Artists

Mori - Janelle Woo & Umi Koyama Graham

Mori is a space for architecture culture, an architect-run-initiative operating across unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. We are not-for-profit, DIY, rented space on borrowed time, running out of a former convenience store in suburban Sydney.

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Andriana Carney

Andriana Carney is an emerging non-binary artist practising on unceded Gadigal Land. Their interdisciplinary practice includes drawing, printmaking, fibre work and installation. As an extension of their art practice they run Andy600 a T-shirt brand of hand airbrushed and hand painted second hand t-shirts.

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Astrid Elouise Bell

Astrid Elouise Bell is a painter, writer and general rummager who lives and works between the lands of the Dharawal and Gadigal people. Her practice surrounds things that elude our grasp and the sites and stories that bring us to our work and each other

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Mel Booth

Mel Booth is an emerging artist living and working on Gadigal Land (Sydney, Australia). She is interested in the in-between: the beings and objects that don’t fit neatly into Western classification systems. Booth uses her practice to interrogate systems used to identify and categorise, such as scientific classification, gender, politics, nationhood, and how these systems affect her perspectives and relationships with her surrounding environment.

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Al Joel

Al Joel is a set and production designer working across screen, live performance, events and print. Both her professional and personal work draw from interest in the social histories of Sydney, urban development and DIY cultures.

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Rachel Levine

Rachel Levine works with costume, performance, sculpture and video; attempting to conjure enigmatic visions and extrapolate fragments of illusive fantasies.

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Harrison Witsey

Harrison Witsey is an artist based on Gadigal land. 

Working between sculpture, video, painting & installation his work explores histories of architecture & design, often focusing on the connections between the built environment and it’s underlying social structures.

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Nicholas Hanisch

Nicholas Hanisch is a multidisciplinary sculptural artist based in Adelaide. He is interested in a blurring of time. His sculptures and paintings playfully recreate creation narratives while blurring contemporary and art historical references. Absurdity, humour, failure and happenstance are central to his studio practice.

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Danish Quapoor

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.

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Nicole Clift

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.

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Lisa Myeong-Joo

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.

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Hester Lyon

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.

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Barbara Quayle

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.

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Tannya Quayle

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.

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dan schulz

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.

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Verity Nunan

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.

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Blake Griffiths

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.

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Jamie-Lee Garner

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.

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