Astrid Mulder is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily across photography and video. She creates digital collages of her performing body to examine the psychological complexities of navigating modern life.
Arms and legs become key protagonists, activating bold colours and geometric props. Playful and humorous encounters often emerge as these limbs falter, hesitate, or pause in moments of uncertainty and surprise. Mulder responds to the overwhelming flow of imagery and information in contemporary life, drawing on the visual strategies of advertising to explore how attention is directed and sustained.
Across her practice, movement and interaction reflect her desire for stability and connection. She employs theatricality, humour, and abstraction as tools for making sense of the world, using her body in dialogue with colour, form, and composition to translate her experience of finding her way.
ARTIST CV
Education
Master’s 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
2026 Talking Legs, Art Screen, Art Gallery of Ballarat (Solo)
2026 Lust for Life, Not Fair Art Fair (Group)
2025 Liminal Dreams, Melbourne Design Week, Origine Gallery (Group)
2023 All to play for, Kings Artist Run (Group)
2023 UMSU Art Collection, George Paton Gallery (Group)
2022 Choreography for Interspecies Film, 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)