April Phillips

April Phillips

April is a Wiradjuri–Scottish woman of the Galari/Kalari peoples, living and working on Yuin Country, South Coast NSW. Her practice is grounded in futurism and media arts, spanning moving image, printmaking, illustration, 3D assets, AR research and photogrammetry. Drawing equally on analogue processes and emergent technologies, April explores kinship, place and techno-poetics, often leading collaborative teams to realise ambitious, interdisciplinary projects.

April studied Creative Arts + Design at Charles Sturt University (graduating in 2018), undertook field research in Malta and completed advanced training in augmented reality at the School for Poetic Computation, New York (2021). She has presented significant solo exhibitions including Drop Let (Australian Design Centre; Blak Dot; Next Wave, 2025); LOOK ▷ SEE (Melbourne International Film Festival, 2024); kajoo yannaga (Come on, Let’s Walk Together) (ACMI / Now or Never, 2024); and Body Place (Bankstown Arts Centre/Utp, 2024). Major commissions include Body Place (Bankstown Arts Centre, 2024), Blooms + Bugs (Canberra University Hospital, 2024) and Jacky Winter Waters (Walkerville North, 2021). She has also exhibited internationally at World Expo Osaka (2025), SXSW Sydney (2025), MODE Festival, Cockatoo Island (2025) and Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin (2019). 

Recognised for her leadership in digital arts, April was named Rising Star of the Year by Women in Digital (2023) and received the Melbourne International Film Festival Uncle Jack Charles Award (2024) for her work kajoo yannaga, developed in collaboration with Now or Never Festival, ACMI and RMIT. Her commitment to cross-disciplinary innovation has been supported through major residencies and fellowships, including the Australian Council for the Arts Digital Fellowship (2022), Megalo Print Studio, Canberra (2022) and Arteles, Finland (2014). Further recognition has come through national prizes, as finalist for the Fremantle Print Prize (2025) and Gosford Moving Image Award (2025). Most recently she was awarded both Creative Australia’s 2025 Emerging and Experimental Arts Fellowship and PICA’s inaugural boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission, affirming her position as one of Australia’s most rapidly evolving contemporary media artists.

As a founding member of the Friends with Computers collective, April playfully engages digital technologies as tools for art making, with a focus on futurism, human intelligence and ethical methodologies.

Friends with Computers

Pat Younis is a real-time artist and Virtual Art Director whose practice moves fluidly across film, contemporary art and music. Since 2018 he has specialised in interactive technologies such as Unreal Engine, working within Virtual Art Departments for major film productions while collaborating with artists on immersive installations and musicians on live visual environments. His work translates creative ideas into tangible virtual realities, positioning real-time space as a site for both technical problem-solving and aesthetic innovation. A longstanding passion for video game technologies, informs his hybrid practice, which reimagines the tools as platforms for storytelling, experimentation and cross disciplinary collaboration. Through this approach, Pat contributes to a growing global community of artists and technologists shaping the future of digital culture.

Jordan East is a media artist working between London and Sydney, on the lands of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples. His practice explores the relationship between technology and music through immersive video and augmented physical environments. Spanning video, projection, interactive installation and theatre, his projects often evolve in collaboration with improvisational musicians. At the intersection of experimental electronic music and moving image, his projects interface performers and audiences with technology through sensors and responsive systems. His process employs procedural animation, photogrammetry, real-time generative methods and emerging digital workflows to blur the boundaries between physical and virtual worlds.

We’re celebrating the borderless creative thinking of Aboriginal and First Nations artists with a new initiative. Discover transformative, immersive experiences from artists who are facilitating the most important conversations of our time. 

Boorloo Contemporary is a commissioning and development stream fostering genre-defying, cutting-edge art works that connect with tradition and anticipate the future.  

At the heart of the Boorloo Contemporary program is the annual activation of East Perth Power Station with monumental digital projections, responding to the rich history of the site or its surrounds. This year landscape paintings of the area around the site by Tjyllyungoo Lance Chadd are brought to life on the building’s façade. 

East Perth Power Station will also host a playful and provocative series of pennant flags made  especially for Boorloo by Kait James. While at PS Art Space a landmark solo exhibition from major Yinjibarndi talent Melissa Sandy transforms profound loss into profound healing.  

At Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boorloo Contemporary also supports Bardi artist Darrell Sibosado's contribution to Awakening Histories, an exhibition exploring little known but longstanding connections between the Kimberley and South East Asia.