VHS Tracking Presents:
The Brand New Testament (2015) with Ella van Leeuwen and Tahlia Dunne
Wednesday 24 September 2025 6:30pm
Goolugatup Heathcote

The Brand New Testament (2015)

God exists! He lives in Brussels with his wife and daughter, Ea, and he’s a real jerk to them both. He lives in an apartment and spends most of his time in a giant office where he controls the world through an old computer. His son, JC, whom you may have heard of, made his escape long ago. When Ea gets fed up with her father, she decides to leave the nest, find her own apostles and write her own brand new testament. But before she makes her escape, Ea hacks God’s computer and leaks to the entire world their date of death by SMS.

Ella van Leeuwen and Tahlia Dunne

Ella van Leeuwen and Tahlia Dunne are emerging artists based in Boorloo | Perth, whose practices aim to reinterpret themes of place, human experience, memory and temporality, within a contemporary context. Having both completed their Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degrees alongside each other in 2024, both van Leeuwen and Dunne are excited to explore the collaborative capacity of their unique practices and investigate the creative potential of combining their individual mediums, techniques and processes. Grounded in contexts of place and migration, Ella van Leeuwen’s art practice utilises theatrical installation to explore how place may transcend its physical geography and embody the narratives and cultural contexts surrounding it. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, film, drawing and painting.

In contrast, Tahlia Dunne’s art practice operates within the context of a digital age, making use of widespread public access to digital mapping technologies, such as Google Earth she investigates how painting may be employed as a tool to explore the aesthetic qualities of digitally constructed environments, specifically in terms of how these environments relate to a contemporary experience of place. Her practice utilises a self-developed process of gathering source material from Google Earth. Using photogrammetry to convert these site renders into three-dimensional digital objects, which can be treated as the subject matter of her painting.

Ella and Tahlia are the 2025 Goolugatup Emerging Artists Residency recipients.