2025 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Litia Roko + Jackson Taylor

Litia Roko and Jackson Taylor are the recipients of the 2025 Canberra Contemporary ANU School of Art & Design Emerging Artist Support Scheme Mentorship and Exhibition Award. Litia and Jackson are both recent Honours Graduate of the ANU SOA&D, and will receive mentorship and support from Canberra Contemporary during 2025, culminating in solo exhibitions at Platform at the end of the year.

Litia Roko is an artist interested in the politics of technology and the politics of art. Her practice investigates the ways networked technologies have ruptured and reshaped visual culture and social life. Primarily concerned with the production and circulation of images in computational culture, her work interrogates their post-representational dimensions as datapoints within systems of surveillance, extraction, and data colonialism. Working across video, performance, installation, and text, her practice picks at questions raised by the datafication of everyday life and explores the challenges network culture poses for established notions of cultural value and authority. Litia lives and works on unceded Ngunnawal land.

Through faux-naive figurative paintings, Jackson Taylor explores how our shared human experiences connect us. Through symbols, objects and narratives, Taylor investigates the nuances that can evoke and communicate shared or conflicting ideas and perspectives. His practice currently focuses on depicting those mundane moments we all live through – taking out bins, morning routines and social interactions – and transforms them into opportunities for connection and conversation. His paintings are characterised by a playful style that combine complex proportions with bold colour choices to encourage audiences to find their own experiences in his work. Taylor’s paintings often feature elements like stacked space, exaggerated eyes, and naive hands that give each painting its unique character while maintaining recognisability.

Image: Litia Roko and Jackson Taylor in front of Al Munro’s work exhibited in Pattern Recognition, 2025.