Art Installations
A playground of art awaits you that will transport you to new worlds and evoke new ways of thinking. From day to night watch the Wildlands transform as new layers unravel and the Australian bush becomes a canvas of colour, imagination and texture.
Art is what sets us apart from so many festivals - to us, the visual and experiential elements of the festival are as important as the music playing.
Play, connect, explore and immerse yourself in art.
Alter.place is a multi-disciplinary studio where architecture, nature, and technology converge. Crafting stages, sculptures, and installations, we redefine spaces, provoking new ways for people to interact with their surroundings and the people within them.
Hari Koutlakis is an artist based on Kaurna land, focusing on movement based abstract murals, paintings, and installations.
His recognisable pattern-like work is formed through a series of process based discoveries of forms which are forever growing and responding to the space in which the work is made. Hari approaches the work with no preconceived ideas, allowing it to evolve in an organic manner within his distinctive graphic style.
Miles Dunne and Benen Hamon are both visual artists living and working on Kaurna Country, Adelaide, South Australia.
Miles’ practice spans digital mediums, sculpture, installation, and live performance. In the initial years of his professional career, Dunne has delved into the intersection of digital programming and physical space, employing sculpture, light, and sound to explore themes shaped by his upbringing amidst rapid technological advancement. His work recontextualises technology to investigate augmentation and mutation within physical environments and objects. Deeply fascinated, and troubled by critical issues such as war, displacement, environmental degradation, and the weaponization of now everyday technologies, whilst also drawing inspiration from science fiction, and imagined, and future technologies, Dunne crafts dystopian narratives, exploring themes of societal collapse and a recontextualisation of the concept of nature.
Benen’s art practice engages with the processes of expanded painting and sculpture with found objects and conventional building materials. Benen references and responds to overlooked and unnoticed peculiarities within his surrounding everyday urban and suburban material environment. He incorporates processes of casting and assemblage to present a collision of found materials and cast objects. Benen aims to explore the new and unexpected outcomes that emerge from material play and thinking. Through his sculptural relief paintings Benen highlights and expresses his own curiosity in the banality of the objects and built features that occupy space in our living environment.
In this project, Miles Dunne and Benen Hamon celebrate the beauty of deep friendship and explore the possibilities that arise from shared intimacy with others. Drawing on memories that have shaped their development both as artists, and individuals, this collaboration highlights the evident connections between their respective practices, whilst also demonstrating stark contrasts that exist between the two.
Miles Dunne x Benen Hamon: Friendship
InKāla is a transmedia creative studio committed to experiences that transcend boundaries. We draw upon a rich tapestry of cultures, employing a multidisciplinary approach that merges cutting-edge techniques at the forefront of art, design, and technology. Our mission is to captivate the senses through an emotionally driven, grounding and ever-expanding research ethos. Striving to produce work that is robust, impactful and moving. Project Bio: “Liminal Place” is a lighting sculpture designed to evoke a state of being on the threshold, in between the familiar and the unknown. The primary aesthetic principle of “Liminal Place” lies in the flickering quality of the fluorescent tubes. Creating an ever-changing light and shadow, casting layered and pulsing patterns on the ground and surrounding environment. Designed to transport the audience into a surreal and nostalgic liminal space, akin to stepping into a quiet, late-night public laundry room at Point Leo (Bobbanaring).
Tetrik creates future-focused tensile fabric structures and sculptures
Chris Henderson is an artist and arts educator based in Collingwood, known for his dynamic kinetic sculptures and large-scale murals. His Play Echoes series of mobiles draws inspiration from childhood memories of tinkering in the shed, building toys, and experimenting with movement. Each piece in the series explores the delicate balance between form and motion, inviting viewers to experience art that responds to its surroundings. Henderson’s work celebrates the playful intersection of engineering and imagination, reflecting his deep connection to the physical process of creation and his fascination with movement and interaction.
Decade-long practice of furniture design and making, always dipping into sculptural exploration, with an emphasis on traditional woodworking techniques and native materials. I've worked on multiple pieces for SFF over the life of the festival, each one taking a unique character of it's own.
Christian AKA General Zod is a Melbourne based artist/sculptor.
He started out as predominantly a timber worker with a passion for recycling. However in recent years through working festivals Christian has embraced and learnt to harmonise many more contemporary mediums/ technology.
Christian is a true believer in the rave movement and hopes to spread that enthusiasm to the next generation of festival artists.
Christian Patton
A lifelong fascination with colour and lighting, 2 decades of decorating festivals to make them look pretty at night, so's people can orient themselves and navigate in the night. I rely 100% on trees as my support to suspend my lighting, i love trees. i have degrees in fine art painting VCA & Industrial Design RMIT and years designing my own product ranges of lighting and ceramics, international exhibitions, shows and awards.
Fell deeply in love with lasers about 6 years ago, I spent hours creating new laser cues, and absolutely adore operating them...... I am in heaven.