A key activity within the council’s arts and cultural program is the Artist Residency program. Artists are offered residencies from two to five weeks between 20 January and 20 December. All Australia-based artists working in any medium and at any stage of their career are eligible to apply.
King Island Gallery is thrilled to announce an exciting year of Artist Residencies ahead with some extremely talented artists on their way.
Julie Gough is an artist, writer and curator based in Nipaluna and Hobart. Gough’s art-research uncovers and re-presents conflicting or subsumed histories, many referring to her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
(March & October 2024)
Emily Sheppard is a composer, performer and scientist based in Nipaluna, Tasmania. Emily bridges science and music through storytelling events, exploring themes of geological deep time, freshwater eel migration, and kelp forest decline. Emily will be collaborating with Rachel Meyers. https://emily.cloud
(April 2024)
Rachel Meyers’ career spans world, folk, experimental, and early music spheres. She is deeply passionate about working with stories of place, identity and personal connection, and using art as a tool for real, tangible community change. http://www.meyersandmcnamara.com (April 2024)
Mel Robson is a Ceramic Artist living in Arrernte Country in Mpartnwe,Alice Springs. Her practice encompasses functional design objects, sculptural works, installation pieces and public art. Her work centres around ideas of place and identity and how histories, stories and associations can become embedded in everyday objects. melrobson.com (May 2024)
Anne Morrison was born in Scotland and now lives with her family on Tasmania’s NW coast. Her art practice is informed and enriched by her day-to-day experience of the local coastal environment, as well as many years of travel, by exposure to foreign landscapes and ancient cultures. despard-gallery.com.au/artistprofiles/anne-morrison
(July 2024)
Judith Klavins is a contemporary installation artist living in Adelaide. Her installations include sculpture, video, photography, textiles, drawing and printmaking. Klavins creates artworks that poetically engage and speculate upon her relationship with coastal environments where she has lived, returns to and she has ancestral connections, including King Island. judithklavins.net
(September 2024)
Alana Hampton captures compelling sensate experiences of place in precious habitats and places of beauty. Photographing by day and night, utilising underwater lights and cameras to gather often surreal and dreamlike impressions, her practice is process-based and immersive, weaving together physical and metaphysical traces from the landscape that are layered in the studio, with digital manipulations of drawing, photography, painting and video. alanahampton.com (November 2024)
Aviva Endean is a clarinettist, composer and sound artist living between Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung country. She creates shared spaces for attentive listening, opening our ears to the world around us as we consider place and space. Aviva’s vision extends beyond her primary art form to expand ways in which sound can be experienced, and to discover new forms of expression that reflect the here and now. avivaendean.com
(December 2024)