Aaron Perkins is a Naarm-based artist with a conceptual text-based visual arts practice that playfully explores the failures and limitations of language within everyday epistemologies. He has a keen interest in literature and holds a Doctorate of Philosophy for his research into the potential of fiction within painting. Perkins has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Naarm, Meanjin and Tarntanya; has been a finalist in the Girra, Omnia, Redland, Elaine Bermingham, Sunshine Coast, and Moreton Bay Region art prizes; and has contributed interviews and catalogue texts for various artist-run initiatives and other text-based artists.