, place and time. Lisa was a founding member of VERGE Collective, and teaches Contemporary Photomedia at Central Queensland University.

Katrina is profoundly prelingually d/Deaf. Katrina completed a Bachelor of Photography degree (majoring in Photojournalism and Documentary Practices) at the Queensland College of Art. Her practice explores deafness, sexuality, gender and language.

Kaylee Rankin is a Warrang based multidisciplinary artist working as one half of creative duo Spacefloss Collective. Her practice explores the intersection of desire and imposed shame through diverse materials to make works people can play with, put in their noses and pull apart.

In diasporic and medical upbringings, Sehej’s work engages in the tensions between Western and Holistic healing practices and resisting extractive structures of wellness culture and sterile landscapes.

Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria interprets his memories and encounters through a lens of surrealism, drawing from tropes of mythology and fantasy to create imagery that is at once anthropomorphic, metamorphic and psychedelic.

Emma Pinsent is an artist, researcher and arts administrator based between unceded Arakwal, Gadigal-Bidjigal and Darkinjung lands. Her practice engages sculptural and installation processes to explore porosity between humans and nonhuman nature.

Ellen Dahl is originally from arctic Norway and of Sámi descent. Ellen moved to Australia as an adult and now lives and works on Gadigal land (Sydney) NSW. Working across photography, video, sound and installation, much of her practice is rooted in working with or around the landscape, while conceptually informed by trepidation on around the anthropogenic condition.

Kate Coyne finds connections between posthuman feminism, materiality, phenomenology, and non-gendered bodies with practice-led research in the field of expanded painting. She is interested in encounters with materials, processes, transformations and a bodily engagement with materials and form in space.

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.