Dale Collier belongs to a new generation of interdisciplinary artists and activists who work within a multitude of socially engaged mediums. His work embraces interactivity, site specific performance and participation. While giving rise to the complexities of geopolitics, Collier frequently interrogates nationalistic propaganda and the ever-present anomalistic illusion of Australia in relation to global contemporaneity and the postcolonial regime.

Toronto Island is envisioned as a key site for the cross-pollination of the artist’s own practice within an international socially engaged context. While undertaking this project the artist aims generate new experimental audio-visual works by decoding and recoding ubiquitous materials through creative action. Here, the shared postcolonial narratives of Canada and Australia are key. They provide unique socio-political and historical reference points for speculation while locating performative interdisciplinary inquiry.

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Dale Collier lives in Australia and works as an independent artist, researcher and technician.Finalist, Whyalla Art Prize, Country Arts South Australia 2017Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Shubert Photography Award, Gold Coast 2017 Winner, Brenda Clouten Travelling Scholarship. Maitland Art Gallery 2016Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Arts Centre 2016 & 2017Dale is also a current research candidate at The University of Newcastle