Monika Behrens

Monika’s work is characterised by a concern for the impact of culture on the environment and an awareness of inequalities in social structures. Relying on humour as a vehicle to express political opinion, Behren’s has finely tuned a sense of irony that is inclusive and accessible to wide audiences. www.monikabehrens.com

Boat-people.org

Boat-people.org is an art gang, which has been making public work together around race, nation, borders and history since 2001. The group’s work primarily involves ephemeral events in urban environments. They have appeared in prominent exhibitions around Australia, the United States and Germany. www.boat-people.org

Jessie Boylan

Jessie is a photo-media artist. Since 2005, Boylan has been continuing a body of work documenting the impact of uranium mining; atomic weapons testing and the nuclear industry on Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia from the 1950s until today. www.jessieboylan.com

Sapna Chandu

Sapna employs combinations of photography, sound, video, and installation to explore new narratives in identity and culture. Her work engages with familiarities of social exchange, to explore the lines between consciousness and time by invoking memories, dreams and fantasies. Her exhibition history includes a solo exhibition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during a residency in 2009. www.sapnachandu.net

Bindi Cole

Bindi’s photographic work explores social and cultural power structures embedded in Australian culture, from an Indigenous Australian perspective. In 2007 she won the Victorian Indigenous Art Award for Photography. Recent projects include Sistagirls (2010) a photographic series based on residents of the Tiwi Islands, and Nyahbunyar (2010), an exhibition she curated for the Melbourne Festival held in the Melbourne Arts Centre. www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3039311.htm

Brown Council

Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, Kelly Doley and Diana Smith have been working collaboratively as Brown Council since 2005. They collectively make performance and video works that straddle the contexts of gallery and stage and draw on the historical lineages of both the visual and performing arts. In 2011, they will exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. www.browncouncil.com

Eva Fernandez

Eva works with photography and digital based media and has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. Her work examines areas which contextualise her existence in the place/space she inhabits, including exploration of her physical environment as well as cultural and gender identity. www.evafernandez.com.au

Jane Korman

Jane is a performance, video and photographic artist. In 2010 she won the European short documentary People’s Choice prize at the DokumentART Film Festival, Germany. Her current work explores the power of performance art within the political backdrop of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, as an Australian artist. www.janekormanart.com

Keith Lim

Keith is an emerging hybrid physical theatre maker, driven to make beautiful, engaging, tech-savvy work. Lim’s aesthetic could be described as a hybrid combination of contemporary dance, spoken text, dance floor breakdance, puppetry and Kung fu. www.kidsthesedays.com.au

MISO 

Miso’s work sways between pasting hand drawn portraits in city streets, to intricate drawings and installations in gallery spaces. She has just completed writing a book for Thames & Hudson, and had her street work bought and archived by the National Gallery of Australia, The State Library of Victoria and the University of Queensland Art Museum. www.cityofreubens.com

Paula do Prado

Paula’s work explores identity in relation to questions of authenticity, gender and cultural identity. Her art practice engages with a range of media including textiles, photography, text, painting and object/installation. She has exhibited in Australia, the UK, Mexico and New York. and has work in private collections including the State Library of NSW .  www.pauladoprado.net

Ryan Presley

Presley utilises a variety of media and techniques, among them illustration, watercolour, linocut, etching and ceramics. His practice involves investigations into the impact of history on contemporary life. Presley utilises his own mixed heritage experiences (Indigenous and Scandinavian) to contribute to his expressions about conflicts in cultural,  in contemporary  Australia.

Roberta Rich

Roberta’s practice presents performance, video and installation works that explore notions of authenticity through ideological constructions of identity. The subject of language remains a key area of research within her practice as well as examining complex intersections within ‘race’ and gender discourses. Currently completing her Master of Fine Arts at Monash University, Roberta will undertake a residency in South Africa in September 2012.

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Carl Scrase

Carl’s work includes sculpture and site specific installations based around the intersections of concepts such as empathy, parallel thinking, collaboration, perspective, systemic change, creativity and reality. 2012 will see Carl undertake a residency at the prestigious SymbioticA art/science lab in Perth. www.carlscrase.tumblr.com

Dario Vacirca

Dario’s work seeks to conjure transcendences toward glorious sensation and provoke utopian social systems, by crossing live performance with time based sculpture, social art, and screen technology. He toys with scales of intimacy and has coined the term ‘aesthlethics’ to define what he believes are essential tenets to a ‘relevant’ contemporary art practice. Dario’s work has been seen widely across Australia, Korea, Mexico, Belgium and Macau SAR China. As Artistic Director of Well, Dario has seen the growth from a collective of concerned and experiment artists/activists to a company producing high-end large-scale art works for public spaces. www.well.org.au

Michael Warnock

Michael’s work strives to challenge and overcome persistent patterns of perceiving and existing in the world. He does it with the belief that life’s potential of existence is vaster than we most often imagine. In the past Michael has utilized photographic works on paper and more recently has worked with video, in an attempt to depict new ways of existing in time. His current work attempts to explore a present state of male masculinity in Australia, connecting it with notions of a prevalent lack of awareness toward self and environment. http://mwarnockphoto.dphoto.com

Paul Yore

Paul presents installations made from numerous throwaway items. Playful, imaginative and fantastical, Yore’s work explores notions of time, space and reality. Borrowing ideas from science, architecture and religious practices, Yore concocts imaginary worlds constructed from fountains, decorated objects and kinetic sculptures to form hybrid installations. Paul is currently a studio resident at Gertrude Contemporary. www.heide.com.au/Exhibitions/Paul_Yore

ZHEN

Zhen’s practice involves time-based performance drawing, and hybrid art forms, which embrace the combination of video technology and traditional drawing methods. Her work explores visual perception as it relates to the understanding of self and identity. www.zhenart.net