Gail Priest

Gail PRIEST is a sound artist and writer based on Dharug and Gundungurra land (Katoomba, NSW). Her work spans soundtracks for dance, theatre and video, solo electro-acoustic performance as well sound installations for gallery contexts, both solo and in collaboration. She has performed her live compositions and exhibited sound installations nationally and internationally including in Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Norway and the Netherlands. In 2015-16 she was awarded an Emerging & Experimental Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council. She has undertaken numerous radio commissions and releases music on her own label Metal Bitch Recordings as well as Flaming Pines, Endgame Records and room40. She curates events and exhibitions and writes fictively and factually about sound and media art, working for RealTime magazine for over 15 years. She has just completed a PhD in creative sound theory at UTS.

Sage Arts has produced Gail’s collaborations with Thomas Burless:

A continuous self-vibrating region of intensities
Liveworks 2018, Performance Space Sydney
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Five self-vibrating regions of intensities
The Substation, Melbourne, 13 April-20 May 2023
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Photos: Samuel James