Kubota Fumikazu is a Melbourne-based artist. His practice involves painting and drawing, and his works feature precise and finely calculated geometric shapes. In his paintings he uses colourful combinations of simple forms to portray a sense of unity. The worlds created in his paintings are an antidote to an increasingly accelerating society, with all its isolation, frustration and emptiness that can occur. His drawings are mostly intricate hand drawn forms depicting aspects of the human psyche. The works are intended to serve as a stimulus for a consideration of the similarities between objects and human beings in their relationship to the world we inhabit. He recently completed a Graduate Certificate in Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating with First Class Honours in 2013.

www.kubotafumikazu.com

Tania Smith is a performance artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been performing live and making works for video, solo and collaboratively, for over ten years. Her work is often humorous, sometimes absurd, and always in dialogue with feminist theory and practice. She has trained in performance under composer/dancer Meredith Monk, and received funding for her work from the Australia Council for the Arts, City of Melbourne, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Arts ACT. She has exhibited her work in Serbia, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia and throughout Australia. She recently completed a Master of Fine Art by research at Monash University under the supervision of Professor Anne Marsh.

www.tanialousmith.com

Born in Bridgetown, WA. Lives and works in Melbourne. Aaron Martin has been consistently exhibiting his imagistic paintings, drawing and sculptural installations since 1998, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions across Australia. He has twice been a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize and a finalist in the Paul Guest Art Prize (2014) and the Churchie Art Prize (2011). He was awarded art residencies at: St Vincents Hospital (2010), Ballilla House, Brighton (2011), Poh Chang University, Bangkok(2013) and Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand (2013).

As an educator, curator and gallerist; Aaron has been and is actively involved in the arts, lecturing in painting and drawing at Melbourne School of Art (2001-06) and Swinburne University (2005-12). He worked as writer, interviewer and creative advisor for ArtInfo.com.au. He has held a seat on the board of Trocadero Art Space (2008-2010) and Vice-President (2010-2015). In 2012 he founded Five Walls Projects where he is the current Director. He is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (by research) at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

www.aaronmartin.com.au

Laurie working full time a sculptor and have been making stuff for years, ever since he did a course at Melbourne State College in Arts and Craft ( B.Ed). he did subjects in painting, drawing, woodcraft, sculpture, printmaking, metal craft, textiles, design, art history , and psychology

Recycled metal sculptures, garden sculptures, junk sculptures, unique furniture, fun metal animals

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Born in South Korea in 1959, Shin Jaedon came to Australia in 2007, after graduating from RMIT University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts has spent his time between Seoul and Melbourne presenting regular exhibitions in both cities.

He is driven by deep compassion for ordinary people who are powerless and never truly free - yet living their lives patiently and stoically as a mere speck at an infinitesimal point in time within the landscape of the long course of history. This is equally true of the subject matter of his paintings as it is of socio-political factors in the Korea nation.

www.shinjaedon.com

Project Coordinator / Curator

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