David studied Sculpture at Edith Cowan University graduating with a BA in 2004. He is currently completing a Masters of Art in Public Space through RMIT. Alongside his solo art practice David has collaborated on performance/installation works for the past 8 years with Korin Gath as d&k being awarded residencies locally, nationally and internationally including an Australia Council studio residency in Tokyo in 2006.

Ian's art practice spans over 25 years and he is experienced with all mediums with water based mediums being his preference. Ian works with inks on rice paper, an influence from his travels to India and China. He works with a process of bleeding inks through layers of rice paper, seeking the layer that says the most with the least and the discovery of accidental marks creating ethereal images of the human form in motion. Prior to his death in 1956 Jackson Pollack explored inks on layers of rice paper which resonate with the artist and he intends to push his own exploration with inks further over the next several years. Ian likes to capture in his works the feeling and subtle expressions of movement and his years of training drawing the human figure enables him to achieve this.

Nicole is an installation artist who works with ephemeral materials such as sugar, confectionary, plastic novelty objects to create her installations. Her work explores notions of momentary happiness, artificial paradise, utopia, child-like wonder and blissful states of being that arise due to our culture of mass consumption. Nicole gained her art degree at Curtin University and completed Honours at the VCA in Melbourne in 2005. She was also the winner of the 2007 Joondalup Acquisitive Art Award, and completed a residency at PICA in 2007. She also collaborates with Tanya Schultz as Pip & Pop.

Paul is an artist working in painting, drawing and print-making who has exhibited extensively both in Australia and overseas. He studied Fine Arts at the Canberra School of Art and undertook postgraduate studies in West Germany and Holland. He has been the recipient of several prestigious scholarships including the German DAAD Scholarship, a Samstag International Scholarship and a four month study grant from the Australia Council to further investigate fresco and installation painting in Florence, Italy.

Tim is an Australian artist who worked in New York from 1976 to 1996 as an artist, film maker and theatre director. His work crosses painting, installation, film and performance. He was awarded an ArtsWA Fellowship in 1999 and received an OZCO Fellowship in 1996. His work has been exhibited in numerous major shows and art institutions, worldwide in Paris, London, New York, at the NGV and the Sydney Biennale. His work is represented in public and private collections internationally.

Jacinda studied art at Otago Art School, New Zealand in 1996 and has exhibited regularly since in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Jacinda paints abstract landscapes of Western Australia using shape, colour and light.

Sarah first graduated from Curtin University in 1991 with a BA in Visual Art majoring in Jewellery and 3D Design. In 1994 she completed a Graduate Diploma of Education, and then in 1999 returned to Curtin and completed a First Class Honours Degree in Art. Elson was awarded the Galerie Dusseldorf Scholarship from the graduate show at John Curtin Gallery and had her first solo show Necromancy at Galerie Dusseldorf in 2001. In 2000 she was the winner of the City of Perth Craft Awards. And in 2002 Elson was the recipient of a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, with which she completed a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art and Design, London. Elson has worked as a Tutor at Curtin University since 1995 in the Department of Art.

Her work has been exhibited in the UK and throughout Australia since 1991.

The professional interests that run through Elson’s work evolve around fluid manual processes that connect the cyclical transference of material to metaphors of growth and renewal.

Elson’s work is held in numerous private collections as well as the collections of John Curtin Gallery and Galerie Dusseldorf.

Francis is a writer with a visual arts and design background. For the past 15 years he has been working as a hybrid artist as a community cultural development artist facilitating projects with marginalized and disenfranchised communities to produce films, plays, performance events, exhibitions and publications showcasing their particular insights into their lives and the world around them.

Anne Irvines current art practice has largely been influenced by her time working as a doctor, and painting in the Kimberly and Gascoyne regions. She is also influenced by Aboriginal art, and her work explores the inner world of humans; the emotional, psychological and spiritual worlds. Anne studied art at Curtin and has exhibited locally since 1982.

Chris studied art at Curtin University and since has lived and painted in New York for 13 years. In that time he also worked as an Art Director and Production Designer for music videos, commercials and independent films. Chris’s work is held in collections at Curtin University, ECU and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and is currently represented by Pierogi 2000 Flat Files Gallery, Brooklyn. Chris’s painting is about “creating visual environments to provide the viewer a means to engage in continuous free association in the interpretation of the subject and the viewing experience”.

Carol has lived and worked in New York for over 25 years and has divided her time between Australia and the States since 1990. She has spent much of the last 16 years designing and creating sets for film, television and print, while simultaneously maintaining a studio discipline. Carol works between paint and wall sculptures using recycled packaging, and is working towards show solo shows in Australia and New York in 2008.

A design graduate of the Perth Metropolitan School of Art and Design in 1991, Rachel Coad then spent nine years as an artist at WA Newspapers before commencing a full time career as a fine artist in 2003. She is currently represented by Perth Galleries and Gunyulgup Galleries. Coad’s work is emotive, with dramatic narratives and often with the subject engaging or connecting with others. The viewer is the observer of this interaction. She chooses her subjects carefully, usually for their strong, luminous presence.

Laurel is an Indigenous woman working in print and paint to tell stories about her family ancestry. Laurel studied art Fremantle TAFE where she won several awards. She has also studied at Curtin University and completed her post graduate studies in 2001. Laurel has exhibited locally in group shows since 1998.

Richard studied Fine Art at W.A.I.T (now Curtin University of Technology) between 1979 and 1981, pursuing post graduate studies initially at The Central School of Art and Design, London in 1988 and then at Curtin University in 1991.

From 1984 through to the present he has had five solo exhibitions at Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth and partaken in numerous group shows including ‘Oddfellows: the essence of contemporary Western Australian Figurative artists’ which toured Australia in 1996-97. He also lectured part-time in art at all the major Perth tertiary institutions since 1982.

Clare is a milliner who recently completed intensive training at Rose Cory Millinery School in London. She also holds a Bachelor of Science from UWA and a Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University. Clare’s designs are influenced by period costumes, and she combines this influence with modern millinery materials to create a contemporary look. During her time at artsource, Clare plans to develop her range of period pieces as well as designing a range of fascinators with a theatrical look.

Tanya graduated with a BA in painting from ECU in 2003. Since then, she has participated in many group shows including New Work New Faces at Perth Galleries, City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, and Fremantle Print Award as well as her solo show Spacelove at Free Range Gallery. Her commissions have included various projects for magazines, shop windows, theatre sets and even a toilet cubicle. Her work is found in King Edward Memorial Hospital and Edith Cowan University collections.

Toogarr first attended University of Western Australia as a mature-age student studying History and Psychology before changing to Visual Arts at Curtin University and Edith Cowen University. Toogarr completed this degree in 2003 and completed a Masters degree in 2005. He has taken a leadership role as Aboriginal Advisor/Consultant in the many historical projects undertaken in Western Australia. In many cases, he has pioneered the incorporation of Aboriginal art and history in public land projects. Toogarr works between painting and sculpture.

Melissa graduated from Curtin University and Technology with a BA of Fashion and Textile Design, gaining recognition for her high academic achievement on the Vice Chancellor’s List in 2004. As in emerging designer she has been involved in the Design for Comfort ‘Paddock to Parade’ project in association with the Department of Agriculture and Food in conjunction with Curtin, creating innovative design solutions to garment comfort in wool. Her collection titled “Additive Principle” was exhibited at the AW17th World Merino Conference held at The Grange, Swan Valley, Style Aid 2006, the Perth Convention Centre and the 2006 Perth Royal Show.

Ben is an emerging abstract painter represented by Goddard De Fiddes and has been recently acquired by Holmes a Court Collection and the Western Australian Art Gallery. Ben is currently working towards completing his fine arts degree from Curtin University and in 2005 was invited to exhibit in Milan with Aborigena.

Alwin was born in Manila, Philippines and studied painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (1981-1985). He has been exhibiting since 1986 and has participated in various national and international exhibitions including Peace Art from Asia: War and Art 1995, Osaka International Peace Centre; Above and Beyond: Austral/Asian Interactions, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and touring (1996).

In 1993 Reamillo formed a collaborative partnership with WA artist Juliet Lea. Their collaborative installations have been included in various international touring exhibitions including Visions of Happiness at The Asia Centre, Tokyo (1995); TransCulture/ La Biennale di Venezia 1995; Traditions/Tensions: Contemporary Art in Asia, Queens Museum of Art, New York and touring (1996-1997); El Individuo Y Su Memoria/ Sixth Havana Biennial (1997), The Edge of Awareness, WHO Headquarters, Geneva and touring (1998-99) and At Home and Abroad, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (1998-99). Reamillo has been a recipient of the Freeman Foundation for Asian Artists Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, USA (1996).

Clare studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, where she also recently completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Animation. She has studied animation in London and completed a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in France in 2004. Claire has exhibited locally and internationally since 1998, and she is currently working with sculptural assemblages.

Peter completed a science education, then commenced painting with surrealism, geometric abstraction big red tubes and finally Chickenman in 1991. A move to Melbourne led to two years of hard edged grid abstraction, then miniature portraiture and then good a few years of still life. A return to Perth in 2002 evolves into a language of metaphysical landscape.

Josh is a writer of fiction, travel non-fiction, and literary journalism. He teaches creative and professional writing within the Department of Communication of Cultural Studies at Curtin University and works part-time as a media advisor to Dr Carmen Lawrence MP.

He has been a frequent contributor to The Australian newspaper since 1995 when he was a finalist in The Australian/QANTAS Young Travel Writer of the Year Award. Since that time his writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals including the Australian Book Review. His experimental travel essay on Dublin and James Joyce (The Twice Dreamed Panther) won the Patricia Hackett Prize for the best piece published in Westerly in 2000.

He has previously been the grateful recipient of an Asialink Writing Residency (India, 1999) and an Emerging Writer’s grant from the Australia Council (2002). The novel he began with the support of that grant is nearly, belatedly complete.

Caitlin has completed a Master of Arts (Visual Arts) at Edith Cowan University. Her work investigates the indeterminate nature of painted abstraction as a language and its metaphorical associations with the body and gender. Her works are concerned with the materiality of paint, engaging with fluidity through the physical processes of pouring. Caitlin has exhibited locally, interstate and internationally including her solo exhibition ‘Pour’ at Fremantle Arts Centre as well as in numerous group exhibitions including ‘Western Australian Contemporary Art’ at Andara Gallery, Jakarta.