The Substation/​ Artist/​Xanthe Dobbie /

Xanthe Dobbie is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across on- and offline modes of making, their practice aims to capture the experience of contemporaneity as reflected through queer and feminist ideologies. Drawing on humour, pop, sex, history and iconography, they develop shrines to a post-truth era. They have exhibited locally and internationally with recent works including live-streamed theatre, interactive media, AR, VR, collage, performance and installation. Significant exhibitions include Image, Interrupted at UTS Gallery, Matrix Re-Loaded at RMIT First Site Gallery , Cloud Copy at Lismore Regional Gallery, The Long Now at ACMI, and Don’t Be Evil at UQ Art Museum. In 2023, Xanthe won the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change. Xanthe is currently finishing a PhD focusing on digital and interactive art at RMIT University as part of the ARC Linkage Archiving Australian Media Art: Towards a Method and National Collection.