We are currently on an artist in residence at Laughing Waters just outside of Melbourne on the Yarra River. We are there to produce works for a couple of exhibitions later this year - and it is also a mighty fine place to sit and do some of our design work.

Well our placeholder is up (or probably down by now) and we are keen to gauge peoples reactions on the new design… It has been a few years since we participated in the Reboot but it was about time we updated our site and this was the deadline we needed.

If you would like ti give us a vote, follow this link…
In November 2006 we launched a fine arts publication entitled ‘The Present History’. Here is a quick spiel: “The Present History was produced in Canberra, Australia by The Contextual Villains and contains the combined work of over 25 visual, sound and text based artists. This 700 copy limited edition release is hand numbered and signed by The Contextual Villains.”
The Present History recently won the Desktop Magazine Create Award in the category of Best Design for Creative Print Media. It has been featured in magazines such as Desktop, Oyster, Wooden Toy and appeared on the following websites FFFFound, BD4D, Coudal Partners, Australian Infront, Dexinger, The Artlife, Sarsparilla and many more…


