Chris Bennie is a photo-media artist with a Doctorate of Visual Arts degree from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. He uses video, installation, photography and painting to question the hegemony, monotony and homogenization of contemporaryexistence by exploring what is commonly experienced but overlooked. His work has been included in national and international group exhibitions, including the Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – Forms That Turn online venue (2008); Contemporary Australia: optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008); New Work 3, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2007); and Plus Factors, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2006). Website

Renata Buziak has been recognized for her innovative photographic work by winning the open Theiss Art Prize 2005 and representing QCA at the Perth International Centre for Contemporary Art National exhibition of graduating students. She was an artist-in-resident at the Brisbane Botanical gardens in 2007 and her latest solo exhibition was held at the Queensland Centre for Photography this year. The QCP is currently working on a monograph on her work, this will be the first in a series of smaller monographs for mid-career and emerging Queensland photographic artists. Website

Ray Cook is one of Australia’s most influential and significant photographic artists. His practice spans 20 years and is characterized by innovative experimentation with photographic tableaux and hand-toned prints. He is currently undertaking his PhD at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, where he is also lecturing. His major monograph Ray Cook – Diary of a Fortunate Man, published by QCP, launched in October 2007. Website

Nathan Corum Corum is a photo-media artist currently completing his Doctorate of Visual Arts degree at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. He is interested in the relationship between photography and cinema, and will be showing a video work at Photo LA 2010. His work is in the Daryl Hewson Collection, currently touring regional Queensland.

Kim Demuth has been a practicing artist for ten years, and has exhibited extensively in Australia including a solo show at the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) in 2003. He received an Australia Council Grant for the Barcelona Residency in 2005 and has been the recipient of several Arts Queensland and Australia Council grants. He works in mixed media, and will be showcasing his sculptural photographic works at Photo LA 2009. Much of Demuth’s work deals with silence and isolation, often through humour, optical illusion and surreal imagery. Demuth’s works were exhibited at Photo LA 2008. Website

Marian Drew is the most successful Queensland photographic artist resident in our state. Her monograph Marian Drew – photographs + video works was published by the QCP in 2006. She has exhibited in Germany, China, the USA, and New Zealand. Her works are held in the most prestigious collections in the country and she is well known for her large-scale commissions in the city of Brisbane. She is the head of photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Website

Paul Mumme is a photo-media artist with a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours degree from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. His work deals with paradox, irony and subversion of logic through the superfluous alteration, binding and illogical use of functional objects. Encompassing video, photography and object-based works he intends to uncover the somewhat ridiculous aspects of behaviour. Website

Liam O’Brien is an emerging photographic artist, currently finishing his Bachelor of Photography degree at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. His work explores the alienation of males in contemporary society through staged photographs. Website

Alix Perry is an emerging photographic artist with a Bachelor of Photography from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is in the collections of Daryl Hewson, QCP and other private collections. She explores the ideas of ‘becoming’ - of youth, alienation and the passing into another state. She is interested in photography as a traditional vessel of memories and it’s potential to extend this by transforming photographs into objects. Website

Lyndal Petzke is an emerging photographic artist, recently graduated from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is in the collections of Daryl Hewson, QCP and Loreta High School. She is interested in the cultural and ideological identities found within everyday objects and explores the crossing of boundaries between sculpture and photography by creating objects within the digital realm. Website

Francesca Rosa is an emerging photographic artist, who has had solo exhibitions at the QCP and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Her works have been collected by The Queensland Art Gallery and is in the Daryl Hewson and QCP’s collection. Her practice is influenced by the history of photography as a form of investigation, evidence and categorization. Addressing concepts of the forensic aesthetic, Rosa’s focus is visual aftermath of the abandoned, decayed and destroyed. Website

Hugh Swingler Manning is an emerging photographic artist, currently finishing his Bachelor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. His work is in the collections of Daryl Hewson, QCP and other private collections. His explores the relationships between vernacular photography, memory and personal mythologies. The images are dioramas of Greek myths, each including elements constructed from snapshot photographs of subject matter such as friends, family and lovers, where the narrative surrounding the vernacular image’s characters can be related to the narrative of the myth. Website

Craig Walsh is an established video artist. Primarily interested in hybrid / site-specific projects and the exploration of alternative contexts for contemporary art, his work often utilizes projection in response to existing environments and contexts. He has been working across a range of artforms including theatre, architecture, public works, gallery exhibitions and festivals. His work has been selected for major survey exhibitions, commissions and residencies both nationally and internationally, including; the Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan. Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. Under the radar, Liverpool, England. The National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Havana Biennale, Cuba, Experimenta Vanishing Point, Melbourne; the Anne Landa Award, AGNSW, Sydney; the Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, AGSA, Adelaide. 2004: Australian culture now, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. Institute of Modern Art Brisbane and Ssamsie space, Seoul, Korea. Website

The QCP gratefully acknowledge the support of the Queensland Government through the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Arts Queensland and Griffith University for this project.

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