SANCTUM STUDIO is a lens through which monstrous apparitions are made manifest, tearing fissures in the fabric of monotony.
We are a visual production company specialising in puppetry and animation. We have been presenting live art in everyday spaces since 2006.
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Our Team
Sanctum Studio draws on the skills and wisdom of a wide range of freelance artists.
Lachlan Plain
artistic director
Lachlan’s award-winning work as artistic director of Sanctum Studio has been described as, ‘forg`{`ing`}` a dark and surreal dystopia, packed with visual surprises,’ (The Age). In 2012 he won the Impress Prize for The Lost Journals of Pedro Piscator and other tales. His short stories have appeared in publications such as Island Magazine, Going Down Swinging, and Page Seventeen. He lives with his family on a permaculture property on the outskirts of naarm/Melbourne. He creates art on the unceded lands of the Warundjeri. He hopes for a sincere and heartfelt process of makarrata to help heal the scars of this country.
Jasmine Powell
studio manager
Jasmine has worked with Sanctum Studio since 2006 as publicist, exhibition curator, performer, workshop facilitator and stage manager. Jasmine completed her Masters of Social Work at RMIT in 2013 and did her final Social Work Placement at Borderlands Cooperative. She was published in New Community Quarterly for her article on her community practice in her Local Energy Transfer System (LETS). Jasmine worked in the mental health sector for many years before taking time off to be a mum. She now works on cultural community development programs through her business silent revolution as well as Sanctum Studio.
We aim to translate our naïve, tactile aesthetic into the digital realm, through immersive animations and extended reality.
We approach this technology as Georges Méliès or Karel Zamen approached film in the twentieth century – like children in a playground.
