Presence

Anna Horne is a SA artist exploring materiality, process, and the transience of the physical world through the field of sculpture. Horne’s work references the domestic and architectural space by utilising both industrial and commonplace materials. Through a studio regime of experimentation and play, Horne re-examines the order of functional materials within the context of contemporary sculpture. She employs methods of casting and assemblage using common materials like concrete and metal with found items such as beach balls and wine sacks to create sculptures exploring tension and balance. Through the forces and oppositions in Horne’s art practice, she produces sculptures contending between light and heavy, soft and hard, familiar and strange. Horne currently lives and works in Adelaide from Switchboard Studios.

Archie Barry is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work converges language and bodily gestures within a self-portraiture practice. By curating ontological spaces between what is and what can be, Barry envisages alternate possibilities for the ever-evolving architectures of personhood. Barry graduated with a Masters of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) in 2017. They have exhibited work at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Buxton Contemporary, the State Library of Victoria, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Artspace and ALASKA Projects. Barry's solo performance projects have been staged at the the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Artspace, the Meat Markets, Neon Parc and the State Library of Victoria.

Isabella Hone-Saunders (she/they) is currently practicing as a curator, arts worker and artist in Naarm (so-called melbourne, australia), on the unceded lands and water ways of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung (Wurundjeri) people of the Kulin nation.

Their curatorial practice is concerned with accessibility, representation and shared social responsibility, while examining with criticality, the inclusivity of public art spaces. They aim to interrogate and implement methodologies towards an ethical and activist informed curation.

The exhibitions and public outcomes that IHS curates endeavour to present multi-phonic positions and de-centralise any notion of an authoritative curatorial power position in favour of platforming and supporting and nurturing the artist's perspective.

Hone-Saunders’ artistic practice frequently utilises movement, with the use of video as preferred medium, often centering their body as a focal figure. IHS explores ideas of body idealisation, physicality, residual body-language, identity, and embodied readings and representations of history and ritual.

Holly Bates is a Brisbane-based artist, working individually and as one half of the collaboration Parallel Park with artist Tayla Haggarty. Working across sculpture, installation, performance and video, her practice currently seeks to challenge pre-conceived notions of sexuality depicted by patriarchal culture. Using humour, play and feminist approaches to art making, the practice explores personal narratives that are formed by the artist’s position as a queer feminist, and reflect on body insecurities, sexual fantasies, pleasure, relationships and social stigmas.

Lou Fourie pursues the notion of life as art, focusing on personal experience and relational activities of the everyday. Artistic investigations include performative interactions through media and technology, experimenting with entanglements that blur the boundaries between self and other, human and non-human, and subtly queering normative ideals perpetuated in popular media, material culture and technological structures.

Zoë Bastin (b. 1992) is an artist, curator, sometimes writer and self-described rat-bag. As an artist who makes performances, sculptures, videos, photos and runs a radio show she’s fascinated by the porousness of the body, where it starts and ends and how culture inscribes ideas of gender and sexuality onto our physical form.

Since childhood she has been fascinated by gender roles in dance class; particularly who’s allowed to do what and why. Her work challenges limitations placed on feminine and femme bodies shifting ideas about gender. Using her own style of creative dance mixed with contemporary performance art Zoë creates works that explore difficult psychological terrain. From the homophobia of her religious childhood to delving into the gender politics of ballet her works are often hard hitting. But from this deep emotional investigation comes the joy of dancing itself.

Bastin recently submitted her PhD at RMIT University, where she was researching gender by transforming patriarchal hierarchies in bodies and objects. In 2021 Zoë she is working with a team of six dancers on an immersive performance called That Which Was Once Familiar presented by Dancehouse and Bus Projects for Midsumma Festival and curating an exhibition with Claire Watson called CONFLATED for NETS Victoria. Zoë is co-director of Idyll Projects a siteless exhibition platform founded with fellow artist Jessica Curry.

Bastin has previously exhibited and performed at Bus Projects, The Substation, Wyndham City Council, SEVENTH Gallery, MADA Gallery at Monash University, Testing Grounds, School of Art Gallery RMIT University, Tinning St Presents, c3 Gallery and BLINDSIDE.

Brigid Hansen is a Melbourne-based writer, curator and artist with an interest in humour, queer bodies and pop culture. She has contributed to publications as Art+Australia, .un Extended and Island Island and worked with Blindside, True Estate, Campbell Arcade, La Trobe Art Institute and Town Hall Gallery.

Zoë Bastin (b. 1992) is an artist, curator, sometimes writer and self-described rat-bag. As an artist who makes performances, sculptures, videos, photos and runs a radio show she’s fascinated by the porousness of the body, where it starts and ends and how culture inscribes ideas of gender and sexuality onto our physical form.

Since childhood she has been fascinated by gender roles in dance class; particularly who’s allowed to do what and why. Her work challenges limitations placed on feminine and femme bodies shifting ideas about gender. Using her own style of creative dance mixed with contemporary performance art Zoë creates works that explore difficult psychological terrain. From the homophobia of her religious childhood to delving into the gender politics of ballet her works are often hard hitting. But from this deep emotional investigation comes the joy of dancing itself.

Bastin recently submitted her PhD at RMIT University, where she was researching gender by transforming patriarchal hierarchies in bodies and objects. In 2021 Zoë she is working with a team of six dancers on an immersive performance called That Which Was Once Familiar presented by Dancehouse and Bus Projects for Midsumma Festival and curating an exhibition with Claire Watson called CONFLATED for NETS Victoria. Zoë is co-director of Idyll Projects a siteless exhibition platform founded with fellow artist Jessica Curry.

Bastin has previously exhibited and performed at Bus Projects, The Substation, Wyndham City Council, SEVENTH Gallery, MADA Gallery at Monash University, Testing Grounds, School of Art Gallery RMIT University, Tinning St Presents, c3 Gallery and BLINDSIDE.