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Arts Project Australia

Arts Project Australia

Two grounps of three people standing in a studio with walls and shelves filled with artworks
(L-R) Clare Rae, Cathy Staughton, Alan Constable, Andrew Curtis, Eden Menta, Ross Coulter at the Arts Project Australia Studio (Janelle Low and Mark Smith not pictured), 2022 Mark Mohell. Photographed on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

Arts Project Australia is a creative social enterprise based in Naarm/Melbourne that supports neurodiverse artists, promoting their work and advocating for inclusion within contemporary arts practice.

Ways of Seeing: Portraits of an artist features works by Arts Project Australia artists Eden Menta, Mark Smith, Alan Constable and Cathy Staughton, alongside collaborative portraits by the APA artists and established photographers Janelle Low, Ross Coulter, Andrew Curtis and Clare Rae. Presenting photographic collaborative portraiture together with works in which portraiture is embodied demonstrates that there are a multitude of ways to experience the world, to see ourselves and to see each other.

Arts Project Australia installation
Arts Project Australia installation
Arts Project Australia installation
Arts Project Australia installation

The suite of interconnected works reflects eight individual ways of seeing, speaking to the empowering nature of creative practice and offering a collective and holistic concept of portraiture. Intrinsically linked to identity, the works serve as an extension of who the artists are and their social, political, economic, humanitarian and environmental beliefs.

Note: Parts of the biography have been drawn from artsproject.org.au with permission.

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