about. A roundabout me in 2015. 2025's a whole different vibe. I am not even going to read that. You can. 2025 is way more chill and cares little for self promotion. I need an agent. For now, enjoy that parable below about how to grow up. That kid never got anywhere by the way. But he's working on it. He's still a facetious little C*NT. 

Zac Svendsen, b.19?? Australia, is an emerging artist currently residing in Sydney and currently enjoys making Photomedia based installations. His initial creative forays started at the South Australian School of Art in 2006, studying photography before dabbling into printmaking, illustration, sculpture and film. In 2010 he moved to London by himself for two years where he experienced what it is like to have only yourself to rely on. Life experiences such as family relationships, school, nostalgia, and coming of age are a big influence in his work. He is influenced by Leigh Bowery, who was a living example of art imitating life, and aspires to share his experiences in such a colourful and confronting manner. 

Through his experiences of the world he tries to reinvent real-life traumatic events in order to shock his audience and create an unsettling anxious experience. It is his way of sharing raw emotions that are usually kept private. Frustrated from the lack of closure in his life, he shares this cathartic experience in order to comment on what it is to be human. In creating abject scenarios that exaggerate the psychological and bring the internal consciousness out into the external arena, he can find comfort and closure. He describes himself as a shy exhibitionist, and although he wants everyone to see his work, he can’t look at it himself. His hyper-sensory installations draw parallels to Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, with their lack of verbal dialogue, instead noises such as grunts, screams and soundscape stir the senses. He hopes in his work to arouse the audience into experiencing what it is to be human. Generally his installations are constructed of still and moving image, sound, sculpture and light, covering as much space as possible in order to create a truly immersive experience. 

In 2014 he won the Lucy Aspinall Photographic prize, and the Graphic Art Mount award at the UNSW Art & Design Annual exhibition. He is currently on the Kudos Gallery Committee and is competing his Honours year at UNSW Art & Design in Photomedia. This was an eye opener for the artist who then began to think he should be taking himself more series, exhibit more frequently, and apply for more grants. In 2015 he hopes to achieve most of these things if he can get past his distain for networking and talking to other human beings. If this can be done, he may one day succeed in his dreams to be famous, and can then start to have the power necessary to make changes in the world. If he could help developing nations have clean drinking water, enough food for their bellies and vaccinations from disease, he believes his life has been worth living. If you can make it to one of his openings, he has more than likely run off after having too many drinks and not being able to look at anyone. Or he could be there in disguise. Hopefully one day you will get to meet him once he has sorted himself out more.