Rachel Power (Rocket)

2022 Small Equipment Grant
Genre: Visual Arts

Rocket is a narrative surrealist artist and illustrator working out of a private studio in Geelong, Australia. Their work is inspired deeply by nature and experiences of the strange, peculiar and anomalous.

They explore different dreamscapes and create works with layered meanings that pertain to either personal experiences and influences, or the perspective leant to them vicariously through others.

Rocket’s aim is to create these images in such a way that it challenges the viewer to unravel them, or to try and find their own individualised meaning from what is presented in the work. The work is often sensitive and delicately rendered in graphite to communicate these messages.

They also use their art as a way to escape from the world that so many of us are swept up in. They create their own places; where it is safe to be different and where you are the creator of your own world.

www.artbyrocket.com

Spencer Harrison

2022 Haymes Family Foundation Award
2022 Small Equipment Grant
2023 Mentoring Program
Genre: Digital Visual Art

Spencer is a visual artist establishing a practice in digital and video arts. BAF’s support will enable Spencer to acquire a high-performance computer with the capabilities necessary to support Spencer’s development in this rapidly evolving field.

https://spencerharrison.art/

Kat Pengelly

2004 BAF Award
2022 Mentoring Program
Genre: Fashion Design

Kat Pengelly creates wearable art. Her label ‘Koshka’ is a creative force of Art Fuelled Fashion.

With a background in Fine Art, Kat’s fashion collections enter the world via art galleries and theatres. Her artistic label was unleashed at the Art Gallery of Ballarat with a solo show and performance called Launch Pad. A capacity crowd was in attendance and the gallery acquired one of Kat’s garments for their permanent collection.

Kat’s artful fashion incorporates sculptural and image making processes and are often presented as performance art. Her favorite artistic expression is to create thought provoking Fashion Concept Shows. The collaboration required to execute such events is a source of inspiration for her.

A successful applicant of many grants, Kat has received significant funding from the Regional Arts Fund, administered by Regional Arts Victoria to produce her shows called Feeling the Ceiling – Fashion for Rock Climbers (2011) and Fashion for Funerals – Putting the FUN into Funerals (2015). Both of these performances were premiered at the Nati Frinj Biennale.

https://koshka.com.au/