Artists

Emmaline (b.1994) is a lens-based artist who uses combinations of video, photography, sculpture and performance. Influenced by aesthetics of absurdity and surrealism, she creates work that finds humour and meaning in the everyday. In recent years, her work has explored themes related to fabrication, memory, and labour.

Adele Warner’s practice articulates a derealized perspective of urban pessimism. Her experiences of untethering and dislocation within metropolitan life inform her explorations of social alienation, estrangement, and feminine identity.

Gigi Malherbe’s practice consists of exploring self mythology, cultural histories and the body through the creation of concealed self portraits and identities through the medium of painting, photography and drawing.

Prita Tina Yeganeh is a multidisciplinary artist of Iranian ancestry, based in Magan-djin (Brisbane), Queensland. Prita draws from her lived experiences as a refugee, blending them with her practice based research of heritage artisan crafts to share narratives of displacement, reconciliation and cultural reclamation.

Dr. Virginia Keft is a proud Muruwari woman, living and working on Dharawal Country and Gadigal Country. She is a multi-disciplinary award-winning artist and curator, First Nations producer, and researcher. Her practice undulates between the mediums of painting, sculpture, weaving, mixed-media, installation and wood-work.

Aurelia King (she/her, b. 2001) (BFA) is a Hungarian-Taiwanese Australian emerging artist and curator living and working on unceded Gadigal land. Aurelia’s installation practice explores the experimental boundaries of the expanded field.

Aarushi ZarthoshAmanesh (she/her, b. 2000) is a passionate artist, writer and mango lover with a BFA and BA from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She identifies as an Indian-born Persian woman, raised in the hustle and bustle of the city of Mumbai where her great-grandparents found themselves displaced. Retracing that legacy, and drawing parallels to stories and mythologies, Aarushi’s art practice delves into the poetics of painting, installation, performance and moving image works to materialise and spatialise a felt displacement.

Sarah Ong (she/her, b. 2000) is a Chinese-Malaysian, Vietnamese-Cambodian Australian emerging artist living in the unceded land of the Bidjigal people in Sydney’s Southwest. She has recently graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts and Science from the University of New South Wales. Through her artistic practice of sculpture and performance, Sarah investigates ideas about the value of effort, consumerism, sustainability, and immigrant labour.

Ming Sun (he/him, b. 2000) is a Taiwanese-born emerging artist who works across an expanded multidisciplinary field of practice. His work is significantly influenced by both his Taiwanese and Malaysian cultural heritage, while exploring themes of identity, emotion and memory, referencing concepts of East Asian Philosophy.

Chetan Immidi (he/him, b. 2000) is a Sydney based artist who explores global histories and methods of figurative representation. He has a specific interest in South Asian iconography and languages, specifically in the hybrid, mutant forms that arise due to a melding of cultures and geographies throughout the migrant experience.

Celine Cheung is a visual artist based on unceded Dharug land. Across different mediums, she uses symbolic gestures to explore emotions and affective life. Her art is often guided by visceral responses to love and loss.

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.