Artists

Tia Madden, artist portrait, 2023

Danish Quapoor is a multidisciplinary visual artist based on Gurambilbarra / Townsville. His practice includes work across textiles, illustrative painting, ceramics and photography. Quapoor’s work often subverts his conservative upbringing, interrogating identity, relationships, religion and sexuality. He typically produces flat-colour works in which stylised forms float amidst sparse compositions.

Nicole Clift is a visual artist and writer based in Tarntanya/Adelaide. Nicole works across oil painting, tapestry weaving and installation to create works that quietly allude to the intangible and invisible structures that make up our reality.

Lisa Myeong-Joo is an artist and arts worker, born in Seoul and living on Wangal Land, Sydney. Combining personal narrative, material and gesture into an expanded performance practice, she considers how meaning is made and transferred between the body, place and culture.

Hester Lyon is an arts worker, curator, and writer based on Wilyakali Country in Broken Hill. Through relationships with people and place, Hester has established a curatorial practice that responds to the specificities of Far West NSW’s ecology and politics and the conditions this creates for art making.

Barbara Quayle is a proud Barkindji/Malyangapa Nghuungku (woman), artist and jeweller from Menindee, New South Wales. Her work is created and inspired by her Barkindji Kiira (Country) along the Darling-Baaka River, offering a bridge to the deep, spiritual connection we all share with Country.

Tannya Quayle is a Barkindji/Malyangapa Nghuungku (woman) who grew up on the banks of the Baaka in Menindee, New South Wales. Her work is inspired by her Elders and her Custodial Kiira (Country) using the medium of linocut, passed down from Barkindji cultural leaders, to tell stories of community and Country. Tannya does all of her printing by hand and when she is working, she feels connected to her Ancestors and her Kiira.

dan schulz is a multidisciplinary activist, academic, and artist based on Wilyakali Country in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Working at the intersection of media, academia and art, their work brings together various fields of research and praxis to explore how power relations shape ecological and human systems.

Verity Nunan is a research-based artist, completing her PhD at Griffith University. Verity uses a walking-based method to explore architectural and artistic place inquiry.

Blake Griffiths is an artist, curator, and facilitator working with a textile focus based on Gadigal / Wangal Country (Inner West NSW) with a strong connection to Wilyakali Country (Far West NSW). His practice is informed by a research interest of textile thinking and particularly, the analogy of the warp and weft in weaving as a framework for critique, conversation and understanding interconnections between opposing ideas.

Jamie-Lee Garner is an interdisciplinary artist that lives and works from her studio in the Northern Tablelands, on Ngarabal country in NSW, Australia. She received her BA in Architecture from the University of Sydney in 2018.

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.