ARTIFACT
Artifact is the creative fusion of people, machines, ideas and ambition. We are a multidisciplinary studio and approach every project with distinction through diversity.
Our aim is to inform contemporary practice with engaging work in any medium.
The extended team welcome projects of all sizes from conception to completion.
Who We Are
DALE COCHRANE is from the cultural mecca known as Geelong. He spends his Melburnian days pursuing his passions: script-writing, cinematography, producing, in fact anything related to filmmaking. His two year long search for the Mongolian albino beaver taught him two things: the value of hard work and there is no such thing as a Mongolian albino beaver. He wishes his Uncle Brian was Charlie Kaufman and longs for the day when David Lynch releases a film based on a Murakami novel. Dale joins Artifact after successfully completing his inauguration into Michael Bolton's ten pin bowling team.
PRAD SENANAYAKE is from a tropical island full of coconut trees and blue water. One day as a child he witnessed a ghost roaming the garden, a revelation which led to a large scale exorcism of his families property that involved his entire village. Maybe it was then that he realised his vivid imagination could yield very interesting results. Now he conceptualizes and directs various visual projects that don't involve arcane rituals. He has a particular affinity to the music of Nick Drake, the art of Andre Breton and the early music videos of Missy Elliot. He dreams of one returning to his tropical island. Hopefully the only spirits he will find will come with a dash of lime and little umbrella.
EUGENE PEREPLETCHIKOV comes from the land of leaking nuclear reactors and meat jelly. On a mild April morning in 1986, whilst frolicking through Shevchenko Park he endured a heavy radiation shower. Despite this inopportune happening he managed to learn how to tie his shoe laces and ride a bike. Somewhere along the way he also learned how to use cameras, lights and compositing software. He enjoys the brooding films of Bela Tarr, the gentle racket of gypsy music and the melodic howling of a steak resting on a woodfired grill.
JAMES WRIGHT follows himself home and slips through an open door. In 2001 he set the world record for staring at a strobe light, inducing a cataract of peripheral vision. His path since is art direction and bringing the surreal to life, curving through production design, installation and the audio visual. He like minds Ryoji Ikeda, Bill Viola, Granular Synthesis and Matthew Barney along the way. Enquiries can be sent via kayak down the narrow tributaries of Croajingalong national park.