Michael Candy is a new and emerging kinetic artist who burst onto the scene in early 2010. Michael approaches kinetic sculpture with an organic aesthetic, often using fallen branches, leafs and even living plant life within his sculptures. His works often aim to provoke thought on the balance of nature and technology, and the conflicts between the two.
Michael is currently studying a bachelor of fine arts and industrial design at QUT.
Anna Jacobson is an emerging Brisbane based visual artist, who captures old
areas and brings their imagined narratives to life through photography,
experimental video and soundscapes. She graduated from the Queensland
College of Art with a Bachelor of Photography with Honours in 2009. Anna has
a preoccupation with abandoned spaces, memory, diaspora, old objects and
the possible stories surrounding them.
Christopher Samuels (b. 1983, Detroit, MI), mostly self-taught, co-founded the artist-run gallery space Org Contemporary in 2009. His work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles and throughout Michigan. In the summer of 2010 Samuels attended the Skowhegan School Of Painting & Sculpture in.
Murray J. Turpin, Born in South Africa on the third of September 1982, education started at Temple Emanuel Nursery School, then Norwood Primary until 1989, lived in Hong Kong for three and a half years and attended Bradbury Junior School. Returned to South Africa and finished primary schooling Std 2 to Std 6(grade 8) at St Peters Prep then attended Sandown High School, matriculated(2000) and went on to study a BA Fine Arts Degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, JHB, finished his fourth honours year (2004) and now lives, works and performs where ever the next invitation to exhibit or perform takes him.
“My current practice is multi media/multi platform based and quite often hybridised. For example a portrait painting or photograph that I have taken or painted I will bring to life as a character based intervention of performance piece.
Or a petty felony that I have committed, I will try and justify by bringing it to life as digital construct, (thus denying myself accountability, haha wat a cunt) on a social network of my choice, or a minimalist inspired serigraph series I will bring to life in the form of a live tattoo performance and installation. Or a track that have made, I will shoot a music video for, ORORORYOUGETTHEFUKKINGPICTURE, FUKMYWORD, CHECKMYSITEOUTFORYOURSELF,THANKYOUANDGOODNIGHT.”
Described as ‘one of Singapore’s leading video artists’ by curator Dr Eugene Tan, Kai Syng Tan is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, curator and art educator. She is an insatiable tourist-consumer-hoarder who scavenges the surrounding clutter of signs/noise; as a compulsive editor she chews up and re-maps the found fragments into densely-layered works that question our ‘realities’ of the here and now.
Be it installation, short films, text or performance, Kai Syng’s work is fiercely personal but always at a critical distant, with an urgency laced with self-reflexivity. Her work has been shown in more than 40 cities, including the Guangzhou Triennale, Biennale of Sydney, ASK Gallery in Tokyo and the ICA in London. Kai has also won several awards and grants (San Francisco International Film Festival New Visions Video Merit award, Young Artist Award, The Most Promising Young Artist Award at age 18, Merit Award at the Philippe Charriol Painting Competition at 17), and has a large permanent video installation in a subway station in Singapore, commissioned by the Land Transport Authority.
“A Peacemax Tree” is an interactive tree made of motors and laser-equipped toy guns. When nobody is around, this violent tree lets its guard down and dances to “White Christmas”. But, when you enter its territory, the tree becomes nervous, and all guns point at you!
Vegas Spray presented an exhibition in conjunction with the National Youth Week Celebrations in King George Square that showcased musicians and youth focused organizations. The exhibition consisted of Brisbane-based emerging artist under the age of 26 years.
Artists represented:
Angus Whelan, Nicola Morton, Felix Melchner, James Lyall, Yuki Nakano, Emma Bertoldi, Ella Peile, Lionel Jackman, Lucinda Wolber, Adelaide Short, Haylee Lee, Daniel Ford, Bettina Walsh, Rachel Marsden, Alicia Williams, Emily Parker,Travis Dewan, Holly Leonardson, Alithea Josaphine, Ellen Stapleton, Tammy Law, Visual Monkeys.
The 2010 Brisbane Emerging Art Festival was an independent emerging art showcase aimed to promote and display local emerging artists from Brisbane. The platform was created as another avenue to showcase critical art outside of the institution and a means to mediate the curation and selection of high profile group exhibitions.
The exhibition titled ‘b.e.a.f’ showcased artists within both an entertaining and critical discourse, with a purpose of creating a forum for the public to view, celebrate and criticise new modes of art practice.
