We are pleased to announce Dr Polly Stanton as the 2025 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow.
Polly is an artist and filmmaker. Her films and installations focus on contested sites and extractive zones, presenting landscape as a politically charged field of negotiation, entangled with history, technology and capital.
Polly will document and record the unique rhythms and dynamics of Antarctica's remote landscapes and settlements through sound and moving image, creating a new large-scale audiovisual work and accompanying publication.
2023 Arts Fellow Leila Jeffreys will also travel with Polly to Casey station in Antarctica in November.
Leila is a contemporary artist working across photography, moving image and installation. She is best known for images of birds, photographed at human scale, that explore and subvert the conventions of portraiture.
Leila will research and photograph Antarctic birdlife for her forthcoming book Seabird - to be published by Thames & Hudson - with exhibitions of the work planned for Sydney and London. Her work is featured in two recently released Thames & Hudson photography titles, Aviary and Exposure.
