Yasemin

Yasemin Sabuncu is a multi platform artist specialising in video, illustration, performance, installation, curation and photography. Her works have been shown in various guises ranging from a screening at the D'Art Festival 2004 at the Sydney Opera house, to graffiti/street work on abandoned housing walls.

A graduate of Film and Drama at Flinders University , she then moved onto to do Honours In Visual arts at the University of South Australia . She graduated with 1 st class Honours with her work video/performance work on the stereotypical representation of Middle Eastern women through the media.

Yasemin was also the Co-Creative Director/Creator of South Australia 's first ever street art festival, the St 5000. This was a 4 day festival initially held in 2003 and is now held every year in SA. Also in 2003 Yasmin was invited to be in the Noise Festival as one of the best media artists under 26 in Australia . She was interviewed on ABC TV for a Noise Festival special. From this she was selected as one of the best artists interviewed in Australia and put into the Noise Magazine and interviewed for a JJJ special. In 2002 she won the South Australian Filmmaker of the Year award for her Production design in the short film “The Worst Day of my Life.”

Recently Yasemin's short film won the “Best experimental short film” for the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) 2005 and will tour as part of the best of MUFF 2005. It was most recently selected to be in 2005 compilation of the best of D'Art over the past few years. From this it was selected into the Video Brazil biannual showcase of world video art as part of the Australian display.

Currently Yasemin works as a freelance filmmaker, illustrator, VJ, events organiser, and photographer while working on her various artistic projects. Her work has been seen internationally and nationally at various festivals.

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