Gail Priest

After hours, the room hosts one-off sessions, talks, and listening parties from RISING artists who you wouldn’t usually get to see up close. The lineup has been curated by Yasmine Sharaf host of Cease + Desist on Triple R and Robin Fox, co-founder and artistic director of MESS.

Gail Priest is an artist living on Dharug and Gundungurra land (Katoomba, NSW). Her live exploratory music uses voice, micro sounds of objects, field recordings, and electronics as feeds into a system of transformation. Organic sounds become synthetic, synthetic sounds seem organic, beats and cycles emerge and disintegrate in a push and pull between the figurative and the abstract, the sensual and brutal within an overarching ambience that draws you into the caverns of the unconscious.

Gail has been performing and exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 20 years. She has several CD releases on her own label, Metal Bitch, as well as other labels including Flaming Pines, Endgame Records and Room40.