Holly Bates is a Brisbane-based artist, working individually and as one half of the collaboration Parallel Park with artist Tayla Haggarty. Working across a range of mediums such as painting, installation, performance and video, her practice currently seeks to challenge pre-conceived notions of female sexuality depicted by patriarchal culture. Using feminist approaches to art …
An important part of Rachael Archibald’s practice involves playing with the conventions of artistic categories and conforming them into an all inclusive art form through the use of digital technologies. Departing from traditional ways of making art, Archibald is more at home in the digital environment, an accessible and flexible space that allows her …
Nicola Moss’s work observes how people connect, shape and interact with the natural environment through development, conservation and culture. Moss celebrates the uniqueness of flora and habitat, and aims to raise awareness of the natural environment by looking at issues of balance between human and environmental dependence and domination. Moss develops her work through numerous site …
Paul Mumme is a multidisciplinary artist born in Brisbane. His work deals with the paradoxical aspects of human thought and behaviour, often articulated in terms of the philosophical absurd. Usually performative, it stresses the presence of a protagonist that is sometimes present as a suit-clad figure. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including the Institute …
Carly Kotynski is a practising artist working in the areas of sculpture and public art. Her artworks are largely inspired by society, the natural world and the interconnectedness of all living things. She creates sculptural forms that engage the senses toward the beauty, fragility and resilience of the natural world. These hand-woven pieces evolve slowly …
Born in Philippines and then immigrating to Australia at the age of ten, Alrey Batol is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brisbane whose art practice involves a rigorous and subversive critique of first-world and capitalist culture. Reflecting on the ubiquitous and omnipresent nature of capitalism, Alrey incorporates an assortment of media into his art-making; as …
Abbey McCulloch holds a Masters in Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Named as one of Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists by Art Collector in 2009, 2010 and 2011, she has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize three times (with portraits of Toni Collette [2007], Nell Schofield [2009] and Naomi Watts …
Karike Ashworth is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brisbane. Her creative practice consists of time-based media, text, objects and installations. Her areas of interest include social practice, collaboration and the private-made-public. These broad areas of interest frame her more specific concerns with the way mutual implication, ambiguity and social (or emotional) discomfort …
Bianca Beetson is a Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi (Sunshine Coast) Waradjuri (NSW) woman, Born in Roma Western Qld. She completed a Bachelor of Arts Visual arts at the Queensland University of Technology from 1993 – 95 and Completed her Honours in 1998. Bianca’s is a visual artist who works in a broad range of media including: painting, …
Amaterasu – Japanese Sun Goddess Amaterasu the Japanese Sun Goddess is credited with the creation of the islands of Japan. Before this, the world was only an amorphous mass. When she lay down a necklace of pearls the islands of Japan came into being.The first Emperor was her grandson and she bequeathed to him a …
“I am a Queensland based artist focusing on ceramics as my working material. Primarily, I aim to create large scale ceramic installations, which draw from varying points of personal experience and significance. I intend for these installations to alter the gallery environment, bringing viewers into a place of contemplation.” Image: Remains III. Photography: Grace Yu For more …
Dane is a Brisbane-based photojournalist, portrait and street photographer, and one of Australia’s best-known music photographers. He has published Shades (2016), The Road (2012) and Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer’s Journal (2011). His photos have been exhibited widely, and appear regularly in Rolling Stone Magazine. Artist Website: www.danebeesley.com
Simone Eisler is a Brisbane/Sunshine Coast based artist and has exhibited her work internationally in the Philippines, Indonesia, New York, Belgium, Paris, Berlin and within Australia. Her work is focused on space, time, form and structure and she moves from large scale sculptural multimedia installations through performative photographic works to individual sculptural objects that reference …
Michelle Eskola is a Brisbane based artist born in 1987 at Mount Beauty, Victoria. Eskola’s practice explores the intersection of polarities of light, space, abstraction and formation to investigate the role of painting in contemporary culture. This investigation focuses on the conventions of composition, illusion, repetition and display across digital and time-based media. This interest …
Corrie Furner is a graduate of the Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited at Globelight 2014, The GAS: GUAG 2014 and was awarded Highly Commended, in the Survey Co. Art Award. Light is central to her practice and used as a way of transcending objects, spaces and states of being, transforming the ordinary into something new, …
Donna Maree Robinson is a multimedia artist whose work explores the poetic potential of an environment which she infuses with layered meanings, imagination, memories and history; a visual intersection of the natural world and our human existence within it. Robinson’s practice crosses disciplines and media that include video projection, digital photography, sculptural works, installation and glass. She has a Master of Contemporary Art …
Through the deconstruction and analysis of everyday devices, Michael Candy has developed a unique rationale of ‘instinctive engineering’ which he uses to investigate interaction technologies. These ideas are manifested in the construction of physical installations or electromechanical objects that oftentimes exist on the verge of what is socially or ethically legal, from devices that use IED cell phone …
Elizabeth Willing is an Australian visual artist. In 2009 she completed her honours in Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology. Between 2008 and 2013 Elizabeth Co-Directed Accidentally Annie St Space; a Brisbane Artist Run Initiative. Elizabeth has undertaken professional development work experience in New York with Janine Antoni (2011), with the Experimental Food …