Bundanon

Hootan Heydari is a Tehran-born, Naarm/Melbourne based multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates themes of memory, migration and identity through the lens of his Iranian-Australian experience.

His work spans across installatoin, video, photography, and performance, often using materials like plaster, glass, steel, and family artefacts to evoke the fragility and layering of memory. A graduate of RMIT University, Heydari is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art at the Victorian College of Arts, due to complete in 2024. He is represented by Futures Gallery.

In Residence at Bundanon

During my residency, I plan to research and gather materials for a new series of works exploring my personal connection as someone who has moved across cultures, to the Australian ‘bush’ landscape.I will focus on walking, photographing, recording sounds, sketching, and researching the site’s geological, ecological and colonial history. These materials will eventually inform a new series of mixed-media works incorporating manipulated photos, sound, casts, and text, delving into themes of history, landscape and identity.