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Meet the Artists

• Clifford Prince King

  

  Born 1993, Tucson, Arizona
  Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles

  Clifford Prince King is a self-taught artist based in New York and Los Angeles.

  King documents his intimate relationships in traditional, everyday settings that speak on his experiences as a queer black man. In these instances, communion begins to morph into an offering of memory; it is how he honors and celebrates the reality of layered personhood. Within King’s images are nods to the beyond. Shared offerings to the past manifest in codes hidden in plain sight, known only to those who sit within a shared place of knowledge.

  Website: https://www.cliffordprinceking.com/

  Instagram: @cliffordprinceking

• Derik Lynch (Yankunytjatjara)

  

  Born 1986, Alice Springs, Australia
  Lives and works Nothern Territory & Adelaide, South Australia

  Derik Lynch is an initiated Yankunytjatjara man born in Alice Springs in 1986. Derik grew up in community in Old Timers Camp in Alice Springs. He spent his childhood living between many communities in the Northern Territory and South Australia, including Umoona/Coober Pedy, Aputula/Finke, and Santa Teresa. He has worked both nationally and internationally in theatre, film and TV, including at the Southbank Theatre, London, Belvoir Street Theatre (Sydney Theatre Company), and at the Sydney Opera House with DANCERITES (2019). During the London run of Namatjira, Derik was also invited for a private audience with Queen Elizabeth II. His recent work Marungka tjalatjunu, with Australian artist Matthew Thorne, won the Silver Bear Jury prize at Berlinale. Derik currently works as an artist, educator, and youth worker.

• Matthew Thorne

  

  Born 1993, Adelaide, Australia
  Lives and works Adelaide, South Australia & Athens, Greece

  Matthew Thorne is a SA filmmaker and artist whose work explores the ‘Australian’ identity and landscape through film, photography, and reenactment. His recent work Marungka tjalatjunu (2023), made with Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch, won the Silver Bear Jury prize at Berlinale. His work has been exhibited at Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (2023), the Canberra Museum and Gallery with their Sidney Nolan collection (2022), National Portrait Gallery, Australia (2021), National Portrait Gallery, London (2020), National Museum of Australia (2020), and the Art Gallery of South Australia (2020). He was also recipient of the Adelaide Film Festival & Samstag Gallery of Art Commission (2022), and nominated for the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize (2023), Olive Cotton Award (2023), National Portrait Prize, Australia (2021), and Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, UK (2020).

  Website: www.matthewjjthorne.com
  Instagram: @matthewjjthorne

• Daniel Jack Lyons

  

  Born 1981, Los Angeles, US
  Lives and works Los Angeles, US

  Daniel Jack Lyons is an American artist and anthropologist whose work focuses largely on marginalized youth, whether occupying spaces on the periphery of society or in the face of conflict.

  Website: www.danieljacklyons.com

  Instagram: @danieljacklyons

• Jake Elwes

  

  Born 1993, London, UK

  Lives and works London, UK

  Jake Elwes is a media artist who explores poetry and biases in machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. Elwes lives and works in London, having studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2013-17). The artist’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally including V&A (London); ZKM (Karlsruhe); Today Art Museum (Beijing); Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich); Science Gallery (Dublin); Somerset House (London); RMIT Gallery (Melbourne); Yuz Museum (Shanghai); Onassis Foundation (Athens); Nature Morte, (Delhi); Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge) and they have been featured ZDF aspekte (Germany) and BBC Arts (UK).

  Website: www.jakeelwes.com

  Instagram: @jakeelwes

• Lilah Benetti

  

  Lilah Benetti (AU)

  Born 1988, Melbourne, Australia
  Lives and works Melbourne, Australia

  From Naarm (Melbourne) Lilah Benetti is an international award winning and critically acclaimed Artist and Filmmaker. Lilah considers their work as auto-ethnographic; an amalgamation of personal experiences interwoven within broader social and cultural histories, foregrounding Black Queer identities.

  Through their practice they often delve into the world of fiction to illuminate obscured narratives, exploring contemporary forms of resistance in the pursuit of self-determination.

  Considering the boundaries between both the still and moving image as fluid and porous, Lilah seeks to push the visual medium’s possibilities through scale, method and presentation, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.

  Lilah’s work is both speculative and imaginative – attentive to our immediate futures, recognising that Black Futurism and Queer Futurity are both near and tangible.

  Website: www.lilahbenetti.com

  Instagram: @easylilah

• FAFSWAG

  

  Alteration is FAFSWAG’s landmark Australian show created by Jermaine Dean, Falencie Filipo, Tanu Gago, Tapuaki Helu, Elyssia Wilson Heti, Nahora Ioane, Hōhua Ropate Kurene, Moe Laga-Toleafoa, Ilalia Loau, Tim Swann, Pati Solomona Tyrell and James Waititi. Curated collaboratively by FAFSWAG members Tanu Gago, Elyssia Wilson-Heti, Pati Tyrell and James Waititi with The Substation team, Nuala Furtado and Shae Rooke.

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  FAFSWAG is a Queer Indigenous arts collective committed to social change through arts and innovation, producing bespoke cultural activations that are cutting edge, culturally responsive and socially relevant. Operating across a multitude of interdisciplinary art forms and genres, FAFSWAG artists work collaboratively to activate public and digital space, speaking to our contexts as Queer Indigenous arts practitioners.

  Instagram: @FAFSWAG

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