Van Sowerwine

Van Sowerwine is a new media artist who works across the areas of animation, installation, interactives and photography. She creates artworks that play with tensions between seemingly opposite forces such as light and darkness, danger and safety, the benign and the malignant. In 2009, she had a solo exhibition at Western Plains Cultural Centre Dubbo, entitled A Child's Eyes: Van Sowerwine, and was included in the group show Trouble in Toyland, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne. In 2008 her work featured in International Digital Art, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, and she exhibited at Art Cologne 2006 and screened work in Sundance Film Festival, USA. Her animated installation (with Clara animator Isobel Knowles) Expecting toured around Australia in 2004/2005 as part of the Experimenta: House of Tomorrow exhibition. Her previous interactive Play With Me (2002) was selected for the inaugural Anne Landa Award (2004/2005) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales - the first award-exhibition for the moving image and new media in Australia. Both interactives Expecting and Play With Me have also been shown as part of Media City Seoul 2004, the Korean biennale of new media art. Her animation Gillian was highly commended in the 2001 Dendy Awards as part of the Sydney Film Festival, and won Best Animation at the National Student Film and Video festival, and was screened at NewFest 2003 in New York.