All of Us

Teresa Hsieh is a Melbourne-based artist with a practice encompassing sculpture and installation to investigate the connections between the internal and external relationship with the body. She conceives air in space as an art object: highlighting the importance and value of this existential element. Hsieh’s self-made inflatables heighten visitor’s senses into witnessing the unacknowledged in a way to challenge our compulsion to construct meaning – allowing visitors to witness their modes of being in a way to challenge our compulsion to construct meaning when faced with her self-made inflatables. Hsieh holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (in Sculpture and Spatial Practice) with Honours. She was awarded the Stoner Award for her graduate exhibition and was the recipient of the 2018 Mailbox Art Space artist prize from 2017 Proud Exhibition from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Liam Benson + AdornedLiam Benson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice incorporates performance, photography, video and textiles. Benson’s work discusses gender, identity and culture by subverting and cross referencing entrenched ideologies, popular iconography, art and media language. Liam’s practice is informed by working collaboratively with diverse communities through an ongoing conversation about how culture, sub-culture and identity interrelate and evolve. Liam Benson has been exhibiting and performing nationally and internationally since 2003 and is represented by Artereal Gallery in Sydney. His works are held in significant public and private collections including The MCA Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Artbank and Western Sydney University.

Adorned is a community group of artists and craftspeople from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who share a love of making. Based at Western Sydney’s Parramatta Artist Studios, the Adorned community have co-run an ongoing program that supports participants of all ages from culturally diverse backgrounds by providing a friendly, safe and accessible creative space. Together with the support of Parramatta Artist Studios and facilitators Liam Benson and Kiri Morcombe, the group offers a creative skill sharing space where participants can engage in developing new solo and collaborative work. The Adorned artists have collaborated between 2014 and 2018 to make sculpture, photographic portrait series, wearable art and a multimedia performance installation. As well as developing and exhibiting artwork, the Adorned artists utilise each exhibition as a way of engaging community thorough public programs and creative workshops. Adorned includes artists; Gail Barclay, Tamkin Hakim, Farzana Hekmat, Seinileva Huakau, Haifa Kazemi, Hilin Kazemi, Kiri Morcombe, Angela Paikea, Bibi Sherin Rahmati, Tacheen Stuart, Marina Robins, Maureen Unasa, Susan Ling Young and Kathryn Yuen.

Jody Haines (Palawa) is a photo media artist (stills, projection, video) based in Melbourne. Her work focuses on Identity, representation and the female Gaze, exploring ways visual language can be applied through video and photography to deconstruct/breakdown ideas of gender and the representation of Women. The work places women front and centre of the frame and creates an opportunity for Women to be seen, not as an object but as an individual; strong, beautiful and complex. Jody has exhibited widely including Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2017, Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2017 and Sydney Festival 2018 as part of Tell: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, Immerse 2017 and Women of the Commonwealth Festival 2018. Most recently Jody was commissioned to create a projection work for Festival 2018 and Women of the Commonwealth 2018, Commonwealth Games Gold Coast. Haines has successfully completed a Masters of Art Art in Public Space at RMIT and lives and works on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples.

Karen Casey is an Australian interdisciplinary artist with a career spanning more than three decades. She works across a wide range of media, from painting and printmaking to installation, video, performance and public art. Karen applies both an experiential and philosophical understanding of the interrelationships between various cultural and spiritual traditions and aspects of contemporary western science. A long-held interest in metaphysics informs her practice, which is often expressed through works relating to consciousness and interconnection. Her interest in both the human mind and social interaction has led to various immersive and participatory projects, designed to induce or illicit altered mind states or emotions in audiences and participants, that engender positivity, empathy and connection.

Mitch Mahoney + Molly MahoneyMitch Mahoney + Molly Mahoney descend from the Boon Warrung and Barkindji people. Their Mother is a Boon Warrung woman from the Kulin nation and their father is a Barkindji man from Darling River country. Both were born in North West Victoria and grew up along the Murray River, their art reflects upon their journeys in life, and the natural connection they feel inside to all that their country supports, creates, provides, and the ever-changing influence it has on them. They are young Aboriginal artists with great pride and passion in continuing cultural practices, their people, land and our future.

Justine Youssef works across multiple disciplines through her practice, including video, installation, text and performance. Her practice is site-responsive and attentive to her respective origins in South-West Asia. The work is rooted in research into moments and places which allow her to move through questions surrounding post-colonial rhetoric, feminist lenses, and diasporic and material exchanges. Youssef is currently living on the unceded territory of the Darug and Cadigal peoples. In 2017, she received her Honours of Fine Arts from the National Art School. She has held a collaborative solo exhibition at Seventh Gallery with Duha Ali, for which they were awarded the New South Wales Artists’ Grant (Create NSW), and has participated in group exhibitions at Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo; Airspace Projects, Marrickville; MCA ARTBAR, Sydney; Bankstown Art Center, Bankstown; and her work has also been featured in Antidote’s Moving Nations 2017, Collab Gallery, Chippendale. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo contemporary exhibition at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Haymarket; as well as group exhibitions at Sullivan+Strumpf, Zetland and Casula Powerhouse, Casula. Her recent work has been developed through studio residencies at Blacktown Arts, Blacktown; and the Parramatta Artist Studios, Parramatta.

Chloé Hazelwood is a curator, arts writer and arts manager living and working on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

Jessica Clark is a curator, teacher and arts manager currently living and working in Melbourne. Her curatorial practice is driven by an intrinsic passion for art, sharing knowledge, working closely with artists, and bringing people and ideas together. Recent curatorial projects have focused on promoting new dialogues, challenging preconceived ideas/ideals, and exploring the transformative and performative nature of art and curatorial practice. Jessica is alumni of UNSW College of Fine Art, Australian Catholic University and RMIT University having completed a Bachelor in Art Theory, postgraduate studies in Education, and a Master of Arts Management respectively.