Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

Claire Anna Watson is a curator, artist and arts writer. She is the Chair of BLINDSIDE’s Board of Directors and Art Curator at Banyule Council coordinating exhibitions for Hatch Contemporary Arts Space and managing Banyule Council’s extensive art collection. Prior to this she was the Visual Arts Program Coordinator at Asialink and Curator at Gippsland Art Gallery.

She has developed major curatorial projects including Home—reframing craft and domesticity, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, 2013; Unravelled—Artists’ books and typographical prints from the Banyule Art Collection, Banyule Arts Space, 2011; From Frederick McCubbin to Charles McCubbin, Gippsland Art Gallery, 2008; and the touring exhibition Hockey Plot—negotiations between young contemporary artists from Gippsland and Melbourne, touring to West Space, Cowwarr Arts Space and Gippsland Art Gallery in 2008.

Watson’s experience includes overseeing the development and delivery of BLINDSIDE’s inaugural festival Everywhere But Here, 2012 and End of The World Party, 2012, as part of the Curtain Call Series. She writes regularly on Australian contemporary arts practice. She co-edited and co-wrote Asialink publications Every 23 Days: 20 years Touring Asia and Abundant Australia–Highlights of the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale. She has also written texts for a variety of organisations and journals including Museums Australia and Next Wave.

Watson holds a Master of Fine Art from Monash University and a Graduate Certificate in Public Art from RMIT University. Her multi-disciplinary arts practice has seen her exhibit in Australia, Portugal, Tu

Born in Auckland, New Zealand 1987. Lives and works in Melbourne.

Alice Wormald completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with first class honours at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in 2011. Solo exhibitions include Occluded View at Daine Singer, In the Unreal Air at BLINDSIDE, 2012; and Wayside & Hedgerow at Shifted Gallery, 2010. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including New Horizons at Gippsland Art Gallery, 2013; VCA Graduates at Alliance Française, 2012; Debut VII at BLINDSIDE and High Definition at Paradise Hills, 2011; and Recent Work at George Paton Gallery, 2010.

She has received awards including the Fiona Myer Award, the Casama Group Award and the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award and has been a finalist in awards such as The Banyule Award for Works on Paper and the John Leslie Art Prize for Landscape Painting. Her work is held in collections including the Gippsland Art Gallery, Fiona Myer Collection and Joyce Nissan Collection as well as private collections in Australia, New Zealand, UK and Switzerland. Alice Wormald is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.

Born in Melbourne, Australia 1981. Lives and works in Melbourne.

Tania Smith was a founding member of the performance collective Red Cabbage, known for their site-specific performance events, including Hedge- Mony, produced for Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival and Commonwealth Games.

She has trained in performance under Meredith Monk, and received funding for her work from the Australia Council for the Arts, City of Melbourne, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia- Thai Institute) and Arts ACT. Recently she has exhibited at c3 Contemporary Arts Space, Screen Space, The Substation, Albury Library Museum, and the International Art Studio Vellejo, Serbia. Her work, Untitled #8, 2012, was screened at the Chin Chin Wall of Art as part of the Nocturne program in the Channels Festival of Video Art. She regularly presents research papers on her practice, recently at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale’s Contesting Identities symposium. She has completed a Master of Fine Art by research at Monash University under the supervision of Professor Anne Marsh, the artistic outcome of which was the Untitled (Domestic gestures) series.

Born in Sydney, Australia 1969. Lives and works in Melbourne and New York.

Kate Shaw holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from RMIT University and a Diploma of Museum Studies from Deakin University.

She has held solo exhibitions in Australia, New York and Hong Kong and has presented work in group exhibitions in Auckland, Beijing, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Reykjavik, San Francisco, Seoul and Tokyo.

Shaw has received grants from Arts Victoria and the Australia Council and undertaken residencies at 24hrArtspace, Darwin; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; Point B, New York; Flux Factory, New York; and SIM, Reykjavik. She has been a finalist in numerous art prizes including The Arthur Guy Prize, 2013; The Gold Award, 2012; John Fries Memorial Prize, 2012; John Leslie Art Prize, 2012, 2003; Wynne Prize, 2012, 2011, 2010; Substation Contemporary Art Prize, 2012; Royal Bank of Scotland Art Award, 2010; and ABM AMRO Emerging Art Award, 2007, 2006. Shaw was the winner (painting category) of Artists Wanted, Scope, New York, 2012.

Shaw’s work is in many collections including the University of Queensland, Macquarie Bank, Westpac Bank, RACV, and Artbank, and she has received commissions from Urban Art Projects and Museum of Brisbane. Recently her work was included in Landscape and its Psyche published by University of NSW, 2013. In 2014 she will have a solo exhibition at Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong. Kate Shaw is represented by Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne; Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney; Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane; and Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York.

Born in Chandragonah, Bangladesh, 1975. Lives and works in Melbourne.

Since 2003 Kiron Robinson has exhibited his work widely both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Immanent Landscape, Kurumuya Museum, Japan; Here’s the tender coming (Whoopee) We’re all going to die, Pallas Project, Dublin; Encounters with the Uncanny, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale; If I take the time will I get it back, Sarah Scout, Melbourne; Unseen Forces, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney; And the Difference Is, NUS, Singapore; 17th of December 1987, West Space, Melbourne; Octopus 8, Softness in the Rock, Hope in Disappointing Times, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne; Manila Bites, Green Papaya Art Space, Manila.

From 2003 – 2005 Robinson co-directed the art space 24seven in Melbourne. He has curated a number of exhibitions including, Hevy, Conical, Melbourne, Polar, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne and Doubt, Conical, Melbourne.

Robinson has also partaken in a number of residencies including the inbound residency program through Apexart, New York, and during 2005 – 2007 Robinson was a Gertrude Contemporary Studio resident. In 2013 he completed a PhD at Monash University and currently works as a lecturer in the photography department at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University. Kiron Robinson is represented by Sarah Scout, Melbourne.

Born in Melbourne, Australia 1974. Lives and works in New York.

Kristin McIver is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has been a finalist in a number of awards, including the Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Melbourne; Montalto Sculpture Prize, 2009/2010; City of Whyalla Art Prize, Substation Contemporary Art Award, 2011; and 3rd Ward’s Summer Open Call, New York, 2010. The artist was also awarded the Melbourne Sculpture Prize in 2012. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia (including the National Gallery of Victoria), Singapore, USA and the UK.

Solo exhibitions include Lifeless III, Royale Projects, Palm Springs, California, 2013; Status Quo, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; Your Imminent Arrival, Platform Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne 2012; Statement Pieces, James Makin Gallery, 2011; and Divine Intervention, BLINDSIDE, 2010. Group exhibitions include Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, 2012; Negotiating Space, ACGA Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne, 2009; and Debut V, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne, 2009. In 2013 McIver was an artist in residence at OMI International Arts Centre in New York. Kristin McIver is represented by James Makin Gallery, Melbourne; and Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.

Born in Melbourne, Australia 1986. Lives and works in Melbourne and Los Angeles.

Bonnie Lane has been the recipient of grants, awards and scholarships from organisations including the Australia Council for the Arts, National Association for the Visual Arts, and the City of Melbourne. She has participated in artist-in residence programs in Norway, Portugal, South Korea and the USA. Her video installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally including in solo exhibitions Make Believe, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Present Memory, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, 2012; Sleepless, Art Currents Institute, New York, 2012; and Into the Dark, an elaborate solo video installation exhibition spanning each of BUS Projects’ five exhibition spaces, Melbourne, 2011.

Other galleries where Bonnie has presented her work include the Seoul Museum of Art Nanji Gallery, Art-Athina, Athens; Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania; 91mq Project Space, Berlin; YouYou Gallery, Guangzhou, China; Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York; Folken Space, Stavanger, Norway; Out in the Sticks Cultural Centre, Ontario; Kudos Gallery, Sydney; as well as the following galleries in Melbourne: Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Michael Koro Galleries, BLINDSIDE and The Substation.

Lane holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts and a first-class Honours Degree from Monash University. Bonnie Lane is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne.

Born in Melbourne, Australia 1971. Lives and works in Melbourne.

Justine Khamara graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2003.

Solo exhibitions include Reconstructure, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; Now I am a radiant people ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 2011; Erysichthon’s Ball, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2010; How Excellently We Did-diddily-do-do Do It, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2007; Legion, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, 2005; Bugaboo, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, 2004; little Her and little Eye with Pauline Lavoipierre, West Space, Melbourne, 2003; and Eye Spy…, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, 2003.

Group exhibitions include Contemporary Australia, Women, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, 2012; Face in the Crowd: New Portraiture, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland; Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2010; NEW09, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2009; Bella Art Draw, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2008; Primavera 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007; Hung Out to Dry, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, 2006; Life is Getting Longer, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, 2006; Six Orbits Around the Blue Moon, Ramp Gallery, Massey University, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2006; Hole in the Bucket, Next Wave Festival, Clubs, Melbourne, 2004. Justine Khamara is represented by ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne.

Born in Melbourne, Australia 1976. Lives and works in Melbourne.

Simon Finn completed a Master of Fine Art by research at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013. He also received First Class Honors in Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and he studied Electronic Design and Interactive Media at Swinburne University. He is a lecturer in Animation and Games Design, which forms part of a Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment at SAE.

His recent solo exhibitions include Vertex Vortex, Fehily Contemporary, 2013; Warning, MOANA Project Space, 2013; Synthetic Surge, Beam Contemporary Art Space, 2012; and Synthetic Animated Realities, George Paton Gallery, 2012.

Recent group exhibitions include Suspense, touring London, 2013; NOW13-New media Art, Darkhorse experiment, 2013; Down to the Line, Bett Gallery, 2013; Dark nature, C3 Contemporary, 2012. Finn was the winner of the NotFair’s Howard Arkley Award, 2012 and the Kedumba Drawing Award, 2012. He was a finalist in the Substation Art Prize, 2013; Paul Guest Drawing Prize, 2012; Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2011; and the Banyule Award for Works on Paper, 2011. Simon Finn is represented by Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne.

Born in Sydney, Australia 1970. Lives and works in Melbourne.

Cate Consandine has exhibited in a number of international exhibitions, including: LOOP 08, International Festival & Fair for Video Art, Barcelona 2008; Contemporary Australian Video, (ICA) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2008; and Bibibibodibiboo exposition international d’art actuel, Biennale of Art, Reunion Island, France 2009. Consandine has developed major bodies of new work for solo exhibitions nationally including Cut Colony, AGNSW Contemporary Projects 2012; Cold-cut, eye stalk, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2006; Candy Cane, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 2006 and Colony, Sarah Scout, Melbourne 2010.

Her video and sculptural work has been curated into numerous group exhibitions, most recently in Without Words: photography and emotion, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2011. In 2013 she designed the set for In-Finite, a new ballet choreographed by Joshua Consandine for the Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque season which premiered at the Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay.

Consandine completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000, followed by a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Arts at Monash University. Consandine is a Lecturer in Sculpture and Spatial Practice at the Victorian College of the Arts. She is represented by Sarah Scout, Melbourne.

Born in Canberra, Australia 1986. Lives and works in Melbourne.

Boe-Lin Bastian studied Fashion Design in Sydney before moving to Melbourne where she began studying Fine Arts at RMIT University in 2005.

After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours in 2011, Bastian was selected for the Craft Victoria’s Fresh! Graduate Exhibition where she won the Artichoke Prize. In 2012 she travelled to Documenta 13 with the assistance of an Australia Council Artstart Grant to research international processes and ideas.

Bastian has screened works and exhibited at public and private galleries throughout Melbourne as well as in Adelaide, Sydney, Scotland, Greece and in online digital art festivals. Major projects include a site specific work presented in association with the Palace of Art Centre for Sporting Excellence, Glasgow, a commission for the Kick Off Program to be screened at Metricon Stadium in association with the Queensland Government and a residency and solo exhibition at Firstdraft Gallery in Sydney. In 2014 Bastian will be exhibiting a new sculptural work entitled One liner in the Sample space at Platform, Melbourne.