About.

Rory Gillen (B.1995 Kaurna Country) is an emerging Australian contemporary artist and researcher specialising in the politics of the networked image. His installations serve as complex systems, interconnecting old and new technologies to play upon assumptions of human agency in the mediation of visual information. Often using hacked technologies and processes, his work explores and elucidates contemporary concerns surrounding post-digital agency, compression, bias and how these systems impact structures of gender, ethnicity and class. His practice aims to focus on the ‘cyber-physical membrane’ and the discourses that flow through it. 

Rory graduated from ANU School of Art and Design with Honours (First Class) in 2019. Notable exhibitions include Uncalibrated Space, at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT 2021 , Hatched 2020 at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, WA 2020, and ANOTHER/S/KIN at Tributary Projects, ACT 2022.

He has been the recipient of the 2022 Canberra Critics Circle Award for Visual Art, the 2019 Canberra Contemporary Artspace Professional Development Award and the 2019 Gray Smith and Joan Scott Prize for academic achievement.