ARTISTS
ARIS PRABAWA grew up in Solo in Central Java, Indonesia, in a tight, communal community of immediate and extended
family built on sharing and helping one another. The society within which they lived was controlled by a military dictatorship which was oppressive, violent, sexist and unjust. He moved in 1994 to Yogyakarta, and in 1995 began a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in print making at the Indonesian
Institute of Art. In 1998 he was involved in establishing the art collective Taring Padi
(fang of the rice plant). This collective used art as a tool for social change and as a way to share and explore political ideas,
communicate with others and build new and creative ways of living. He is currently both a practising artist and a student living in Lismore NSW.
ARLENE TEXTAQUEEN likes her tips felt. She spends her life as a marker superheroine, exposing real women and queer performers, un-dressed-up in accessories and surrounds of their own desire.
It was from New York City September 1979 at NO NUKES concerts, protest actions
and forums that BENNY ZABLE became acutely aware of the end game of the Nuclear Industry. Back in Australia he developed the GREEDOZER AND COMPANY character from crude beginnings at bush protest camps to presently performing THE TOXIC TOWER installation.
www.bennyzable.com
BRETTON BARTLEET has always passionately pursued work and projects that seek to both benefi t the wider-community
and aggressively hustle for social-change, culminating in his current position as Art Director of The Big Issue magazine.
DEBORAH KELLY has been making political art since joyful beginnings as a teenage feminist cartoonist in the early
80's. Her ongoing project examines the intersections of
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religion with politics: www.bewareofthegod.com
In 1972 GRAEME DUNSTAN, by then a long time student peace activist, went to the tropical north coast of NSW in search of a site for a counter cultural dreaming. In
May 1973 Graeme co-directed Nimbinʼs Aquarius Festival. As a student organiser of anti Vietnam War protests on the University
of NSW campus, Graeme learned that the celebratory approach to citizen protest not only removes the need for violent confrontation as a way of getting noticed,
it also wins hearts and builds cultural
movement and community as it goes.
JESSIE BOYLAN has been making photographs
since year 7 in Canberra, when
sticking your fingers in chemicals all day
wasn't questioned. Since learning about the
effects of uranium mining on Indigenous
and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia,
Jessie has been taken on a lifetime journey
to help stop this devastating industry from
destroying country and culture.
p.s. she really likes seaweed
p.p.s. she has nine toes
www.sustenance.net.au/
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JOSH MACPHEE is an artist, curator
and activist currently living in Troy, NY,
USA. His work often revolves around
themes of radical politics, privatisation and
public space. His second book: Realizing
the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK
Press, co-edited with Erik Reuland) was just
published. He also organises the Celebrate
Peopleʼs History Poster Series and is part of
the political art collective Justseeds.org.
KEVIN BUZZACOTT is an Arabunna
elder who has tirelessly campaigned for
cultural recognition, social justice and land
rights for Aboriginal people. The numerous
campaigns he has initiated and led include
those against uranium mining situated on
Arabunna land and the exploitation of water
from the Great Artesian Basin, a Peace Walk
from Lake Eyre to the Olympic Games
in 2000, and another in 2004 from
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Roxby Downs Uranium Mine near Lake Eyre to
Hiroshima, Japan. In 2001 he was awarded
the prestigious Nuclear-Free Future Peace
Prize in Ireland. In 2007 he was awarded the
Australian Conservation Foundation's 2007
Peter Rawlinson Award for two decades of
work highlighting the impacts of uranium
mining and promoting a nuclear free
Australia.
LOU SMITH is a Melbourne based poet
who loves making zines and handmade
books. She programmes the DIY Arts Show
on 3CR Community Radio.
MATHEW KNEEBONE is unhappy with
the world the way it is, so he lives upside
down hoping to change it. These changes try
to merge type and image into an idea with
often clumsy, thumb throbbing results ...
MITCH: I'm from Luritja and Eastern
Arrernte clans around Alice Springs, NT.
Grown up white, I've worked as a cleaner,
a cook, jillaroo then furthered my education.
The more I got educated the more I became
politically aware of what it really meant to be
black in Australia. I completed Certificate III
in Creative Writing then taught creative
writing for two years at BIIT. I am currently
involved with the fight against a uranium
dump being put 14kms from my homelands
and the rush for uranium mines profit.
I sought permission from my elders on
the Plenty Highway to talk up for my
Grandfather's land, before starting a protest
camp 22kms north of Alice Springs.
PETER KNEEBONE works for frontline,
a Melbourne based design studio. He has
a compulsive habit of making stuff, so he
tries to do it with consideration and care.
He likes developing ideas that enhance
understanding, and improve communities
and environments.
www.frontlinedesign.com.au
RODNEY DEKKER photographs fresh,
eye-catching and dramatic documentary
stories. In 2007 Rodney was a finalist of
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize,
Roving Eye: Expose Your World and |
Capture Magazine's Exposed Challenge.
www.rodneydekker.com
ROSE TURTLE ERTLER is a musician
who sometimes visits the world of drawing
and sewing. She thinks that if you are
going to make art, you might as well at least
sometimes try to raise awareness about one
of the many problems in this world that
needs to be fixed.
RUSSELL KERR is an Artworker, Activist
and Educator based in Melbourne, Australia.
He creates hand-made, screenprinted posters
for grass-roots political organisations and
causes. www.transferpress.com.au
SIMON BENT grew up in Ocean Grove, a
small town an hour and a half's travel from
the city. Leaving it all behind as soon as he
could to study design and live in Melbourne.
Since then he has been working at several
design studios as well as setting up his own
company called continue.
TIM GROWCOTT is a Melbourne textile
artist based in Brunswick. Combining
graphic design with an interest in getting
dirty, his main pastime is screen-printing
fabric. Through the grit and toil he dreams
of floral repeats for home and fashion, clean
air and global redistribution of wealth.
TOM CIVIL is an activist, graphic designer
and DIY artist.
VAN THANH RUDD believes that another
world is possible. His art is an attempt
at contributing to the fight against global
capitalism and the horrors it inflicts upon
those that are poor and disadvantaged.
He has worked on artistic projects and
collaborations with many activist groups
within Australia and internationally.
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