Wendy Mansell of Artworkers Alliance

Artworkers exists to support the people working in the visual art, craft and design industries in Queensland and Australia.

We believe that creative talent deserves to be nurtured and supported. So we've created a network of people, programs and resources to achieve this, and to promote the value of the arts in the broader community. A not-for-profit membership-based organisation established in 1986, we're an incorporated association with a team of professional staff supported by a Management Committee.

Artworkers provides advice and information on al...

Tracey Meziane Benson of dorkbot cbr

Tracey Meziane Benson is a cross media artist, writer and curator residing in Canberra, Australia. Since 1995, she has been working creatively with the World Wide Web, focusing on developing hyper-textual works and digital animations. Her digital work has been presented in many online galleries and projects in Australia and overseas. In 2001, her work toured regional galleries around Australia as part of the www.cowgrrls.com project initiated by Cooloola Shire Gallery. Tracey has written for a range of publications and events including: - Eyeline - Fine Art Forum - Mesh - BORDERPA...

Jordana Maisie

Jordana Maisie is a Sydney-based New Media Artist working in video, sound and interactive installation. In 2005, after receiving a scholarship the year earlier to study photography at the Glasgow School of Art, Maisie completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Photomedia, at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts (CoFA) and graduated with distinction. Maisie returned to CoFA in 2006 to partake in a Masters of Digital Media, majoring in Video production and sound engineering, graduating with distinction. Currently focusing on producing new work and exhibiting both locally and internat...

Tessa Rapaport of Makeshift

Tessa Rapaport is an emerging artist and writer whose practice also encompasses design, teaching and curatorial projects. She collaborates with Karl Logge as Makeshift, making work that spans printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation and performance. Their projects activate public places like parks and botanic gardens and provoke unexpected interactions between people and their environments. They are especially concerned with the social histories of plants, and the different ways in which nature can be constructed, understood and contested. Since 2007 they have undertaken residency proj...

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Gail Kovatseff of Media Resource Centre

The MRC started life in 1974, making it one of the longest established members of the Screen Development Australia (SDA) national network, and providing evidence of Australia's ongoing passion for all things showing on a screen - big or small, public or private, independent release or money-spinning blockbuster!

The first MRC was located at 1 Union Street Adelaide and moved to a larger location in Pirie Street during the early 80's. The Centre recognised the need to foster new and emerging filmmaking practice in SA (remember there was no access to video ...

Meg Hale of Melbourne Fringe

Meg Hale is an artist, project coordinator and arts producer based in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating with a Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Design) from Monash University in 2003, Meg performed extensively as a video artist in venues such as the North Melbourne Town Hall, Revolver Upstairs, and LooP Bar, where she had a yearlong residency with Jarod Pak and sound artist Jonathan Pak. During this time, Meg helped to establish Electundra, an audio-visual festival which was launched in 2004 and is now an annual Melbourne event. She also joined the committee at TCB art inc., an Artist Ru...

Christina Alvarez of Metro Screen

Metro Screen’s purpose is to assist screen makers and their projects in NSW. JOIN: Professional Services, regular events promoting collaboration and career development through the Metro Screen Network and professionals on hand to answer your questions. LEARN: Short courses and full time study in film, TV and new media on site in Paddington, throughout the state with the Mobile Unit and targeted for young people between 11 and 16 through Young Filmmakers and Channel Free. HIRE: Range of HD equipment, dubbing, compression services, fully equipped studios, multiple editing suite...

Nancy Mauro-Flude of Moddr_

“Nancy's work is a generative collision of net technology, riot grrl, dance, open source programming, feminism, vaudeville and the concerns of the psyche, her work weaves togethertranscendent practices of many kinds while feeding from the rot and beauty of contemporary daily life”. - Linda Dement Filter Magazine #59. 2005.
Nancy Mauro-Flude [1975 - *] Based in Tasmania an internationally recognised performing artist working with experimental media. Her artistic practice revolves around the unusual combinations of bricolage, metaphysics, *nix computing and the intimacy of t...

Miriam Potts of Monash University

Research Assistant

Gordon Monro of Monash University

Gordon Monro is a digital media artist living in Ballarat, Victoria. He has a strong interest in writing computer programs that generate part or all of an artwork.

Clare Mason of MONSTER ZOKU ONSOMB!

Performance Artist with Australian electronic music act MONSTER ZOKU ONSOMB!

Colleen Morris

‘Nature is the entire system of things, with the aggregation of all their powers, properties, processes and products – whatever follows natural law and whatever happens spontaneously. Landscape is the scope of nature, modified by culture, from the locus and in that sense, landscape is local, located. poetry of water-=ecology-environment-climate- murray darling basin system-installation-sound-etc

Kim Machan of Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Inc.

MAAP was established to bring focus to "unmapped" new media cultural content emerging from the Asia Pacific regions. MAAP has now grown into an Asia Pacific touring new media art festival and web site resource partnering with key organisations in the region. MAAP will continue regional festivals in Beijing 2002, Seoul 2003, Singapore 2004, and Brisbane 2005 to expand exposure and research in the region. MAAP specialises in showcasing the work of the region's major and emerging new media arts practitioners, creating new networks, introducing the artists and their work...

Jessica Tyrrell of Museums & Galleries NSW

Jessica Tyrrell is a Sydney-based new media artist who works at the intersection of installation, audio/visual performance, sound, video, online & locative media. Fusing a cinematic sensibility with a love of poetic text, she creates works that draw out fragmented narratives and often incorporate documentary elements. Jessica is currently engaged in creating physically immersive environments that experiment with the affect of interactivity and space on narrative, poetics and spectatorship. Jessica’s work has been included at various festivals in Australia, such as Liquid Architectu...

Daniel Mackinlay of Possum Palace

some kinda swiss army knife kinda guy, composing interactive digital music, reviewing, architecting web apps and studying complexity theory. on the flip side, I'm not very good at gardening yet.

Alana Mandryk of Umbrella Studio

Umbrella Studio Association Incorporated is an inclusive, not-for-profit, members based, exhibition and studio space that drives innovation, invites experimentation, encourages excellence and inspires appreciation for Contemporary Visual Art in the North Queensland region.

Our Story

Umbrella Studio Association Incorporated is a Townsville based, not-for-profit contemporary arts organisation actively engaged in supporting contemporary visual arts in North Queensland and beyond, through diverse and innovative exhibition and public programs. First located in an emp...