Andrew Atchinson, Imogen Beynon, BIld, Kel Glaister, Tamsin Green, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Sarah Holbery, Yvette King, Robert Lenard, Amy Marjoram, Alex Martinis Roe, Anna-Maria O’Keefe, Stephen Palmer, Simon Pericich, Michael Prior, Nathan Pye, Ben Raynor, Thea Rechner, Carl Scrase, Julian Tuckett, Renee Ugazio, Melanie Upton, Keith Wong
About the artist/s:
Andrew Atchinson’s practice is anchored in drawing. He uses the drawing process to create sculptural, temporary, spatial, video and two-dimensional works. Andrew is currently based in Melbourne but plans to take his art into other communities. Andrew says that while he knows what his work means to him, it is sometimes not until after he has developed it that the cumulative synthesis of his ideas become entirely clear.
Imogen Beynon completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) with First Class Honours at Monash University in 2006. Since then she has been involved in a number of collaborative projects including Substructure at Conical as well as co-curating an edge meets an edge at Spectrum Project Space in Perth with Tamsin Green. Imogen was awarded an ADFAS prize in 2005 and the Head of Department’s award for Interdisciplinary Innovation in 2006. She currently works as a sessional staff member in the Department of Theory, Monash Art & Design.
bIld art&architecture was established in 2007 by Tanja Kimme and Ben Milbourne. bIld is a cross disciplinary collaboration focusing on the interplay between the image and spatial experience. Using hybridised techniques from their respective backgrounds to facilitate experiments in the reciprocal transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensions, and explorations of contemporary attitudes towards verisimilitude (truth-likeness) in image making versus space making.
Tanja is a German photographic and multi-media artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Tanja studied Fine Art and New Media at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2001.
Ben Milbourne is an architect, designer and urbanist based in Melbourne. Ben studied architecture in Tasmania and Sydney, graduating from the University of Sydney’s Bachelor of Architecture program with First Class Honours in 2002. He is a registered architect in the Netherlands and Australia, and has been working in architectural practice since 2000.
Kel Glaister graduated from Monash University with an Honours degree in Fine Art (Painting) in 2005. Since then, she has exhibited in many artist run spaces across Melbourne, including solo shows at Kings ARI, West Space, Seventh and Trocadero. Selected group shows from 2007 include Floats like a brick doesn’t at Bus gallery, Nonchalantly unimpressed at Victoria Park Gallery and Everything, again at Firstdraft Gallery in Sydney. She has also curated several group shows including Nothing rhymes with failure and Things in a room.
Tamsin Green graduated from an Honours degree in Fine Art (Painting) at Monash University in 2006. Since then she has been involved in a number of group and collaborative exhibitions, including Substructure at Conical and Floats like a brick doesn’t at Bus gallery. Her solo show, Surface Tension, was held at Trocadero in 2007. Tamsin has also co-curated projects including an edge meets an edge at Perth’s Spectrum Project Space.
Tamsin is currently undertaking her Masters in Fine Art at Monash University, and her forthcoming shows include Still Moving Image at West Space. Tamsin has been awarded an ADFAS award for drawing and an Australian Postgraduate Award.
Indonesian-born Ardi Gunawan completed Honours in Fine Art (Painting) at Monash University in 2006, and is currently completing a Masters of Fine Art. Recent group and collaborative shows include: Substructure, Conical (2007); Floats like a brick doesn’t, Bus (2007); Everything, again, Firstdraft, Sydney (2007); an edge meets an edge, Spectrum Project Space, Perth (2007); and Open Day, Monash Faculty Gallery, Melbourne (2007). Ardi’s forthcoming solo exhibition will be held at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in May 2008. Ardi’s work has been featured in RealTime magazine.
Hao Guo is an artist from Beijing, China. He graduated from the art department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, and taught at both high schools and primary schools before arriving in Australia. He completed an Applied Design course at RMIT before going on to complete his Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007. Hao is now undertaking his Masters in Fine Art at the VCA.
Sarah Holbery is an architectural Honours graduate with five year’s experience. Her interest in art has lead her to pursue a direction within architecture that stems from influences, concepts and theory from the art world. Most of the theory she has worked on thus far relates to the concept of contemporary mannerism and how suburban McMansions clash with contemporary architectural processes. She aims to challenge the traditional roles of elements, space, light, atmosphere and function in order to gain new perspectives.
Yvette King Googled herself:
“Yvette King is a Psychic Intuitive, Shamanic Healer and Spiritual Life Path Coach with deep ancestral connections to the spiritual realm. Yvette has assisted countless people on their personal road to empowerment with the understanding that their life’s purpose is for their life to fully have purpose. What can she do for you? She will work with you to assist you to become all that you can be in this lifetime. YOU are in charge of your future so why not make it the best possible one it can be.”
(She wishes she was this Yvette.)
Lenard, Robert. Artist. Born in southern USA, Houston Texas. Single, never married. Currently in Melbourne, Australia on a student visa studying Fine Art (Painting) at Monash University. Aims to aid in showing the positive that is black, and to to focus on the positive rather than the negative.
Amy Marjoram is an artist and arts writer. Her recent group exhibitions include Girls Say No To White Gloves, Blindside, 2007 and Nothing Rhymes With Failure, Victoria Park Gallery, 2007. She has written several catalogue essays, is a regular contributor to RealTime magazine and has also been published in Eyeline. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the VCA and completed her Honours in Photomedia at Monash University. She has received scholarships and prizes including winner of Proud 2004 at VCA Gallery and Best use of Print Technology at the CCP Kodak Salon, 2007. She was the recipient of a John Vickery Scholarship in 2005.
Alex Martinis Roe is a current candidate for a Masters of Fine Art by Research from Monash University having been awarded the Silver Jubilee Scholarship. Alex has shown at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Spectrum Project Space in Perth, Spacement Gallery, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, TCB art inc., Bus and Seventh Gallery. She has been published in Eyeline magazine and been reviewed in Un Magazine, RealTime and the West Australian. Alex is also co-reviewer of Art Attack, an arts review segment on Richard Watt’s Smart Arts Program on Triple R FM.
Since graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) in 2004, Anna-Maria O’Keefe has been regularly exhibiting in galleries and artist run spaces throughout Melbourne, including Blindside, Platform, Span, RMIT Project Space and West Space. Her work has been part of an on-going series of sculptures depicting fragmented landscape panoramas. Anna-Maria was awarded an Australian Council New Work Grant in 2006, and recently had her first solo show, Arterial Embolism, a major installation at West Space in October 2007.
Stephen Palmer trained to be an artist at Monash University. Since 2005 he has exhibited at a few Melbourne galleries including Kings ARI, Victoria Park Gallery, Trocadero, Shifted and at First Draft in Sydney. He has not won any prizes he is aware of.
Simon Pericich holds an MA (Sculpture), Victorian College of the Arts, 2006; Grad Dip (Hons), The Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2004; and a BFA, Curtin University, 2001. He is the recipient of various funding, awards (including the Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship, 2003) and residencies, and has been in more art shows than he has friends on Facebook. !!!SAY NO TO THE FUTURE!!!
Michael Prior is a media artist working with sound, extended performance and installation. He’s interested in combining old and new media forms to investigate audience perception, social interaction and corruption. Works usually involve chance, improvisation and recontextualisation.
Recent works include sound design for Australian feature film Up For Grabs, collaborative installation work Split Reel (currently on show at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art) and hybrid works for the Transmediale 08 Festival in Berlin. Michael graduated from Media Arts at RMIT in 2005 and is co-director of Melbourne ARI Tape Projects.
Nathan Pye studied Fine Art at Monash University and graduated with First Class Honours in 2005. Since then, he has exhibited in various galleries including Kings ARI and Span. He currently lives and works in Warrnambool, and is the co-ordinator of Multimedia at Portland and Hamilton TAFE.
Ben Raynor received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the VCA in 2005. Recent shows include: Things in a Room, Kings ARI (2007); Nonchalantly Unimpressed, Victoria Park Gallery (2007); and Inter-Knitted, Seventh Gallery (2006). Ben was the recipient of the Harry Curtis Prize in 2005. His work has featured in various publications, most recently Making space: artist-run initiatives in Victoria in 2007.
Thea Rechner completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) with first class Honours at the VCA in 2006. Her solo work-in-progress exhibitions include Project for July at Mir11 in 2006 and Sight Site: 10 days working project at George Patton Gallery in 2007. She has been awarded the Theodor Urbach Encouragement Award and Quinton Blayney Memorial Award.
Carl Scrase is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited at various galleries since 2003. Carl’s solo shows include Co-existence is Improbable: A Micro Dystopia at Runt Gallery (2006) and Hallucinatory Façade at TCB art inc. (2007). In 2007 Carl participated in the hugely successful show Floats like a brick doesn’t at Bus gallery as part of the Making Space Festival. In 2008 Carl’s work will feature in shows at Seventh Gallery and John Buckley Gallery. Carl has recently taken on the ambitious role of starting an experimental artist run space above Old Bar in Fitzroy, due to open in early 2008.
Julian Tuckett lives in Melbourne and is involved in design and art production in various media. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree.
Renee Ugazio has been involved in the production of contemporary jewellery objects since 1998. She is currently completing a Masters of Fine Art at RMIT, Melbourne. Her work centres on the relationship between object and site, and more recently between the body and the jewellery object, often highlighting the process and experience of wearing and incorporating elements of performance. In her recent series, Spin, works were constructed from materials and equipment used specifically in the production of jewellery in an attempt to create new dialogues between wearer, artist and object.
Mel Upton is a burgeoning installation artist and arts administrator. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture), Mel’s work has explored the residue and fallout of the current consumer driven climate and has been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions. Selected group shows include: Things In A Room, Kings ARI (2007); Nonchalantly Unimpressed, Victoria Park Gallery (2007); Statute of Limitations, Victoria Park Gallery (2006); Proud, VCA Gallery (2006); and CoLab, George Patton Gallery (2005). In 2006 Mel was the recipient of a number of awards including Best 3rd-Year Work in the Proud exhibition, the VCA Encouragement Award for Best Graduating Sculpture Student, and the Dr Rosenthal Award for Sculpture.
Keith Wong has spent the past 3 years in an institution. Much of his time has been spent in isolation, reading and writing. This experience has affected him mentally. He is due for release soon.
