For over ten years, Ash Keating has created site-responsive public art projects and exhibited extensively in Australia and abroad. His projects have incorporated sculpture, painting, installation, video and performative public interventions. Keating's practice often seeks to consider concepts of production and consumption; and social and environmental issues such as climate change, urban development and gentrification, waste management and sustainability. He frequently works beyond the gallery to harness the energy and narrative of the community.
Hester's work often involves large-scale projects incorporating objects, actions, built forms, interventions, forums and walking to explore the concept of ‘place’ as the convergence of multiple narratives. Her research focus explores the ways in which space is constructed, regulated and inhabited, examining in particular how different material, social, ideological and economic forces intersect.
From the rooftops of Shanghai to the waterfalls of Norway, Melbourne-based artist Cameron Robbins has carried out art projects in the public domain the world over. He employs structural devices including kinetic wind or water powered mechanical systems in his artistic inquiries. The outputs of his site-specific installations include wind drawings and sound compositions, interpreting the dynamics and scale of the physical world, suggesting the complexities of the unknown.
Berlin based artist Fabian Knecht’s art pursues a consistent path, one which causes irritation, which marks an exceptional state in the current of everyday life, and which scratches at societal mindsets. This is expressed in his precisely positioned temporary actions, which he realises at specific, sometimes historically connoted locations in urban space or in boundary areas. Knecht maintains the hope that art is a means to break power and authority, that art can take paths beyond convention. Art is his route out into the world, a provocative commentary in defiance of emptiness, nothingness and decadence.
Jason Maling's projects happen where they need to, use what they must and generally ask, ‘Where am I, you and ‘we’ in all this?' As a writer, educator and founding member of Live Art collective Field Theory he is an ardent supporter of work that crosses disciplines and contexts. His work seeks new strategies for intervening in the public sphere and often sits on the edge of comedy and critique.
Nicola Gunn is an award-winning writer, director, performer and designer, who combines text, choreography and visual art to make contemporary performance work in response to a self-generated impulse to tell a story or explore a form. Her practice is strongly committed to institutional critique and disrupting existing power structures to imagine different ways of being.
Pippa Bailey is a dancer, producer and choreographer. She helped create large outdoor shows including signature events for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and has been developing a new music theatre project: BiDiNG TiME, responding to economic and environmental crisis by imagining how creative processes can enable systemic social change.
Robbie Rowlands works with existing objects and spaces in a practice that seeks to renegotiate the empirical by challenging the way we see the world. In his work we find the structures that provide support to our lives have themselves become wilted and prone. In June 2017, the artist led a workshop in which participants spread out across Guilford Lane and worked through a process of visually observing and creating their direct and expanded space.
Rhall’s interdisciplinary practice responds to cultural landscape, creating networks of interconnected signs and symbols. He merges ‘post-colonial’ and interpersonal narratives via performative gesture, public/private space interventions and installation. In May 2017, the artist led a workshop which was based around reconfiguring perceptions of public space in Melbourne. He read from Boris Groys, Anne Marsh and Bruce Pascoe.