The aim of the Visual Arts residency is to support artistic development and expression with an emphasis on local community development through a diversity of art form practices. The residency is open to professional artists and groups (emerging and established) encompassing a diverse range of practices and outcomes. 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. 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, installation and design.
| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
| Matthew Philip 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.
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| 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.
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| Agatha Gothe-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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| LJ Peters |
Peters will process and consider the history, the culture and the architecture of this area (Ultimo/Chippendale) in the layers of herpaintings.
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| 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.
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| Residency 4, 2010 |
| Guy Benfield |
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| Damian Dillon |
Dillon’s project will look at Irish cultural migration using his family as a reference point by photographing the (sub) urban architectural environments where they were/are located. The finished works will be large scale photomedia images on board attached to plywood structures which will allude to freestanding for sale real estate signage. The FraserStudios residency will enable Dillon to complete his Australia Council Emerging New Work grant which is to be exhibited initially at Artereal gallery. |
| Giselle Stanborough |
Stan borough’s practice is based on the interplay between what is ‘personal’ and what is ‘Pop’ and the role that integrated physical and online environments play in merging them. The proposed project Space Exploration is a multi-disciplinary work that attempts the seemingly contradictory task of mythologising and revealing, promoting and degrading the processes by which the virtual can become the real. She will create a series of elaborate sets and costumes that are reminiscent of futuristic and alternate universe Science Fiction film. Each fortnight a different set would form a backdrop to a short video that combines the tropes of reality TV (such as diary-like soliloquies and highly ritualised eliminations) and the aesthetic of science fiction in a mythologised version of the ‘every day’. |
| Emma Ramsay |
As an emerging artist Ramsay currently works across the realms of sound design, new media and textiles in the contemporary art community in Sydney. Ramsay is currently working on a body of work for her first solo exhibition at Firstdraft Gallery in April this year, 4. The show references ritualistic wear and the artist’s developing obsession with the function and illusion of divination in gaining higher insight into ones past, present and future. The installation contains totem rope hangings of seemingly traditional ritual wear. Upon closer inspection, one finds the patterns of the pieces diverge, pointing to a newer tradition of personal insight through performative absurdity and play. |
| Julian Jones |
Jones makes work about the effect man has on the natural world through consumption and globalisation. His sculptural landscape depicting the working harbour are cast in resin, plaster and concrete with ceramic details, deconstructing the surrounding into simple cubic shapes. The Colour palette is taken from the industrial world in the form of metallics, oils and oxides. |
| Sarah Contos |
Using an empirical and multi-discipline approach that utilises painting, collage and soft sculpture and being influenced by popular culture, the fin de siècle of the 1900’s and Australian architecture, Contos explores displacement, nostalgia and unfulfilled desires. Through the use of eroticism, cynicism and humour and by adopting an intimate, personal and emotional framework her practice looks at relationships between these themes through objects and textures. |
| Julia Davis |
The purpose of Davis’ residency is to further develop a body of work that was produced in 2009/10 and funded by an Australia Council grant. The works (a series of high definition videos) follow a miner 300 meters below ground level into 17th Century salt encrusted tunnels that have not been visited for many years. The works explore time, memory, human labour and exploitation as well as trace a material whose evaporative process creates morphological change on a human time scale. Unlike most regenerative processes which involve organic procedures (carbon, oxygen), salt, with its high solubility and evaporative phenomena as one of the few minerals that can metamorphose over a relatively short period. This is an exploration into a living breathing mineralogical space that would be superimposed into the raw industrial space of FraserStudios. |
| Michelle Park |
Park’s works are often reflections about ‘the city’, and the experiences of those living there. Through her work she reveals something about human beings, our inner thoughts, desires, fears and mysteries, in narrative form. In the print works she depicts untold or hidden stories of the city. By introducing animals and birds that have adapted to the city environment so well, such as crows and pigeons and animals that are not generally associated with the city she expresses a sense of loneliness, isolation and strangeness, highlighting absurdity of our existence in the city. |
| Mills & Morte |
Themes of Love and Death intrinsically link the work of Dominique Hindmarsh and Susannah Thorne under their collaborative title Mills & Morte. Ongoing research through the Justice & Police museum has informed their artwork. Drawing on imagery from archived police photography, romance novels and anatomy books the artists have developed a practice akin to forensic investigation. They present their artwork like courtroom evidence asking questions through objects and imagery. Chippendale and a number of other closely surrounding suburbs are of particular relevance to their current practice and research. Their work is themed around a local historical story with roots throughout Sydney, and particularly concentrated within the Chippendale and City area. |
| Melody Willis |
Willis’ new project is based on stories of a party at her parents’ terrace house in east Sydney in the late seventies. At the party, her father knocked down an interior wall in the house. Five residents took a decision to remove the fences separating the properties, creating one large shared garden. This story reflects a broader impulse to renew, remake and claim space, with all its romantic gestures, economic impulses, subsequent challenges and failings. Willis will then install this work in the shop front of her own (rented) property, a site that she has renovated with friends. |
| Alana Hunt |
The conceptual underpinnings Hunt’s ideas have been influenced by a number of personal experiences she has had in both India and Australia. Through a process-based approach to practice she will draw and reflect upon a combination of material (video, sound, photography, newspaper cuttings, text) and experiences gathered in India and Australia over the last two and a half years. This period of process and experimentation will work loosely towards the development of a new body of work. |
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| Residency 1, 2010 — 2011 |
| Harriet Body |
Harriet Body creating an on going project entitled The Belly Series in which she film’s her stomach every day. Body started this project in her honours year and intends to continue it for the foreseeable future. The Belly Series is suggestive of the passage of her own body as it travels through time and space. The Zen artist tries to suggest, by the simplest means possible, the inherent nature of an aesthetic object. The inherent nature of a woman’s belly is that of motherhood, feminism, and — in her own culture — beauty ideals. |
| Greta Edmondson |
During the residency Greta Edmondson plans to embark on a body of work that investigates representations of paradise. With a central focus on the notion of the constructed imaginary, key points of interest include theme parks, carnivals, fairytales, video games, oversized roadside attractions, toys and children’s storybooks. Her interests are aligned with philosophical writings concerning artificiality, simulation, imagination, perception and wonder. The art-making process for Edmondson spans across a variety of disciplines, including sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing. |
Stephanie Rajalingam
Thomas Marcusson |
SCIXORS are Thomas Marcusson and Stephanie Rajalingam; a couple of emerging inner-Sydney artists practising in the field of Visual Arts and New Media / Interdisciplinary Arts. Thomas Marcusson and Stephanie Rajalingam both studied Visual Communication at UTS. SCIXORS aim on utilising the generous space at Fraserstudios to produce several New Media installation artworks: These include the production of The Worriors: an artistic installation using craft-based methods of assembly and production. Scixors aim to construct 1) A giant worry ball based on the worries, fears and regrets of people, and 2) A worry bed and quilt; also based on the worries, fears and regrets of the contemporary human population. |
TV Moore
Matthew Tumbers |
During Moore and Tumbers studio residency we will be working towards 2 large-scale performance exhibitions, which will be held in Sydney at Roslyn oxley9 gallery and in Melbourne at Uplands Gallery. In the first half of 2011. We will be producing a combination of sound work, paintings, 2-D & props, objects and experimental lighting and video components as well as photographic studio work. |
| Claire Nakazawa |
During the residency at Fraserstudio Projects Nakazawa proposes to work toward an exhibition entitled When Dark Meets Light. She wants to explore the relationship , contrast and juxtaposition between light and dark, perceived good and evil, and positive and negative. She plans to do a series of paintings exploring this theme particulary in relation to concepts of sexuality death and the urban environment. |
Melissah Chalker
Sophie Keeling |
The proposed 10am/10pm Project aims to investigate the relationship between natural and artificial light and its effect on form, shape, colour and object. It is a collaborative duo project involving two artists that share the same subject matter of geometry and light but differ in process, media and sensibility. The two artists will produce individual work at different times of the day. Sophie will work in the studio mainly in the morning as her interests lay in the observation of natural light in its ephemeral nature whilst Melissah will work in the studio in the afternoon/evening were she can observe and control the electric lighting, as she is concerned with the observation of artificial light. |
| George Khut |
Khut aims to produce a body of small to medium sized wearable and hand-held interactive sound sculptures, in clay, plaster and wood, exploring sensations of pouring, fluidity, weight and balance. This proposal builds on research he has been doing as part of his Thinking Through The Body interdisciplinary research project — combining very simple interactions and body sensations (weight, balance, touch) with interactive technologies (tilt sensors, heart beats, pressure sensors etc.). |
| Bronia Iwanczak |
Iwanczak aims to complete 100 A1 drawings in preparation for a solo exhibition titled Environment of Mind. Thematically the content addresses issues relating to the environment, history and psychology, in particular Antarctica. Initial drawings were made in Antarctica in 2008, but due to space restrictions the full scale of them have not been realised. The space of the Queen Street Studio would enable a grid like structure of the hundred drawings to be viewed and worked into as an interrelated series. |
| Nathan Babet |
Babet’s proposed research project is by part biographical in nature yet speaks universally in its concepts. Being part first generation Australian and Sudeten-Deutsch (Czech) descent, Babet intend’s to investigate the German phenomena of ‘heimat’ (homeland). It is through this notion that he seeks to affiliate an Australian/German identity that maintains an inherent lack of resolve, with an Australian identity that reflects a divisional lack of culture, subsequently drawing parallels between the subjective nature of memory and identity, and the proliferation of trauma transposed down through generations. |
| Eddie Sharp |
Branching off from the models, camera feeds, projections and set pieces that Sharp created with Film Museums: he and William Mansfield are looking to further examine the interaction between film, video and live performance with live video and scale models. Rather than traditional theatre works the new pieces would be gallery installations wherein the spectator is forced into the role of performer upon entering the gallery space. Further exploring themes of film history, irony, nostalgia, scale and collage as well as the role and responsibility of the spectator. Sharp and Mansfield are hoping to present these works in Firstdraft Gallery and Serial Space throughout the next 12 months. The exploration and construction of these works would be a primary focus of the Frasers residency. |
| Enrique De Val |
De Val uses photographs as his source inspiration for his oil paintings. His current body of work is entitled Fiesta. It is about him becoming an Australian Citizen. |
| Rafaela Pandolfini |
Pandolfini will work on a project entitled A Still Life during a three-month studio residency at FraserStudios. It will be a collaborative photography project looking at place and identity through still life pictures, with a focus on people who live within the community of Chippendale and their personal spaces. Over the past few years her practice has evolved from a style of documentary photography and verité video production — focusing on people and place — to explicitly-staged photo shoots involving the expression of ritualism — dance, decoration and colour. She draws upon a very broad range of source material to create her imagery and inspire her practice: contemporary art forms, photography, music, fashion, dance, popculture, nightclubbing culture, traditional dance, performance and adornment. |
| Mitch Cairns |
For Frasers Cairns proposed project will include conflating aspects of colour field painting, cartooning and recorded sound projects. Continuing on from his most recent body of work he wants to further engage with the historical legacy of colour field painting, in particular its incarnations within both Australia and New Zealand. As part of this process he will practice the making of cartoons and short percussive based audio recordings, drawing upon his continuing interest and affection for slapstick performance. It is with a great sense of play that he hopes to more or less reconcile the non-objective nature of the painting with the comedic narrative structures that characterize the cartoons and to a lesser extent the sound experiments. Cairns is awarded the six month residency for an emerging artist. |
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| Residency 2, 2011 |
| JD Reforma |
During JD Reforma’s proposed studio residency she aims to produce new bodies of work for two separate, confirmed exhibitions in 2011. The first of these is to be held at Somedays Gallery in Surry Hills, and the other is to be held at gaffa Gallery in Sydney’s CBD. While both bodies of work are distinct, they each seek to engage and enmesh various visual tropes related to the interrelated notions of decoration, façade, advertising, and celebrity. |
Johannes Muljana
Pamela Lee Brenner |
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| Jo Daniel |
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| Emma Wise |
Wise intends to use the residency to make a large-scale collapsed paper figure. A similar work already made entitled State of Mind was looking at boundaries, borders, limitations, between and within individuals, groups, nations... The proposed collapsed figure is a further investigation of these issues with particular emphasis on the changing nature of personal engagement and connection, and the collapse of physical intimacy into the intimacy of the internet. |
| Phil Williams |
The time at Studio 10 would be invested in developing a body of work to exhibit in either in a solo or group capacity. Williams is a graduate from SCA and has work in many collections. He primarily works with paint. His gestural and lurid sense of paint is highly individual. |
| Jelena Telecki |
Jelena Telecki is a Sydney-based emerging artist born in Yugoslavia. Her work reflects and embodies the embarrassment caused by the failure to understand and adapt to living between two cultures, the present and the past. Finally Lost is a project that she started 6 months ago and which she aims to develop further in the next year. The works forming the project are addressing the embarrassment, compliance and giving up on trying to fully understand the outcomes of the confused life between two cultures and its influence on my art practice. |
| Jonathon James |
Jonathan James recently graduated from the Master of Visual Arts program at University of Sydney. He aims to research, storyboard and produce an artists’ book that explores potential changes in language, when we fall in love. Beginning with pragmatic viewpoints his initial research examines notions of love, considering falling / giving / taking, before moving to the language of romance and then veering over to power relations. Practicing and perfecting bookbinding, previously studied at University, would be a second aspect of this residency. Bookbinding in this format may include digital versions alongside studies and final hardbound books. |
| Jai McKenzie |
During the studio residency McKenszie will explore various solutions for better societies proposed through the 1960’s architectural models of Superstudio and Buckminster Fuller. She intends to explore both propositions and examine their contemporary relevance. Superstudio were an Italian collective of architects who critically engaged with the cultural codes and connections of an emerging consumer society by proposing anti-utopias that featured antagonism and disruption. |
| Kyla Ring |
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| Nerine Martini |
Martini proposes to use the residency to develop a new series of drawings and related sculptures. This new work follows her recent series of drawings entitled Traces. These drawings are based on an image of her fingerprint. The titles refer to the act of tracing as a means of creating the artworks as well as the fingerprint as a trace of one’s existence. Exploring the nature of the individual, these drawing employ a deeply personal image which implies security and evidence of identity. Formal drawing qualities such as tone, light & shade, repetition & rhythm, texture and changes in scale are employed to create the compositions. |
| Cara Macleod |
Macleod will begin her residency with research of historical documentation of the previous residents and uses of various buildings on Kensington St. Using photographs and written historical records from newspapers, discussion with former residents who she has met at Underbelly Arts earlier this year, and her own documentation and more imaginative detective work to construct a series of fragmented and layered drawings and collages in response to the history, buildings, characters and unique atmosphere of Kensington St. |
| Todd Robinson |
Todd Robinson is an artist, designer and researcher. His practice traverses fields of sculpture, installation, textiles and fashion. The project he proposes to produce at Queen Street Studio involves the development of a new body of work for exhibition at MOP projects, Chippendale in August 2011. The project titled Public Fitting develops a series of non-technical wearable garments and objects including garments, body belts, bags, straps and hoods that utilize fabric, weight, pressure and pulleys to cultivate somatic awareness through bodily augmentation and sensorial manipulation. |
| Todd Fuller |
Fuller plans on engaging in a variety of disciplines throughout the proposed residency as his work is comprised of two strands of practice which are integrated via installation. The first is animation, created through the intense activity of documenting a drawing. Through stop gap his drawings are given a license to move, to breathe, to dance and to exist in an untraditional way. The second element of his practice is the physical expression of these characters and their stories. This is done through the sculpture and ceramics as well as through utilising projection and monitors. When brought together the ceramic figurative elements become a physical figure in a moment of realisation or reflection. Fuller uses his own memories and experiences to access themes of the human condition which are applicable to us all. This includes loss, love, sexuality, masculinity and the absurdity of the world we occupy. |
| Sebastian Goldspink |
Goldspink’s practice, until recently, has been primarily based on working in a “street” context and revolves around subverting advertising. He works with hand cut vinyl contact adhesive which he cuts into lettering or images with the view to altering advertising in a humorous or socially conscious way. During his residency at Queen Street Studio, he intends to explore opportunities to develop his work from street-based art to studio-based art for exhibitions. He intends to compile large format single sheet photocopies generated from zine-style cut and paste techniques and then undertake manipulations of these works. |
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| Residency 3, 2011 |
| TEAM MESS (Six Month Residents) |
To develop a new work as part of NextWave Kickstart program. Team MESS will explore staging a series of ‘crime site’ installation in public places culminating in a video work that mimics crime drama. |
| Sarah Breen Lovett |
To create a series of moving image installations capturing immaterial elements. |
| Sophie Cape |
Further development of her abstracted portraiture work that breaks down the romantic notion of the portraiture as idealised, formalised and objectified. |
| Sophia Egarchos |
To work on experimenting and creating a new body of work that will look at transitioning her painting from two-dimensional into a larger three-dimensional capacity. |
| Cherine Fahd |
To develop a series of diarized images for an exhibition at MOP gallery. |
| James Harney |
To continue the research and development of Lessons For Living: Know Your Resource No#1 (Wood), first developed as part of firstdraft’s emerging artist residency program. |
| Aesha Henderson |
The development of two projects a kinetic sculpture entitled Warfare for an exhibition at INDEX Space in St Peters and the development of a new puppet show in collaboration with Umbrella Theatre. |
| Mehr Javed |
A series of drawings that laboriously work on an attempt to memorize and own the (unfamiliar) through photographed places. |
| Julie Masterton |
To develop and complete post-production on a film and series of photographic artworks to be exhibited in December 2011 at Sadler’s Wells and Spring Projects, London |
| Marilyn Schneider |
A sculptural installation that will create a series of works that appear like maps or store directories. These ‘maps’ will merge the aesthetic of European hedge mazes of the 15th and 16th century with the floor plans of Westfield shopping centers, to critique how viewers navigate commercial space. |
| Mark Shorter |
To develop a video work that satirises the legacy of Australian landscape painting. This will involve the creation of a new character, “Dutch Painter”. In the proposed video Dutch Painter will present a grotesque vision of “The Great Southern Land” – a landscape which he maintains, has been misunderstood thanks to “200 years of bad painting”. |
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| Residency 4, 2011 |
| Tammie Castles |
To further develop her practice and create a body of work based on her investigation of the consequence of isolation whilst working in remote Northern Territory. |
| Charles Dennington |
A series of inventive sculptures assembled from found materials, responding to the physical or conceptual materiality of those parts and how they might act to expand his practice by relating these sculptural elements to the studio space as a “dynamic” installation. |
| John A. Douglas |
The project, titled Body Fluid, aims to explore such modes of practice as live performance augmented by video installation incorporating elements of figure in landscape, Australian and Japanese cinema, the fragility of human existence and medical intervention. Outcomes include a 10 hour durational performance at Performance Space Carriageworks. |
| Becky Gibson |
To develop a series of new works that look at merging the themes of erased landscapes and memory. |
| Michaela Gleave |
To develop a major new large-scale installation work for exhibition in Sydney’s inner west in the first half of 2012. The works will focus on the conceptual rationale of ‘crossing boundaries’. |
| Alexander Jackson Wyatt |
To develop two new large scale works that explore the the relationship between physical forms and surrounding environments. |
| Monica Levy |
The development of two works “Don’t Panic” and
a second group of works that are a sculptural installation of pieces that will combine the use of porcelain and papier mache, found objects, visual references or poetry to explore the creation of contemporary “memento mori” objects. |
| Ngoc Nguyen |
Inspired by the encounters of childhood experiences, the notion of fairy tales, memories of home and also the fragility of us within the surroundings, she wishes to create a work that is based on the concept of Life is a Dream” |
| Adam Norton |
To realise the sculpture/installation work provisionally entitled ‘Das Mars Projekt’ for an exhibition on cockatoo island. |
| Stephanie Quirk |
The creation of a series of ten colour books that will be exhibited within the working studio space that will be displayed on three white shelves, mounted on three separate walls. Viewers will be instructed to pick up a book and ‘read’ the colour narrative The artist is interested in colour perception and the ongoing processes of subjective colour. |
| Mark Titmarsh |
To use the studio space to prepare and create a large scale work based on the collection of hundreds of book jackets for a performance event using thrown paint. |
| Craig Waddell |
To continue the next stage of ‘The Hybrid Project’. The project has come from having a studio on a rural property in New South Wales and his interest in recycling studio waste and reusing discarded farm equipment as material for artworks. |
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| Bonus Round, 2012 |
| Aaron Anderson |
The main focus will be a screen printing project that is just about to come out of the testing phase. To produce large screen prints that will be fitted into hand made frames made of wood or resin produced in the studio. |
| Lisa Andrew |
To produce and develop new work for three upcoming exhibitions: Peloton in March 2012, Ican in August 2012 and a proposed site-specific solo installation at FraserStudios in May. |
| Tega Brain |
Work on two projects to be exhibited in June 2012 as part of SafARI. The first is the second work in a series that explores environmental processes in a playful and performative way. The second project is a smaller scale time-based work involving time lapse photography experiments as a way of exploring representations of non-humans. |
| Tammie Castles |
To see into completion "The Great Buckingham Street Project" and develop works for exhibitions at Cessnock Regional Gallery and Brenda May Gallery. To ask the question "what is home?" and explore and celebrate the idea of cosiness, comfort, family, close friends and familiarity in her own work. |
| Li Cui |
To continue work on the China Map series, started in China, reflecting on the artist’s personal and cultural identity and how it has been affected by relocating to Australia. To work on a new series including portraits, domestic landscapes and mixed-media maps through the three stages of research, production and feedback. |
| Sarah Goffman |
To develop a large-scale installation with mixed media and drawing work for an upcoming exhibition at Penrith Regional Gallery. |
| Yvette Hamilton |
To memorialise the final six months in the life of FraserStudios by making work that responds to the material and immaterial architecture of the site. A series of site-specific installation works and a screen-based film work will be shown at the Expanded Architecture Festival in 2012. |
| Bronia Iwanczak |
To develop a multi screened film installation titled Ulysses Head and to explore the cross-pollination of body movement and film specific to FraserStudios and the dancers who use the space daily. |
| Francesca Mataraga |
To develop a new work and an in-situ installation at FraserStudios that functions as a social space, exploring how art installations can function as a relaxation or recreational space by merging the abstract elements of an artwork with a usable space. |
| Ben Morley |
To revisit Chippendale-based works and continue the development of a series about the Old Kent Brewery site (initiated in a previous FraserStudios residency) alongside a series of works about Barangaroo; exploring the relationship between the two development sites. |
| Parachutes for Ladies |
To research and develop a site responsive performance for the internal gallery space of the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane titled Mass Ornament as part of the Women in Performance exhibition in April 2012. |
| Eddie Sharp, Kenzie Larsen and William Mansfield |
To create a series of gallery installations wherein the spectator is forced into the role of performer upon entering the gallery space, exploring themes of film history, irony, nostalgia, scale and collage as well as the role and responsibility. |
| Craig Waddell |
To continue development on a new body of work for an upcoming exhibition at Gallery 9 in March 2012 and at Gallery 9’s stand at the Melbourne Art Fair in August 2012. |
