He/Him/They. Artist, Writer & Curator. Chinese & Austrian heritage. Born in Melbourne, Australia. Drawing, Installation, Media Theory, Insititutional Critique & Posthumanism.
Salazar Quas has exhibited broadly in central Europe, worked with filmmakers in New York and with rock bands in London. More recently Quas has gained degrees from the Victorian College of the Arts UniMelb (MCA Grad.Dip.), ANU SoA+D (MVA) and the National Art School Sydney (MFA).
Quas makes use of materials of industry such as metal armatures, heat-rolled steel plates, guitar wire and fibreglass mesh tape as well as natural artefacts such as sandstone, bluestone, ocean rocks and an array of papers and cotton rag to help support and expand on his line drawings and inks on paper. Through a series of small format line-drawings titled ‘Waveforms’, Quas details the minutiae of organic flow within the broader context of New Materialism (realigning how one considers the material world as it reflects social structures by referencing a mixed aray of media - both found and fabricated artefacts - within the ‘expanded drawing’ art practice). His more recent body of work takes the form of large-scale installations and In Situ wall drawings that infuse with the built environment.
Salazar Quas currently lives on Phillip Island and works between Melbourne & Sydney, Australia.
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[Artist Resumé 2024]
[portfolio 2019 pdf]
[Prof Gallery CV]
Salazar Quas has exhibited broadly in central Europe, worked with filmmakers in New York and with rock bands in London. More recently Quas has gained degrees from the Victorian College of the Arts UniMelb (MCA Grad.Dip.), ANU SoA+D (MVA) and the National Art School Sydney (MFA).
Quas makes use of materials of industry such as metal armatures, heat-rolled steel plates, guitar wire and fibreglass mesh tape as well as natural artefacts such as sandstone, bluestone, ocean rocks and an array of papers and cotton rag to help support and expand on his line drawings and inks on paper. Through a series of small format line-drawings titled ‘Waveforms’, Quas details the minutiae of organic flow within the broader context of New Materialism (realigning how one considers the material world as it reflects social structures by referencing a mixed aray of media - both found and fabricated artefacts - within the ‘expanded drawing’ art practice). His more recent body of work takes the form of large-scale installations and In Situ wall drawings that infuse with the built environment.
Salazar Quas currently lives on Phillip Island and works between Melbourne & Sydney, Australia.
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[Artist Resumé 2024]
[portfolio 2019 pdf]
[Prof Gallery CV]
