About

Toni Hassan is an interdisciplinary social practice artist and award-winning writer, making work as commentary.

Toni is a graduate of the ANU School of Art (with Honours). She is interested in art as a window to notice the world and make sense of personal and collective experiences and histories, beginning with the self. In her drawing, painting, digital and installation work she investigates power relations, culture (myth, contemporary events, ritual and patterns of human relating) and nature (non-human centric perspectives, seeing connections).

Her artwork is held privately and in public and private collections and been in major group prizes.

Toni is also a trained freelance facilitator aimed at harvesting wisdom for the common good. Her group work is informed by her advocacy and community engagement in public health, education, gender and economic justice and equality. 

She is a Walkley Award-winning journalist who has written for The Saturday Paper and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her formative years in the trade were at the ABC including at “AM” and the Religion and Ethics Report. She has appeared on the ABC TV’s The Drum program talking about human sexuality and faith.

Toni is the author of Families in the Digital Age, an adjunct research fellow with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, at Charles Sturt University and a former Associate with the Centre for Responsible Technology at The Australia Institute.

Toni was born in Durban, South Africa, grew up on Gadigal land/Sydney, lives. She lives and works between the lands of the Kaurna people in Adelaide and Ngunnawal-Ngambri country in the Australian Capital Territory.

Toni is a member of Bilya, a relational map of people, projects, and organisations working at the intersection of climate, art, and culture.