Astrid Mulder is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily across photography and video. Working as both performer and image-maker, Mulder creates digital collages using photography and video of her own body in dialogue with colour and geometric form. Through fragmentation, repetition, and reassembly, choreographed gestures form abstract compositions that explore navigation, connection, and communication in contemporary life.
Drawing on the visual strategies of advertising, her work investigates how images direct attention, shape perception, and mediate our relationship with the world. Guided by an ongoing search for direction, clarity, and meaning, Mulder uses the body as a tool for translation and exploration to navigate the shifting space between presence and absence, self and other, and the real and the surreal. She approaches these tensions with playfulness and curiosity, inviting viewers to form their own associations and interpretations rather than offering fixed conclusions.
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 Around the Block, Next Wave (Group)
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 (Online)
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)