Saskia Haalebos, FLOOD, 2018, paint marker on glass, child’s camouflage hunting-suit, using an excerpt from The Lake by author Jane Rawson, duration 12 hours 30 mins. Performed at Contour 556: Canberra’s Public Art Biennial, East Space, curated by Neil Hobbs. Image Sean Davey.
Saskia Haalebos (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with audio, book-arts, coding, performance-drawing, printmaking, film, text—whatever the idea needs around themes of time, empathy, and mis/communication.
Her highlights include: the National Gallery of Australia asking her to create a family program for their building’s 40th birthday; being a guest artist for the EXTRA! EXTRA! residency as part of the AGNSW’s Kaldor Public Art retrospective; being a sessional lecturer at the National Art School in Sydney; and having solo exhibitions with Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (NSW), Sawtooth ARI (TAS), Sydney Non-Objective (NSW), Canberra Contemporary Manuka (ACT), and Megalo Print Studio and Gallery (ACT).
In 2023 Saskia was the recipient of the inaugural M16 Studio Residency Program..
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