Whiskey & Boots will listen to and record the ideas of young people in the community of Midland for their upcoming verbatim performance The Quadrangle.
An ensemble development process led by playwright and director Suzanne Ingelbrecht to create a masquerade of storytelling, music and gothic romance, perfect for our post-COVID, post-truth times.
During her time in residence, Fiona Gavino will be creating an installation through random weaving outside Midland Junction Arts Centre in collaboration with members of the public and workshop participants as part of HOLD.
Fiona Gavino is a nationally recognised fibre artist and educator who applies basket making materials and techniques to create sculpture and installation. From 2012-2020 she was the Professional Development and Training Officer for ART ON THE MOVE.
During her time in residence, Tania Spencer will be creating an installation outside Midland Junction Arts Centre in collaboration with members of the public and workshop participants as part of HOLD.
Tania Spencer is a multi media artist and often works with recycled and found materials. Living and working rurally from Lake Grace, Tania has exhibited since 2000 across Western Australia as well as in Adelaide, Sydney and Japan.
During her time in residence, Liliana Stafford will be creating a woven structure in the Midland Junction Arts Centre foyer in collaboration with members of the public and workshop participants.
Winner of the 2020 Castaways Sculpture Alcoa Major Award, Stafford describes herself as a storyteller through art, finding inspiration and materials on regular walks in the natural wetland near her home.
Exploring how painting place brings the past and present together, Annette endeavours to research the landscape of Parkerville through a series of plein air paintings of the site and through documentation of her father’s recollections of his time spent there as a child.
Various artists connected to DADAA’s Midland Hub will work in residence across a variety of mediums. DADAA is a leading arts and health organisation that creates access to cultural activities for people with disability or mental illness.
Veta will be weaving, drawing into and printing with weathered housing estate banner material to create installations and ghost prints that engage with the subjects of landscape and urban development, drawing inspiration from interstitial spaces and times in transition.
Katie West belongs to the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara tablelands and as an artist creates objects, installations and happenings that invite attention to the multiple ways we weave our stories, places, histories and futures. During her time in residence Katie will be working on upcoming projects for Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial, Fremantle Biennale and Perth Festival.
Exploring physical and non-physical self in relation to change, Sam Huxtable draws on their personal experience with HRT in conjunction with a rapidly intensifying and evolving world. Queerness and transness are constant flux, movement, change and growth. Body of Flux aims to build and present these fluxes in tangibility, viscerally, with care.
Redeveloping a script for a moving, high-energy theatre show that discusses and destigmatises the origins of mental health issues in our community, 'Onset Theatre Company’s Haylee Whisson will explore how a single moment, can influence one’s beliefs.
A hotbed of issues currently playing out in contemporary society are reflected in text-based works made using printmaking and weaving.
A hotbed of issues currently playing out in contemporary society are reflected in text-based works made using printmaking and weaving.
