Ian's practice has spanned over 25 years. He is experienced in 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. De Souza 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. His work is held in private and corporate collections worldwide.

Nicole is an installation artist who works with ephemeral materials such as sugar, confectionary and 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. While maintaining a solo practice, Nicole also collaborates with Tanya Schultz as the duo, Pip & Pop.

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. Tim 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 including Paris, London, New York and at the NGV and Sydney Biennale. His work is represented in public and private collections internationally.

Angela’s work is primarily an investigation of visual cognition, playing with how we make sense of what we see. This has taken the form of precariously balanced, 'impossible' structures, perceptual puzzles and more recently coded systems. As a result, the works often operate in the space between two and three dimensions and therefore range across sculpture, painting and installation.

Jacinda was born in Nelson, New Zealand. She attended Otago Fine Art School graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Since graduating she has travelled extensively practicing her art and has featured in many exhibitions and galleries around Perth, the South West and the Kimberley. Her work has also been selected as a finalist in the Young Artists With Artitude (YAWA) Award for the two years running and has featured in such publications as Silver Magazine and Skywest inflight magazine. Jacinda continues to work from her Artsource studio in Fremantle, pushing the paint and image to a point where sometimes the line between abstraction and reality are merged. Her work is held within private collections around New Zealand, Scotland and Australia. www.artbyjacinda.net

Francis is a writer with a visual arts and design background. Francis works variously as a scriptwriter, devisor, designer & director for stage, screen and large-scale spectacle. He has developed his hybrid arts practice over the last 15 years as a Community Cultural Development artist, working with many diverse groups to produce theatre, films, performance events, publications and exhibitions expressing their life experience. Francis has been a core artist of WA’s SWERVE multi arts collective for 7 years.

Rebecca was born in Perth in 1983, and she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University of Technology in 2003. Baumann’s practice spans the mediums of photography, bookmaking, sculpture and installation, and her recent work explores themes of happiness and anxiety, celebration and spectacle. In April 2009 Baumann had her first solo exhibition, from the beginning; one more time at Fremantle Arts Centre. She has been a 2009 recipient of a Department of Culture and the Arts Development Grant, and an Australia Council New Work Grant, and is currently a finalist in the QANTAS Spirit of Youth Awards. Baumann has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including Windows on William, Perth (2009); Linden1968, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (2008); SILVER: ARTRAGE 25, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2008); Love Is My Velocity Plate Project, Perth (2008); First Page, Breadbox Gallery, Perth (2008); New Disorder, Old Berlin, Perth (2007); Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW (2007); Duty Free, Arts House Gallery, Perth (2005); and Figured Out! The Church Gallery, Perth (2004).
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Chris through painting creates visual environments that provide the viewer with a means to engage in a process of continuous free association. The viewer’s interpretative experience of the subject of Chris’s work and of the process of looking is an individual experience that can have the duality of being both figurative and abstracted.

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. She recently had a solo exhibition at WGV Gallery in Fremantle and her work was recently on show at Alda’s Gallery and Project Space. .

Rachel graduated from the Perth Metropolitan School of Art and Design in 1991. After graduating, Coad spent nine years as an artist working for the 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 has recently returned from London where she exhibited a series of portraits of seven young Australians who live and work in London. This was the most recent exhibition of Coad’s Clusters series of works. Clusters focuses on creating documentary portraits featuring different groups of people from the obscure to the every day. Coad’s work is emotive, with dramatic narratives. Coad work moves between figurative and portraiture. www.rachelcoad.com.au

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.

Lia's artistic practice encompasses multi-media, installation and site-based work. The evidence of process and an investigation of spatial relationships are integral aspects to her work; as are the use of personal history and internal narratives. Current works on paper continue an exploration of materials and their inherent meanings. Salt, wax and other ephemeral materials are used to explore themes around subjectivity, communication and human relationships. Lia is also a writer and curator with a particular interest in identity, affect and response. She gained her undergraduate Visual Arts degree at Edith Cowan University and holds a Master of Arts, Cultural Heritage from Curtin University. www.skintoskinexhibition.net

Stephen has been exhibiting experimental site-specific, interactive and photomedia works since his undergraduate years at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales where in 1992 he co-founded, with Denis Beaubois, a group of artists called “Art’s Underground”. The group, as part of the Festival of Sydney, made site specific installations and held live performances in the underground St James Station. His work has concentrated on extending the photographic process, including tidal exposures, mass prints and time based water mark performances; while his sculptural work includes mobile “companions”: hybrids of trolleys and televisions. In his current practice, Stephen continues to work with architectural spaces and to investigate ideas around ‘versions’ and ‘false walls’ as a way of investigating visual and perceptual cognition. www.softnoise.net/stephenarmitstead

Tanya's current practice embodies both independent and collaborative processes across varying disciplines including installation, painting, wall-works and sculpture. Many of these works examine ideas of abundance, temporary pleasure and utopian dreams that arise from within a contemporary culture of mass consumption. Tanya works with Nicole Andrijevic as collaborative duo Pip & Pop to create intricate installations from an eclectic mix of materials such as sugar, sand, plastic objects, origami, artificial plants, found objects and toys. These works refer to imaginary worlds, from video games, folk tales, creation stories, children’s literature, and ancient cosmologies. Parallels are drawn between these imagined and constructed worlds and the promise and allure of material culture. Pip & Pop have exhibited their work at PICA, the Japan Foundation (NSW), West Space (Vic), Fremantle Arts Centre, and Federation Square (Vic). Tanya is currently undertaking a residency at PICA, and is off to Japan soon on an Artsource funded residency.

Toogarr first attended University of Western Australia as a mature-age student studying History and Psychology before changing to study Visual Arts at Curtin University and Edith Cowan 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.

"The paintings of Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang are both a reaction to, and a reflection of her scientific education. Having studied a double degree in Physics and Engineering at the University of Western Australia, she went on to study Visual Arts and Photomedia at Edith Cowan University. This range of endeavour and enquiry, combined with her Buddhist heritage, has resulted in powerful and rarefied works. The colourist abstract paintings seek, with their scale, to fill the viewer’s field of view, providing an opportunity to meditate on both the numinous and the emotional. The creation of the works by the artist is led by both rational concerns of colour theory, surface quality and composition, combined with the intuitive and emotional process of the meditative practice. Informed by influences from Rothko and figurative 3D work, her broad range of work hints at a commitment and rigour to the artist – both as self-observer and reflector of the universal human experience." – Simon Gilby – www.anniewangartist.com

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's practise covers a range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture and animation. With a Bachelor of Fine Art (printmaking) and a Graduate Diploma in Film and Television (animation) both from the Victorian College of the Arts, she has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1998. Clare undertook a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2004 and was artist in residence in April 2009 at the Bundanon Trust, NSW. In 2008/9, her work featured in Better Places at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts. A recent recipient of the new work grant from the Australia Council of the Arts - she is currently working on a solo show for the Fremantle Arts Centre. Entitled a miraculous memory, the show opens at the end of January 2010. www.claredavies.com

The pre-Raphaelite movement was obsessed by an urgency to return to the spiritual values of nature in response to the threatening ideals of capitalism driven by the industrial revolution. Over150 years on in an age entrenched in technological dependency many in society continue to romanticise and worship the purities of nature perceived to still exist in once remote now readily accessible corners of the globe. In reality “Virgin Country” continues to be violated and plundered as “Mother Nature” overheats in the midst of a global orgy; diamonds and gold are ripped from her heart to finance wells and smokestacks to penetrate to ever greater depths whilst pulsing to the rhythm of a hyped up techno beat…. “just can’t get enough”. From my easel tucked away in this small private space I posit the human condition in this strange time of excess. Described through convoluted human forms, stripped bare and emersed in an industrial orgasmic frenzy or ambiguously emerging from a romantic landscape, my work offers a window for both revelation and reflection.

Dan was born in 1983 in Perth, Western Australia. Dan completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in 2006. During his time at uni, Gladden participated in several group shows, and was selected to participate in Hatched 06, the National graduate exhibition held at PICA. His work has developed as a combination of painting and drawing, through an ongoing exploration into the construction of masculinity and identity. The themes of his work relate to representation of the male form in media, sexuality and male body image. He is interested in questioning and examining the relationships created by body image and identity, exploring what it is to be and look like a man, and a gay man, in the contemporary, media driven world. His practice has become a site of interrogation, attempting to construct a dialogue and understanding of his own identity and culture. His work has featured in several group exhibitions across Perth, and is held in several private collections. This year, Dan undertook a mentorship with Rachel Coad as part of Propel Youth Arts National Youth week program. He was recently awarded a “Highly Commended” in the Young Artists with Artitude exhibition, held at Burswood Intercontinental Hotel. He continues to create new work with an ongoing emphasis on the construction and deconstruction of male beauty and representation.

David is a writer and a lecturer in Creative Writing, most recently at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He is currently Area Co-ordinator of Creative Writing at Curtin University. He has had two longer pieces short-listed for the Vogel/Australian Literary Award, and has received ARTSWA, Australia Council and Film Victoria developing writer's grants. David had his first literary fiction novel ‘The Summons’ published in 2006 by Random House. He has performed his work at writer’s festivals in Australia and Fiji, at conferences, reading nights and at SLAM poetry events. His next novel ‘Line of Sight’ is due to be published by Penguin Australia in 2010.

WA Circus School Inc has been teaching circus arts all over WA for the past 6 years. Headed up by Nicole Warren (General Manager) WACS have a young vibrant team of circus teachers and performers. WACS prides itself in creative community art and professional performances. http://www.circuswa.com/wacs/

Bizircus has thrilled audiences with their hilarious character comedy and explosive acrobatic stunts. Drawing influence from Chinese circus, European circus and street theatre, modern dance, and slapstick traditions worldwide, the troupe has been trained by acrobats and clowns from France, Russia, China, Brazil, Kenya, and England. Synthesising these diverse traditions into their own unique Australian style, Bizircus blend physical skill, comedy, music, and universal themes into a performances which hurdle language and cultural barriers. http://members.iinet.net.au/~bizircus

Nova Ensemble is a West Australian contemporary music ensemble consisting of six of WA's leading composer/performers. Formed by David Pye in 1983, Nova's range of activities has grown to encompass composition, commissioning, performance, touring, recording original Australian music, running workshops and building instruments. Through its annual program of events, Nova reaches out to people of all ages and backgrounds. In particular, its informal concert performances, work with school children, collaborative improvisation and exploration of the music of other cultures ensures that the ensemble appeals to a wide audience. The performance program in itself is far reaching, incorporating not only formal concerts but also contemporary music-theatre and dance-theatre collaborations which are presented for festivals and concert organisations throughout Australia and Asia. http://members.iinet.net.au/~nova/