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Lida Abdul works primarily in performance and video art, posing questions about place, community and the meaning of our surroundings.

Vasco Araújo works in a variety of media, including video, installation and photography, to explore ideas of community and marginality.

Mircea Cantor works in a wide variety of media including video and photography and constantly investigates the conventions of image and object making.

Scottish artists Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion began their collaboration in 1993 and since then, have produced a significant body of work that has been widely shown nationally and increasingly, internationally.

N.S.Harsha is an Indian artist whose work reveals a political commentary within a framework of Indian miniature painting, the modern Indian narrative tradition and popular art. Harsha was awarded the third Artes Mundi Prize in 2008.

Abdoulaye Konaté studied painting in Bamako, Mali and then Havana, Cuba. He later combined his painting skills with installation work to make a powerful commentary on political and environmental affairs.

Australian artist Susan Norrie has confronted and examined her deep held fears for our environment for over two decades. Her concern has seen her create compelling work that explores industrial damage, nuclear testing and climate change through her images of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, dust storms and toxic fires.

Rosângela Rennó’s work is predominantly photography based, although she rarely takes photographs of her subjects. Instead, she recasts and transforms appropriated photographic images. In the past she has presented anonymous portraits compiled from existing photographs.