Lachlan Anthony (born 1984 Sydney) is a sculpture, performance & installation artist based in Melbourne. Through remixed objects, constructed psychological encounters and the manipulation of live stream broadcast his practice investigates the role of mass media in linking human behavior to economics in the late capitalist world. In 2011 he was awarded an ARTSTART Grant and completed a residency at Takt Kunstprojektraum Berlin, with the assistance of The Art Gallery of NSW & the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. In 2012 he received a JUMP mentorship to work with renowned lighting designer Bosco Shaw of Bluebottle lighting design. His most recent solo show entitled Suicide Live at New Low, Melbourne was supported by a New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Benjamin Forster (born 1985 Canberra, Australia, lives in Perth) utilises drawing, digital and biological technologies, installation and print in order to trace the boundaries of logic, the function of economy and the role of the artist in art making. Forster’s recent solo exhibitions have been A Luminary Series of Records Played in Parallel, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, with Sohan Ariel Hayes (2012); )( at Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth (2011); and Rational, CCAS Manuka, Canberra (2010). Forster has also participated in the group exhibitions, NEW13, ACCA, Melbourne (2013), Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2012); Spatial Drawing, VENN Gallery, Perth (2012); and How to talk to a mountain, Paper Mountain, Perth (2012).
Bennett Miller works across sculpture, installation, video and performance. His practice reflects on the relationship between humans and animals as an allegory of human society and culture. A continuing interest of these works is the incorporation of live animals into his artistic process and, in some cases, the finished work. More recently he has begun to work also with human performers in this way. Since 2010 Miller has presented Dachshund UN in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth (AUS), Birmingham (UK), Toronto and Montreal (CAN). In 2012 Miller was included in New12 at ACCA, Melbourne and was a resident at Australia Council’s Greene St Studio, New York. In 2013 Miller is presenting Barnraiser– an imitation Amish community that lives within the grounds of Splendour in the Grass Music festival, and undertaking an Asialink residency at 3331 Arts Centre in Tokyo, Japan. Miller is represented by OK Gallery, Perth.
Brian Fuata is a performance artist working with text, narrative and improvisation. He makes both solo and collaborative work. He has exhibited performances in galleries, theatres, domestic spaces and online/sms text. He has exhibited performances/situations for Museum of Contemporary Art, Performance Space, Museum of Sydney, Artspace, SPILL Festival London working with Station House Opera and Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Darren Bell was born in 1974 and grew up in Darlington, NSW. He began taking photos in 2003 and had his first exhibition in 2010. His work has been bought by the NSW Government and private customers and has been featured in Art Monthly, Deadly Vibe Magazine and Real Time Arts and most recently exhibited in A Place of Sense, at the Blacktown Arts Centre, 2012 and Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts, at Kudos Gallery in Paddington, 2013. Darren was also a finalist in the 2012 Parliament of NSW, Aboriginal Art Prize with one of his two entries being highly commended by the judges.
Bindi Cole is an Award winning artist who works to expose the questions most are afraid to ask. Her artworks are at times so personal, cathartically imbuing them with a gritty honesty that the viewer’s experience can verge on voyeurism. Cole’s work exposes the latent and unspoken power dynamics of global culture in the here and now. She subtly but powerfully reveals some uncomfortable truths about the fundamental disconnection between who we are – the communities and identities by which we shape our sense of self – and how the prevailing culture attempts to place and define us. In 2010, Cole was listed as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Melbourne. Since her first solo show in 2007, Cole’s work has been widely exhibition in solo and group exhibitions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, National Portrait Gallery, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (Brooklyn, USA), Museum of Contemporary Art (Taiwan). Her work is held in various collections across the world. Cole lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.
David Cross is an artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has exhibited extensively in New Zealand, Australia, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. His practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture public art and video and has examined ideas of risk, pleasure and participation often utilizing inflatable structures. His performance/installation work Viscous was included in Perspecta 99 in Sydney and subsequently shown at ACCA in Melbourne in 2000. He has performed in international live art festivals in Poland, Croatia and was selected as a New Zealand representative at Prague Quadrennial in 2011. His work Bounce was included in the New Zealand survey of performance Mostly Harmless at Govett Brewster Art Gallery in 2006. A single channel video work Tear was included in the The Mantel of Water curated by Ian Wedde at Rotorua Museum of Art and History in 2008. More recently Cross was commissioned by National Institute of Experimental Art/City of Sydney to develop Drift, a large-scale public art commission for Taylors Square in Sydney (2011) and his installation Lean was included in The Aberrant Object at Wellington City Art Gallery (2012). His work Hold was selected for inclusion in Liveworks at Performance Space, Sydney in 2010 and will feature as part of the Arts House season in the Melbourne International Festival in October 2012. He is Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Massey University.
Elizabeth Woods research for the past 10 years has focused on the implementation of temporary based site specific art work for the general public internationally and nationally. One of the most distinguishing characteristics of her work is the factoring in of the general public into the arts activity. Her work is not informed by her own visions but on the integrated thoughts that pass through the community space. She develops her work by assembling, recollecting and examining her surroundings to construct work that has a strong sense of place.
Kate Mitchell works across performance, video, and sculpture. Mitchell’s practice is based on conceiving a scenario (often borrowed from the slapstick, cartoonish end of culture) and presents the intensive living out of that scenario. Reveling in the spirit of endurance, existence, time, and effort, she commits to absurd and sometimes humorous actions, whilst facing up to her own capabilities and limitations of mind and body. Mitchell graduated from The College of Fine Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in 2009. Exhibitions include: Magic Undone, Artspace, Sydney (2012), Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, NEW12, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012), Error and Judgment, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne (2012), Social Sculpture, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (2011), The Grip / La Mainmise, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (2010), and The Night of the Sunglasses, Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul Turkey (2009).
Rebecca Conroy is an arts practitioner working across site, community engagement, and interventions through artist led activity. She has previously worked in the role of Festival Director (Gang Festival), Associate Director (Performance Space); Provocateur (Splendid Arts Lab & Artist Wants a Life) and has been the co-founder and co-director of two artist run spaces in Sydney, The Wedding Circle and Bill+George. Currently Rebecca is director of The Yurt Empire, a site based performance occupation in the inner city.
Robert Ern-Yuan Guth is from an emptying railway village in the wheat and sheep belt of New South Wales. After high-school in Canberra he became an exhibiting and commercial photographer locally and in Europe. In the last seven years inspired by spending time with his Chinese family and performance artists in Singapore his work has become increasingly participatory. Often it includes food.
Tanya Schultz is an Australian artist who creates a range of works including drawings, wall-works, and hyper-coloured installations from materials such as sugar, glitter, sweets, plastic flowers, and craft materials. Through her work she examines ideas of abundance and temporary pleasure within material culture while drawing reference from a vast array of cultural references. She looks at the notion of paradise and wish-fulfillment as told through ancient mythologies and folk tales, as well as contemporary video games, animations and children’s stories. Tanya has exhibited her work throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. In 2011 she exhibited We miss you magic land! a large scale project at the Children’s Art Centre at the Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane. Her recent works (2012) include Seeing forever at Kuandu Biennale (Taipei), Love grows a flower at Spiral (Tokyo), If you find me in a dream at Hermes Japon (Tokyo), and Moon flower dream at Smart Illumination (Yokohama). She has been awarded many grants and prizes including the Qantas Contemporary Art Award in 2009.