He creates short animated infographics that bring information to life.  Most often, these are
for current affairs and political satire programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s television channel. Patrick compares them to short documentaries but made out graphics.

Asides from television, Patrick’s work has been screened internationally at a number of festivals, including the Porsche Student Awards in Germany and OneDotZero Festival in London.

Patrick’s plan for the UK is three-fold - work, consult and collaborate.

Here’s one of Patrick’s best-known pieces, shown on ABC’s Hungry Beast…

 
Check out Patrick’s website to see more of his work.

Briony Stewart writes and illustrates books for children and young adults.

Kumiko and the Dragon, a short children’s novel written for a university writing assignment, won the 2006 Youth Literature Festival competition for unpublished stories. Renowned children’s editor Leonie Tyle, subsequently approached Briony with a publication offer.

In 2008, her first self-written an illustrated book, Kumiko and the Dragon, won an Aurealis Award for fantasy, and was listed as a notable book by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. The book has been translated into
German and Chinese, and recently became a trilogy, with my second book published in 2010 and the third in 2011.

Briony's award-winning Kumiko... series

And here’s a short movie Briony included as part of her application…

Tom Holloway has won the 2011 Max Afford Award for playwriting, the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Louis Esson Prize for Drama, the 2010 AWGIE award for Best Play, the 2009 Green Room Award for Best Australian Play, the 2008 AWGIE award for Best Play and the 2007 R.E Ross Trust Award.

One of this country’s most lauded young writers, Tom’s Realise Your Dream trip will help him attend rehearsals for his play, play And No More Shall We Part, which is to be produced by Hampstead Theatre in January 2012, directed by James McDonald.

See Tom speak about And No More Shall We Part with Sam Strong from Sydney’s Griffin Theatre here…

The pair met while working on FX for a children’s television series, and soon found their quirky senses of humour and sideways approach to production complemented each other. Sharp and Dixon draw from a broad range of experience to provide hand-drawn animation and art direction for TV, film, interactivity, iPhone and iPad apps, storyboarding, concept art and character development.

In 2011, Rubber House created two animated film clips for the ARIA-winning musician, Goyte, and played live visuals at his Sydney Opera House Graphics Festival concert.

Here’s one of our favourite Goyte clips by Rubber House:

Fingers crossed, their visit to the UK will involve meeting the major players in commercial and creative animation including Passion Pictures and prolific Glasgow based animator Dave Ferguson (aka Swatpaz).

Considered among the top emerging visual artists in Australia, Soda_Jerk have been included in a number of prominent exhibitions, both in Australia and overseas, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney’s annual Primavera. The sisters have also been awarded a number of industry accolades, including the 2011 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, and have undertaken residencies in India and Berlin.

Above: Soda_Jerk: Hollywood Burn (trailer), 2011

(See more of Soda_Jerk’s work on their website)

Dan and Dominique will be using their time in the UK as a period of creative and professional development in which they will expand on a new strand to their artistic practice, the performance lecture.