Louise Bennett-Tahiraj

– Exhibitions, Friday 13th November 2009, Saturday 14th November 2009

Louise Bennett-Tahiraj is a Brisbane based emerging artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts from Queensland University of Technology. She is currently undergoing her honours degree and is a co-founding director of the artist run initiative Accidentally Annie Street Space. She has exhibited extensively over the past four years in established Brisbane spaces such as Metro Arts, Transit Lounge, The Block and with artist run initiatives Boxcopy and Inbetween Spaces. Academic achievements include placement on the Creative Industries Dean’s List of Excellence for 2008 and awarded Golden Key Honours Society membership from 2006 to present.

Louise Bennett-Tahiraj is a performative-led researcher that explores how identity is constructed through the digital technologies and networked environments of contemporary culture. Specifically she examines the way in which multiple personas and shifting identities can be documented and shaped through these technologies, using autobiographical and sub-cultural narratives. By combining the everyday digital technologies that we use to communicate with, along with drawing processes, her art practice aims to develop a new hybrid space of creative practice that reflects the do-it-yourself attitude that extends from punk to YouTube. In doing this, she also aims to demonstrate how mapping these approaches across one another can produce new understandings of contemporary youth culture and emerging artforms.