
Aria Joshes Keeshan
Contemporary Multidisciplinary Artist. Contemporary Writer of fiction, poetry and essays.
Acknowledgement of Country
I acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Ngunnawal people and the Dharug people who are the traditional owners of the lands in which I work on. I pay my respects to elders past and present and acknowledge that this will always be Aboriginal land. I extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.
ABOUT Aria-Joshes Keeshan
Aria Joshes is an activist multidisciplinary Sculpture and Performance Artist who typically works with a range of unusual mediums. Her work mostly deals with Family Violence, Internalised Capitalism, Environmentalism, and Psychogeography. Her work both deals with oppression and agency as she expresses a narrative not commonly explored in art. Aria particularly likes to open up dialogues not often explored and well known in mainstream society. As domestic violence is fairly well known, the concept of family violence is not often explored in terms of psychological abuse. A general reading of her work is that she enacts the 7 stages of grief she experiences as she processes her healing from Family Violence. Aria's aesthetic often borders on the lines between absurdity and abject as she makes bold statements in her work in order to inspire a call to action. She also makes statement's that question gender identity and whether these social constructs are empowering or oppressive in reference to feminist discourses.
Exhibition Dates
No Place Like Home, 2023
Penrith City Library, 601 High Street, Penrith.
The Dougherty Community Centre, Chatswood.
2nd of June-29th of June 2023
4th of July-27th of July 2023
Hawkesbury Community Workshop Exhibition
The Village Kitchen, Kurrajong
August 20- September 22, 2022
Self Hood, Solo Exhibition, Online Exhibition.
The Side Stepz Experiment
https://virtuoso9gallery.wixsite.com/mysite/about-1
7 December 2021-May 30 2022
The Annual UNSW Graduate Exhibition.
UNSW Galleries, Cnr of Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington
7-18 December 2021
No Place Like Home
The Dougherty Community Centre and the Willoughby Council Foyer Gallery.
Open Weekdays 8:30am-5:30pm.
May-August 2021
31 May- June 2021
NOX Festival, UNSW Art and Design.
27 Munda st, Randwick Environmental Park NSW, Australia.
14-16th of May 2021
February 24th-March 6th 2021, Self Made, Solo Exhibition.
AD Space, Art & Design, E-Block, UNSW, Greens Rd, Paddington NSW 2021
Feb/March 2021
August 24th-30th, 2020 IN THE WAKE by The Breakout Collective.
27 Munda st, Randwick Community Centre NSW Australia
May 2020