Rel Pham
The Hooligans - WINNER
Links
Website: http://www.relpham.space
Social: https://www.instagram.com/rel.pham/
Contact: relpham.art@gmail.com
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Note: Marked videos contain visuals and sustained flashing lighting that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivity!
The Hooligans - WINNER
Links
Website: http://www.relpham.space
Social: https://www.instagram.com/rel.pham/
Contact: relpham.art@gmail.com
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Rel Pham is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist known for a strong use of electric, vibrant colours and a penchant for surrealism. Drawing upon old world fables and rituals for thematic inspiration, Pham explores the interconnected nature of our current physical and digital realities through screen-based video, animation and installation. Pham creates hybrid worlds, rendering traditional scenes of Cao Dai temples and Western classical art in an illuminated palette of neon PC coolant fluid and radiant LED lights. He flattens our past, present and future to demystify the invisible numbers that surround everyday life, exposing the programmed spectres haunting our data through cautionary tales of being intrinsically connected online.
Pham has presented the solo exhibitions and commissions HYPERTHREAD, The National Communication Museum (2024), TEMPLE, NGV Australia (2023), CACHE (4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2023), TORRENT, The Bridge, Kingston (2022); Electric Dirge, 4A Digital, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2021)
Pham has also worked as a video designer in collaboration with artists Amrita Hepi – Liable (NGV Triennial 2024), Rainbow Chan – The Bridal Lament, Mindy Meng Wang & Monica Lim, Opera For The Dead (Asiatopa 2025)
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The Hooligans - SPECIAL MENTION
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Links
Website: https://www.oliverwhitehouse.online
Social: https://www.instagram.com/oliver_wh_/
Contact: or3o.918@gmail.com
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Oliver Whitehouse is a Chinese-British Director, Writer, Photographer and Visual Artist. His work moves fluidly between mediums to find new forms of audio-visual phenomena, drawing influence from experimental photography, obsolete technology, and the uncanny aesthetics of the internet. With a visual language marked by a sense of the surreal, he navigates spaces where memories become disembodied, and personal and collective histories coalesce.
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The Hooligans - SPECIAL MENTION
Links
Website: https://sammyyee.com/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/sammy__yee
Contact: hi@sammy-yee.com
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Sammy Yee is a digital artist and graphic designer practising on unceded Gadigal Land (Eora/Sydney). Working with tactile materials and digital processes, her practice traces sound, motion and visual form, exploring rhythm as a language of feeling and transformation. She traces the ways energy moves through sound, light, and movement, shaping works that capture fleeting patterns of perception and presence.
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The Hooligans - SPECIAL MENTION
Links
Website: https://local-host.au/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/localhost.studio?igsh=d3c3NDBqOWRnajV6
Contact: hellolocalhost@hotmail.com
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localhost: is an emerging spatial practice duo, consisting of Georgia Rumble and Will Bennie, based in Naarm, Australia. Their work investigates the possibilities at the convergence of physical and digital 3D practice, and the opportunities of research informed world building to communicate and inhabit hyper-scale concerns.
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The Hooligans - SPECIAL MENTION
Links
Website: https://hgiibo.cargo.site/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/hgiibo/
Contact: elliotcgibson@gmail.com
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Elliot Gibson is a multimedia artist working within a technology-led practice that incorporates audio-visual, performance, and video work. Their practice explores the relationship between humans and technology, both physically and emotionally. They examine how emerging technologies—and their saturation in everyday life—inevitably shape and develop this relationship. Additionally, their work delves into the effects of technology and the digital realm on their gender identity, considering how the internet’s anonymity and detachment from the physical world create space for the exploration of fluidity in their life.
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