Team ArtWank!
Ophelia Bitz
Curator, Host, Researcher. Boss-Woman.
An infamously bawdy cabaret emcee and regular headliner at international cabaret performance events, Ms Bitz’s love of the gutter has found a spiritual home in the murky and hilarious underbelly of vintage porn, and her latent academic pretensions are sated by holding forth about sexuality an’ all that.
“Ms Bitz may have the voice of an angel, but she also has the mouth of a filthy gutter-slut” Time Out London
Le Porn Ferret
Archivist, Researcher, Projectionist. Tech-ferret.
Le Ferret has a background in mathematics, philosophy and competitive ballroom dancing.
He is a creature of mystery but can be lured from his burrow with a combination of geekism and biscuits.
www.paulthecowardlydinosaur.com
Sarah Beetson – Guest Artist
Sarah Beetson is a British Artist and Illustrator based in Australia, her work is preoccupied with the Politics and Perversities of Popular Culture.
Sarah’s second solo exhibition “50 Bucks: Bring On The Sluts” featured Australia’s first art vending machine, donated by Pepsi and painted by the artist, with artworks being sold from the machine inside a cola bottle. Images from this exhibition can be seen in our fabulous website headers and during ArtWank Live shows! Her third show “YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU EAT” provided a commentary on eating disorders, the fashion industry and the media. It was shortlisted for the Erin Svigos award at The 2010 Adelaide Fringe and was part of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.
Her latest exhibition “I Dream In Celluloid” explores the content of dreams and the movies she watches via a dream sketchbook, giant quilt and stop motion animation. It won Creative Review’s Best in Book and is nominated for the Stan & Maureen Duke Prize inAustralia.
She divides her time 80/20 between a picturesque farm in Queensland and a Motor Torpedo Boat on The Thames.
