Violet Bond (Australian, b. 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in performance, photography, scanography, video, ceramics and installation, often incorporating wild clay, found materials and her own body.Raised in the remote Indigenous community of Maningrida, in Australia's Northern Territory,,she treats the outback's cycles of growth and decay, especially through its wet season, as a way of exploring death and the human connection to land.,,
Bond studied graphic design and photography and taught herself ceramics and sculpture.An early interest in ephemeral art led her to the artist Andy Goldsworthy, discovered in high school,and to Ana Mendieta, whose work a friend introduced her to through Web3.She minted her first NFT on OpenSea, guided there by a friend,before moving her practice to Tezos, where the objkt marketplace community, she has said, “adopted me almost immediately” after she minted a video of herself, naked, crawling into a carcass.In 2023, objkt curator Cabline (Ombeline Rosset) named her among ten artists she felt deserved greater recognition, citing South No. 4, 2023.
In 2023, she took part in a Museum of Crypto Art group exhibition of performance artworks curated by OONA, alongside SamJ, Edgar Fabián Frías, David Henry Nobody Jr and DADAGAN.The following year, her solo show “Bodies of Water” at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin turned the Northern Territory's wet season, its water, mud and red dirt, into imagery of decay set against imagery of life.,Her work was also included in the “Nowhere to Run” collection curated for the UNHCR at the inaugural Digital Art Mile during Art Basel 2024, alongside pieces by other Tezos artists addressing the effects of climate change on displaced people.
In 2025, Bond returned to the wet season for Spore and She Had Mud for Blood, two performance videos shown in the group exhibition “You Were Never Solid”, which used hydrofeminist theory to frame water as memory and renewal.That year she also held the solo show “The Broken Portraits” at Uncommon Gallery in Seoul.In February 2026, she launched Memory Scans on objkt.one, 35 plates built from a failing analogue scanner's glitches on natural materials and CC0 museum-archive images chosen to reflect Australia's history of colonization. Alongside it, she runs The Violet Post, a monthly mail art project that sends subscribers postcards and physical works, minted as an open edition on objkt.
