r e a is an artist who works with in a new-media practice that is focused across a number of traditional art forms, that incorporates technologies in the outcome. She is a descendent of the Gamilaraay/Wailwan people, born in 1962 in NSW, based in Sydney. r e a began her journey as a mature ages student at the EORA Centre, Redfern in 1990 and has gone on to complete a BFA CoFA UNSW (1994); a MA Visual Arts ANU, (2000); a M.Sc. in Digital Imaging and Design, NYU (2004); followed by a Fulbright Scholarship to study new media at San Francisco Institute of Art; and is currently preparing to enrol in a Doctorate in 2009.

In 2006, r e a received a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts. Over the past year and a half, r e a has participate in the Live-I Workshops presented by Troika Ranch Contemporary Dance Company, NYC. She exhibited new work in the 3rd Auckland Triennial – turbulence, as well as travelled with her touring installation work gins_leap / dubb_speak, which also opened at MIC Toi Rerehiko - Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre, in Auckland 2007. r e a was recently invited to attend the 2007 SIGGRAPH Festival in San Diego, where she exhibited her new three-channel video work - maang (message stick), and also presented on a panel focused on Indigenous artists working across a multitude of technologies. Since returning from full-time study on a scholarship at New York University,
r e a has worked on a contract basis at the University of New South Wales main campus, Lecturing with in Nura Gili Indigenous Programs.
r e a has continued her professional practice as one of Australia’s leading Indigenous Artist’s in New Media Arts.


maang (message stick) 2007
Collaborators
Dr. Christine Nicholls - Indigenous Languages at Flinders University
Gail Kelly - dramaturg and creative co-director
Stephen Jones - technical designer, co-editor and DVD author
Peter Oldham - camera and co-editor of bed video
Christopher Paag - ABC co-editor of 16mm B&W film & sound

Copyright permission has been approved by William Grayden & ABC for the use of the 16mm B&W film to be used.

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