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

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

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

Roberta Rich

Roberta’s work explores the com­plex inter­sec­tions of race and gender within the power struc­tures of Aus­tralian soci­ety. Her prac­tice presents per­form­ance, video and install­a­tion works to exam­ine cross-cultural under­stand­ings of iden­tity, and ideas of authen­ti­city. platformartistsgroup.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberta-rich.html

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