Lauren Brincat

Lauren Brincat is an artist who works across diverse media from video and performance to sculpture and installation. Brincat employs moving images and their soundtracks to probe historical ruptures and failures of language. Using a variety of platforms – video installation, sculpture, performance and walking scores – her work explores non-verbal modes of expression through narratives or ideas. By distancing us from a logical, direct, language-based understanding, her work opens the door to multiple perspectives and interpretations.

In 2021 Brincat was included in the TarraWarra Biennial: Slow Moving Waters and in 2020 worked with the Kaldor Public Art Project 36: do it (australia). In 2019 The Plant Library, sculptural greenhouses were home to dozens of species, from edible flora grown by locals to plants that form part of Darug cultural practices with MCA C3West Projects, Tallawong, NSW.  Other Tempo was a major work collaborating with 8 drummers on the foyer of Carriageworks for Liveworks Festival, Sydney. 

In 2016, Brincat presented Salt Lines: Play It As It Sounds, Performance Instruments, a site-specific installation at Carriageworks as part of the Biennale of Sydney. The piece was purchased by the Art Gallery of NSW to be included in their permanent collection. Brincat collaborated with musicians, composers, dancers and writers, twelve in total, with ninety instrument moves. This piece is a continuous work the first of a series of performance instruments that Brincat intends to create. Salt Lines: Play It As It Sounds, Performance Instruments was notably the first ever work with a instructional performance dimension purchased by the Art Gallery of NSW. Brincat and van Reyk's work Molto Echo 2016 was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. The score was written for seven drummers who made the MCA walls move, a political piece highlighting the lack of female artists represented in the Arts. This instructional work was acquired by the MCA. In 2012, Brincat's work Tinnitus was the focus of an art lecture series, Tinnitus: a Symposium on Art and Rock’n'Roll, held at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University 2012. Brincat attended and led a feature lecture on her career and work in Boston.

Alyx Dennison is a singer, composer and sound designer living and working on Gadigal Land. She is an advocate for equality in arts and education, with a particular interest in work that interrogates and seeks to dissolve class and hierarchy on systemic and intimate scales. The child of a foley artist and sound designer, she is sharply attuned to the placement, perception and sensations of sound, and is interested in the use of psychoacoustics in fostering empathy and communication.

She is proud to be a current associate artist at Belvoir Street Theatre, which has a rich history of amplifying underrepresented voices - currently developing the composition, sound design and live score (performed alongside Marcus Whale) for their Rep Season, a bold undertaking which sees a team of cast and creatives develop and stage two plays at once. They are “Wayside Bride” by Alana Valentine and “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire” by Caryl Churchill and are directed by Hannah Goodwin and Eamon Flack. Other composition and sound design credits for stage include; “Grey Rhino” by Charmene Yap and Cass Mortimer Eipper for Sydney Festival and Carriageworks 2022, “Limbic” by Cass Mortimer Eipper for Australasian Dance Collective 2022; “The Mother Project”  a multi-disciplinary work directed by Clemence Williams 2022; for Agatha Gothe-Snape; “The Outcome is Certain” 2020 and “Wet Matter” 2020 (lead by Evelyn Morris) for MUMA,“Double Beat” by Sara Black for Form Dance Projects 2019-2022; for Griffin Theatre Company: “Splinter” by Hilary Bell and directed by Lee Lewis 2019 and “Superheroes” by Mark Rogers and directed by Shari Sebbens 2020; for Karul Projects: “Mi:wi” by Taree Sansbury for Next Wave Festival 2018, “WOLLUMBIN / / WARNING” 2017 and “CO_EX_EN” by Thomas E.S. Kelly for Dance Massive 2019, “Story Club Solo” by Zoe Norton-Lodge for Sydney Opera House 2017. Film credits include; “Nataptedi” by Yolanda Lowatta for Art_Apart 2022; “Liminal” for Australasian Dance Collective 2020 and “ID” for Transit Dance Company 2020 - both choreographed and directed by Cass Mortimer Eipper; a series of short films born of Liverpool Girls’ Highschool’s Refugee Art Project, and “Outbreak Generation” by Brooke Goldfinch which premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2017. In 2022, she is slated to work again with Hannah Goodwin on a new play for Belvoir’s 25a season, as well as new works by performance artist Cheryn Frost, contemporary artist Lauren Brincat, choreographer/director Shaun Parker and her frequent collaborator Cass Mortimer Eipper.

Leah Giblin is a bespoke textile designer and costume artist. Her great interests have always been clothes-making, textiles and the environment. She began with a degree in Environmental Studies, while always sewing and making in her spare time. Her love of costume and historical fashion developed over time and eventually drew her to NIDA, where she completed a costume degree. She followed that with ten years in the film and television industry, working as a costume maker, stylist, costume designer and standby. During that time she also collaborated with visual artists (Mikala Dwyer, Koji Ryui, Lauren Brincat, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Justene Williams).