Fiz Eustance is an artist, musician and production assistant based across Dhudhuroa, Waywurru and Jaithmathang land in Mt Beauty, Victoria and Woi Wurrung country in Melbourne. They are passionate about helping young people to express themselves through creativity and championing meaningful learning experiences through workshop facilitation, public program production, community engagement and quality assurance.
Fiz’s creative practice is governed by play and a reciprocal relationship with site. They are interested in exploring cycles of creation/destruction and audience agency through participatory installations.
At the heart of their making process is the question: how can we create ethically? As a sculptor/installation artist, this leads to interrogating how we source materials and conversely, what the waste products of our creating are. Their practice is site specific, influenced by the history and materials of wherever they are working.
In 2023, they participated in a month-long residency in Mparntwe at Watch This Space gallery with collaborator Tamar Chaya. This residency culminated in the show Sediment falling, evaporating, rising, buckling, settling. In 2022, Fiz had a residency at Siteworks for the Making Space program and exhibited their participatory sculptures at Melbourne Fashion Week and Testing Grounds’ Public Art Park.
EXHIBITIONS
- Watch This Space Gallery, Mparntwe, NT: Sediment falling, evaporating, rising, buckling, settling (2023)
- Testing Grounds, Melbourne Fringe Festival, VIC: Public Art Park: If I Hit You Does It Hurt? (2022)
- Melbourne Fashion Week, VIC: Fashion Capsules (2022)
- Gallery Gallery, VIC: Bulleke-Bek Brunswick International Screen Marathon (2021)
- Meat Market Stables, Platform Arts, VIC: COZY (2021)
- Counihan Gallery, VIC: Moreland Summer Show: History and Heritage (2021)
- NOIR Darkroom, VIC: @ home in the internet (2020)
- RMIT Creative, VIC: Break and Create Commission (2020)
- RMIT University, VIC: Fine Art Graduate Exhibition (2019)
- Buxton Contemporary, VIC: Bauhaus Now! (2019)
- KINGS ARI, VIC: FiX 004 (2019)
- The Capitol, VIC: Killing Time, Exchanging Utopia and The Pleasure Principle (2019)
- c3 Art Space: The Museum Of Platitudes And Aphorisms (2019)
- Spectrum Project Space, WA: Outcome Unknown #9 (2017)
- Paper Mountain, PEAKS, Perth Fringe Festival, WA: Doing One Thing At A Time (2017)
- The 1897 Window Gallery, WA: Doing One Thing At A Time (2017)
RESIDENCIES
- Watch This Space Gallery, NT: collaboration with Tamar Chaya (Feb 2023)
- Melbourne Fashion Week, VIC: Fashion Capsules (Sep 2022)
- Siteworks, VIC: Making Space (April 2022)
EDUCATION & AWARDS
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, RMIT, VIC (2021)
- BDM Award for Sculpture presented by Anna Schwartz, RMIT Fine Arts Graduation Show, VIC (2019)
- Footscray Art Prize, VIC (2019)
- Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, VIC (2019)
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- RMIT Kirrip, RMIT University, VIC: Kirrip Program Officer (2021-2023)
- RMIT Creative, RMIT University, VIC: Administrative Officer (2020)
- Out of Site Online Residency, First Site Gallery, VIC: Creative Co-producer (2020)
- Fiz Orange Single Launch, The Gasometer, VIC: Creative Producer (2021)
- Thinking with, Acting from Curatorial Workshop Series, Bus Projects, VIC: Selected Participant (2020)
- Mirrnong Minnie Cultural Workshop with Aunty Bronwyn, VIC: Selected Participant (2019)
- Bauhaus Now! Workshop with Mikala Dwyer, VIC: Selected Participant (2019)
WRITING
- Watch This Space TAiR Journal (2023)
- Time To Waste Issue 2 (2021)
WORKSHOPS
- Footscray Community Arts Centre: Weaving with Nature, assisting textile artist Tab Sejoe (2023, 2024)
- Glenroy Library Makerspace: Paper Mache for Seniors (2022)
contact me at fizeustance@gmail.com
i’m also a musician