SAWTOOTH x Blindside

Gianna Mazzeo is a video artist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. Mazzeo creates surreal cinematic pieces, working across writing, directing and cinematography. Commencing her career at a video content agency, her practice now references and evaluates the problematic advertising industry. Mazzeo’s discipline strays from commercial practices by disrupting genre conventions, tending toward dark and comedic themes.

The Huxleys are Will and Garrett Huxley who’s shared background in costume design, photography, video and performance has informed their practice, a living, ever evolving collage of still images, moving image, and dazzling performances.

The Huxleys have exhibited artwork in installations, fashion shows, performances and photographic exhibitions and festivals across the world including Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, Berlin and Australia. Their work reflects their iridescent hyper real world, full of arresting shapes, lurid colour, extreme theatrics and an ethos of glamorous androgynous abandon.

Amy Dellar (Indoor Fountains) is a cinematographer and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia.

Ciara O'Meara is a creative currently based in Tasmania. Ciara graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Honours Degree in Fine Art from D.I.T, Ireland. Her career truly began in 2017 when she made the move to Launceston, Tasmania. Over the past three years Ciara has been fuelling her creative drive by engaging and working with a number of Arts Organisations in Launceston, notably Design Tasmania, Sawtooth ARI, Gallery Pejean, QVMAG and the Academy Galley. Her roles include Gallery Technician and Curator. Aside from the ‘behind the scenes’ work, Ciara maintains an interest in creating her own bodies of work, and developing the study of ethereal mark making and creation of ephemeral installations. A continuing work in progress.

The pinnacle point of Ciara’s career was an Internship with Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania (2018) (Curation, Gallery Management and Administration) concluding in a curated video installation, exhibited at Blindside (Melbourne). Leading from this Ciara managed her first curatorial show at Sawtooth ARI in June of 2019 “Because Everyone Sleeps”. Ciara continues to volunteer and work with Arts Organisations in Tasmania, as she sees there is an abundance of creativity throughout the Island.