Eddie Abd
Eddie Abd is an artist and arts worker living and working on Darug and Gundungurra country, born in Lebanon. Eddie works with video, embroidery and digital print making with a focus on representation. In her practice she integrates herself and close community with wider historical, political and cultural narratives – in the process casting a critical reading of the contemporary issues of interest to her. She was awarded the Create NSW visual arts fellowship for emerging artist 2021/2022 and In 2021 I was awarded the Blake prize (emerging artist). Her current area of interest are the relationship between cross stitch embroidery practice, the Syrian / Lebanese silk industry, capitalism and migration.
Katy B Plummer
Katy B Plummer makes work about the phenomenology of resistance and the politics of ghosts. She juxtaposes cinematic storytelling with anachronistic domestic textile practices and the camp aesthetics of high school theatre. Through performance, video, and large-scale textiles, her work announces that history is a haunted house, and that horror and witchcraft are legitimate political strategies. Katy was the 2022 recipient of the Blake Prize Established Artist Residency, and received an honourable mention in the 2022 Darebin Prize. She was a finalist in the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship in 2019. She was also commissioned in 2021 by the City of Sydney to make a public artwork for their Art in the Laneways program. She has shown work in Australia as part of MONA FOMA, at Sullivan Strumpf, at Verge Gallery and at many other artist-run initiatives. Internationally, she has presented work in New York, Los Angeles, and in Barcelona.
Leanne Tobin
Leanne Tobin is a multidisciplinary artist of Dharug heritage descending from the Buruberong and Wumali clans, the traditional custodians of the Greater Sydney region. Tobin lives on Dharug Country at Springwood and is the great-great-great grandchild of Maria Lock, who in 1833, was the first Aboriginal woman to receive a land grant (forty acres in Liverpool). With an art practice that spans painting, playwriting, large-scale public sculpture and light installations, Tobin has earned accolades for a wide range of artistic and community-led endeavours. Tobin works collaboratively with community groups to tell stories and care for Country. Her work often seeks to bring people together in a gesture of friendship, unity, and healing, while also encouraging a dialogue that acknowledges the pain of the past caused by the colonisation and the dispossession of Aboriginal people. Tobin is an artist of growing national importance, as demonstrated by her exhibitions and programs developed for major contemporary exhibitions including the 23rd Biennale of Sydney 2022 and the 22nd Biennale of Sydney 2020.
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