2023

Clementine Belle McIntosh /  by Kirrily Jordan

 

Clementine Belle McIntosh, 2023. Image courtesy of M16 Artspace.

Meet the Artist

Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist from Gilgandra NSW, the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples. Through collaborative methods in circular systems, McIntosh produces predominantly textile-based, site-responsive installations representing her learnt sense of place.

Her process-based practice focuses on the act of mark-making to record local dialogues, exchanges and relationships connecting herself with others (strangers and/or the nonhuman). After art display, McIntosh's works are returned to local nonlinear systems as they are composted in the garden, gifted to a neighbour or repurposed into usable objects.  Underpinning this methodology is a departure from the mainstream art market and its problematic hierarchies of care ie. the tendency to preserve cultural artefacts produced from a place but not preserving the place itself. 

Local Gifts, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.

Blanket in Place, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.

Photo of artist studio at the KEPK art space in Yeerongpilly QLD, 2022. Image credit: Clementine Belle McIntosh

Jonathon Zalakos /  by Kirrily Jordan

Portrait of Jonathon Zalakos in studio. Image courtesy of Tracey Nearmy.

Meet the Artist

Jonathon Zalakos is an emerging artist and contemporary jeweller based in Canberra, Australia, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. He seeks to integrate traditional goldsmithing materials and techniques with contemporary practices and philosophical thought. His work takes the form of jewellery, interactive objects, digital media and installation. Jonathon is particularly interested in how meaning is co-produced through the processes of expression and perception. 

This drives exploration into the visual language of cultural phenomena including contemporary pop jewellery culture, online viral media and the two-way relationship between the human and manufactured worlds. These concepts are deconstructed and reassembled so as to consider the different worlds we occupy with our bodies and minds. 

Jonathon Zalakos ,Ruby bug, 2021. Sterling silver, synthetic ruby. Image courtesy of the artist.

Jonathon Zalakos ,Ticks, 2021. Sterling silver, cubic zirconia. Image courtesy of the artist.

Jonathon Zalakos, Nest, 2022. Sterling silver. Image courtesy of the artist.

Jonathon Zalakos, Emerald bug, 2021. Sterling silver, synthetic emerald. Image courtesy of the artist

Saskia Haalebos /  by Kirrily Jordan

Saskia Haalebos. Image courtesy of Mark Mohell.

Meet the Artist

Born on Ngunnawal Country, Saskia Haalebos is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with text, humour, film, melancholy, performance, printmakingβ€”whatever the idea calls for really. With an existentialist heart and autism, most of her work is about memory, mortality, empathy or mis/communication. 

Saskia has exhibited in local and interstate galleries; been awarded residencies with Megalo, CCAS and The Unconformity (TAS); and has work in various collections, including the NLA. Alongside this, she has created workshops for the NGA, Belconnen Arts Centre and Goulburn Regional Art Gallery; taught Book Arts at the National Art School; and currently works for the National Portrait Gallery.