Gabrielle Chantiri is an emerging writer and artist. She is currently researching wallpaper and auction houses. 

Geirthana is working on Eora. Caught between the shores of Tamil Eelam and Sydney. Her practice investigates her notion of identity, relating herself to her environment, both spatially and culturally. Wrangling conceptual ideas to create documentative, often time-based works rooted in photography, sculpture and performance. 

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Imogen is a cross-disciplinary artist currently living and working on Bidjigal and Gadigal land in the Eora nation. She works at the intersection of the creative and scientific knowledge frameworks and is interested in using art making as an attempt to better understand and engage with place. Above all else Imogen enjoys the process of art making. Imogen considers her practice a form of research where any work is a work in progress and is just a new iteration of what has been learnt, read and engaged with inside and outside the studio space. 

As a recent graduate of B. Fine Arts and Science, majoring in sculpture, spatial design and geography, Imogen is fascinated by the potential of interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration between people working within different knowledge frameworks, in particular in the context of landscape and environment. She is curious about exploring the art making process as a way to engage with community within an Anthropocene context. Working within the field of expanded sculpture Imogen's practice moves between mould making, casting, sound and installation. Guided by material process and engagement with site Imogen works in a space that allows individual contemplation of landscape and the collaborative sharing of ideas. 

Operating and working on Wallumedegal land, my work integrates analogue and digital techniques across textiles, design, video and installation often exploring critique surrounding traditional notions of diasporic identity through remixing, re-contextualising, and rewriting familial and communal histories. Through the use of unreliable chronology, discomfort and antagonistic materiality, my works often explore the relationship between material legacies and their ability to hold multiple connotations simultaneously. Drawing inspiration from archives, scientific documents and from objects that emerge out of communal labor, my works often engage with the politics of authentic practice alongside the ephemeral and deeply personal nature of memories and the act of remembering. 

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Lisa Myeong-Joo combines personal narrative, material and gesture into installation, performance, and text-based work. Her conceptual approach considers how meaning is made and transferred between the body, place and culture. As a Korean adoptee raised in Australia, Lisa continues to cultivate an expanded performative practice to embody the intercultural tensions, interconnections and flow unique to the South.  

Lisa is a recent Fine Arts Honours graduate from UNSW and has recently exhibited in Hatched at PICA, and group shows at AD Space and Firstdraft. She has undertaken residencies in South Korea and India, and also has a Bachelor Degree in Interior Spatial Design from UTS. 

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I'm an artist / writer / designer working on unceded Gadigal and Darug Country. Broadly speaking, I trace relationships between cultural institutions, spirituality & theology, archives, queer / trans lives & movements, and white supremacy. Across my practice, I'm interested in catching a small hold of many Jewish futures. 

I facilitate emerging & marginal Jewish ritual practices through Judaica-object design. As well as writing, I work in jewellery and object design, graphite, zines, print and book making, and textiles. At the moment I'm making protective amulets, and experimenting with beeswax, bioplastics and clay as prospective materials for producing small runs of my object designs. 

I was a Finalist of the 66th Blake Prize earlier this year. Some spaces, organisations and publications which have presented my work include AIRspace Projects, the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, the National Association for the Visual Arts, Tributary Projects and Runway Journal. Most recently, I was a New Voices Fellow in partnership with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. 

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Nolan Ho Wung Murphy is a Hong Kong Australian artist working across photography and ink painting; they are currently based in Sydney on Dharug country. As a child of a migrant, their work takes inspiration from their heritage and concerns itself largely with the in-between spaces of cultural and racial borders. This emerges in their practice through black and white film photography of their ink paintings on coastlines and sand dunes, crafting illusions of bodies and landscapes.

Guided by Trinh T. Minh Ha’s phrase “between a dog and a wolf”, their work seeks out the in-between, ambiguity, metamorphism, and voidness.Here they seek to imagine the fluctuating cultural space where many migrants and marginalised communities find themselves; so much of their work reflects this liminality.

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