Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Anchi Lin 林安琪, her Atayal tribal name is Ciwas Tahos. She is a visual artist of Atayal/ Itaṟal and Taiwanese Hō-ló descent. She is based in Taipei, Taiwan, and Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Ciwas completed an MFA in New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) and a BFA in Visual Art at Simon Fraser University (Canada).
Ciwas' body-centered practice weaves the Indigenous Atayal worldview through performance, moving images, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation to claim a self-determined queer space, her work is an exploration of cultural and gender identity, using her body as a medium to trace linguistic and cultural experiences of displacement to seek out new forms of understanding.
Amias Hanley
Amias Hanley is an artist who explores auditory-led questions through sound, sculpture, and installation. These inquiries often attend to queer ecologies and transgender studies, generating site-responsive, speculative encounters that offer sonic propositions for engaging composite forms and conditions. Their recent work investigates the mechanisms and channels used by plants, animals, and machines to interpret and produce audio signals, examining the artistic possibilities and influence of these processes on auditory cultures and communications.
Devika Bilimoiria
Raised in Naarm/Melbourne and currently undertaking research and development in London, Devika Bilimoria (b. Fiji) engages an X-disciplinary practice with performance, dance, video, photography, sculpture and installation to explore notions of queering, time, materiality and body-ing. They enlist chance-based methods of making, duration and somatic listening as tools to agitate archived and encoded embodiments of separateness, hierarchies and gestures across socio-cultural conditions.
Jazz Money
With a practice centred in poetics, Jazz Money produces work across a range of mediums including visual art, film, performance, audio and print. She has been described by Vogue Australia as a “multidisciplinary force.”
Jazz's artworks have been presented in public settings and leading institutions including: ACCA, Melbourne; ACMI, Melbourne; The Art Gallery of South Australia; The Art Gallery of Western Australia; Carriageworks, Sydney; Fremantle Biennale; HeK Basel, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Pivô, São Paulo; Powerhouse, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney; The Shed, New York; and others.
Jazz Money is represented by The Commercial.
Patrick McDavitt
Patrick McDavitt is an artist working on Gadigal land in Sydney who works in ceramics and mixed media in an experimental, practice driven approach. Patrick creates ‘queer artefacts’ by imbuing ceramic works with his own lived experiences and through this process he proposes new ways of generating and presenting queer histories. Through immersive installations, Patrick wields and re-purposes traditional methods of display used in museums to present his own intimate and minor histories, ones which do not rely on didactic representations of queer life, but actively force the viewer to discern their own meaning.
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is a Sri-Lankan born contemporary artist who explores global histories and languages of figurative representation. He has specific interests in South Asian forms and imagery as well as politics relating to idolatry, the monument, gender, race and religion. While he is best known for his irreverent approach to ceramic media, his material vernacular is broad. He has worked imaginatively with sculptural materials including bronze, concrete, neon, LED and fibreglass, as well as painting and printmaking materials and techniques.
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is represented by Sullivan + Strumpf.
Ri Kallady
Ri Kallady is Traditional Witch, the founder & one of the owners of Elfhame. He has been practicing Witchcraft for over 26 years, walking the path & being steeped in traditional & animistic currents, practicing a form of Cornish folk-magic. Ri specialises in providing consultations & spell-work for clients, crafting traditional charms & talismans, mixing incense & powders & brewing ritual oils. Like many, Ri began his journey in Witchcraft at a young age, finding witchcraft through his love for history, mythology & folklore. Being drawn to the magic of traditional customs & the expression of the craft through crafting & creating.
Ri is also a Vodouisant & initiate of Haitian Vodou, serving his escort of Lwa & being a proud member of Hounfo Racine Deesse Dereyale.
Shan Turner-Carroll
Shan Turner-Carroll is an Australian artist of Burmese descent. Deeply fascinated with unearthing tacit knowledge, his practice integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film. The artist’s practice interrogates both human and non-human nature, alternative forms of social exchange and interactions between art, artist and viewer: sending and receiving signals. His work can sing to snakes, serenade and signal with aliens, and barter with islands, rivers, and oceans. Looking towards the multiplicity of connections between body and landscape, site-specificity is key to his practice, not only in making, but rather in how an embodied methodology of making emerges upon each site and location. Turner-Carroll sees art-making as ritualistic and transformative, using play, humour and experimentation as key elements within his current practice.
Shan Turner-Carroll is represented by COMA Gallery.
S.J Norman
S.J Norman is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. He is a non-binary transmasculine person and a diasporic Koori of Wiradjuri descent, born on Gadigal land. Norman’s work centres the corporeal and the inter-corporeal: he inhabits and disrupts the prevailing vocabularies of performance as a queer/ed Indigenous body, addressing that body as both site and material. He utilises ephemeral, process-based and long-durational practices as a means of antagonising the prevailing economies of colonial spectatorship and capital value, as well as a means to excavate and elevate embodied knowledges.
Tarik Ahlip
Tarik Ahlip is a multidisciplinary artist working on Dharug and Gadigal land. Working across film, sculpture, verse and sound, Tarik’s practice considers poetics as capable of driving epistemic change.
Tom Denize
Tom Denize is a multidisciplinary artist and curator living and working on Wurundjeri land. Originally hailing from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa, Tom’s practice is primarily concerned with queer theologies and temporalities, and how these things can reimagine understandings of place, memory and desire.
