Sparks in the Dark is presented by Mursal Azizi and Kat Rae in collaboration with Next Wave.
Through mentorships, creative developments, public programs, events, live performances and partnerships, Next Wave creates spaces for gathering and exchange, ambition and experimentation, and meaningful community connections.
Mursal Azizi is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Afghanistan, based in Melbourne. Exploring themes of women's empowerment and social justice, her practice is deeply rooted in her identity and experiences as an Afghan woman. She believes in social change through art.
Kat Rae is an emerging artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her art practice explores the cost of war, and how place, memory and experience layer and mesh. Obsessed with counter monuments and informed by print, sculpture and installation, her work investigates who and what is ‘forgotten’ after the war.
