Photomedia

Steven is an artist, curator and educator who works across multiple arts organisations in NSW.

He works with Photomedia, installation and performance. His art practice explores the physical and psychological landscape of masculine identity, vulnerability and loss. His work is often politically provocative and personal, referencing lived experiences. Steven has received artist residencies, been a finalist in photographic prizes, arts writing and exhibits regularly.

Steven was instrumental in creating the Hill End Art Gallery in 2021. He is currently collaborating with the CORRIDOR project where he has been invited to join a new exploratory arts program as mentor and artist. He curated While the World Waits, a touring exhibition featuring 20 regional NSW artists responding to the pandemic and events of 2020/21. This exhibition has been shown in 15 locations across the NSW Central West and was opened at NSW Parliament House in August 2024.

Recent exhibitions include Plant + Human with the Australian Centre for Photography and Build That Wall where he installed a 3-day durational performance work for Cementa. Steven exhibited work in dialogue with Wendy Sharpe at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Steven was selected to create and exhibit new work with Orange Regional Gallery for Material Measure and Queer Ecology with Schmick Contemporary in Sydney.

Steven studied with NAS and holds a BFA, Hons, MFA in Photomedia. He is currently a lecturer at the National Art School. He has been a lecturer with the Australian Centre for Photography. He was a board member with the ACP from 2016-2019 and currently sits on several regional Arts advisory panels. He now also works for Arts OutWest as Arts and Health and Projects Officer. Highlights include the thrill of live radio, arts writing, curating regional exhibitions, running workshops, supporting regional artists, and working with Western NSW Local Health Network to deliver art in health settings across Central West NSW.

Steven has travelled extensively having lived and worked in Perth, London and Sydney. In a desire to broaden his art practice, career and most importantly life, Steven chose to make a move into the Central West in 2018. Home is a beautiful property on Wiradjuri land in Hill End NSW, where the hum of the bush is ever present and full of surprises.

Dr. David Manley is a Sydney based artist and educator. He is a lecturer in Photomedia at the National Art School Australia and also works as a Senior Mental Health Clinician at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales Art and Design. His work is concerned with the interplay between architecture, the image and human psychology. In 2012 he was a winner of the Head On Portrait Prize and his visual and textural work has been published here in Australia and internationally. Some venues that his work has been exhibited in include – Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Monash Gallery of Art, The Australian Centre for Photography, Verge Gallery Sydney University, Galerie Pompom, Blackeye Contemporary Photography Space, NSW State Parliament, the Ulsan Cultural Arts Centre and the Hongik University Contemporary Art Gallery in Hongdae South Korea.  

Damian Dillon is a Sydney based artist who works across photography, installation, sculpture and video. Dillons Photomedia practice deconstructs digital and analogue processes to consider how representational practices over the landscape inform a postcolonial comprehension of place. Dillon has a Bachelor’s Degree from Sydney College of the Arts, and two Master’s Degrees from the College of Fine Arts NSW. He has been a recipient of many grants and prizes including the Blacktown Art Prize, and Waverley Mayor’s prize, and his recent work has been collected by Artbank, Waverley Council, and MAPH Melbourne. His latest studio residencies include, Sim Iceland, Megalo Print studio and Photo Access Canberra, and recent exhibitions include Hong IK university Seoul, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, and a major commission for the Museum of Contemporary Photography. He is founding director of schmickcontemporary Gallery Sydney and current director of Syrupcontemporary Gallery Sydney.

Vincent has extensive experience in the visual arts as an exhibiting artist and in the higher education sector. He has held positions in teaching and technical roles at UNSW COFA and TAFE NSW. His experience also extends to professional creative industries working with various performing arts companies including Sydney Theatre Company and Bangarra Dance Theatre. Vincent holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in photography and moving image from the University of Western Sydney. Joining the Photomedia team in 2017, Vincent is committed in supporting the immersive studio-based education experience for students and staff at National Art School.

Genevieve Felix Reynolds is an artist and educator born on Jagera Country (Brisbane) working across painting, digital media and installation. European and Nigerian ancestry informs her engagement with intercultural aesthetic histories, which she investigates via intersections of art-making, archaeology, collecting and curating. In 2021 she completed a Masters in Fine Arts for a thesis researching intersections of contemporary painting, museum and image archives. Felix Reynolds’ practice has been supported by funding from Create NSW, Creative Australia, Arts Queensland, Griffith University and the University of New South Wales.  

Jacky Redgate (1955–) is a Sydney-based artist and educator. Born in London, Redgate emigrated to Australia in 1967.  She received a Bachelor of Arts from the South Australian School of Art (Sculpture), in 1980, a Master of Visual Art from Sydney College of the Arts, in 1998 and a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong in 2014.

Redgate’s career evolved through the divergent contexts of late modernism, 1970s feminism, minimalism, and conceptual art. Her work came to prominence in the early 1980s at a major turning point in the artworld internationally and nationally and during the ground-breaking debates of postmodernism, especially regarding the role that photography played. Her participation in major exhibitions like the 1985 Perspecta helped redefine the view of photography as an art form.   Her practice often occupies the intersection of photography and sculpture – two and three-dimensionality – flatness and depth. A common thread in her work is an interest in the differences between various systems – both personal, such as snapshots, or impersonal, such as mathematics. Much of her work is a meditation on photography, its optics and gazes. Redgate has worked almost solely with mirrors for the past two decades, performing a cathexis on emotionally laden objects that tease with a combination of abstraction and an autobiographical mirroring. Melissa Keys has recently commented, “She is a pioneering figure whose practice has been singular, rigorous and imaginative”.

Jacky Redgate is an Honorary Senior Fellow with the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Wollongong and is represented by ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Denis Beaubois was born in Mauritius and lives on Gadigal land. He was a member of performance ensemble Gravity Feed as well as the Post Arrivalists and has performed with Japanese company Gekidan Kaitaisha in the Drifting View X in Tokyo.

He holds an MA in photography and performance as well as an MFA in Time Based Arts from COFA, UNSW.

He has exhibited both internationally and locally at numerous galleries and festivals including the TATE Modern, San Francisco MOMA, The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei.

He has received numerous awards for his works most notably winning the Bonn Videonale, and receiving the Judges special prize for the Internationaler Medien Kunst Preis, ZKM. He was also the recipient of the Create NSW Fellowship for established artist in 2018.

Dr Ellen Dahl is a visual artist and educator. Originally from Arctic Norway, she moved to Australia as an adult and now lives and works on Gadigal Country in Sydney. Dahl’s lens-based art practice explores the expanded photographic field and its potential to engage new critical, poetic, and aesthetic ways of assembling ecological meaning and geological imagination. The concept of photography’s intrinsic involvement in how we see and feel about the world around us, underpins her projects. She is also interested in the medium’s relationship to time and often explore this working across photography, video and still-motion, sound, and installation.

Dahl received an MFA (research) from Sydney College of the Arts, and a PhD from School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania. She works as a lecturer in Screen Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and in Photomedia at National Art School.  In August 2019, Dahl co-coordinated/curated the Light Matter project – a symposium on the expanded field of photography held at University of Technology Sydney in conjunction with an exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. Dahl’s exhibition history includes Unseen Amsterdam, This Is No Fantasy Gallery, Australian Centre for Photography, Dominik Merch Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography, National Portrait Gallery, Firstdraft and Verge Gallery, University of Sydney. Dahl has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, including The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship, Hazlehurst Works on Paper and the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Photographic Award. She won the judges Commendation prize in the Contemporary Landscapes in Photography award (CLIP) in 2017 and is the winner of the biannual MAMA National Photography Prize 2024. Dahl is represented by This Is No Fantasy.

Jack Ball works with photography, sculpture and collage to create large-scale installations. In 2024 they presented a major new commission at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), which explored trans histories and desires through abstraction, and sensory and material connections. The work was developed in response to research at the Australian Queer Archives.

Jack recently published a book, Tight Crop, with Heart of Hearts Press. In 2021 they had a solo exhibition, Wind Chill, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, which brought together 10 years of their practice. They are represented by sweet pea in Perth and are a current recipient of the One Year Studio Program at Artspace in Sydney. They have also had recent solo exhibitions at Sydenham International and sweet pea gallery.

In recent years they have been part of group exhibitions Built Photography at the Museum of Australian Photography (2024), the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane at Artspace Sydney (2021), and Love in Bright Landscapes at PICA (2021). Key past exhibitions include New Matter: Recent forms of Photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2016), Primavera at Museum of Contemporary Art (2013), Remix at Art Gallery of Western Australia, (2011), Here&Now17: New Photography  at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (2017), Looking but not seeing at Benalla Art Gallery (2018), and Dusk to Dark at Queensland Centre for Photography (2014).

Jack’s work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, City of Perth and Artbank. In 2021 they finished a PhD at Curtin University, and in 2012 they completed an MFA at RMIT.

Rich is one half of the intimately communal artist nova Milne. Together, they create moving images and sound, screen-based sculptures, drawings, and assemblages.

A defining feature of their practice is the psycho-temporal materiality of relational encounters that move across and disrupt time and space.

nova Milne received a collaborative MFA from UNSW, with an excerpt of their exegesis published in the anthology TIME: Documents of Contemporary Art.

Their work has been recognised with awards including the NSW Visual Artists Fellowship, a Samstag Scholarship, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Digital Fellowship. Their work is held in public collections such as the Art Gallery of NSW, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Centre Pompidou, Lyon Housemuseum, and Deakin University.

Samantha Jade is an artist working within expanded analogue practice, grounded in camera-less making and darkroom experimentation. She positions analogue photography as an evolving system shaped by alchemy, light, and time—processes through which photographic states emerge, transform, and dissolve.

In 2022 Jade won the Standish & Co Scholarship to undertake her MFA (Photomedia) at the National Art School, graduating in 2024 as Dux. Her postgraduate work was acquired by the National Art School archive and the City of Sydney for their contemporary art collection. Recent achievements include being a finalist in the 2022 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize held at the Museum of Australian Photography (formally the Monash Gallery of Art) in VIC, receiving the Joel Corrigan Memorial Photography Award (2022), the Prix Yves Hernot Photography Award (2023), and the Art Incubator Grant (2025).

Cailyn Forrest lives and works in Sydney, where she is a Doctoral Candidate at the National Art School. Her practice-led research centres on analogue and alternative photographic approaches, exploring the darkroom as a feminist performance and positioning it as a space of bodily presence and material engagement. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including From the Corners at Gaffa Gallery (Sydney, 2022); to print at Sydenham International (Sydney, 2025); View2025 at Photo Access (Canberra, 2025); Manipulated at Articulate Project Space (Sydney, 2024); Residual at The Waiting Room Project (Sydney, 2023); and Content Aware at Spirits of Newtown (Sydney, 2023). In 2022, Cailyn undertook a four-week residency in Klein Warnow, Germany. She has presented her research at the AAANZ Conference (2023) and the Material Image Conference (2024). She holds a Master of Fine Art (Photomedia, 2021) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photomedia, 2019), both from the National Art School, where she also received the Kayell Australia Photography Award in 2019.