The Series

On View evokes the reverential space of a portrait gallery, a place where the moving body is analysed and the nature of portraiture is dissected and queried. It celebrates artists with unique skills in seeing and being seen, exposing diverse philosophies of moving and ways of thinking through the body.

An exposé of exceptional artists, ON VIEW is designed to be flexible, in scale and venue. These live and filmed portraits can be seen as stand-alone solos or as a collection of interrelated pieces, depending on context and scale of presentation. Works are created as performance installations, gallery installations and films.

The ON VIEW series:

On View: ICONS - 3 channel installation Sydney Festival Jan 2024
On View: Panoramic Suite - 7 channel live performance installation. West Kowloon, Hong Kong Dec 2021
On View: In Translation - 5 channel installation OZASIA Festival, Adelaide Nov 2021.
On View: Panoramic Suite - 7 channel installation, performed and filmed, Liveworks, Performance Space Oct 2021
On View: Panorama 2020 - Live performance installation with artists from Australia, Japan and Hong Kong created and performed in Kinosaki, Nagoya and Yokohama JAPAN 2020. Tours to Hong Kong and Sydney postponed due to COVID-19
On View: Japan - 5 channel exhibition, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan, Feb 2019. (Producer Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya, Japan)
On View: Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne, April 2018
On View: Hong Kong was created during 2016/17. Installation (all 10 HK portraits) and the live performance premiered at Artistree in Hong Kong in OCT 2017. Produced by WKCDA, Hong Kong. Touring China in 2018. (Winner Best Visual Design, Hong Kong Dance Awards 2018)
On View: Live Portraits (6 channel performance installation) presented by the Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, July 2015. (Winner of Australian Dance Award 2016)
On View: Icons (5 channel HD installation) featuring Dame Lucette Aldous and Professor Shirley McKechnie, presented by the Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, July 2015
On View: Quintet (5 channel performance installation) - Dance Massive Festival Melbourne, March 2015.
On View: Trio (3 channel installation) exhibited Manly Art Gallery 2016, COCA Cairns 2015. (Winner Australian Dance Award 2014)
On View: Benjamin Hancock (single channel outdoor projection) - Gertrude St Projection Festival, Melbourne, July 2015.
On View various installations toured to Galleries: Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie Glasshouse Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts Cairns, Brenda May Gallery Sydney, 2015/16.
On View: Shona Erskine (performance installation) - Chrissie Parrott ArtSpace, Perth, September 2014

Under the radar in this work is the sense of sight. As a digital artist and choreographer Healey asks ‘how do we see’? How do we organise and shape this information to make sense of our reality? In today’s screen culture, we experience an overwhelming deluge of moving images on a daily basis. How has the camera altered the way we see each other?

On View sets up a provocative interplay between the performers and a filmic world. Personality, gender and identity are fluid, as each performer morphs before our eyes into new theatrical constructs, as they inhabit this cinematic territory. On View illuminates the space between the elusive performer and the relatable human being.