Feras Shaheen is a Palestinian artist, curator and community organiser currently based in Nipaluna. He is curious in letting his conceptual interests lead him across a variety of mediums. Working with choreography, installation work, film, performance, design, and street dance the core of Feras’ practice is to connect and engage audiences. He seeks to bring activism into his art practice, with outcomes that are accessible and community centred. Feras often subverts traditional relationships between mediums to challenge audiences’ perspectives, specifically to disrupt colonial discourses and reduce western reliance on neutrality and apathy. Born to Palestinian parents (Gaza/Al Lid), and moving to Western Sydney at age 11, Feras engages with his practice as a way to reflect and examine how he views the world, addressing local and global issues.

Jonny Scholes’ practice spans new media, painting, and installation. Passionate about understanding the world, Scholes is particularly engaged with geopolitics, news media, ethics, futurism, and technology. He began learning to program at the age of 13 when boredom with the limited games he was allowed to play, led him to break them open, discovering new ways of making and thinking in the process. A few years later he applied this same exploratory mindset to navigating urban spaces largely unknown to most people. Scholes’ practice sits at the intersection of technology, painting and exploration of liminal spaces. Drawing on his deep knowledge of computer systems, networks, and digital cultures he explores contemporary social issues.