Tia Madden is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator based on Dharug land in the Blue Mountains. Her practice is concerned with the porous boundaries between drawing and writing, the poetics of illegibility, and the potential for abstract marks to behave communicatively when framed – or misread – as language. Madden’s installations visually reference the typeset or letterpress— instruments designed for communication, even if they only speak in worlds outside our own. She looks to challenge the authority of interpretation, aligning with critical discussions on how meaning is formed, distorted or artificially imposed as a way of unsettling our ideas of how, where, and when meaning dwells in human-made marks. 

Madden has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Firstdraft, Woolloomoolloo; Falak Gallery, Cairo; Gosford Regional Gallery; Penrith Regional Gallery; Barometer Gallery, Paddington; Airspace Projects, Marrickville; and the Blue Mountains Heritage Centre. She was the 2024 Winner of the Kudos Emerging Artist Award; was Highly Commended in the 2023 Gosford Art Prize, the 2023 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, and the Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award; and has been featured as a finalist in numerous prizes including the 2025 Gosford Emerging Award, the 2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, and the M16 Drawing Prize. In 2023 she was awarded a one- month residency in Cairo, Egypt, which was supported by a grant from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust,
and is currently a Master of Fine Arts by Research candidate at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture (2024-2026).

Thomas Marcusson is an artist exploring the nexus between scientific theory and contemporary culture by combining technology with more traditional art forms such as sculptures, video and installations.

After having studied mathematics in Gothenburg, he went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Technology in Sydney. He is now a practising artist in Australia and Europe.

Thomas has been the recipient of various awards and acknowledgements and his work has been exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), the Eyebeam gallery (New York), the Science Gallery (Melbourne, Dublin), theMuseum (Ontario), Bow Arts (London), SIGGRAPH(Sydney), Konstfack (Stockholm),   NordArt (Hamburg) and Experimenta (Australia).

He has been attending several international artist's residencies including Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

Liam Houlihan is a sculpture and installation artist whose practice responds to experiences as a student, worker, and life within broader economies of labour. His work manifests as speculative "survival kits" and iterative, kinetic sculptures that try (and almost always fail) to resolve feelings of exhaustion, alienation, and grief. He is interested in the utopic/dystopic role of machines as surrogates for the human body; machines whose existence contemplates futures where automation replaces human labour, work becomes optional, and the tenets of capitalism disintegrate. Liam lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wangal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.

Dean is an image-based artist who lives and works in Sydney. His works explore the essence of reality, memory and history. Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Dean’s work involves a questioning of reality and memory, as well as a reinvention of both the modes of appearance and the creation of the history. His work can be reminiscent of a network with multiple connections and the fragments of an embedded story. It is ultimately a huge set of hidden clues to be deciphered, encouraging viewers to make their own associations and invent their own narrative in order to unravel the complexity staged by the artist.

Dean holds a Master of Art degree from the University of New South Wales Art and Design (COFA), and his works have been exhibited extensively in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and New York, receiving positive acclaim. Dean’s artistic achievements include awards from the Center for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne and finalist in Macquarie Emerging Art Prize, Head On Photo Festival and Australian Photo Award.

Willow Ferris is a media artist working with 3D animation to explore relationships between digital technologies and the human experience. Playing with a mix of real and surreal, she is interested in using computer graphics as a creative medium to abstract real-world subject matter, fostering new relationships with the world around us. Grounded in experimentation, Willow’s practice engages with techniques like real-time rendering and procedural modelling to create immersive animations and experiences.