2009

2203 Collective is a group of artists – Matthew Rochford, Alexis Armytage, Jacqueline Olivetti, David Urquhart – based around the inner-west of Sydney, initially springing from the Don’t Look Gallery in Dulwich Hill.

Meg Ulman, Zephyr Ogden Jones and Patrick Jones constitute the Artist as Family. www.theartistasfamily.blogspot.com

James Arvanitakis is an activist-academic whose research areas include hope, trust, citizenship and applying sociological theory to everyday contexts.

Hanif Baharin is doing a PhD in Interaction Design at The University of Queensland. He is exploring the affective aspects of sound in interactive technology.

Victoria Bennett is a Melbourne-based artist and curator. She fights crimes against fashion by day, and battles post-feminism at night.

Danielle Bentley is a cellist, writer, researcher and festival curator with an excessive interest in experimental cross-genre and multi-artform collaborative performance.

Scott Brewer is a PhD candidate in contemporary Australian literature at the University of Newcastle. Occasionally, he teaches there too, but for the most part he loiters round the photocopier. He has recently been published in JASAL.

Margi Brown Ash’s professional life includes being an Actor/Director/Devisor/Educator/Psychotherapist. Margi facilitates workshops for artists aimed at developing resilience and sustainability.

Miriam Chatt has just returned from studying at Universität der Künste Berlin, currently studies sculpture at SCA, makes and designs objects and shapes and spaces, and hopes, in the near future, to own a dog.

Trudy Clutterbok is an ex-artist and current psychotherapist informed by and involved with Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis. She’s interested in bears, imaginary geography, rurality and madness.  

Rebecca Conroy is an interdisciplinary performance maker, writer/researcher and curator, working across the areas of community culture development, devised performance and practice-based research.

Stuart Cooke was born in 1980 and grew up in Sydney and Hobart. His poetry, fiction and essays have been published in most Australian literary magazines. In 2007 Picaro Press published his translation of Juan Garrido Salgado’s Once Poemas en Septiembre, 1973. He is working on two poetry manuscripts, and is stuck somewhere in the middle of a PhD.

Jenna Corcoran is an emerging Melbourne artist, has exhibited solo and in groups shows locally, is currently a Visual Art PhD Candidate and Sessional Lecturer at Victoria University.

Jim Cuomo. Composer, saxophonist, cineaste. 8-Bit, chamber music, video games, film scores, jazz pieces. Lives in Paris – plays jazz, classical, pop.

Gerwyn Davies is currently studying Photography at QCA, working somewhere between art and fashion with medium format film, focusing upon iconic physical form and its inevitable decomposition.

Jacquelene Drinkall is an artist, theorist and holds a PhD in Art History and Theory. Her ongoing Weatherman UFOlogy project has previously shown at Firstdraft, Sydney, and Kings ARI, Melbourne.

Penny Duff is a writer and sound artist from New York, exploring ways that sound can be used to create new forms of communal life.

Keegan Eastcott is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. His research is an exploration of hope and impossible ideals in human thought and action.

Michael Farrell is a PhD student at Melbourne University. He has published 3 books of poetry: ode ode (Salt), BREAK ME OUCH – a cartoon book (3 Deep), and a raiders guide (Giramondo).

Meredith Godley is a performance artist who is currently studying a Doctorate of Creative Art at Curtin University. She has exhibited her work locally and nationally.

Britt Guy thinks all the time. She often thinks about aesthetics, community development and arts and educational outreach. She has used her thoughts to work on programming/producing festivals, and currently she works in Logan as the Youth Outreach Librarian.

Jennifer Hamilton. Now: PhD. School: CoFA and UNSW. Work: Lecturer and tutor at UNSW. Like: bike riding and reading.

Stu Hatton is a Melbourne-based poet, blogger and freelancer who teaches creative writing at Deakin University. He has a book-in-progress entitled How to be hungry.
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Ignorance Collective is a group of researchers, academics, students and practitioners who take as their starting point the belief that the function of art is to make people aware of their ignorance. Ignorance Collective comprises Prof Jen Webb, Sarah St Vincent Welch, Paul Collis, Dr Kavita Nandan, Dr Jordan Williams and Dr Paul Magee.

Jill Jones’ most recent books are: Broken/Open; Fold Unfold, poems written in response to paintings; and a ‘tiny’ handwritten book, Speak Which.

Patrick Jones is a writer, artist and permaculturalist who makes books, films, music, gardens and graphic essays based on ecology and the arts. (See photo above under Artist as Family)

Dion Kagan is: academic researcher of no great distinction moonlighting as arts-scene whore seeks role in independent, community-based publishing organisation as post-millennial freelance editor critic.

Currently crawling her way through a uni course, Hannah Kinlyside is a bit of a smartarse. She doesn’t make art, she just fucks around enough to get by.

Elena Knox works across theatre, video, fine art, sound, text, theory and performance. Her writing is published in Australia, USA, UK and New Zealand.

Emma Konnaris is a young artist operating out of a too-small studio. When she’s not creating art, she’s subtly force-feeding friends and family members.

Fiona Lee is a visual artist currently studying Honours in Fine Art at Newcastle University. Confessed lover of bricks.

Marianna Leishman (aka Zahra Stardust) is a pole dancing instructor, trapeze artist, feminist activist, writer and lawyer, and is writing her thesis on political activism, gender subversion and feminism in erotic performance. www.zahra.org.au

Astrid Lorange was co-director of Critical Animals in 2008. She is writing a PhD on the poetics of Gertrude Stein, and working on a new media poetry collaboration, ‘Geometries of Attention,’ to be exhibited in early 2010.

MEAT is a Hunter-based emerging artist collective devoted to ignoring, breaking and disregarding normal constructs and confines. They are Todd Fuller, Amy Hill, Ell O’Connor, Aksara Harriram and Mel Chalker.

Derek Motion is a fictional being whose patience has outgrown the limitations of the short bio. Nevertheless, he is a poet, a PhD student, and Director of the Booranga Writers’ Centre. www.typingspace.wordpress.com

‘What is the matter!’ cried Jal Nicholl, bouncing into the room. ‘Heavens, what do I see! Julia! Julia! Look up, my life, look up!’

Carly Norman is a writer and critic who thinks words are the most wonderful things in the world. She has a particular interest in the relationship between language and reality.  She likes Rene Girard, Jane Austen, and all kinds of pie.

Ella O’Keefe has made radio for 2SER and The Night Air on ABC Radio National and is completing honours is writing and cultural studies with a thesis on the poetry of Barbara Guest.

Rachel O’Reilly is a writer, editor and curator, currently researching an MA on Aernout Mik, trauma politics and contemporary installation art, and working as a curatorial consultant to MAAP Multimedia Art Asia Pacific. thementalization.wordpress.com

Zephyr Ogden Jones is a seven year old boy who enjoys new adventures, and is one of seventeen students at his school in Central Victoria. He is one third of the Artist as Family. (See photo above under Artist as Family)

Patches are a newly formed artistic duo – Stella McDonald and Anique Vered – delving into multi-disciplinary creativity. They are: lasses, interested, new, curious, multi-taskers, committed, gobsmacked, dreaming.

Mathew Paul is a postgraduate philosopher based at the University of Queensland. He is currently researching the presence and role of Plato in the work of Jacques Derrida.

Maddy Phelan: Zine Master and organiser of events. Fond of Museums. Frequently seen in animal hats. NYWF Zine Coordinator alumni. Co-organiser of Wollongong City Gallery Zine Fair.

Clare Rae photographs herself in strange positions in the name of art. She’s recently been dragging out an honours degree in Fine Art at RMIT. (See photo above under Victoria Bennett)

Narinda Reeders is a media artist and web developer with a interest in the blurry boundary between public and private.

Aden Rolfe is a Melbourne-based writer, curator and radiomaker whose work traverses poetry, collage and cultural studies. He is interested in crows, memory and poetics.

Joel Scott completed Honours in Writing and Cultural Studies at UTS in 2007, which now seems like a long time ago. He is a prospective PhD candidate in translation studies.

Lou Smith is in the midst of a creative writing PhD. She also makes radio and plays in the soon-to-be-famous Suzanne Grae and the Katies.

Tai Snaith is an artist, curator and recently a producer at Next Wave. She has just returned from an Australia Council residency in Tokyo. www.taisnaith.com

Meg Ulman is a writer, blogger and teacher who is currently undertaking a book project on the issues of the modern day stepmother. She is one third of the Artist as Family. (See photo above under Artist as Family)

Nicolas Vogelpoel makes art. He is tired of art that fixes things and people. He wants to know how to make art that is cathartic.

Lyndal Walker is an artist and sometimes curator who talks too much in class. With The Hotham Street Ladies she bombs the streets of Melbourne with confectionery. (See photo above under Victoria Bennett)

What Makes Men Blush (Emma Maye Gibson and Charlotte Farrell) is a performance collective that has hijacked Burlesque as a form to exercise boundaries, expectations, stereotypes and injustice.

James Willoughby is a 21 year old honours student in Creative Writing. His undergraduate degree was focused on Philosophy, in which he had modest success.