Jarrod Van Der Ryken is a Brisbane-based visual artist whose practice is concerned with ideas of unspoken experience. His work attempts to draw relations to wider phenomenologies of thought and language including the difficulties of translating existential experience coherently into language. This occurs in the abstraction of texts, forming works of incomprehensible writing, and also […]
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Kate Beckingham and Anna McMahon met in 2010 during their honours year at Sydney College of the Arts. Drawn together by their love of clean lines and simple aesthetics, Beckingham and McMahon formed OK YEAH COOL GREAT. Collectively they are interested in making art grounded in a common aesthetic understanding rather than a shared conceptualism.
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Luke Maninov is an imaging neuroscientist and artist living in Brisbane, Australia. His designs are heavily influenced by natural forms and his continuing work in the fields of biomedical imaging and neuroscience. Through the study of comparative structure in plants and animals his work examines the shared features that define the living and the organic. First
Sarah Poulgrain is a Brisbane-based artist interested in distorted reconstructions of experience. She works primarily through sculpture, painting and installations, using objects and images to create sets or scenes. Often using materials of a precarious nature, her practice is concerned with re-enactments of momentary occurrences and seemingly inconsequential narratives in transition from the experiential to
Clark Beaumont is the Brisbane based collaborative duo Nicole Beaumont and Sarah Clark. Through both live and mediated performance works they investigate ideas and constructs around identity, female subjectivity, intimacy and interpersonal relationships. Clark Beaumont are the subjects for their work, and their collaboration means exploring the social and physical dynamics of working together to
Tyza Stewart is a visual artist who explores gender identity through an art practice based in continual self-portraiture. Tyza uses documentation and memories from their own childhood as well as more current experiences to inform an interrogation of understandings of normality in relation to gender. Resulting self-portraits depict ambiguously gendered selves that publicly fail to
Caitlin Franzmann lives and works in Brisbane. Franzmann originally trained as an urban planner and in 2012 completed a BFA at Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, QUT Art Museum, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Slopes Gallery and as a part of OtherFilm Festival 2012. In 2012, she completed a
Elisa Jane Carmichael belongs to the Quandamooka people of Minjerribah, NorthStradbroke Island and is very passionate about nurturing and preserving herstrong connection to the sand and sea, Yoolooburrabee. Her current practicevisually explores the beauty of nature and surrounding environment, drawinginspiration from her cultural identity and heritage.Elisa has exhibited as an artist nationally and internationally after
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Svenja Kratz is a contemporary Brisbane based artist interested in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary creative practice, particularly the intersections between science and art. Svenja’s work gives rise to the complex relationships between humans and other organisms, engaging with the human endeavour to understand, manipulate and control the world around us, particularly through scientific research. Through her
Charles Robb is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, now based in Brisbane. Robb’s work has been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions including The Day the Machine Started, (dianne tanzer gallery + projects Melbourne Art Fair 2010), Scope Miami Art Fair (with Hous Projects, USA, 2009), Millwork (dianne tanzer gallery +
Gemma Smith was born Sydney in 1978. In 1999 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and in 2004 an honours year at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Gemma Smith’s work begins with abstract painting, with a specific interest in colour’s ability to subvert the flat picture plane.
Sancintya Simpson was born 1991 Brisbane, Australia, where she currently works and lives. She is a first generation Australian whose migrant parents are of South African-Indian and Anglo-New Zealand heritage. The impact of being brought up in a cross-cultural environment has had a major influence on Simpson’s artistic practice; leading her work to be based
Rebecca Cunningham is an Australian curator, sound, and performance artist.Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Music, Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University and Bachelor of Creative Industries 2A Honours, Interdisciplinary from QUT and is currently undertaking a PHD in Business [Griffith University] exploring the operation of trust in the global performance art network.
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Born in Brisbane in 1959, has a Diploma in Visual Communications from the Queensland College of Art and now lives and works in the Blue Mountains. She has held more than 30 solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous group and ‘by invitation’ exhibitions around Australia, in Tokyo, and California, where she also held
Marcel Daniels is a Brisbane-based artist whose practice explores the complexities and ambiguities of personal, individuated experience in the context of the current postcolonial condition. Driven by an interest to critically and creatively explore materials, text, language and images Daniels creates installations that use personal biography to investigate broader issues of diaspora, heterogeneity and hybridity.
The subject matter of Stephen Hart’s sculptures is often concerned with the human condition and our relation to the urban and built environment. Stephen Hart’s work is inventive, whimsical and detailed. His sculptural style is almost an anomaly in contemporary art practice. The artist’s process of hand-woodcarving revives the aura of the traditional craftsperson labouring
I use the age-old transcultural/religious tree-of-life symbol as my visual guide to explore perspective and distance, creating cosmic landscapes where the tree either cascades across the canvas or appears as a beacon of life and hope. Cosmology, the scientific study of the Universe [maybe the Multiverse], is a major inspiration. It propels perspective beyond
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Shannon Brett is a descendant of the Wakka Wakka, Budjula and Gurang Gurang clans; tribal inland and coastal groups which surround South East Queensland. She creates and designs artworks indicative of her experiences as an Aboriginal woman living and surviving in modern, urban Australian society following a childhood in outback and small town Queensland. Technically
Evangeline Cachinero is a Brisbane-based artist working primarily in the mediums of mixed media painting, photography, digital art, video, web-based projects, iPhone art, gif animation and social media platforms. She was born in Australia, spent the majority of her early childhood in Spain and her teens to university in the USA. For more information please
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James and Eleanor Avery work both individually and collaboratively, and have been collaborating on large scale sculpture and installation projects, including commissioned public art projects, since 2004. They work between Brisbane, Australia and London, UK and many of their works develop out of international studio residencies. James and Eleanor’s early collaborations evolved in a number
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Lee Lombardi is a Brisbane-based artist examining the contradictions inherent in realism, where representation presents only an unreality. Employing a meticulous and academic approach to image making, his intricate paintings and drawings are constructed from personal photographic archives, motion picture screenshots and found images. A finalist in this year’s Sunshine Coast Art Prize, he graduated
A Perfect Day Series. Power and Strife (2012), Photographic Print, 50.0 x 50.0 cm Photo : Sam Scoufos Photography Camille Serisier investigates the relationship between human beings and the natural world by exploring differing representations of nature in Australian culture. She does this through a close reading of environmental narratives in a range of cultural
The husband-and-wife team of Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan create works that use the processes of collecting and collaborating to express ideas of migration, family and memory. Often working with local communities, the Aquilizans bring together personal items to compose elaborate, formal installations reflecting individual experiences of dislocation and change. Recent works have used the form
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Stephen Russell is an Australian artist currently working in Berlin. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from QUT, he is a founding Co-Director of Artist Run Initiative Accidentally Annie Street Space. Stephen Russell’s practice explores the traditions of painting and sculpture under the contemporary conditions of production, commodification, digitisation and distribution. Using
Sophie Bottomley creates sculptural objects that investigate how the experience and perception of space is altered through changes in scale. Being a hybrid that blurs the boundary between a model and a sculptural object, they also occupy a space between the real and the invented, being a fictional environment and yet a proposal for something
Michael Muir’s work explores the simplification and interpretation of various forms predominately being the built environment. With an emphasis on colour and natural light the painted works explore the notion of a fusion between representation and abstraction.The work is based from an emotive perspective steeped in nostalgia and childhood memories – either borrowed or his
Moving across mediums, forms and ideas, Woodward’s practice typically engages with processes of editing, free association and re-imagining. Previously his artworks have materialised as sculpture, video, writing, installation, drawings and public events. Tim Woodward graduated with Honours from QUT in 2006. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, most recently with solo exhibitions at
Bridie Gillman is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Drawing from her experiences living in Indonesia as a child and more recent time there her work focuses on the intricacies of cross-cultural experience and communication. Her research and object gathering materially translate these experiences and result in video work, mixed media paintings, sculptures and
My practice explores perception and phenomenal experience, particularly as mediated by technologies such as photography, film and video. Using the most basic principles of these media, my work re-enacts the sense of wonder and experimentation that characterised early photography and film. I construct or modify cameras, lenses, viewing devices or film and video equipment using
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Vanessa Bertagnole, b. 1983, United States, is a photographer, artist, arts consultant and curator. After completing a Masters degree in Visual Culture Research from the Australian National University in 2011, Bertagnole relocated from Canberra to Brisbane where she is currently based. Bertagnole’s passion for photography began ten years ago when she inherited her grandfather’s old
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Timothy P. Kerr completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) (Honours) at the Queensland University of Technology in 2008. From 2011-2012 Timothy underwent a self-funded residency in Canada. Key exhibitions and projects include, Mazda 121 Residency (Brisbane, 2012), International Male Exhibition (Canada, 2011), A Mime Routine of a Horny Octopus Making Soup on a Jumping Castle (Kings ARI, 2010), Volume II (IMA,
Yannick Blattner’s work analyses social conflict, focusing primarily on dissecting the constructs of Australian masculine identity. He utilises culturally iconic symbols, objects and images, appropriating and re-contextualising source material to create pictorial allegories. Blattner exploits the ubiquitous nature of search engine results as a system for categorisation and rating the commonality of images, trends and
Photo-drawings is an ongoing series that questions the inconsistencies and flexibility of our visual perception. Caught between the tangible gesture and the discernible image, the work intends to challenge the human ability to interpret and comprehend representation. The exhibition will include a selection of individual matte photographs that have been literally drawn on with pencil.
Genine Larin is a Brisbane based visual artist working predominantly in sculpture and video. Her practice navigates phenomenological feelings, sensations and emotions via speculative compositions that combine pattern and viscerality. Within the space of practice she examines ideas and expresses feelings without being censored or oppressed by external, patriarchal ideologies. She considers aesthetic choices, based
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