The FraserStudios Project will offer four 3-month residencies (12 weeks) for 8-10 visual artists/groups per residency from November 2009 to October 2010. Additionally, the program will offer two 6-month residencies during this timeframe to emerging artists.
The aim of the residency program is to support artistic development and expression with an emphasis on local community development through a diversity of art form practises. The residencies are open to professional artists and groups (emerging and established) encompassing a diverse range of practises and outcomes. All applicants must have the capacity to work in a shared space with other artists and commit to working in an active studio environment. The program takes a very broad view of the term “visual arts” and may include, but is not limited to; painting, sculpture, photography, digital arts, textiles, installation and design.
We strongly encourage previous applicants who have been unsuccessful to apply again. Also, please note: artists who previously have been selected for this residency are not eligable.
All artists must come from NSW and priority will be given to local visual artists (defined as inner-city, Sydney) whose practice has been disrupted by development in the local community. Artists will need to supply their own equipment and materials specific to their chosen art-form and will have access to their workspace between 7am-11pm, 7 days a week for the duration of their residency.
| Residency 1, 2008–2009 |
| Zanny Begg |
Development of solo exhibition Treat or (Trick) for First Draft gallery and the development of a new work with Keg De Souza on Urban issues in Redfern. |
| Diego Bonetto |
To create a temporary Greenhouse in the Fraserstudios to depict a “botanical portrait of the Chippendale area’ |
| Rudy Kistler |
Capturing and adding to the environs of Chippendale and to develop and add to existing work. |
| Anna Kristensen |
The creation of a glowworm based on the painting Glowworm Grotto – exploring the potential of in–between spaces |
| Mai Long |
To develop and complete two major works for charity; a work for the children’s hospital foundation and a 3D Sculpture for WAYS |
| Daniel Malecki |
3D installation |
| James McCallum |
A Skills Development project for Street Artist Group: THE MOVEMENT. |
| Sumugan Sivanesan |
To develop a series of installations using ephemeral/found materials elements of sound, video and performance based on the stories and histories of the local community in Chippendale |
| Jessica Sutton |
Crafternoon: Skills Development project |
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| Residency 2, 2009 |
| Ella Barclay |
The creation of work for two exhibitions in 2009: |
Pamela Brenner
& Johannes Muljana |
To create a new sound installation work called ‘Backtalk radio’ |
Spat+Loogiec/-
Kat Baron |
To develop the project Blind Disco: an interactive installation investigating Sydney brash party culture. |
| Zoe Coombs Marr |
To develop a new body of work around the theme of how people engage with space especially in an urban environment. |
| Chris Fox |
The Jetpack Project |
| Sarah Goffman |
To work site specifically in the area gathering objects collecting stories that are relevant/poetic to produce a narrative of the site and community. |
| George Knut |
To develop a prototype and document a new interactive artwork for exhibition in 2009 |
| Gareth Ernst |
To capture the soon-to-be-gone buildings and people of Chippendale. To record the rapid changing face of this small inner city suburb. |
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| Residency 3, 2009 |
| Tim Silver |
To work towards completing a sculptural work that will be shown at Breenspace in August. |
| THE KING PINS |
To work towards completing large scale sewn fabric wall hangings for their solo exhibition at Kaliman in April. |
| Rachel Scott |
She will continue her ongoing investigation into painting and performance based video. |
| Louisa Dawson |
Develop ideas about conditions of unemployment in Sydney using everyday materials to produce public sculptures. |
| Daniel Mudie Cunningham |
Working on a body of work titled “Oh Industry” To be shown at MOP in June |
| David Wills |
Reading Room is the working title for a new strand of installation-based, audience participatory works. Objects and things gathered from daily life The main project is a library. |
| Makeshift |
To produce a new, large-scale work that incorporates painting, drawing, assemblage, installation and sculpture called URBAN FLOTSAM. |
| Sean Rafferty |
To develop ongoing ideas that emphasize the physicality of the Photographic, experience, and in turn, this relationship to the ‘actual’ experience using large scale constructions and sun prints to convey this idea. |
| Grant Stevens |
To develop and produce a series of sculptures, photographs and videos for an exhibition at Starkwhite in Auckland. The resulting new works will explore the overlapping and often incongruous forms of individualism, spirituality and consumerism that pervade our contemporary context. |
| Ben Morley |
Through conversations with local residents, photography, drawing and research into the history of this area, Morley intends to use the three-month residence to produce a body of paintings to tell the story of the Old Kent Brewery. |
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| Residency 4, 2009 |
| Drew Bickford |
To continue his creative fascination with ideas surrounding the grotesque as evidenced in genetic mutation and congenital deformity. Drew will create a range of busts referencing Wedgewood ceramics. |
| Karina Keys |
Karina will re-create objects of our time that might one day be used to explain our contemporary life-styles. Her ‘paint-functionals’ hope to sway between the ridiculous and the practical, through the absurdity of the material used to make them and the exaggerated practicality of the design. |
| Keg DeSouza |
During the residency De Souza would like to develop a series of works on paper. Drawing from the city and the relationship between space and community De Souza will work on a series of large scale drawings and text works about the Chippendale area. |
Jaki Middleton
& David Lawry |
Jaki and Dave will continue their ongoing investigation into working with photographic, kinetic sculptures. The work made during the residency will be show in a major exhibition at the end of 2009. |
| Ryan Leech |
Leech will develop an electronic installation work including video and collage. This piece is based on urban environments in a state of hyper-reality. Leech is interested in surveillance and voyeurism in relation to human and environmental dynamics characteristic of the city. |
| Sam Smith |
Smith will continue making sculptural forms that investigate an intersection between human forms and cinematic equipment such as video lenses, cameras, and tripods. This work furthers Smith interest in the idea of a bionic, half human, half video camera entity. |
| Soda Jerk |
Soda Jerk will create a work titled After the Rainbow which is a synchronized 2-channel video installation with the two digital projections installed so that they meet in a corner of the gallery space. The work examines the history of cinema opposed to new digital technologies.
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| Stephen Benwell |
Will create paintings based on Australian underworld crime figures. The paintings seek to indentify the relationships between criminal culture and mainstream culture, and the role of criminal figures in the context of Australian history. |
| Brendan Penzer |
The Great Toy Car Project: the creation of a life size sedan made up of toy cars |
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| Residency 1, 2009–2010 |
| Korschi Dosoo |
To develop body of work ‘animal love’. An investigation of our relationship with the animal world The work will combine the detailed pen work of zoological illustration with the intense colours of Pop and Street Art. |
| Christopher Hannrahan |
To development of work investigating the theme, displacement and transformation. A combination of text works (in a variety of mediums), and the early development of larger sculptural projects and drawing. |
| Daniel Hollier |
Selected for the Queenstreet Studio / Fraserstudio projects residency award. Given to an Honours student at NAS. |
| Maija Howe |
Will create a new 8mm performance installation work - drawing on materials from small gauge films. Working with a body of mid-century home movies, I’ll be grouping and cataloguing extracts from these films with the aim of finding footage that is thematically and aesthetically connected. |
| Pat Macan |
Macan will create large scale drawings which include sculptural incarnations. Macans work deals with typographic representations of the uncanny, graphic representations of degenerative processes and illustrations of conceptually related events or myths. The work made during the three month residency would inform the development and realisation of a new project made for Yuill/Crowley Gallery Sydney and is likely to follow a similar path. |
| Michael Moran |
Smith will continue making sculptural forms that investigate an intersection between human forms and cinematic equipment such as video lenses, cameras, and tripods. This work furthers Smith interest in the idea of a bionic, half human, half video camera entity. |
| Jamie North |
North’s residency will consist of a sculpture, made from pre-used electrical wiring woven around a moisture-retentive core. It would hang from a frame or similar support and reach toward the floor (though not touching it) and would have the appearance of a synthetic aerial root. Actual aerial roots are produced by local Ficus trees, in an effort to extract moisture from the air and provide stability for the tree.
This structure will be used to host a type of native fern, often seen growing from the sides of city buildings (such as the Fraserstudios building). This fern (Pteris vittata) is unusual in that it is a hyper accumulator of certain toxins from its growing environs. It then uses these toxins to deter insects from feeding upon its leaves. Hence, the sculpture promises to have an implied and perhaps practical function beyond its aesthetic and conceptual appeal. |
| Parachute Ladies |
The Parachute Ladies plan to use the studio as an opportunity to extend their inquiry into the psychological phenomenon known as the Bystander Effect - whereby the more witnesses to an event, the less likely people are to respond. As well as drawing from their ongoing investigations into vulnerability and territorialisation, this development will expand to encompass new threads: involuntary implication, perception of reality and social proof, that will feed into the Dance of Death project. |
| Tom Polo |
During the residency Polo wants to extend the performative element of his works through public displays (impromptu installations and humourous motivational spectacles) of handmade banners and signs. Access to space in and around Fraser Studios, Chippendale and Broadway will allow Polo to engage with a space that is reliant upon human activity and an audience that may not engage frequently with art. These engagements and performances will be documented.
This work will culminate into gallery projects scheduled for July and August of next year. |
| Emma Thomson |
Thomson will create 10 large- scale photographic and video portraits of wannabe women models. This work aims to investigate how young women choose to present themselves and perform infront of the camera. By advertising in community papers for models, I will initially interview the candidates in order to research what influences such as the pop culture and online networks shape their own image. |
| Holly Williams |
During the 3-month residency Williams will be developing new work for a solo project to be exhibited in late 2010. Williams will be developing a new body of work which builds on the modification of found objects with interactive, mechanical or audio components with a particular emphasis on exploring humour and the uncanny. |
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| Residency 2, 2010 |
| Lisa Andrews |
Andrews will create an animated installation based on Oh Yeah – a performance (audio and visual) I
have shot with seven local artists produced for Tin Sheds and an exhibition called Seven
Beauties. During the residency Andrews would like to develop the raw footage by creating animated
drawings based on the original footage. |
| Chris Bowman |
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| Damien Butler |
Damien Butler is an emerging studio practicing artist that lives in the inner city suburb of Glebe. He is currently working on projects that blurr the line between art, design and architecture. These projects include sculptural installations, art furniture, objects and most recently a series of wrist watches. Currently he is exploring the merging of computer NC technologies with a craft based hands on approach to art and design. |
| David Capra |
Capra will continue to develop work that investigates the supernatural, realms of the ecstatic and religion as a technology; a process of steps, leading to enlightenment.He intends to create a series of sculptures made from domestic materials that perform specific supernatural functions. He will also further develop decorative motifs and visual languages that explore branding and packaging in relation to the spiritual. |
| Michaela Gleave |
During a residency period at Fraserstudios Gleave will further her research into atmospheric phenomena, developing a new body of work focusing on the manipulation of light and air using simple, everyday equipment and locally sourced materials (such as plants, rain, air and dew). Gleave will be experimenting with both vacuums and fan systems, making visible air movement using focussed lighting, ambient dust and as well as via the introduction of water vapour and cloud. |
| Kathryn Gray |
Gray will develop new text, performance and video work to explore contingent actions in local spaces. This will involve research and scripting, collaboration with performers, staging and shooting performance, and developing video presentation of the new work.
Gray will conduct interviews with architects and educators to find out about related spatial, pedagogical and esoteric systems. |
| Mathew Hopkins |
Hopkins will continue his investigation into performance and installation based practice that explore ideas of body and object fusion, looking at the body in terms of its potential as a surface, the relationship between performer and object, and the role of performer in contemporary practice. Through a series of performance works, where by the performer remains passive, and kinetic sculptures invade and physically attack the performer, the operator/operated role is inverted. |
| Kali Reid |
The team are currently working on a project called Some Film Museums I Have Known. SFMIHK is an innovative new theatre installation incorporating performance, installation, found footage, live video, open source programming and scale models within an ever-evolving set.
Using Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ as its starting point, the work is an investigation into the cultural dominance of Hollywood cinema. |
| Deborah Vaughan |
Vaughan will research the suburbs of Ultimo, Pyrmont, Haymarket and Chippendale to connect various local communities through an uncovering of lost native vegetation. These local communities may consist of educational institutions, tradespeople and residents. |
| Vera Hong |
Hong will develop ideas surrounding the intersection of documentary and fiction within and through photography and video as an archive. Drawing on social and historical documentary genres, traditional portraiture and isolated moments in cinema – in particular the cinematic semiotics of the lead up to, or aftermath of an unspecified event, Hong will use characters, locations and objects from real life contexts around Sydney as the genesis in creating a series of visual narratives that examine perceived human intention, expectation and the making of histories. |
| Agatha Goethe Snape |
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| Residency 3, 2010 |
| Lealahni Johnson |
Johnson will be continuing her investigation into building connections between different media within an installation environment. Through an experimental working process she hopes to create a new body of work that responds to the surrounding area of Chippendale. |
| Leo Coyte |
Coyte will utilise the FraserStudios Project Residency Program to build a series of three-dimensional structures comprised of those materials that are traditionally associated with two-dimensional painting such as stretched canvases, brushes and paint. He will replicate a make-shift stage, like those commonly found in small inner-city pubs and clubs promoting underground and alternative music. |
| Iakovos Amperidis |
Amperidis will work on a project titled Dirt. The project is primarily made up of large quantities of land (topsoil) taken from properties on the real estate market that become the base material for a series of conceptual, aesthetic and scientific studies in psychogeography, landscape painting, soil science, sculpture and land art. The primary rationale for the project is in rearticulating the Australian Dream and the Australian landscape through the vernacular of real estate, in order to present the starker mundane reality associated with the cost of living in a city like Sydney. |
| Skylen Dall |
During the three-month residency program at FraserStudios, Dall will work toward the development of a body of experimental sculptural works titled Defence Mechanisms.
She will develop a series of sculptural works that use familiar objects to explore our self-defence response in modern city life. These works may include, ‘a safety net’, ‘a personal barrier’ or a ‘psychological weapon.’ |
| Kate Mitchell |
During the three-month residency period at FraserStudios, Mitchell plans to further her exploration into Endurance Performance. Using Franz Kafka’s story ‘The Cares of a Family Man’ as a primary point of reference in this exploration, the conceptual focus will be on the following key areas; endurance, existence, time, effort, physical limitations of the body, triumph and defeat. As a result she plans to create two bodies of work comprising of performance, video, sculpture and drawings for two exhibitions in 2010. |
| Tara Marynowski |
During this residency, Marynowski will be developing a new video work based on the concepts and themes explored in her recent solo show Gods and Monsters at Chalk Horse Gallery, March, 2010. The new work will explore folk-lore, mythical and spiritual creatures found in Slavic cultures and will translate her work in watercolours into a moving image and animated form. |
| Katthy Cavallere |
During the FraserStudio residency Cavallere will focus on creating life-size sculptural figures. She will create effigies wearing ragged or tattered clothing. The figures are created with timber and discarded clothing. These sculptural figures are intended for a new work, an installation/performance. Her work attempts to depict and transform a familiar figure present in a rural landscape. She will represent this within a hybrid installation including video, photography, sound and sculpture. |
| Tully Arnot |
During the residency, Arnot will construct large interactive inflated sculptures reflecting on the social and physical environment of the Chippendale area. These materials will be rapidly developed into small maquettes of inflated sculptures. Their abstract forms will be defined by the nature of their decay, ripped seams will be taped back together, missing sections replaced by others. |
| Stephen Cramb |
Cramb will complete a large body of ceramic work initiated during the industry residency at Kohler Company.
The focus will be on two works, each an edition of 6 realised in vitreous china. The first work is a figurative work, a life cast of a clothed male 6 feet 10 inches in height. The figure lies horizontally on the ground, a Fallen Figure and the second work which operates in direct dialogue with the first explores the theme of The Resurrection: two arms protruding from the surface of a filled industrial bucket also slip cast and fired. |
| Viki Papageorgopolos |
Papageorgopolos will work towards developing key ideas and completing works for an upcoming exhibition. The proposed show King Shit/Top Job at Locksmith Gallery is planned for the second half of 2010. This exhibition will provide an opportunity for her to show new work post her retrospective. She will make work that uses nonsensical imagery, in conjunction with ideas about the grand functions of fame. This work would further continue her interest in the ridiculousness and seriousness of situations. |
| Tony Curran |
Curran is going to draw and paint 285 ears (all roughly ear size) and display them in Gallery 4 of Firstdraft later this year. He will study 285 people’s ears for life drawings which will then become fluid explosions of ink paintings. |
| Melanie Boreham |
Boreham is currently researching how the mind destabilises individuals whereby they are left in a state feeling powerless and not in control of their own selves. This will translate into a series of paintings/drawings and a multi-media installation, using video/light and other materials such as fabric. She hopes to create an immersive space, where the audience will be confronted by the mind’s dominion and ploys to consume them. |
| LJ Peters |
Peters will process and consider the history, the culture and the architecture of this area (Ultimo/Chippendale) in the layers of herpaintings. |
| Brown Council |
Emerging performance and video art collective, Brown Council, intend to embark on a performative residency at FrasersStudios to develop a new body of performance works for the camera. The focus of the residency will be to create a performance and video laboratory in which ideas are tested and everything is recorded. They will treat the studio as a regular meeting site and working centre as they work towards two primary projects for late 2010: one for Melbourne Arts Fair commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre in August and the other for an exhibition in October. Brown Council have been awarded the six-month residency managed by Queen Street Studio. |
