POP-UP: Now and Then

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• Matisse Laida ›
• Nicholas Currie ›
• Nisha Hunter ›
• Olivia Stephen ›
• Playte ›
• Priscille Xavier ›

• Matisse Laida is an creative producer with a commitment to empowering and uniting underrepresented communities, particularly Queer, First Nations, Black, and people of colour. She founded We Eatin’ Good, a collective that fosters connection and shared experiences through food and identity.
• Nicholas Currie’s work feature’s themes and subject matter of contemporary Australian Indigenous masculinity. These histories come from shared perspectives and are demonstrated with the use of colour, mark and the familiar objects. Iconic features of Currie’s practice are the large-scale paintings created through mark making performances entrenched and achieved by the body through chance, rehearsed actions, playing with medium and culturally significant movements. To coincide these paintings on canvas is the sculptural and performance practice with the use of readymade martial linking with iconography associated with the Australian Indigenous experience. As a result action in the space is the major linking aspect throw-out my whole practice if it be active with a performance or still with an artwork.
• Nisha Hunter lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country.
• Olivia Stephen is a dynamic curator, artist and member of We Eatin’ Good. Her multidisciplinary practice explores her Mauritian and Rodriguan heritage, using food and music to foster dialogue, shared knowledge, and community connection.
• Playte are a gastro-architect duo who use local food as a tool to create site-specific experiences exploring the intersection between art, architecture, food security and Heritage.
• Priscille Xavier of Châteaux Creole uses flavour as aphorisms to invite you into the open source of knowledge. She uses methods for igniting memory and resonance, all through the pleasure of discovery and devotion to Earth