West Space is a large and dedicated community of peers that regularly participate in the organisation. Across the Staff, Board and Program Committee there are around thirty key members.
Phip Murray is a Melbourne-based artist and writer. Her previous employment includes lecturing in contemporary art history and theory, and working for the Next Wave Festival for which she helped create the artist-run initiative exhibition Containers Village (2006) as well as the interdisciplinary Nightclub projects (2008). Phip has...
Kelly Fliedner graduated with Honors in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2008. The focus of her research has been the introduction of postmodern theory into Australian (in particular Melbourne) art, focusing on journals such as Art & Text, Tension, Vox, On the Beach and Lip.
Kelly is currently completing a Masters in...
Cherie Schweitzer has a background in architecture and is currently completing a Graduate Certificate in Art History at the University of Melbourne. She started with West Space as a volunteer in 2009. Cherie assists the Director and the Program Coordinators in the general operations of West Space and undertakes special roles...
Dominic Redfern is a video artist. He creates video works at the intersection of site, screen and identity. These interests are expressed with a very self-conscious approach to the technology and culture of video. The screen then is both subject and medium for his work, which endeavours to give critical expression to the complexity of ...
Cheree Tucker is a senior accountant at Lowensteins Arts Management. She has a Bachelor of Science and of Business (Accounting) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in November 2004. Cheree has been involved with not for profit accounting and audit since 2002.
Bill is a Barrister in private practice in Melbourne. He works pro-bono with a number of not-for-profit organisations, including Heide Museum of Modern Art, UN Magazine, The Opera Studio, Living Museum West and Astor Cinema. He wears alternate hats as an historian and referee of Rugby. He recently participated as a technical official ...
Patrick Pound is a Melbourne based artist.
His work is held in the collections of the NGV, the National Gallery in Canberra, Auckland Art Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand, the Christchurch City Art Gallery and many other corporate and private collections. He has held over 50 solo exhibitions and been in numerous curated shows in New Z...
Terri is an artist and lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Monash University. Her practice investigates materiality, as a way of re-thinking of the relations of matter outside the customary binaries of form, meaning and content, to reconfigure the production of sites and situations differently. Her works have been included in...
Stuart Geddes runs communication design studio Chase & Galley, and teaches at Monash and RMIT Universities. Previously Stuart was art director of Monument magazine, co-founded design practice Studio Anybody, and co-founded/co-designed Is Not Magazine, which won the Premier’s Design Award for Communication Design in 2006, and was...
Brad Haylock is an artist, designer and writer who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Lecturer in Visual Communication at Monash University. He holds an Honours Degree in Visual Communication from Monash University and a PhD from RMIT University. He is a member of the Program Committee and the Board of West Space, and...
Veronica Kent is a Melbourne-based artist who is best known for her ongoing collaborative work The Telepathy Project. Telepathy serves as an extended metaphor and a working methodology through which she and her partner in telepathy, Sean Peoples, explore other possible ways of being, communicating, imagining and collaborating. Her...
Lyndal Walker is a Melbourne-based artist.
Jeremy Bakker is a Melbourne-based visual artist who works across drawing, sculpture and installation methodologies with the aim of establishing a poetic connection between small, material gestures and the impersonal processes that shape the world at large. Bakker’s recent exhibitions include Resonate, West Space (2009) and Alone...
Ross Coulter completed his Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts with honours in 2007. He has exhibited numerous times in a variety of public spaces including the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Federation Square Melbourne, Te Tuhi, (New Zealand) as well as other...
Emily Ferretti makes still life and landscape paintings of objects and scenes that filter into her daily life. Recent exhibitions include, Pot Plants and Landscapes Gertrude Contemporary Melbourne, Slowness Monash University Museum of Art, Small World West Space Melbourne, Light hold Sophie Gannon Gallery Melbourne, New works...
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Camilla Hannan is a Melbourne based sound artist who works exclusively with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience. Camilla has performed in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A. She has performed at festivals including Articulating the Medium (San Francisco), Liquid...
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Rowan McNaught lives and works in Melbourne. He works across video, sculpture, sound and online with a focus on extracting/querying some of the new cultural models that we are making and using together now. Lately, he’s spending more time on participation in decentralised collaborative projects such as Taylors lake super colony. In...
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Marika Nilsen is a Melbourne-based artist and arts worker. She has exhibited locally and internationally, and worked in studios in Utrecht (Netherlands), Berlin (Germany) and currently Fitzroy (Melbourne). Marika graduated from RMIT with a BA Arts (Fine Arts) with a major in sculpture in 2008. Her visual arts practice has been...
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Kiron Robinson uses a range of mediums including neon, video, photography andinstallation to investigate the idea of doubt and failure as constructive devises.Continually chasing ways of articulating that, which by its own definition, is beyondarticulation, leads to a paradoxical reasoning in Robinson’s work which unravels as...
Bill Sampson is a visual artist now residing and practising at, or in Lalaland, Guildford in north central Victoria; initially, a product of the VCA, post-grad at The Slade, London, and PhD (Prettybad: towards an aesthetics of the expressionless) again at VCA; other degrees in boring subjects; passionate tutor in drawing, and Critical ...
Tai Snaith has a multifaceted practice working as an independent artist, curator, producer and writer.Honesty, absurdity and animism heavily influence her artwork and ideas alongside a recurring focus on collaboration and experimentation. She draws and paints on paper, on the street and recently inside restaurants and houses.Using...
Kieran Stewart is a Melbourne based visual artist who works across the mediums of video, image making and sculptural installation. His practice revolves around the themes of exhaustive labour, systems of commercial promotion and gross capital production. Over the past seven years he has shown nationally in both artist-run initiatives a...
Fleur Summers is a lecturer in Sculpture with a focus on teaching developmental working processes with reference to spatial practice. Fleur began her academic life studying science and worked professionally as a Microbiologist for several years. This experience and ongoing interest in natural science informs and enriches her work...
Nick graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the VCA in 2009 and was awarded The Orloff Family Award, the Alliance Francaise Award, and the John Vickory Scholarship. He has recently exhibited in New York at The Divi- sion of Human Works gallery in Brooklyn, and was featured in the 2009 Blake Prize Director’s Cut exhi...
Ieuan resides and exhibits in Melbourne. He works at the VCA School of Artfor the past five years. He has completed his Masters of Fine Art byResearch at the VCA in 2007, previously finishing his BFA at the CanberraSchool of Art in 1989. He has also studied sound, and graphic design. Hehas exhibited in Canberra, Sydney, Colombo(Sri...
Jessie Bullivant is an emerging artist who finished her Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT in 2011. Working across sculpture, performance and video her practice focuses on conceptual propositions. She recently returned from 6 months studying at The New School (Parsons) in New York. She is employed at ACCA as well as having held internship...
Laura Couttie has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Art History) from the University of Melbourne. She has been volunteering at West Space since August 2010, and also volunteers at other galleries, including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Laura’s first curatorial venture was the group exhibition, Drawn, at...
Yuria Okamura, Jessica Jacob, Jessie Ngaio, Dani Hakim, Sheena Colquhoun, Camila Galaz, Heidi Tatchell, Luis Martinez, Dani Mileo, Benita Sullivan, Gen Honey, Michelle James, Grace Wood
West Space is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
West Space is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.
