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Insights into Contemporary Art

Iren Tete

Iren Tete

Iren Tete on being both a creator and discoverer, her love for Brutalist architecture, approaching materials with optimism & the synergistic relationship between language and objects

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Melissa Joseph

photo by Shawn Inglima

Melissa Joseph

Melissa Joseph on early memories of making, exploring new materials, working intuitively & a broad practice in which all things are interrelated

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Joshua Hagler

Joshua Hagler

Joshua Hagler discusses his earliest memories of making art, balancing studio time as a new parent, transitioning from the “It-World” into the “You-World” & the profound effect of forgoing the language of consensus

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b. Chehayeb

b. Chehayeb

b. Chehayeb on falling in love with painting, meme culture & 90s nostalgia, exploring a visual language & thriving through chaos and constant movement

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Rebecca Kaufman

Rebecca Kaufman

Kaufman on new projects in textiles, ceramic handbuilding, and tactile bookmaking, using painting to reflect on addictive & invasive visual technologies & exploring the notion of consent across a range of media.

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Stacey Beach

Stacey Beach

Stacey Beach discusses art at an early age, encouraging teachers, cataloging a visual vocabulary, & finding inspiration outside of the main stream

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Vanessa da Silva

Vanessa da Silva

Grant winner Vanessa da Silva discusses how art can provide a sense of purpose, phases of transformation, sculpture as a tool to improve psychological wellbeing, & collaborations with local choreographers and dancers.

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Ghost of a Dream

Ghost of a Dream

The collaborative duo on energy & honesty, managing multiple large scale projects, inspiration derived from cultural detritus & utilizing the refuse generated by various aspirational attainment attempts.

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Mary Raap

Mary Raap

Raap on a lifetime of making art, travel as an early creative catalyst, the intersection of gender, labor, painting and weaving & working with materials that evoke the body and life processes.

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Sarah Tortora

Sarah Tortora

The artist on the physicality of making sculpture, negotiating balance, creative catharsis & personal truth.

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Alexis Granwell

Alexis Granwell

Granwell discusses a process based practice, utilizing color and texture to activate memory, connecting the inward and outward experience & materiality as a means to explore the corporeal.

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Alvin Ong

Alvin Ong

Alvin Ong on drawing as an anchor through which to navigate other worlds, working at varying scales & locating the local within the global.

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Su A Chae

Su A Chae, 2020

Su A Chae

The artist discusses the power of self-reflection, paradoxical spatial statements & multiple layered realities, and a lifelong interest in painting

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Senem Oezdogan

Senem Oezdogan

Senem Oezdogan

Oezdogan on using art as a place for focus, working around challenges, utilizing content and emotion & a process that incorporates a high level of previsualization.

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Kirsten Valentine

Kirsten Valentine at work, 2020

Kirsten Valentine

Valentine shares new work and works in progress focusing on healthcare workers.

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Dana Oldfather

Dana Oldfather in her studio, 2020

Dana Oldfather

Oldfather discusses growing in a family that embraced art, parenting challenges and expectations placed on women & a practice where final works often originate as drawings.

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Louise Tate

Louise Tate in her studio

Louise Tate

Tate discusses the impact of a deep exposure to art at an early stage, chasing creative dreams, managing multiple upcoming exhibitions & the influence of the bushfire crises on her creative output

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Adrian Kay Wong

Adrian Kay Wong in his studio, 2020

Adrian Kay Wong

The artist on discovering the process of making art, utilizing light as a unifying entity, and the importance of a prolonged relationship with work in progress.

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Jinyong Park

Jinyong Park

Jinyong Park on finding meaning as an artist, language identity, a practice which incorporates linguistic experience, & the process of translating abstract perceptions into imaginative hieroglyphs.

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Chris Williford

Chris Williford in his studio, 2019

Chris Williford

Chris Williford speaks on the anxieties & consequences of glamour, a practice centered around the transformation of unwanted materials into images & finding inspiration as a material-based artist

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