Tim Georgeson
Tim Georgeson is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in the mediums of film, photography, installation and sound with a strong focus on environment / climate justice / culture and knowledge.
He creates immersive cinematic spaces where environments and bodies are transformed through the gaze of unexpected visual-musical ecologies. His creative insight into the human condition gives his work a unique identity at the boundaries of art and documentary, where his film and photography capture complex dynamics in contemporary life and merge these moments with musical design and storytelling.
A self-titled ‘settler artist’, he is known for his ground-breaking collaborations, most notably with Australian Indigenous artists. In 2023 Georgeson travelled deep into the Tanami Desert with a group of Karrinyarra elders to create an extraordinary multi cinematic artwork, commissioned by Glen Isegar-Pilkington, curator at the Fremantle Arts Centre and the Indigenous Desert Alliance. This was presented as part of the Polarity Fire and Ice exhibition at the 2024 Perth Festival. Georgeson first collaborated with William Barton in 2021 on The Hidden Theatre, a major 3 channel film and sound installation commissioned by Sophie O'Brien and Rachel Kent for the Bundanon Art Trust Art Museum. His partnership with Barton has continued on multiple works most recently URRITJARA an installation responding to Barton and Veronique Serret’s composition Kalkarni and featuring performer Derik Lynch. Urritjarra has been presented in multiple locations around Australia including Tweed Regional Gallery, Passage Gallery and overseas.
Georgeson has won World Press Photo, Leica Camera, Cannes, Global Oceanic, Ciclope and National Geographic awards. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in France, UK, Japan, Holland, Canada, the US, and Australia. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Bundanon Trust Art Museum, The Australian Museum, corporate and regional gallery collections around Australia and private collections internationally.
Georgeson is represented by Olsen Gallery and Institute Artists.
www.timgeorgeson.com | @timgeorgeson
William Barton
William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as a highly esteemed composer, instrumentalist and vocalist.
William first learnt the instrument from his uncle, Arthur Peterson, an Elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people and was working from an early age with traditional dance groups, fusion/rock/jazz bands, orchestras, string quartets and mixed ensembles.
Throughout his diverse career he has forged a path in the classical musical world from the London, Berlin and Bremer Philharmonic Orchestras to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli and the Beijing Olympics.
His awards include Winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album with an ARIA for Birdsong At Dusk in 2012. In 2021 he was the recipient of the prestigious Don Banks Music Award from the Australia Council and the Limelight Australian Artist of the Year: Critic’s Choice. In 2022 he was included in The Australian’s The List: 100 Arts & Culture influencers.
www.williambarton.com.au | @williambartonmusic