Current Studio Artists

Katthy Cavaliere

Sydney

Cavaliere is conceptual artist, working within a multidisciplinary practice. Her practice includes photography, performance, installation, site-specific projects and drawing. Cavaliere explores the urge to engage an audience by embodying her artwork, exposing a process within the work. Cavaliere uses real and poignant material form her life and creates a personal almost biographical thread in her work to date. Cavaliere creates a diary of images by merging constructed imaginary spaces with real life material. Cavaliere is currently creating new work at Artspace studio residency. Exploring themes of absence, presence, ritual and mortality.

Cavaliere recently received an Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant.

Hayden Fowler
Sydney

Hayden Fowler is a New Zealand born Artist, based in Sydney, Australia. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the UNSW College of Fine Arts as well as an earlier degree in Biology. Fowler’s methodology involves the construction of elaborate sets in which he choreographs human or animal subjects, creating hyper-real video and photographic work from within these fictional spaces.

Fowler has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is held in a number of public and private collections. He is a recent recipient of the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, undertaking his year of study abroad at the Universitat der Kunst in Berlin, Germany. He is currently completing a new body of work, created in Berlin with the support of a New Work Grant from the Australia Council.


Marita Fraser

Vienna, Austria and Sydney

Marita Fraser is an Australian born artist living and working between Vienna, Austria and Sydney, Australia. She graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with first class honours in 2006 and was a student of Heimo Zobernig at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 2007 – 2010. She is the co-director of Bell Street Project Space, Vienna and was the recipient of the Fauvette Loureiro Scholarship, and the Zelda Stedman Scholarship from the University of Sydney. In 2007 she was awarded the The Moya Dyring Studio and Dr Denise Hickey Memorial Studio, Cité International des Arts, Paris and recently received an Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart Grant.

Marita’s work is concerned with the exploration of representation, abstraction, materiality and the processes of art production in the context of contemporary art practice. Her recent work has examined notions of "diagram" as well as the tension between painting and sculpture. She is currently preparing new work for solo shows in Sydney and Vienna for 2010.


Ms & Mr
Sydney

Ms & Mr is an Australian/Canadian born artist duo, Stephanie & Richard nova Milne.

Ms & Mr approach their practice as a form of domestic science fiction. Important is their admission to, and misappropriation of scientific theories that although plausible, remain in the realm of practical fiction.

They have exhibited extensively and participated in residencies in Toronto, New York and Paris. In 2005 they were awarded the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. Recent solo projects include Physics is Pâté at The Physics Room, Christchurch and There There Anxious Future at Kaliman Gallery, Sydney. They have contributed to curated projects and screenings in Australia, Bangkok, Berlin, Brazil, Hong Kong, New York and Toronto. Included in these is Primavera 08 at the MCA, Sydney. They are currently completing a collaborative MFA at UNSW.

www.msandmr.net

Sean Rafferty

Sydney

In his practice, Sean Rafferty builds and presents constructions that attempt to understand the representation of landscape, the ‘physicality’ of light, and the mechanisms and processes in the construction of an artwork. For his Artspace residency Rafferty is creating a large-scale ‘sun-bleached’ work on paper that is a continuation of his projects on landscape in cinematic and theatrical spaces.

Sean Rafferty was born in 1979 in Ballinasloe, Ireland, and moved to Australia (Port Macquarie) at age 6, and now lives in Sydney. He completed a Masters of Fine Arts at COFA in 2008, and has previously been a director of Firstdraft Gallery (2006-07). Sean has been a recipient of artist residencies locally and internationally. He has exhibited at commercially and at artist-run initiatives in Sydney and interstate - his most recent solo show, Ghost Mountain was at MOP Projects in 2009. In 2007 Sean was awarded the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Art Award and is currently a board member of runway magazine.

Sumugan Sivanesan
Sydney

Sumugan Sivanesan maintains a multi disciplinary practice across installation, sound, video and performance. Often working collaboratively, he is largely concerned with issues of globalisation, de-colonization and cultural exchange in a networked world. He is part of the collectives boat-people.org and theweathergroup_U.

He is currently engaged in post–graduate research with the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at UTS, as well as lecturing in Experimental Film and Video at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.

www.sivanesan.net

Recent Studio Artists

Gian Manik

Perth

Gian Manik graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from Curtin University in 2007. He has been involved in various group exhibition and at held a solo show HOWWORKS at the Perth Town Hall in 2009. Since his graduation he has participated in residencies at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Curtin University.

His work uses the body as an ongoing perceptual reference to expose the attraction of the ‘Other’. Sculpture, video and painting explore the border of familiarity between corporeal objects and spaces.

During the residency at Artspace he will stage his second solo exhibition at Black and Blue Gallery, and will also be involved in a group show with two other West Australian artists at Chinaheights Gallery.

www.gianmanik.com

Gian Manik's residency is supported by Artsource: the Artists Foundation of WA .

Jeremy Welsh

Bergen, Norway

Jeremy Welsh works with a combination of video, sound, performance and photography, often combining several media within an installation setting. During the 80's he was actively involved with the artists' media workshop sector in the UK and since 1990 he has taught at art schools in Norway. Current projects include a series of HD video pieces exploring urban landscapes; a series of video portraits of women artists & authors; a public commission in the form of a large steel wall that is being treated with automotive lacquer and silkscreen print, and a photo book that will be published in late 2009. He recently started a research project called BUU: Bureau for Unstable Urbanism as a vehicle for collaborative work with other artists, musicians, writers, designers and architects. The project will launch with a conference in Oslo, May 2009.

Welsh is currently Professor of Visual Arts and MA Course Leader at Bergen National Academy of The Arts, Norway. In 2008 he visited Sydney to take part in the conference and exhibition "Transitions" hosted by Macquarie University and he recently contributed a chapter for a book on current developments in art education, edited by Brad Buckley and John Conomos from Sydney College of the Arts.

http://web.mac.com/jeremyjwelsh/

http://b4uu.blogspot.com

http://kunst.no/20022002/

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