Justene Williams (1970– ) has been a practising artist for over 25 years. She is well-known for her large-scale live works, video performances, installations and sculptures drawing from art history, popular culture, personal narrative and dreams to examine sex, body and gender via the suburbs. Williams seeks to transform the prosaic through material, action, energy and emotion, conjuring invisible forces to reveal a magic of sorts in the real world and a world in art. Williams’s performance installations celebrate the avant-garde dream of the ‘total artwork,’ while deconstructing it with a 21st Century body—domesticating and situating it in the reality and absurdity of now. Her work is held in collections such as TATE Modern, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and National Gallery of Art, Canberra.

(2019)