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2018 Finalists

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6121" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Debbie’s works interrogate the inextricable links between environmental degradation and free market capitalism. She appropriates mass media communication vehicles such as animated maps, stock market boards and airport arrival and departure information screens to track annual

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6122" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Jake Preval is an artist working in a variety of mediums spanning sculpture, photography, installation and performance. These elements are often combined together in bodies of work that use black humour and a playful lexicon

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6124" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Tim’s artistic practice is trans-disciplinary and traverses mediums and forms in an attempt to queer normative modes of visuality. He seeks collaborative partners  – such as webcam sex workers (New Life Model 2014) – to produce works

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6116" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Sam's primary medium is oil painting and mostly, he paints figurative subject matter, which in recent years has moved from discrete scenes towards a more highly saturated, collage approach. His subject matter is broad and variable, though

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6112" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Sarah’s practice is motivated by her estrangement from qualities associated with dominant forms of ‘professionalism’. Through a strategic and paradoxical engagement with amateurism she aims to reaffirm the personal, pathetic and idiosyncratic as non-pejorative and endearing

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6117" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Xanthe Dobbie is a Melbourne-based new media artist and curator, who works across immersive audio-visual installation, performance and screen-based works. Her practice aims to capture the experience of contemporaneity as reflected through feminism, art history, and

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6123" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Lilly’s predominant theme in her paintings is 'strong bush medicine', demonstrating a deep connection to her country. In keeping with the religious laws, Lilly reveals only a small amount of knowledge to the uninitiated. The esoteric

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6127" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Jessie produces socially responsive works that interrogate the subtle ways power manifests and operates in different contexts – across the political, social and personal. Her work responds to the conditions of the gallery space, as

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6118" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Uri works primarily with sculpture and installation to explore his interest in the social creation of meaning. He tries to explore social narratives and concepts that have become distorted, mutated or corrupted over time: ideas

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6119" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Eric Demetriou is an artist whose work incites a thrill-seeking experience flirting with trouble, danger and pleasure through outcomes of kinetic sound-based sculpture and performance. Compiling a body of work that investigates the application of noise,

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6126" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Angela's works juxtapose perceptions of the social and economic impact of globalisation with personal observations of the effects of neo-colonialism and consumption on the private and public body. She is currently exhibiting work at the

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6125" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] James Nguyen is a Sydney-based artist working with the politics of art. His output ranges from drawing, installation, video and performance. Nguyen’s video and performance practice looks at the process of making and observing art through