Sumugan Sivanesan is a Sydney based artist who works across the mediums of installation, sound and video. Often working collaboratively, he is broadly concerned with issues of identity, nationalism and cultural exchange.
Inhibodress was an important artist-run space in Sydney in 1971-72, set up by Mike Parr, Peter Kennedy and Tim Johnson and showed mostly conceptual work. The idea for the gallery was initiated by Mike Parr when he called a meeting in August 1970 to establish an artists’ run space that...
Parr grew up in rural Queensland. He went to the University of Queensland In Brisbane to study Arts/Law (1965) and began writing poetry. He also helped set up Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and engaging in anti-Vietnam war demonstrations. Despite being medically unfit he refused to register for conscription...
Jonathan Duckworth is a pioneering new media artist and founder of ZedBuffer. His interests focus on the design, interaction, presence, and psychological effects of digital environments, having specialized in the development of interactive ...
Somaya Langley has a background in sound/media arts and digital libraries/archiving. Both her professional and artistic interests lie somewhere in the realm between ideas, information, technology, socio-politics, communities and empowerment. Somaya has worked in the fields of online delivery and digital preservation for the Australian Music Centre and the...
John Tonkin studied science at the University of Adelaide from 1981 to 1983. After working with photography, experimental film and animation, he began to make computer animations in 1985. During this time he began to utilise the potential of computers to make artworks, Tonkin began to develop his own software...
Catherine Truman is co-founder and current partner of Gray Street Workshop in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1985, it is one of Australia's longest running artists' co-operatives.
Angelica Mesiti is a video, performance and installation artist living and working in Sydney and Paris. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honors and her Master of Fine Arts Degree from the College of Fine Arts at the University of NSW Sydney, Australia. Angelica’s video works use cinematic...
Liam Benson was born in Sydney in 1980. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Western Sydney in 2002. Benson is a contemporary performance artist who documents and exhibits his work through photography and video. Benson’s work deconstructs social perceptions of gender, race, cultural and sub-cultural identity...
Rachel Feery is a video and photomedia artist. Based in Melbourne, Rachel holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.) from Monash University and a Diploma of Screen and Media from RMIT. She is the producer and curator of Short Play, a DVD publication of Australian video artworks and On the...
Volker Eichelmann has worked in video, painting, photography and recently in collage. Artistic precedence is central to Eichelmann's practice as he seeks out forgotten or overlooked practices from the past to reconsider their contemporary critical potential. His series of text-paintings combine drawing, painting and collaged text to present brief autobiographical...
Andrew Styan is a Newcastle based new media artist exploring the ways that art can shift public awareness on the complex global challenges of climate change and the related local challenges of coal extraction in the Hunter Valley. His practice incorporates kinetic sculpture, installation, interactivity, generative art and video and...
The video work of Shaun Gladwell takes physical interaction as a starting point for the interplay between gesture and form. His video work since the late 1990s has utilised the medium to record performative action — dance, sport, skateboarding and biking —and sets this movement within video works that are...
Julian Knowles is a composer, performer, media artist and researcher, specialising in new and emerging technologies. His creative work spans the fields of composition for theatre, dance, film and television, electronic music, sound design and media arts, popular music and record production.
Tara Marynowsky draws on collage and appropriation practices for her video works creating short, hallucinogenic excursions through cut and paste montages of found footage set to pop and film music soundtracks.
Wade Marynowsky works across a number of new media forms including video, music, installation and interactive media. His work mocks the stereotypes of Australian visual culture while constructing a critique of the way new media has engaged – or failed to engage – with an audience. Performance video pieces such...
Annie McKinnon makes art to share experiences and observations accessible to everyone. McKinnon has always been obsessed with sound and how it can transport time and place into a new context. Throughout 2015 and 2016 she has been working on a larger installation work made up of lots of sounds recorded around her...
Alex Davies is a Sydney-based artist. Since 1997 he has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Australia, Europe and America.
Angelica Mesiti b.1976, Técha Noble b.1977, Emma Price b.1975, Katie Price b.1978. The four members of The Kingpins appropriate the styles of mainstream culture, drawing on the look of fashion, music, art and sport, blending their samples into performances, videos, photographs, installations and paintings. Their melding of these styles is densely...
Barbara Campbell was born in Beaudesert, Queensland in 1961. She completed a Master of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney in 1998. Campbell works primarily in the medium of performance. Since 1982 she has worked with the specific physical and contextual properties of a...
Sydney-based artist who produced a number of single channel video works, multi-channel installations, and video sculptures during the 1980s and 1990s.
Norie Neumark is a sound/media artist and theorist. Her media art work, including installation, Internet, and CD-Rom, has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of numerous artist grants and residencies, including MacDowell Colony and La Cité Internationale des Arts. Norie was previously founding Director of the Centre...
