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Lux Eterna is an Australian born, Western Sydney based interdisciplinary artist of Palestinian heritage working across forms of performance, dance, drawing and lens-based media.
Lux’s art practices and experience have positioned her as a facilitator for Marina Abramović, live camerawoman for Anna Breckon and Nat Randall’s The Second Woman (Liveworks 2017) and Set Piece (Sydney Festival, Rising Festival Melbourne, 2022, her own definitive dance video work: Aura Nox Anima featured in Dance Cinema Organisation, TIVAF; alongside Bill Viola, Vivid Sydney & Instants Vidéo; Container TV Milan. Her photographic work exhibited at Chashama NYC, Gaffa’s definitive ‘Ten Years’ show & was second round long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015. Birch Tree Study I, a drawing made while on residency at Arteles, Finland, won her the Cumberland Art Prize in 2018 and and River Red Gum Study I, was a finalist in 2022’s Fishers Ghost Art Award.
Her photographic series & video work for her ongoing body of work: ‘Decolonising the Gaze’ (premiered at at Peacock Gallery 2018), has re-exhibited with co-funding by Create NSW at the Museum of the Palestinian People in D.C, USA March - Dec 2020 and now of which the main image: Motherland: Here On In, (Auto-portrait of Lux Eterna) has been selected to feature in two group exhibitions: one at this year’s 59th Venice Biennale - ‘From Palestine with Art,’ (Apr - Nov 2022) and ‘Inherit the Earth,’ (Mar - Oct 2022), touring Northwestern, Columbia, Harvard, UC Berkeley Universities, Morehouse College, AT, and the Palestine Museum, CT, USA. Her video works Homeland Tunnels and Displacing Colonisation were selected for were selected, respectively, for ‘Relics from Another Realm’ (April 2024) at Douglass Week, Belfast, Ireland and ‘Conversations’ (May 2024) at Silber Gallery, Baltimore MD.
Lux’s reach into the performing arts and screen media, has secured her residencies at Bundanon Trust and Critical Path, resulting in the development and premiere of Soft Prosthetics & Metal Gods in 2018 with collaborator Kathryn Puie. She has collaborated with Riana Head-Toussaint as lead performance videographer for the Keir Choreographic Award in 2020. Lux’s experience in live camera work for theatre and dance choreography has articulated a niche practice in dance film for her. The work she has already created, features in academic research and has been published in a book: ‘Collaborative Embodied Performance Ecologies of Skill’ (Bloomsbury, 2021). Lux has been granted residencies for March Dance, 2021/2022/2023 and is a Critical Path bursary recipient for the current production of her latest major dance video work out in Australia’s central desert landscape. She has been awarded the inaugural Keir Foundation Start-up Commission and a Creative Australia grant in 2022, to produce her triple channel dance video work The 8th Day. This work features alongside a new series of contemporary drawings, at the same titled exhibition at the Australian Embassy, DC, USA, Mar - Aug 2025. Lux is now regular creative resident at Urban Theatre Projects 2024-2025.