Art and Feminism

Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities.

She has acted with many theatre companies in the UK, including RSC, Theatr Clywd, Cambridge Theatre Company, and Chichester Festival Theatre. In Australia, she has performed with Bell Shakespeare Co (King Lear), Malthouse (Sappho…in 9 fragments, Wild Surmise), Fraught Outfit (Elektra), Red Stitch (Good People), for whom she also directed Wittenberg, and The Rabble for MTC’s Neon (Story of O) and Malthouse (Frankenstein).

As writer, Jane’s plays include Sappho…in 9 fragments (Currency Press; Malthouse; ABC RN; Greenwich Theatre, London), Sectioned (ABC RN), the libretto Razing Hypatia (Opera Nova; 3 Masks), and an adaptation of Dorothy Porter’s Wild Surmise (Malthouse, ABC Radio National).

TV includes: The Bill, Casualty, Red Dwarf, One Against the Wind and A Murder of Quality. Awards and nominations: Manchester Evening News Best Actress (Electra); RE Ross Script Development Award (An ox stand on my tongue); shortlisted for NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Literary Award, Best New Play (Sappho…in 9 fragments); nominated for Greenroom award for new writing (Wild Surmise).

Emily Floyd works in print and sculpture exploring the history of pedagogical play, employing it as a frame for investigations into literature, typography, protest, public art and the legacy of Modernism. Floyd graduated in sculpture at RMIT University in 1999 and has exhibited widely since then.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Dawn, National Gallery of Victoria, 2014 (forthcoming in November); Far Rainbow, Heide MOMA, Melbourne, 2014; This Place Will Always Be Open, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2012; Here Small Gestures Make Complex Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012; and New Graphic Sculpture, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 2012.

Group exhibitions include Below Another Sky, Glasgow Print Studio, 2014; There will be new rules next week, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, 2013; Sleep on the Left Side, Seven Art Limited, New Delhi, 2012; Kindness/Udarta, Habitat Center New Delhi; Ten Ways to Look at the Past, National Gallery of Victoria, 2011; In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010; and Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2008.

Floyd has completed several large scale public projects including New Ways of Thinking at Melbourne’s Docklands. Most recently she was awarded a Scottish Print Network Commission, Dundee Print Studio, Scotland and the inaugural Monash University Museum of Art Ian Potter Sculpture Commission. Floyd’s work is held in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Gallery of Modern Art Queensland, Brisbane, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Emily Floyd is lecturer at Monash, Art Design and Architecture and is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australia.

Atlanta Eke is an Australian artist, dancer and choreographer working internationally. She was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient 2010 in Vienna, and has received NextWave Kickstart 2011, Dancehouse Housemate residency 2012 in Melbourne, an ArtStart Grant recipient and has recently been nominated for a Green Room Award.

Atlanta has recently performed the work of Marina Abramovics and Joan Jonas at the Kaldor Public Art Project #27: 13 Rooms in Sydney.

Atlanta has recently premiered her work Fountain at Chunky Move and is the recipient of the 2014 inaugural Keir Choreographic Award for her latest work, Body Of Work.

Juliana Engberg is artistic director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. She is a professorial fellow at Monash University and adjunct professor at RMIT University, and was the artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney 2014: You Imagine What You Desire.

Mish Grigor is a performance maker, writer and curator based in Sydney. She is one third of the performance group POST, whose work has been seen around Australia. Their works include Oedipus Schmoedipus, Who’s the Best?, Shamelessly Glitzy Work, Swimming Home in Heels, Everything I Know About the Global Financial Crisis in One Hour and Gifted and Talented.

In 2014 POST will travel to the UK to tour Everything I Know About The Global Financial Crisis In One Hour, as well as undertaking a residency at In Between Time Festival, Bristol and The Junction, Cambridge.

Mish’s solo and other collaborative works have been presented at Next Wave, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts and Lismore Regional Gallery, amongst others. In 2014 she is presenting Man O Man at Festival of Live Art, Melbourne, and at Vital Statistix, Adelaide.

From 2009 to 2011, she was co-director of The Imperial Panda Festival, co-director of Quarterbred, and co-founder of Tiny Stadiums. Mish is working with UK/Belgian company Reckless Sleepers to devise their new piece EMPIRE and recently had a residency at NES Iceland. Mish has Honours in Performance Studies from UNSW, and a Bachelor in Performance Making (Theory and Practice) from UWS.