SJ Norman

SJ Norman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural worker. His practice is counter-disciplinary and formally promiscuous. His body of work to date has included more than 20 works of long durational performance, and a significant body of other work embracing sculpture, photography, textiles, film and spatial audio. He is also the author of one book of fiction, with a second forthcoming.

His awards for literature include: the 2017 Kill Your Darlings Prize, the 2022 Peter Blazey Prize for Non-Fiction, as well as many shortlisting, including: Australian Society for Literature Gold
Medal, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2 categories, the Stella Prize, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize for Short Story and twice for the Judith Wright Prize for Poetry.

In 2019, he initiated Knowledge of Wounds, a curatorial project he continues to co-organize with Dr Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation Citizen) since 2019.

He is a transmasculine Koori, born on Gadigal country. His maternal ties are to north-western Wiradjuri and Ngyiampaa-Wailwan Country (the community of Nyngan, NSW) and his paternal ties are to West Yorkshire, UK. He lives and works in Lenapehoking/New York City.

Photo credit: Whit Forrester.

(Source: author's personal site.)