Biography

Zanny Begg lives in Bulli, near Wollongong and is an artist and film maker who is interested in hidden and contested history/ies. She works with film, drawing and installation to explore ways in which we can live and be in the world differently: this has included working with macro-political themes, such as alte-globalization protests, and in micro-political worlds, such as with kids in a maximum security prison. She is the 2016 winner of the Incinerator Art Award, Art for Social Change, the 2016 winner of theTerrence and Lynnette Fern Cite Residency Paris and the 2018 recipient of the inaugural ACMI and Artbank film commission. Her film works include; The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod), The Bullwhip Effect (2017), How to Blow up a Bubble that Won’t Burst, 1001 Nights in Fairfield (2015) and Doing Time (2014).