BIOGRAPHY
REVERSE BUTCHER
ReVerse Butcher (rVb) is an XR/VR/AR artist and poet whose immersive practice spans virtual sculpture, film, sound, performance, collage, painting, illustration, & visual poetry (VISPO). Her work is grounded in the fusion of traditional & digital art-making—merging analogue materials & hand-built techniques with immersive technologies to create richly layered, experiential works that interrogate embodiment, language, & perception.
Her practice acts as poetic intervention, weaving the surreal and the absurd into environments that inspire, provoke, and captivate. Across media, rVb distorts & reconfigures the boundaries of text, image, and space—blurring distinctions between the physical & the virtual. As a Queer, female artist, she disrupts aesthetic norms & established power dynamics, encouraging audiences to embrace uncertainty, multiplicity, & presence across worlds.
Her hybrid process combines traditional painting, analogue collage, vintage papers, drawing, & visual poetry with cutting-edge XR tools, allowing her to shift seamlessly between formats including live performance, videopoems, immersive installations, & metaverse worlds. rVb’s work "The Continuous Present", (a 120-minute immersive art, music, & poetry experience presented in VRChat), won Best Art Experience at Raindance Immersive 2025.
rVb also received a Viverse creator grant in 2025 to create "The Last Stanza", a Web XR project that blended VR sculptural environments with sound, poetry, & interactive design. "The Last Stanza" launched globally across PC, mobile, & VR in June 2025 on the Viverse platform, and has featured at both NewImages Festival 2026 (Paris, France), & in the AWE Art Festival 2026 (California, USA). Her large-scale projection artwork "Corpus Spectralis" was featured at the Hidden Festival in Ballarat in May 2025, & also won the Best in Digital Art Award 2025, at the Australian XR Festival.
These achievements followed a prolific 2024, during which she was also awarded Best in Digital Art at the Australian XR Festival for "No Beginning", & received a Raindance Immersive nomination
for co-producing & creating original music & visuals for "Kaleidosky: Down the Rabbit Hole".
for co-producing & creating original music & visuals for "Kaleidosky: Down the Rabbit Hole".
With a multidisciplinary career spanning over 20 years, rVb utilizes a versatile creative pipeline to create digital-traditional hybrid artworks designed for flexible delivery. She makes virtual sculptures natively in VR using Open Brush & Shapelab; & composes original soundtracks in VirtuosoVR; using a Quest 3, an HTC XR Elite, & Metabox Laptop. Combining filmmaking, video projection, live/ livestreamed performances, & virtual world building, she adapts her work to diverse exhibition contexts. However, rVb will use any medium necessary or available to engage & subvert reality until it is less dull & oppressive. She currently lives in Ballarat, Australia.
REVERSE BUTCHER & KYLIE SUPSKI
Kylie Supski & ReVerse Butcher are a married creative duo who work across poetry, performance, theater, VR/AR/XR, video, virtual sculptures, immersive experiences, & photography.
Their videopoem "To Stop Time" won the "Best in Melbourne" prize at the Australian XR Festival 2023. Videopoems ‘There are Some Things Only the Moon has Seen’ feat. in UK’s Burning House Press, National Poetry Month Canada, & QLD Poetry’s Panacea Poets., 'A Window’ was a finalist in QLD Poetry’s Video+Poetry Challenge 2020.
Kylie Supski won the 2016 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize.
Through 2021-2023, ReVerse Butcher won the Best in Digital Art prize at the QLD XR Festival. She also won the 2022 SF360 Best Film award at the SF3 Film Festival, Sydney.
