Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Kiera Brew Kurec, Xanthe Dobbie, Ash Garwood, Maya Kilic, Ella Sutherland Image, Interrupted

Ash Garwood is interested in how photography and computer-generated images relate. Her conceptual photographs blend analogue and digital components, considering the landscape in relation to science fiction and a queer perspective. Her works often resemble classical landscape or still life genres, challenging photographic traditions through digital assemblages, which reveal their digital construction on close inspection. Ash has a Bachelor of Art Theory from UNSW, Honours in Photography from UTS and an MFA in Photography from UCLA. Ash's work has been included in exhibitions at the Aperture Foundation, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Australian Centre of Photography, Hazelhurst Gallery, Firstdraft, New Wight Gallery, PSLA, Artspace and others. She has been featured in Art Collector, and her work is held in various private collections in Australia and the USA, the Macquarie Bank Collection, Gippsland Art Collection and Artbank.

Maya Kilic  is a mixed-media artist working within the field of digital photography, video and animation. Based in Sydney Australia, Kilic explores a perspective of life as a young person living in a digitally prevalent era. Personal struggles ranging from cultural belonging to feminine identity are playfully explored in relation to pop culture influences, internet culture, adolescence, dreams and fantasy. Kilic’s practice introduces an alternate way of documenting life by representing ‘the real’ as an interplay of physical, virtual and imagined worlds. With an embrace on digital editing software, phantasmic snippets of reality are created through processes of digital artifice, photomanipulation and collage. What is real and what is fiction is blurred in Kilic’s practice as elements of exaggerated fantasy and wonder are enmeshed into her experience of both physical and virtual worlds. 

Ella Sutherland lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Working across the fields of visual arts and publishing, her practice engages with architecture, the written and social spaces of queer communities, and the poetic potential of letterforms. Her work has been shown widely throughout New Zealand and international venues including Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Carriageworks, Sydney; Christchurch Art Gallery; City Gallery Wellington; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju and Sumer, Auckland. She was the recipient of the 2022–23 Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and will undertake a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Moya Dyring Memorial Studio in 2024.

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