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Biography
HIBALL (Alexandra Kirwood & Stanton Cornish-Ward)
HIBALL is a collaborative artist duo comprised of Alexandra Kirwood and Stanton Cornish-Ward, whose practice explores how technology reshapes human experience, perception, and memory. Working across moving image and installation, their projects examine the implications of digital representation through an emotionally resonant lens.
Their work has been accepted into esteemed BAFTA Award-qualifying festivals such as Cork Film Festival and Aesthetica Film Festival, as well as other notable festivals such as Dublin International Film Festiva and Leiden International Short Film Festival. They have exhibited both individually and collaboratively at galleries and institutions nationally and internationally including The Lock Up, Newcastle (2024), Cyens, Cyprus (2024), National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm (2023); Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare Italy (2022); Discorda Gallery, Naarm (2021); Metro Arts, Meanjin (2020), and MARS Gallery, Naarm (2019)
Stanton Cornish Ward:
Stanton Cornish-Ward is an artist and filmmaker from Boolroo/Perth and based in Naarm/ Melbourne. Her work explores how advancing technologies mediate our understanding of history and shape collective memory and identity. Engaging with film, photography, and writing, Cornish-Ward addresses the complexities of human experience grappling with its next massive technological leap.
She has exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, The Lock-Up, Metro Arts, MARS Gallery, and Discordia Gallery. Her films ‘LOCK’ (2020) and ‘In a World Full of Angels’ (2022) have earned accolades, including ‘Best Experimental Film’ at the Cologne International Film Festival 2022, and ‘Best Experimental Short Film’ at Experimental Forum Festival L.A 2023. Her moving- image works have screened at festivals in more than fifteen countries across Australasia, Asia, Europe, & North America.
Her work and writing has been published in Art & Australia, Art Asia Pacific, Un- Magazine, Do Not Research and SHOWstudio. Cornish-Ward designed and lead RMIT’s Communication Design studio “Unstable Images: AI, Art & Creative Practice”, and taught “Media & Image” (Graphic Design, VCA) and “Art in Cinema” (Fine Arts, Monash). She Is currently undertaking her MFA in Film under Prof. Omer Fast at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg.
Alex Kirwood
Alexandra Kirwood is a researcher, image-maker, and a former Researcher in Residence at ACMI X. Her creative practice research explores relationships between bodies and images in the context of art, fashion, performance, and digital technologies. She aims to question image consumption, the role of new technology, and digital representations of bodies to uncover the social implications of image-making.
She recently completed a Masters in Design at RMIT titled ‘Time-Images & Digital Fashion Sculpture’. Since then, she has collaborated with Grimshaw Architects and OCTA to create large- scale site-specific public video works, including ‘Floating Bodies’ (2021) and ‘Significant Surfaces’ (2022), commissioned by the City of Melbourne and screened in Seoul for Frieze Festival. Some career highlights include artist residencies at the Fremantle Arts Centre in WA (2024) and the Lock- Up gallery in NSW (2024), as well as a Researcher in Residency at ACMI X (2022).
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Works
Stanton Cornish-Ward & Alexandra Kirwood, Eye, 2024. UV print on steel with sparkler bomb burn marks, custom wood frame. E 1/3 + 1 AP. 42 x 110 cm
Stanton Cornish-Ward & Alexandra Kirwood. Heatmirage, 2024. Lenticular 3D image fine art print, lightbox, custom aluminium frame. 84.1 x 59.4 cm
Stanton Cornish-Ward & Alexandra Kirwood. the best gift to give is a little one, if they lose it, just order another, 2024. UV prints on steel with freehand engraving, custom wood frame. E 1/3 + 1 AP. 47 x 59 cm
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