Amelia McLeish is a contemporary sound and visual artist. Her sound practice utilises the collection and manipulation of samples sourced from mass media such as television shows and pop music. These experimental and intuitive sound performances often result in large swathes of noise, which is counterbalanced by ethereal ambience in order to encourage the listener to fully immerse themselves into sound. 

Guy Lobwein is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based emerging artist currently undertaking his Doctorate of Philosophy at Queensland University of Technology. Graduating in 2020 with a Masters in Philosophy, his research focuses on the use of expanded reality technologies in contemporary art and how experimental creative practice can generate experiential and critically reflective experiences. Guy has exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as working as an artist-technician on several research projects. 

MJ O’Neill is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based musician, critic, and cultural strategist. Over the years, her work has encompassed warehouse noise gigs, multi-regional research papers on corporate communications, naked performance art projects, and interviewing Lady Gaga. Since 2020, she’s released five albums and eight EPs, including collaborations with sound artist Lawrence English, hyper-pop firebrand LÂLKA, and award-winning jazz luminary Helen Svoboda. Her output has been compared favourably to the sounds of crashing spaceships, Super Mario Brothers, Twin Peaks, and Blade Runner. She’s previously shared the stage with Royal Blood, Donny Benet, and members of Death Grips, clipping., and Regurgitator.  

Arianna Nixon is an emerging Meanjin/Brisbane-based video artist. Her passion for experimental filmmaking has evolved into an arts practice inspired by the postmodern video artists of the 1970s and 80s & the impressionists of the century preceding. Arianna is driven to create work reflecting on escapism and the realities of dialectical materialism in relation to queer & trans struggles. She continues to delve into new layers of graphic distortion and visual dissonance, utilising proprietary analogue video techniques. 

Amy Sargeant is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based queer protest artist and musician. Through installations of sculpture, audio and video Amy’s work responds to her disillusionment with the dysfunctions of the Australian political establishment by reframing the elements of political spectacle. Amy deploys the Situationist method of detournement to de-stabilise motifs from mainstream politics, activist iconography, symbols and visual cultures. 

Daniel Sherington is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist whose work critically reframes historical conventions of artmaking to better understand their contemporary connotations. His practice filters traditional processes of making with a digital means of production. Daniel’s works are often circulatory in nature, with images iterated, reworked and dispersed amongst new contexts and materials to adopt different meanings.