Art
Current Work
Collaborations + Collectives
& Past Work
Current Work In Development: Vital Signs 2025 - Ongoing
Vital Signs is a collaborative work between Angie Goto, Dr Vivienne Linsley & Jamaica Moana.
Angie, Jamaica & Viv hold very different perspectives of the world, yet their practices align in questioning how we sense and communicate with one another beyond words.
Vital Signs is their collaborative work: a live, interdisciplinary, experimental, immersive, cross-modal sensory performance environment. Hanging paintings are activated by vibration (sound) transmitted live from contact microphones attached to a Jamaicas Body capturing her internal body sounds. Creating a shared sensory field for all.
Collaborations + Collectives
Luminous Shadow is the first collaborative commission in the Banner Series and has been developed by Abu Dhabi-based artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian in collaboration with Angie Goto, an Australian Deaf artist.
Rooted in the philosophy of the Sufi mystic Ibn ʿArabi (1165–1240), whose writings contemplate the quest to see beyond the visible and to uncover deeper truths within darkness, the project also draws on the fantastical imagery of Zakariya al-Qazwini’s thirteenth century manuscript Wonders of Creatures, alongside Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Together, these sources shape a meditation on the concept of “black light” — articulated by Ibn ʿArabi as a fertile, generative darkness where language and body converge and art becomes a form of shared, material thought. In Ibn ʿArabi’s philosophy, black light is not the absence of light, but its origin: a luminous shadow that holds all possibilities before they take shape. This is a space of emergence, a pre-verbal realm where beings and meanings exist in suspension, waiting to be named.
The Banner project translates this vision into a shared artistic form. Ibn ʿArabi’s words, first inscribed on the page, enter a back-and-forth process of visual correspondence between the artists. Through this exchange with Auslan, text and meaning are absorbed, transformed, and reborn as a visual poem through the medium of sign language.
SPARK Collective
SparK is a Sydney-based partnership of five multi-disciplinary artists and arts educators including Akala Newman, Angie Goto, Monty Hancock, Dr Vivienne Linsley & Ross Symington they work across our varied disciplines individually and collectively to produce artwork commissions, public programs, educational resources and commissions.
Their programs create meaningful opportunities for people of all backgrounds and abilities to participate in making, learning, and sharing their stories, through exhibitions, workshops, and place-based engagement across local and regional communities. They have extensive experience designing and delivering engaging, inclusive learning experiences and artistic works across a wide range of contexts: including schools, tertiary institutions, arts institutions, councils, community arts spaces, and public programs.
More info at www.sparkcollective.au/about
DEF Collective
DEF is four Deaf women artists working across video, photography, painting, poetry, illustration, and installation. They practice spatial and visual thinking as ask audiences to rethink their approaches to Deaf languages.
Angie Goto explores figurative and abstract forms shaped by her lived experience of colour, vibrations, methodology, challenging dominant cultural values to produce formally distinct outcomes. Sofya Gollan creates experimental video and narrative environments that space, and image. Irene Holub works conceptually across materials, weaving poetry and questions of identity to evoke empathy and reflection. Riona Tindal bridges art and science through illustration, grounded in conservation, research, and national arts leadership.
These are four distinct practices rooted in Deaf culture and Auslan, centring Deaf perspectives. Playful and provocative, they are committed to shifting perceptions beyond a deficit model to reimagine a Deaf world as a safe, radical space through rigorous, politically engaged work.
Past Work
Australia
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 29.5 W x 29.5 H x 1.2 D in
Australia
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 15.7 W x 15.7 H x 2.4 D in
Australia
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 25.2 W x 31.1 H x 1.6 D in
Australia
Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0.4 D in
Australia
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 10 W x 12.4 H x 0.7 D in