IamOphelia

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• Jake Treacy ›
• Walter Bakowski (Ophelia) ›

• Jake Treacy is a curator, writer and poet whose practice employs numinous acts through exhibition-making, performativity, and the spoken and written word. They acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded upon the Kulin Nations land from which they work, and pay their respects to Elders past, present and future across all First Nations. They are a University of Melbourne graduate with a Master of Art Curatorship (2017) and Postgraduate Art History (2013) who has previously co-directed an artist-run initiative, sat on grant advisory panels, and written published copy on numerous contemporary arts practices. Their recent thesis examines ways of constructing liminal experiences in order to incur healing, promoting inclusivity and community, and exercising the therapy of art. Their recent projects include Pearlescent Verse (Human Rights Arts and Film Festival), Apocalyptic Horse (Heide Museum), Utopian Tongues (Seventh Gallery), and Beyond the Veil (Blindside Gallery).
• Walter Bakowski (Ophelia) is a graduate of the BA of photography at PSC and is an artist practicing in performance documented through photography, the moving image, the written word and installation. To date, Bakowski's work explores dialogues between art and spirituality, the sacred and the unseen - discovering the nuances of queer self in practice. Bakowski has been awarded as an exhibiting finalist in the Moran Contemporary Photography Prize and CLIP award. And has been part of numerous group shows at recognized contemporary galleries including; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Perth Centre for Photography, Blindside and Seventh Gallery. Their work is held in private collections across Melbourne, Sydney, Paris and New York City, and in the public collection at the National Library of Australia. Walter’s 2018 body of work ‘Endure’, has recently been exhibited as part of a selection of group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Centre for Contemporary Photography and a solo show at Alternating Current Art Space, creating discourse around the role of the spiritual ritual in facilitating the act of queering spaces.