Astrid Mulder is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, photography, and video. She performs for the camera in dialogue with colour and form, capturing interactions that are later fragmented and collaged into abstract compositions that reimagine the body in space. Her practice highlights the body’s transformative potential and its capacity to attune to shifting conditions. Through this process, she explores ideas of navigation and communication, alongside the human desire for stability and clarity. Her work ultimately celebrates the body’s ability to respond, decipher, and form connections within a rapidly evolving, increasingly surreal and technology-driven world.
Based in Melbourne / Ballarat
B. 1991
Education
Masters of Contemporary Art (First Class Honours), University of Melbourne (2022)
Graduate Certificate (Visual Art), University of Melbourne (2019)
Bachelor of Design (Creative Direction) Whitehouse Institute of Design (2014)
Collections
The University of Melbourne SU Art Collection
Awards / Residencies
2022 Fiona Myer Residency & Award for Excellence
Exhibitions
2025 UPCOMING Art Screen, Art Gallery of Ballarat (Solo)
2024 Liminal Dreams, Origine Gallery, Melbourne Design Week (Group)
2023 All to play for, Kings Artist Run (Group)
2023 UMSU Art Collection, George Paton Gallery (Group)
2022 Choreography of Interspecies Film for Abbotsford Convent
2022 Slow Burn, VCA Art Space (Group)
2021 Troc Talks, Trocadero Art Space
2021 The Last Act, School House Studios (Group)
2021 Untitled (Gallery), George Paton Gallery (Solo)
2020 Zero O’Clock, Assembly Point (Group)
2019 GVCA, VCA Art Space (Group)