Emerging Contemporaries
Emerging Contemporaries 4 February - 20 March 2021 Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience. We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
Emerging Contemporaries
4 February - 20 March 2021
Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos
Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience.
We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
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Jonathon Zalakos<br />
ANU School of Art + Design<br />
Artist statement<br />
The monist says that my experiences and<br />
my sense of consciousness are a result of<br />
chemical and electrical activity in my brain<br />
and my body. The dualist says that there<br />
is something beyond the physical that<br />
explains my consciousness: the soul.<br />
The experience that I have inhabiting the<br />
world can also modelled through three<br />
dimensions: My behavioural performance,<br />
which is measurable and can be perceived<br />
by others. My conscious performance<br />
which includes the thoughts I process in<br />
making decisions. I can communicate<br />
these, but they can never truly be<br />
understood outside of my own head.<br />
Finally, there is the affective performance<br />
which are subconscious and contextual<br />
factors that influence decision making that<br />
I am not in control of, let alone aware of.<br />
Maintaining these multiple constructions<br />
of myself and more in my head at the<br />
same time has not helped me come to<br />
peace with my existence. Instead, these<br />
models overlap and conflict. There<br />
is a resulting dissonance around the<br />
fundamental experience of my existence<br />
that I cannot subdue.<br />
Biography<br />
Jonathon Zalakos is an art jewellery<br />
and object maker based in Canberra.<br />
He is graduating Design (Jewellery<br />
and Object Workshop) and Business<br />
Administration at the Australian National<br />
University. Jonathon seeks to integrate<br />
conventional goldsmithing techniques,<br />
rapid prototyping and digital media into<br />
a practice that can be consumed in<br />
very different contexts. Work produced<br />
comes in the form of wearable jewellery<br />
made from precious metals and plastics,<br />
interactive objects and digital media<br />
published online.<br />
Jonathon’s work revolves around<br />
meaning and how significance is created<br />
through both expression and perception.<br />
This drives exploration into the language<br />
of cultural phenomena including<br />
contemporary pop jewellery culture, online<br />
viral media and the interfaces between the<br />
human body and the manufactured world.<br />
Image: External Affect #2, brooch, fine silver, gold plated<br />
stainless steel, 50 x 50 x 30mm. Photo: Craft ACT<br />
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