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2011 Palimpsest Artists (subject to change)

Ken + Julia Yonetani, Still Life - The Food Bowl, (detail) image courtesy of the artists & Artereal Gallery, Sydney	Ken + Julia Yonetani are collaborative artists who work in the field of sculptural installation, video, and performance art. They have exhibited together at Artereal Gallery, Campbelltown Arts Centre, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Object Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Jan Manton Art, and Sydney College of the Arts. In 2010, they staged a bed-in performance in Federation Square, Melbourne. Their current work, Still Life: the Food Bowl, resulted from a three month Synapse Residency in Mildura, organized by Mildura Palimpsest in collaboration with the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre and Sunrise 21.
Kate Vivian Nature Lovers, 2011	Kate Vivian Since commencing formal studies at the University of Ballarat Kate's interests in drawing and photography have expanded into ceramics and predominantly now explore found clays. “Each material contains a cosmos”] to reveal and reference place through site specific installations, which reflect loss of bio diversity and acceptance of our domesticated landscapes.
	Justine Rouse
	Filomena Coppola is represented by Australian Galleries in Melbourne and also exhibits with Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney. She has been selected into exhibitions including the JADA Drawing Award, Robert Jacks Drawing Award, City of Banyule Drawing Award and The Hutchins Prize. Filomena has been the recipient of awards including the 2004 Vermont Studio Centre Residency, Vermont, USA, 2001 Ian Potter Foundation Individual Grant, 1999 Arts Tasmania Development Grant and the 1997 Rosamond McCulloch Scholarship to the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. In 1995 she completed a MFA, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
	Philippa Ryan
	Makiko Yamamoto moved to Australia in 2003 and has been developing her art practice over the past 7 years. Currently she is undertaking a Master of Fine Art at the V.CA in Melbourne. Her practice deals with the voice as a material to examine its potential as a medium in contemporary art, investigating the position of the voice as it stands in between body and language, between subject and other. Through the absence of the body she brings a psychological reading to the voice, which infiltrates the space. She applies these ideas as triggers for sound-based recordings, digital video and text-based works to create spatial relationship between the viewer and the site.
	Lena Obergfell
	Hogi Tsai
	Tim Crowley
	Paul Carter has a long association with the Mildura region. His interest in the collision of white and indigenous cultures there goes back 25 years to a radio work called 'What Is Your Name' where 'Jowley', alias 'Mac', first appears. His recently published book Ground Truthing is a speculative retracing of the life journeys of Wotjobaluk man 'Jowley' and labourer poet John Shaw Neilson, among others, and imagines another Mallee where the deep desire for reconciliation is sown and harvested. Paul is Professor of Creative Place Research at Deakin University and is currently working on a project at Federation Square (Melbourne) that is, as Palimpsest audiences will discover, musteriously and profoundly related to Uneasily Along the Sand.
	Michael Westaway is an archaeologist and biological anthropologist. Michael’s career has covered many diverse roles: consultant archaeologist in Queensland (1996-1997); state archaeologist with the Heritage Services Branch of Aboriginal Affairs in Victoria (1998-2001); manager and biological anthropologist at the National Museum of Australia with the repatriation unit (2001-2004); Executive Officer with the NSW National Parks Service for the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area (2004-2008); archaeologist with the NSW National Parks Service at Yanga National Park (2008); and curator of archaeology at the Queensland Museum (2008-2010).
	Badger Bates, artist and elder of Paakantji people of the Darling River
	Dr Ben Gawne is the Director of the Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre. He has 15 years experience undertaking research and knowledge exchange activities in the area of freshwater ecology and management. Dr Gawne is a member of The Living Murray's Scientific Reference Panel and has worked on the development of the Sustainable Rivers Audit and the Review of the Murray-Darling Basin Cap.
	Geoff Robinson creates process-determined works that involve sound mapping and duration. His practice investigates the transformation of sonic experiences into form and the charting of time through reflected light works and sound performance. Geoff uses field recordings as a means of mapping sites and creating large-scale three-dimensional linear forms. He is interested in the transformation from exploring sites through sound to the use of surveying and mapping to create installations. Geoff records sites that are in flux and where urban and natural environments intersect.
	Chim↑Pom are a Tokyo-based six-member Japanese art collective. They officially launched their activities in 2005 and have been working ceaselessly since their conceptual inception. They have gathered both national and international recognition for their exploration of socio-political issues and their engaging artistic examinations of life and death.
	Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo is an artist, arts administrator, mother and writer, whose arts practise explores notions of belief, faith, womanliness and spirituality.
	Kate Cotching has exhibited regularly in Artist Run Spaces and Public Galleries throughout Australia for over 10 years. She has been awarded the Australia Council Rome Residency, the Deakin's Award Travelling Scholarship to Beijing, and a residency at Gertrude Street in Melbourne. Her work can be found in collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, to name just two. She has also contributed to a number of community arts projects in Bristol, IK. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (painting) and a Master of Arts (fine art) from RMIT University.
	Keith Armstrong
	Warren Fithie
	John Vella was born and raised in Sydney, and moved to Hobart in 1996. He has completed a DipFA with Distinction (National Art School Sydney), a BFA(Hons) first class and an MFA at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart where he is currently the Head of Sculpture. Over the past 20 years Vella has developed a number of exhibitions and collaborative projects, been the recipient of significant Arts Tasmania and Australia Council grants, and completed 5 major public art commissions. John Vella is represented by Criterion Gallery and his work is held in public and private collections.
	Brendan Lee: The video and photographic artworks of Brendan Lee are an exploration of the evolutionary nature of Australian cultural identity. In recent years, Lee has focused on investigating the unique undercurrents of society through commenting on groups and teams that are unique to Australia; it's stereotypes and history. Specifically, Lee's ongoing project examines the cultural and historical differences between Larrikins, Bogans and Hoons, their approaches to competition, affiliations and filmic references. Lee’s subject matter goes to the core of the Australian male's competitive nature and looks outside of the mainstream for his references. Games of chance, motor sports and drinking contests are all subjects Lee brings to the forefront in his search for the Australian spirit.
	Tuomas Laitinen is a visual artist who works with various media including light boxes. neon, video, printmaking and sound. Tuomas Laitinen holds an MA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. In the recent years Laitinen´s works have been shown in an exhibition by invitation of the Paulo Foundation, Kunsthalle Helsinki Studio, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Gothenburg Art Hall, Helsinki art museum, Riga art space, Moca - Shanghai Museum of Contemporary art, Visningrommet USF in Bergen and in Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art.

2010 Palimpsest Artists