CURRENT ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Anne Ferran (NSW), is researching the history of Fremantle Prison with a view to make new work informed by the former prison library, chapel and the yard where prisoners used to feed what became a huge bird population. ARTIST STUDIO 1

Ben Rodin (WA) uses drawing, sculpture and video to focus on current trends in social praxis, and considers the implications of art’s role in directly shaping the ‘grand narrative’. ARTIST STUDIO 2

Josephine Wilson (WA), taking references from research and objects gathered in India, explores the poetic function of language through text and audio. ARTIST STUDIO 3

Lilly Kaiser (WA), is creating a body of work exploring the social interaction between dogs and people and the language of laughter. ARTIST STUDIO 4

Mental Powers (WA), are a local band who will work with Perth-based musicians Tim Loughman and Brendan Jay to develop songs, music and sounds that utilise the FAC building's natural reverb and field recordings from around the `grounds. ARTIST STUDIO 3

Neridah Stockley (NT), is an Alice Springs painter who will create a new body of work reflecting upon industry in the port, local landforms and seascapes. ARTIST STUDIO 1

Nien Schwarz (WA), uses topographic maps of the Australasian region as a launching pad for developing a research project that explores links between remnant bush and traditional and modern land use practices, between economics and ecology, and between physical and psychological mapping. ARTIST STUDIO 5

Nina Juniper (WA), explores ideas of architectural space, the public realm and spatial history. Through the analysis of socio-architectural interactions and the materiality of architectural space, her work describes places of transit and dysfunction. ARTIST STUDIO 5

Rochelle Summerfield (NSW) will respond to FAC’s neo-gothic architecture and its history as a women’s home. Summerfield uses print and collage as her primary artistic stimulus to form grotesque female characters. ARTIST STUDIO 1

Sandy McKendrick (WA) uses video stills, drawings and found objects sourced on the beach to create artwork that investigates both the origins and cultural identity of the found materials. ARTIST STUDIO 8

Sarah Elson (WA) works on methods of re-fleshing found and cast organic elements into drawings in metal, Elson’s practice involves traditional metal-smithing techniques and drawing. ARTIST STUDIO6

Shannon Williamson (NZ) uses human anatomy as a point of departure to compose figurative and non-figurative drawings that explore the subject of the body and its sensations. ARTIST STUDIO7

Teelah George (WA) uses drawing as the primary means to investigate the relationship between body, object, and material. ROOM 3

TALK BLACK - Tania Ferrier

5 Aug – 26 Aug Artist studio 3

WA artist Tania Ferrier will be in residence as part of her TALK BLACK project throughout August, presenting 33 interviews in our video project space.

Developed through a 'go anywhere' Artsource residency in 2012, TALK BLACK is a tableau projection of interviews documented on location in the USA which discuss the current state of politics, cultural pride, strength and endurance in the Obama Era.

Tania will be available throughout the duration of the screening to talk about the project, inviting a response from people to TALK BLACK while collecting Australian stories to be parcelled into a wall projection that will travel to the USA for exhibition in 2015.

How to Apply

Applications for residencies that require the use of the residential apartment will be accepted during the month of September 2013 for residencies taking place after September 2014. Residencies not requiring the use of the residential apartment will be accepted at any time.

Proposals need to include the following:

1. An up-to-date CV for each participant

2. A selection of images of previous work with detailed information. Or a sample of published text, maximum 15 pages (writers). 

3. An outline of your intended residency project (media, concept,  possible activities, potential outcomes) 

4. The intended timeframe and; 

5. An indication of your preferred residency space

Residencies are considered according to proposal strength, relationship to the Centre programming and availability of space. 

Please submit proposals via email to: residencies@fremantle.wa.gov or post to: 

Bevan Honey

Artist in Residence Coordinator 

Fremantle Arts Centre, 

PO Box 891, Fremantle, 

Western Australia, 6959.

For all further enquiries contact Bevan Honey, bevanh@fremantle.wa.gov.au