POP-UP: The Rhythm Between Us

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• ANGELMAGGOT ›
• DRM ›
• George Peters ›
• Henrik Haukeland ›
• Lily Holmes ›
• Malie Muir ›
• Sam Meekan ›
• Simone Scandrett ›

• ANGEL MAGGOT is a video, VR, sound, and installation artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. Their practice exists with cyber realms, touching digital grass, making bodies of virtual gore. Entering unreality through virtual reality and expanding into liminal loading zones. With research into the uncanny, cyberfeminism, abject theory, immersive technology and internet subcultures, they seek to disrupt and distort the binaries of body, self and reality through electronic hallucinations, digital horror and genderfuckery.
• DRM (Daniel R Marks) is an artist and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne, working in an interdisciplinary choreographic practice which engages intersections of imaging, the queer body and surveillance technologies. They work in a hybrid practice incorporating performance, experimental audio-visual media and sculpture. DRM completed their PhD Protagonist: A Choreography of Queer Digitiality at RMIT University School of Art in 2024 and are a lecturer at RMIT School of Fashion & Textiles. They are affiliated with Performing Dress Lab (RMIT, Aalto University & London College of Fashion), the Posthuman Art Network (Foreign Objekt), and ACMI X. Their recent work has been supported by Temperance Hall, Liquid Architecture, ACMI, Bus Projects, and Run Artist Run.
• George Peters is a Melbourne-based artist working mainly with acrylic on wood or canvas and traditional drawing materials. His art draws inspiration from film, gaming, and geek culture, blending these with his personal thoughts, experiences, and relationships. He often bases fantasy creatures on real people’s characteristics, placing them in imagined forests and mountains. Skies and backgrounds feature prominently to convey emotion and atmosphere. While his works suggest certain themes, George intentionally leaves their meanings open—offering only hints of a story through worlds, props, and beings. His aim is to immerse viewers, inviting them to create their own narratives within his art.
• Henrik Haukeland was born 1980 in Sweden, and is now based in Naarm/Melbourne. Conceptually, his work often deals with the body—both physical and social—as well as the corresponding ideas of consumption, excess, and transformation. Arts education includes the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, Norway, the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, U.S., and the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden. He has had many exhibitions in galleries and art institutions predominantly throughout Scandinavia. Exhibitions in Australia include BLINDSIDE and KINGS Artist-Run in Melbourne, as well as Airspace Projects in Sydney.
• Lily Holmes is a Melbourne based painter and storyteller. Her work is influenced by architecture, found imagery, sentimental objects, memory, fantasy, art history, and transient natural beauty. She employs gestural, intuitive and repetitive mark making to connect with the viewer via the inexplicit narratives present in her work. Lily’s practice centres around interiority and the sense-emotion connection. She delights in finding new ways to convey feelings of yearning, joy, desire, helplessness, loss.
• Malie Muir is from the Mornington Peninsula now based in Naarm. Through the method of the replicated image, their practice challenges masculine bodies in space. They are a currently studying at the Victorian College of the Arts in Drawing and Printmaking.
• Sam Meekan's practice emphasises the structures/rulesets and languages of games as a within which to produce art, particularly painting. This framework provides a regime wherein marks/subjects become units/counters when viewed, birds-eye, on a self-contained field. These units exist as placeholders for an action taken against the existing state of the field as opposed to the direct continuation of its state, that is, a calculated series of elements to generate an illusionistic image as in realism’s romantic, giving, submission, or, alternatively, to dominate the viewer (modernism’s imposing, macho, flatness). Instead, elements are stacked atop each other, placed in directly perpendicular action to their ultimate position on the painted field.
• Simone Scandrett (b. 1999 Naarm) is an artist who is currently exploring subjectivity, context and relationality in her practice. Simone completed a Bachelor of Science (Biochemistry) in 2022, and has undertaken studies in Fine Arts at Monash University and the Victorian College of the Arts.