Print #1: Jess Tan
Jess Tan is an artist living and working in Narrm, Melbourne. Jess collects from the residual of what she has eaten, broken, found and made previously, as well as what the things around her have made in the process of being alive. It is a sort of thinking out loud which seeks the feeling of being unconstrained.
Print #2: David Spooner
David Spooner is a Brisbane-based multidisciplinary artist who draws inspiration from the natural and unnatural worlds. David draws connections between seemingly unrelated ideas and materials to create his new work, revealing in the process the complexity of the inner logic that drives his practice. Using textiles, found objects, knitting, machine and hand stitching, David creates three dimensional installations that play with literal and imaginative narratives. A recent show featured 52 drawings in response to running over Brisbane’s Story Bridge 52 times. David’s latest project involves creating one drawing every day over the course of this year and numbering it accordingly.
Print #3: Ellen YG Son
Having lived in Korea, Singapore and Australia (VIC), Ellen YG Son occupies a complex cultural position as a contemporary hybrid and a culture-unspecified. She is interested in deconstructing culture, linguistic limitations and racial barriers, and investigating how these factors constantly reshape cultural identities. She utilises cellophane in her practice as a culturally filtered lens and a representation of cultural values/limitations that they may impose on individuals. The act of scratching and sewing on the surface of cellophane are Son’s metaphorical method of erasing, inscribing, layering and censoring not only the borderlines of the unique cultures that often do not intersect with one another, but also the memories and experiences of these cultures that one may possess.
Print #4: Loren Kronemyer
Loren Kronemeyer (TAS/USA) is an artist living and working in remote lutruwita (Tasmania), Australia. Her works span interactive and live performance, experimental media art, and large-scale world-building projects aimed at exploring ecological futures and survival skills. As part of duo Pony Express, she is co-creator of projects like Ecosexual Bathhouse, a touring queer sex club for the entire ecosystem. She collaborates frequently with laboratories, including most recently as the first resident at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, and received the first Master of Biological Arts degree from SymbioticA Lab at the University of Western Australia. She is a mentor at the Icelandic Academy of Art for their Masters of Performing Arts program, and a PhD candidate at the University Of Tasmania.
Print #5: Leonie Brialey
Leonie Brialey (VIC) is primarily a cartoonist and writer, though her practice also includes screen printing and ceramics. Her academic background is in philosophy, theology and literature, and she completed her PhD in creative writing in 2016 at the University of Melbourne, looking at ideas and enactments of sincerity and authenticity in autobiographical comics. The creative component of this was a 300 page graphic novel, Raw Feels, which incorporated comics adaptations of work by Friedrich Nietzsche, George Saunders and Calvin O. Schrag. Her most recent work Psychic Hotline was published by Melbourne-based Glom Press in 2018, looking at sexuality and inherited trauma. Leonie’s work is mostly autobiographical but not strictly. She is interested in drawing as a way of thinking and writing, ways that human beings navigate the mind-body problem, and how to better articulate and expand the act of thinking itself.
Print #6: Mei Swan Lim
Mei Swan Lim (WA) is a practicing sound and visual artist whose work centres on the environmental, emotional and spiritual importance of place, interdisciplinary investigation and storytelling. Her works have appeared at Proximity Festival, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth Festival, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Janet Holmes á Court Gallery. Mei also makes work with her partner, Matthew Aitken. Together they’ve have collaborated on social practice projects such as Swamp Clubb (TRANSART), Walyalup Water Walk with Sharyn Egan (Perth Festival), Freeway Meditation with Katie West (Revelation Film Festival) and Land Sale (International Art Space). She is also an electronic musician who has been performing and writing under the name Mei Saraswati since 2010.