TALLAWOLADAH, AUSTRALIA.- Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists is the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual exhibition showcasing the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. The exhibition was initiated in 1992 by the MCA in collaboration with Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM, in memory of their talented and creative daughter Belinda, and will continue through February 12, 2023.

Since its inception, the exhibition has celebrated the achievements of Australian artists in the early stages of their careers and fulfilled an important role in bringing younger artists to the attention of a wide audience. Each year the Primavera curator undertakes extensive research, travelling across the country to meet young artists.

In its 31st year, Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists will be delivered by guest curator Micheal Do. Created during the global pandemic and widespread social upheaval, the participating artists, Sundari Carmody (SA), Angela Goh (NSW), Julia Gutman (NSW), Amrita Hepi (VIC), Jazz Money (NSW), and Katie West (WA) draw upon mediums from choreography to moving image to refocus our attention on the what, how, who and why of our present moment.

The Artists:




Sundari Carmody is an artist who grew up in Bali, Indonesia. Her multimedia works explore the relationship between consciousness and the cosmos. Her practice concerns itself with the question of how to engage with universal systems and aspects of being which linger in the category of the unknown – in ‘the dark’.

Angela Goh is an artist who works with dance and choreography. Her work is presented in contemporary art contexts and traditional performance spaces. Most recently Goh’s work has been performed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Sydney Opera House, and a range of venues in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, including Performance Space New York, Auto Italia, Baltic Circle, Shedhalle and Taipei Performing Arts Center.

Julia Gutman is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working on unceded Gadigal land. She re-uses found textiles to produce ‘patchworks’ that merge personal and collective histories to explore themes of femininity, intimacy and memory.

Amrita Hepi is an award-winning artist working with dance and choreography through video, the social function of performance spaces, installation and objects. Using hybridity and the extension of choreographic or performative practices, Amrita creates work that considers the body’s relationship to personal histories and the archive.

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist, a fresh-water woman currently based on sovereign Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Her practice is centred around story and narrative while producing works that encompass installation, digital, film and print. Jazz’s writing has been widely performed and published nationally and internationally.

Katie West is an artist and Yindjibarndi woman based in Noongar Ballardong Country, working in installation, textiles and social practice. The process and notion of naturally dyeing fabric underpin her practice – the rhythm of walking, gathering, bundling, boiling up water and infusing materials with plant matter.