Jana Kühne is this year’s recipient of the CACT Award for Sculpture, and is currently studying at the Art Academy. She says: “My practice engages with ideas about nature, environment, and landscape through drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. The central theme is that of rewilding: the abandonment of analytical tools and intellectual knowledge in […]
Eleanor Green: “I am a multi-disciplinary artist working across sculpture, costume, performance and film. I make surreal political comedy about power, authority and conventions, which often wrestle with the contradictions and impossibilities of being a woman today. My sculptural props and green screened backdrops play with the real and the unreal, juxtaposing taste and tat, […]
“I explore social structures through my experience of being a woman. I use domestic objects as proxies, using the meanings and assumptions assigned to them to unpick gender and class and their functions both in my own life and in today’s society. By manipulating and subverting those objects, I seek to reveal the hidden, the […]
