Sydney's most talented and exciting artists have donated their work. The first set were auctioned off at the MCA on Friday July 3.

But if you weren't able to make it, there's some bonus items that you can now bid for online.

Supported by Unwired, sponsor of FBi

Nicolas Bouf - Luna Park Sydney

Nicolas Bouf was born in France and raised in Brazil and Taiwan. He completed his BFA at New York’s Pratt Institute. Since he began exhibiting at the age of 17, he has taken part in group or solo shows in Taiwan, the United States, France and Australia, including the prestigious Salon D’Automne in Paris. His paintings, sculptures and other works feature in private collections in Europe, Asia, the United States and Australia. Nicolas moved to Sydney 10 years ago and now lives in the Inner West with his Australian wife, two baby daughters, a blue heeler and an earless cat.

He has particpated in both solo and group exhibits everywhere from Sydney to New York to Taiwan to France.

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Cybele Malinowski Print - Pnau

One of Sydney's bright young stars, Cybele Malinowski, captures the hottest of hot, Pnau.

ABOUT CYBELE MALINOWSKI:
After studying architecture, Cybele Malinowski turned her eye to photography, realising she wanted to photograph the world, not design it. It has been 5 years since she made the switch and at just 27 she has photographed almost every rocker, folk singer and skinny legged jean band in the country. Planting her feet firmly on her home soil she is fast becoming one of Australia's prominent music and fashion photographers.

bangbangdot.com
bluemurderstudios.com.au

Dimensions are 140 x 100 mounted (ex frame). The item is framed.

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Cybele Malinowski Print - Josh Pyke

One of Sydney's bright young stars, Cybele Malinowski, captures the quirky and charming, Josh Pyke.

ABOUT CYBELE MALINOWSKI:
After studying architecture, Cybele Malinowski turned her eye to photography, realising she wanted to photograph the world, not design it. It has been 5 years since she made the switch and at just 27 she has photographed almost every rocker, folk singer and skinny legged jean band in the country. Planting her feet firmly on her home soil she is fast becoming one of Australia's prominent music and fashion photographers.

bangbangdot.com
bluemurderstudios.com.au

Dimensions are 140 x 100 mounted (ex frame). The item is framed.

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Das Monk Pack (3 hoodies and 3 T Shirts)

Das Monk is a boutique Australian t-shirt label, which was launched in 2007 by Sydney local Marc Hendrick. The label draws upon various inspirations from the worlds of art, music, film and pop culture - everything from MC Escher to David Lynch to PAM and The Pixies. The distinctness of Das Monk’s prints stem from the contrast of the everyday with the exotic, the outlandish, the sinister, and the irreverent. It is this fascination with the bizarre and unexpected that attracts new followers around the globe with every collection. This summer alone, Das Monk’s tees were hanging from the torsos of the music industry’s hippest, including MGMT, TV on the Radio, Lupe Fiasco, A-Trak and Justice.

Das Monk is now stocked in over 30 leading fashion stores throughout Australia, USA, Canada and New Zealand. It has also recently joined the Grand Social hub of online fashion stores, alongside Australian favourites Chronicles of Never, myPetsQuare, Nathan Smith and E L L E R Y, cementing Das Monk's reputation as one of the most exciting labels in the country. 2009 sees Das Monk continue to evolve as a creative and innovative force by collaborating with international artists Zach Johnsen (US), Tim Laing (UK), Evan Meister (US), and Keenan Marshall Keller (US) for its latest collection.

dasmonk.com

The photo shows the three correct hoodies and three t shirts from the site - the t shirts in the hamper are not the same as those displayed in the pictures.

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RON ADAMS

Ron Adams is a Sydney based artist. He has shown at Blacktown Arts Centre, Rubyayre, Blaugrau, Firstdraft Gallery, Peloton, Kaliman Gallery, Sherman Galleries, James Dorahy Project Space, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Nationally he has shown at Bus, Melbourne, Downtown, Adelaide, Inflight, Hobart, TCB, Melbourne and internationally at Raid Projects, LA, Heble 121, Basil and The Armoury Show, New York. He founded the artist- run initiative MOP Projects in 2003, with George Adams, where they curate a vibrant program of exhibitions.

mop.org.au

DAN ASKILL

Born in Sydney in 1977, Daniel works internationally as a filmmaker and artist. As a director Daniel has created film, video installations, music videos and commercials. His background in music also lead to the release of his first album as composer/producer at 19, while also designing record sleeves and multi media projects. Daniel's work has been featured in publications including SCREEN INTERNATIONAL, DAZED & CONFUSED, ART PRESS, RES and the NEW YORK TIMES. His first music video was nominated at the MTV VMAs and he has since completed videos for artists such as U.N.K.L.E, SIA, PLACEBO, DIGITALISM & PHOENIX. His recent commercial work has included directing global campaigns for CADILLAC, AIRFRACE, X BOX and CHRISTIAN DIOR and his personal work has been exhibited in shows in Europe, Australia and America.

danielaskill.com

URI AUERBACH

uriauerbach.com

PERRAN COSTI

Perran Costi started exhibiting in 2006 and has, since then, participated in over 20 exhibitions in Australia, been awarded a grant to travel to Europe and exhibited in Milan. He has won several art prizes including the Art Gallery of NSW - Basil & Muriel Hooper Scholarship 08 and the Small Works 08 - Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne. In 2008 he was nominated for Best New Artist at the FBI Radio and Time Out Sydney Music Arts & Culture Awards and was chosen at Art Sydney as one of the best buys under $1000. Perran has also been commissioned to create a number of site specific artworks in places including the Telstra Plaza King Street Newtown, Sydney Olympic Park and Tamarama. Perran is currently studying a BFA in Sculpture at COFA and sits on the Board of the Kudos Gallery, Paddington.

www.perrancosti.com

DAS MONK

Das Monk is a boutique Australian t-shirt label, which was launched in 2007 by Sydney local Marc Hendrick. The label draws upon various inspirations from the worlds of art, music, film and pop culture - everything from MC Escher to David Lynch to PAM and The Pixies. The distinctness of Das Monk’s prints stem from the contrast of the everyday with the exotic, the outlandish, the sinister, and the irreverent. It is this fascination with the bizarre and unexpected that attracts new followers around the globe with every collection. This summer alone, Das Monk’s tees were hanging from the torsos of the music industry’s hippest, including MGMT, TV on the Radio, Lupe Fiasco, A-Trak and Justice.

Das Monk is now stocked in over 30 leading fashion stores throughout Australia, USA, Canada and New Zealand. It has also recently joined the Grand Social hub of online fashion stores, alongside Australian favourites Chronicles of Never, myPetsQuare, Nathan Smith and E L L E R Y, cementing Das Monk's reputation as one of the most exciting labels in the country. 2009 sees Das Monk continue to evolve as a creative and innovative force by collaborating with international artists Zach Johnsen (US), Tim Laing (UK), Evan Meister (US), and Keenan Marshall Keller (US) for its latest collection.

dasmonk.com

MARLEY DAWSON

Marley Dawson was born in Wellington, NSW in 1982, he completed a Masters degree in Visual Arts at the University of Sydney in 2008. Marley has a varied practice covering sculpture, performance, installation and video.

He has held solo exhibitions: Trick Shop at Locksmith Project Space, Sydney (2009); Untitled (shed) at Chalkhorse Gallery, Sydney (2008); Geronimo Wells end at Grantpirrie, Sydney (2008); ECR (a collaboration with Christopher Hanrahan) Performance Space (2008); and She’s not structural, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery (2007).

He has also exhibited in group shows such as: The Horn of Plenty. Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2009), Batteries Not Included Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2009); Looking out, Macquarie University, Sydney (2008);Oblivion Pavilion at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2008); The Antipodies Project, Pointe Ephemere, Paris (2006), and New 06, (as collaborative group, Makeshift) ACCA, Melbourne (2006).

He currently lives and works in Sydney.

roslynoxley9.com.au

MARK DREW

Mark is the manager and co-founder of China Heights gallery. Outside of the gallery, he works as a freelance graphic designer, under the studio name of Making Ends. After being in around 40 group art shows over the past 10 years, he had his first solo exhibition in 2008, 'C-90', which involved large scale illustrations of cassette tape spines, and subsequently every piece sold. The 31 year old Surry Hills resident is regularly involved in the local community, both as an artist, and behind the scenes installing exhibitions. His love of photocopiers is quite public.

www.chinaheights.com

LEAH FRASER

Leah Fraser is an artist currently living and working in Sydney. "I studied at the College of Fine Arts in Paddington and has been a practicing artist for the three years since graduation. In general, my aim is to create worlds informed by the imagery of folklore and primitivism, merging imagination and magic with the beauty of realism and nature. I like to incorporate a series of metaphors in my work. I tend to focus on portraiture, but here animals and nature are interchangeable with human qualities. For me, my portraits represent something close to childhood, dreams, nighttime and wilderness: symbols of what it is to feel fully alive, to feel wild. These heightened states are woven in with themes of mysticism and magic. In this way I attempt to merge reality with the subconscious so that we encounter dream-like subjects."

MARK GERADA

Mark Gerada is an Australian painter, illustrator and teacher with a background in architecture, ceramics and design. He has worked as an architectural designer and as a designer on a leading magazine, Interior Architecture, before graduating in Architecture with first class honours at the University of Technology, Sydney in 1993. He has exhibited work in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Brussels and China, and in June 2007 had his Generation solo show in Malta. Last year Mark had his fifteenth solo show Mounds and Caves, curated 888 to coincide with the Beijing Olympics, and in June this year curated 649 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.

markgerada.net

GINNY & JUDE

Inspired by two fictional characters conjured up by Sydney designer Rabia Lockwood, Ginny & Jude's Emporium was born with the aim to create statement pieces for the perennially overdressed. A signature range of feathered headwear is complemented by smaller seasonally inspired ranges of jewellery, belts, knitwear and other assorted knick-knackery. Their distinctly unique fashion accessories are constructed from a carefully selected combination of new and vintage materials. Each handcrafted piece is imbued with a rich world history; millinery trim from early 1900s Europe, vintage glass and Bakelite buttons, French mohair, knitted ties from 1960s England and monocles originally used in 1800s America – to name a few.

myspace.com/ginnyandjudes

GREEDY HEN

Greedy Hen make sights for sore eyes, Art, record covers, books, tour posters, occasionally music film clips, and other monstrosities. "Their work is like the accidental joy of seeing the strings AND the hands in a puppet show" - Steak Mountain.

Greedy Hen is an Art collective / studio, housing the collaborative works of Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell, self-described as story tellers, illustrators, Artists, collectors, bookmakers, explorers and adventurers. Greedy Hen devise projects intent on creating images alluding to a playful black humor, unwritten fables, or subtle off- kilter sinister elements lurking amongst a kinderesqe beauty.

greedyhen.com

CLEMENS HABICHT

Clemens Habicht works as an illustrator, graphic designer and as a director of music videos. His clients include the Bulletin Magazine and Good Weekend Magazine Australia, Creative Review Magazine London, Res Magazine New York, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Virgin Records, Paris, Shitkatapult Musik, Berlin, Island Records, XL Recordings, Domino, and Leaf Records, London, MTV Australia and the Australian Museum, Sydney. In 2006, Clemens won the illustration award of the Creative Review Creative Futures. He graduated from University of Technology, Sydney, with a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication (First Class Honours) in 2000. He has taught illustration and typography as part of the Visual Communication program at the University of Technology, Sydney and the Bauhaus School in Weimar. Habicht is represented as a director by Collider in Australia and Nexus Productions in London and for illustration by the Jacky Winter Group.

He lives and works in Paris.

clemenshabicht.com

JAMES GULLIVER HANCOCK

James is an international artist that crosses as many mediums as he does borders. James is constantly on the move, having been involved in artist projects and residencies in Indonesia, Austria, France, the U.K. and America. He is currently located in Los Angeles and works on projects in Europe, America and Australia. His work is as varied as his travels, encompassing editorial illustration for magazines, commissions for music group artwork and animations, working with intellectually disabled children on logo designs, to gigantic set illustrations for performances, and animations for TV, not to mention his continual personal art practice.

jamesgulliverhancock.com

CHRISTOPHER HANRAHAN

Born 1978, Mudgee, Australia. Lives and works in Sydney.

Christopher Hanrahan makes sculptures out of a whole lot of nothing: holes, light, empty vessels, transparent containers, crudely built structures that parade their rudimentary construction and purloined texts that allude to stillness, emptiness and the impossible pursuit of perfection.

Exhibitions include: "ECR" (with Marley Dawson) Perfomance Space, Sydney 2008; "MAN" Pernith Regional Art Gallery, Sydney 2008; "Looking Out" Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney 2008; "Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship" Artspace, Sydney 2004.

http://www.sarahcottiergallery.com

SAMUEL HODGE

“Hodge’s photos seem to come into being on a different clock, a schedule both at odds with his day-to-day life and firmly embedded within it. The camera, often, isn’t even there. It’s not in his bag, nor is it slung over his shoulder. Recently, on a spontaneous combustion trip to Melbourne, a few of us, his friends, noticed the camera at his feet one afternoon. I didn’t see it again. That’s partly why the photographs he takes are so compelling. Often, they’re very casual, a snapshot of twilight outside a window, and then another snapshot of twilight outside the same window, and another and another. Within the context of the rest of his work, one wonders if there’s another man in the apartment behind Samuel – his feet sticking out of a blanket perhaps, or a girl making tea or petting a small dog. The photos drift in and out of each frame, a rambling life caught up in a moment of stability.” – Kate Jinx

truth-beauty-cock.blogspot.com

LOCUST JONES

Locust Jones has been printmaking and drawing for 12 years. He produces woodcuts , paintings, lithographs and etchings. He was recently featured in the MCA 'I Walk The Line: New Australian Drawing" exhibition. He has exhibited across Australia and internationally, including New Zealand, Brooklyn, Beirut, Sonta Monica and Mumbai. His works are held in a number of public collections, Art Bank, Australia, University of Wollongong, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand, Christchurch Centre of Contemporary Arts, and the James Wallace Collection, Auckland, New Zealand.

www.locustjones.com

DEBORAH KELLY

Deborah Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown in streets, skies and galleries around Australia, in the Singapore and Venice Biennales, and elsewhere. Her photomontages investigate female agency, complicity and representation. She is a founding member of the art gang boat-people.org, who have been making public work around race, nation, borders and history since 2001. Most recently, she instigated a distributed participatory memorial for the Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June 2009, which happened in 20 cities and country towns around the world. She has a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia until 19 July.

Deborah is represented by Gallery Barry Keldoulis

http://www.gbk.com.au/

THE KINGPINS VS FBI

The Kingpins are Angelica Mesiti (b.1976), Técha Noble (b.1977), Emma Price (b.1975) and Katie Price (b.1978).

Forming in 2000 to participate in a Sydney nightclub drag-king competition DKSY, the Kingpins took out the title with a collaboration that has continued within the nightclub, the gallery, the museum and the street.

The Kingpins are a collective of four women whose shared creative practice is articulated through a process of critiques and drag actions. Within the tradition of drag, vehicles of performance and humour are employed as a critical tool to engage complex social, political and sexual territory. By utilising notions of drag as both a way of intervening with and reframing (and symbolically claiming) specific sites, they link drag performance with architecture and public space, imparting new readings and abstract mythologies to elected environments.

A free play of aesthetics, style codes, gender and pop-cultural dress ups are used within a conceptual framework to provide a critical, sometimes humorous, other times horrific discourse between the constructs of identity, and its surrounding landscape of the political and the poetic. Their installations create multi-faceted video clips that unfold into invented worlds of performative interventions and sculptural landscapes. Their live performance returns the video clip to the stage, reconfiguring horror, costume and choreography into multiple musical fabulations.

Performance, video and installation are combined with photography, fashion, graphic and sound design to bring to life a practice within the tradition of drag and beyond, with creations ranging from nightclub performance, gallery exhibitions, collaborative projects, museum commissions and public interventions.

The Kingpins have performed and exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and are represented by Kaliman Gallery, Sydney.

thekingpins.joshraymond.com
www.kalimangallery.com

JASPER KNIGHT

Jasper Knight is Sydney based artist. In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 he has been an Archibald Finalist. He is the co-founder of Chalk Horse Gallery in Sydney. Jasper’s work was a finalist in the Archibald prize. He was also exhibited in the Wynne Prize in 2005 and 2006. He was awarded an Australia Council New Work grant, the Freedman Foundation Scholarship and the Rocks Art Prize in 2006. He has also been a finalist in the Blake Prize, The ABN-Amro Prize, The Mosman Art Prize, The Helen lempriere Prize and the Brett Whiteley Prize. He has shown in and organized exhibitions in numerous venues, including every major artist-run space in Sydney. He started the Half Dozen Artist-run Initiative in 2004 and it has since shown over 150 artists in four countries. In 2007 he opened Chalk Horse gallery with the generous support of the Australia Council and the City of Sydney. He’s had over 17 solo shows across the world including in London, Manila, Melbourne and Sydney and 15 group shows across the world including in China, Berlin and the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. His work is held in a number of private and government collections.

jasperknight.com

Chalkhorse.com.au

ELKE KRAMER

Illustrator, art director, and jewellry designer, Elke Kramer brings a vast reservoir of creativity, adaptability, and technical ability to all of her projects. Based in Sydney, she has art directed her own art & fashion zine (lilacmenace), collaborated with local fashion designers including Mala Brajkovic (branding & yardage prints) and Jessie Hill (jewellry & yardages), and provided illustrations and art direction to a number of international publications: Russh,Yen, Nylon, Dazed and Confused Japan. Her jewelery can be found in some of the worlds best stores such as Colette (Paris), Liberty (London) and Opening Ceremony (NY,LA & Tokyo).

elkekramer.com

ANTHONY LISTER

Australian artist Anthony Lister (b.1980) has experienced a rapid ascension to the heights of success. Having graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Lister promptly moved to New York to complete a mentorship with the artist Max Gimblett. From here, Lister’s work and profile quickly developed with international recognition.

Now permanently based in New York, Lister’s time is spent traveling and exhibiting around the globe with continued sell out success. His paintings, drawings and sculptures confront and discuss contemporary issues of pop culture, media saturation, the highs and lows of a modern and ever changing world. It is his astute observations of living combined with an innovative, refreshed and highly individualized technique that makes his works so appealing. He pulls on the parts of life that both inspire and daunt us, that appeal to our desire for fantasy and the ever media-nurtured human condition of ‘wanting more’.

As much a participant as he is a spectator, Lister utilizes all forms of communication from youtube through to his work in the streets right through to the gallery walls. Opening the discussion rather than offering a resolution Lister explains, "I am not trying to change the world... I am just reacting to a world that is trying to change me".

www.anthonylister.com

SIMON LOVELACE

Simon Lovelace is an English born artist who's prolific output includes painting, photography, scrren printing and music production.

His works often recontextualise erotic themes using pop art inspired images that both challenge and confront.

From his studio in the Surry Hills area of Sydney he rns blank_space gallery and the new clothing label superficial_moi.

Lovelace exhibits both locally and internationally and his works are in private collections worldwide.

www.simonlovelace.com

CYBELE MALINOWSKI

After studying architecture, Cybele Malinowski turned her eye to photography, realising she wanted to photograph the world, not design it. It has been 5 years since she made the switch and at just 27 she has photographed almost every rocker, folk singer and skinny legged jean band in the country. Planting her feet firmly on her home soil she is fast becoming one of Australia's prominent music and fashion photographers.

bangbangdot.com

bluemurderstudios.com.au

TARA MARYNOWSKY

Tara Marynowsky is a Sydney based artist. Her work ranges from watercolour paintings to video art. She was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Helen Lempriere Award, exhibiting her watercolour series ‘Tales’. Most recently her video work ‘I Really Know What You’ve Done To Me’ was selected as part of the Hors Pistes [Off Tracks] 2009 Festival at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

chalkhorse.com.au

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TODD MCMILLAN

McMillan was born in Balmain Hospital for Women and studied art first at The Australian Catholic University from 1997‐2000 and later at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. His first solo show was in 2004. During 2004 McMillan Co‐Directed the artist run gallery Francis Baker‐Smith with Christopher Hanrahan. During 2006 McMillan held his first solo commercial exhibition at Grantpirrie. The work exhibited in this exhibition was awarded the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship and in the same year McMillan first exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney. In 2007 the work By the Sea was purchased by the MCA Sydney.

McMillan has since exhibited across Australia and internationally including Rising Tide at the Museum of Contemporary art, San Diego and Roving Eye at Rebecca Hossack Gallery London.

grantpirrie.com

JULIAN MEAGHER

Julian Meagher is a Sydney based artist. Four years ago he left a career in medicine to paint full time and now shows regularly in Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong. His works are mainly concerned with the tattooed body surface. He has studied at Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy, and portraiture remains a large part of his practice. In 2008 he was a recipient of the Australia Council Emerging Artist New Work Grant and was also selected into Artbank. He is a three time finalist in The Salon Des Refuses and has also been a finalist in the Doug Moran Portrait prize and the Metro 5 Art Prize.

chalkhorse.com.au

TIM MOORE

Tim Moore studied and practised as a Jewellery designer in Brighton, England. He now lives in Sydney.

chalkhorse.com.au

KRIS MOYES

Kris Moyes is a Sydney based artist and film director, perhaps best known for his direction of videos for The Presets [My People/Are You The One], SIA [Buttons/the Girl You Lost to Cocaine], Beck [Youthless] and Hercules and Love Affair [You Belong]

kmoyes.com

MS. & MR

Ms. & Mr. is the cumulative dialogue between Stephanie and Richard nova Milne that has spanned the years since they met in 1998. Interested by the relational mechanics of functioning as a composite, they acknowledge this pursuit as a romantic proposition. Important is their admission to, and misappropriation of scientific theories that remain in the realm of practical fiction. The artists have mined family archives of VHS cassettes, photos and drawings that document their respective childhoods. They transform these materials, often inserting themselves into each other's documented 'memories', artificially extending the length of the couple's shared history in an attempt to create relational scenarios otherwise impossible. Ms. & Mr. are currently undertaking their Master of Fine Arts by research at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, and have recently returned from Paris after a 3 month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts.

msandmr.net

MEL O’CALLAGHAN

Born 1975, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney and Paris (FR)
O'Callaghan produces video and sculptural installations where exercises in space, movement and form evoke alternate worlds, potential realities and parallel environments. The work challenges our perception of the way we interact with our surroundings, highlighting the unstoppable and far-reaching change inherent in every element of human existence and the natural world (molecular, planetary, psychological). Underpinned by sophisticated formal qualities and O'Callaghan's training in architecture, the art offers experiences of spatial systems where matter is always fragile and its behaviour is always uncertain. Eschewing the traditional practice of engaging with an idea, medium or form before 'advancing' on to another, O'Callaghan views her entire practice as interconnected. Video is often exhibited as sculpture; subjects in video are treated in a sculptural manner.

www.grantpirrie.com

KATE ROHDE

Kate Rohde was born in 1980 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts with Honours in 2001. The Melbourne based sculptor and installation artist creates opulent investigations into faux-taxidermy and Rococo styled vitrines. Inspired by the human inclination to control and document nature, Rohde’s exhibits look to the manicured gardens of Versailles, museum dioramas and nineteenth century style exoticism. She has held solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions since 2000, including Flourish at Tarrawarra Museum, Victoria (2008) and Some Kind of Empire, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2006). Her work features in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

katerohde.com

JOAN ROSS

Recent solo exhibitions include Come a little closer, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2008, The knitted brow, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2007. Selected group shows, the wonderful Lines in The Sand at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery 2008, Woollhahra Small Sculpture Prize 2008, National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Pensinsula Regional Gallery Vic 2008 , Beastly at MOP projects 2008 and Trees for Children, a fundraising xmas tree for the Sydney Childrens Hospital in collaboration with Malcolm Turnbull 2008, CURRENT, Sculpture projects in the River City, Parramatta Riverside2007 and THE YEAR IN ART 2007, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney. Last year Joan was in Vogue as 5 women artists to watch in 2008.

Joan was recently a ‘sitter’ in a portrait in the Archibald Prize at Art Gallery of New South Wales,. The portrait “Heiress”, features Joan wearing her artwork “They came and took whatever they wanted without regard”, a kangaroo fur Victorian ball gown, painted by Mathew Lynn

In 2005 Ross won the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Ross is collected privately and by National Gallery of Australia, University of Sydney, Gold Coast Regional Gallery and Artbank.

Joan Ross is represented by Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney

WORK DETAILS:
I held up a flag but he still didn't get it
ink and mixed media on paper
27 x 38 cm
unframed
www.gbk.com.au/artists/joan-ross

KOJI RYUI

Is a Sydney based sculptural installation artist. He was featured in the MCA’s prestigious Primavera exhibition in 2006.

sarahcottiergallery.com

HANA SHIMADA

Over the last decade, Hana Shimada has exhibited and worked in Japan and Australia. She continues a design practice that focuses on the production of logos, record sleeves and posters.

She has worked with artists and projects including The Bon Scott Project (FAC), Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discoteque,Marrickville Jelly Wrestling Federation (MJWF), Great Antonio Pro-Wrestling store (Tokyo), The Poetry of Sex (Tokyo),Jimmy Sing’s Record Stand, Bang Gang 12 Inches, Architecture In Helsinki and Hard Party. www.hanamizushow.com

SUMUGAN SIVANESAN

SUMUGAN SIVANESAN maintains an unorthodox practice across installation, sound and video. Often working collaboratively, he is broadly concerned with issues of identity, nationalism and cultural exchange in a networked and globalised world. He has exhibited at events such as Transit Lounge (Berlin/Australia, 2006 & 2008), Transmediale (Germany 2006), Videobrasil (Brasil 2005), Gang (Indonesia/Australia 2005), Electrofringe (Australia 2003), Abstraction Now (Vienna 2003), New Forms (Canada 2003), The International Symposium for Electronic Art (Japan 2002), d>ART (Australia 2002 & 2004), Liquid Architecture (Australia 2002 & 2004 - 05), Experimenta (Australia 2001).

sivanesan.com

GEMMA SMITH

Gemma Smith is a Sydney based artist. She was featured a Primavera artist at the MCA in 2008.

sarahcottiergallery.com

KEVINA-JO SMITH

Kevina-Jo Smith is fascinated by the idea of the Tree of Life, in the scientific sense: as a protective canopy which shelters, protects and nourishes. Her latest solo exhibition, Stay Close, I Will Never Fail You, weaves nostalgia, escapism, discovery and utopia through representations of Australian flora and fauna. Texture and detail are of principal importance in her works, which are painstakingly handmade through various processes – including knitting, weaving, braiding, knotting, drawing, painting, carving, and machine and hand sewing. Smith’s work has been exhibited widely in both group and solo shows. She recently founded ‘Brethren Just Below’ studios: a Sydney-based collective of artists, designers, writers, photographers and musicians.

kevinajosmith.com
b-j-b.blogspot.com

BENJAMIN STORRIER

Benjamin has had a varied career, from working in a panel beating shop whilst at school, through jobs in the film industry and IT before settling in photography. Working mostly in the arena of travel and lifestyle, his images have appeared in magazines such as Conde Nast Traveller UK, Architectural Digest, Oyster Mag and Vogue Living. He has exhibited in a number of group shows at Sherman Galleries, Half Dozen and Knot gallery - and has collaborated with many other artists, including Oliver Watts, Mel O'Callaghan and Tim Storrier.

In 2007, Storrier exhibited his first solo show - Drawn To The Light at Chalk Horse gallery in Sydney. The images at the MCA for FBI's Still Life Exhibition/Auction are from this show.

ANDREW VAN DER WESTHUYZEN

Designer/Director and co-founder of Sydney based design and film collective Collider, Andrew van der Westhuyzen covers a broad spectrum of creative fields. His role as creative director for Collider has seen him conceptually helm many campaigns for local and international clients such as MTV Australia, Nestle, BMW, Target, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney Dance Company, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Australian Tourism, Ministry of Sound and Toyota. His projects cover a multitude of media from typography for prnt campaigns to animation direction, branding, art direction and web. Van der Westhuyzen’s creative process comes from a strong adherence to his personal techniques and his classical principles for strong, idea-oriented design.

collider.com.au

cabalproject.com

OLIVER WATTS

Oliver Watts is one of the four Directors of Sydney contemporary art gallery, Chalk Horse. He is a practicing artist who has shown in Australia and Asia. Watts is an illustrator and founding member of the Chaser satirical group; his cartoons are held in the National Museum of Australia.

chalkhorse.com.au

WEBUYYOURKIDS

Webuyyourkids is Sonny Day & Biddy Maroney. They live and work in Sydney, Australia. Newtown, King St, to be exact. They began working together in 2006, making screen-printed tour posters for Popfrenzy Records and have expanded to make artwork for many posters, albums, tshirts, magazines, the internet, the telly and the magic of YouTube. And a Jeep. And a beer bottle. They have previously had solo shows in Melbourne's Lamington Drive, Crate59 in Cairns and Sydney's MTV Gallery as well as taking part in group exhibitions at China Heights, aMBUSH, Palmer Projects and Monster Children Gallery in Sydney, Gorker Gallery and Robio in Melbourne, Nine Lives and The Outpost in Brisbane, The Centre of Contemporary Arts in Christchurch, Cosh in London and Vallery in Barcelona. As a duo they have bonded over mutual interests in the imagery of witchcraft, shamanism, and voodoo, combining their respective interests in Doom Metal, cult Horror movie posters and Edwardian Gothic. They really like cats.

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EMMA WHITE

Emma White graduated with a Masters of Visual Art from Sydney College of the Arts in 2008, and has exhibited widely both locally and around Australia. Her practice spans the disciplines of sculpture, installation, photography, video, drawing and writing. Her work has most recently been seen in the exhibitions Blank Media at the MOP, Under Stars at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Making Sense at Craft Victoria,Group Show at Breenspace, and in the 2008 Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship exhibition at Artspace.

TRENT WHITEHEAD

Trent Whitehead is known as a painter / sculptor. He was born in 1980 in a small surf town north of Sydney, Australia. He now works out of his studio in Sydney where he works predominantly in ink and acrylic on wood. Trent Whitehead’s latest body of work centers around a series of hand crafted 3d wooden masks. Each character seems about to burst with some intense expression of anger, frustration or joie de vivre. The intensity of the masks captures the effervescence of the artist himself, pooling the experiences of his existence to breathe life into inanimate wood, like a vagabond Giuseppi to a badass Pinocchio. Trent's exquisitely patterned and narrative works explore the effects of extinction in a fantastical world of horned creatures and bearded villains.

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EDWARD WOODLEY

Edward Woodley is a Sydney based artist. He is the co-founder and curator of the China Heights gallery, and has curated over 150 exhibitions. The China Heights gallery was established in early 2004; exhibiting both local and international artist, the gallery takes a focus on emerging, and established creatives alike. Outside of the gallery, Woodley has participated in; over 30 group shows, 3 collaboration shows (with Michael Sharp, and Kill Pixie), and produced 6 sell-out solo exhibitions.

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OZZIE WRIGHT

Ok this is my bio...my name is Oscar Billy Wright aka Ozzie wrong, I’m into surfing which is what I’ve managed to make a living out of as a proffesional free surfer which has allowed me lots of travel and opportunity to continue my art. I’ve been drawing and painting and making things since I was a kid, And have exhibited my work in quite a few cool places london, france, japan the u.s.a and sydney , I’m also into rock n roll and am a member of notorious nuisance band Goons of doom.