Perennial Residency is an ambitious project that will see Art Farm Birchs Bay undertake its artist-in-residence program, hosting four ecologically-focused artists as studio residents over one calendar year. The aim of this program is to support four D’entrecasteaux Channel-based artists to create new work on the site of Art Farm: a regional arts not-for-profit, gallery, and venue located across a 100 hectares of working farm and native bushland. Artists will receive fees, venue support, marketing support, and documentation for the development of a new idea situated at Art Farm.

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For the period of one year, four artists will be supported to undertake three-month, paid creative developments of new work on site at Art Farm. With an open brief, and access to studio space, outdoor space, tools, and expertise, this time is intended to foster rigorous thinking and making amongst the unique social and biological ecology of Art Farm.

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Perennial Residency has been developed in response to the needs of our artists, our community, and our venue, who need year-round public opportunities to make, share, and experience art together.

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This activity is supported by Arts Tasmania and the Department of State Growth, with partnership from Constance ARI.

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ABOUT THE 2023/24 ARTISTS

 

Emma Pinsent

Emma Pinsent is an artist working and living between the unceded lands of the Arakwal-Bundjalung people (Northern New South Wales) and Gadigal-Bidjigal people (Sydney) in the colony called Australia. Her practice explores porosity and entanglement between humans and nonhuman nature in the ongoing climate crisis. Engagements with ecology, weather, anthropogenic waste and infrastructure are reconfigured into poetic installations that invite contemplation of porous borders and the precarity of the rapidly changing environment.

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A Published Event

​A Published Event is the collaborative partnership of Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward, artists, writers and publishers. Making long-term relational artworks through shared acts of public telling, Phillips & Woodward explore chance encounter, constructed situations and the shared authorship of lived experience. They work with artists and writers, materials and ideas, writing, prose, book-works and performance. Together, they have published over 150 printed books since 2016.

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Selena de Carvalho

​Selena de Carvalho (PhD) is an inter-disciplinary artist, designer, maker and risk taker of settler, refugee and migrant heritage based in lutruwrita/Tasmania- ‘Australia’. Selena purposefully connects creativity in a (post) activist context amplifying the ecological imagination through practicing relational ethos. Selena views her creative work as a cultural response – ability. Throughout this practice she seeks out materials and environments that have weathered various forms of frontline disturbance, with-nessing, witnessing and interpreting global warming and its local affects.

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Yumemi Hiraki (Presented in partnership with Constance ARI)

Yumemi Hiraki is an Australian-based artist from Hiroshima, Japan, currently based in nipaluna/Hobart. Experimenting with a wide range of materials, she explores tense relationships and subtle connotations of one as a resident of cultural gaps. Immersing her viewer in the complexity of history, memory, nostalgia and identity, Hiraki’s spatial landscaping evokes a familiar yet foreign sense of longing, belonging and holding on. Treating her practice as a personal study of life’s continuity and ephemerality, her works hint that perhaps our memories, and in turn, the way we withhold history is as dynamically transitional as this world that we all inhabit.

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ABOUT THE 2022/23 ARTISTS

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Caitlin Fargher (b.1995)

Caitlin Fargher is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculptural installation and curating. Based out of Good Grief Studios, and living near the bush and rivulet in Kingston, her work is created through an embodied practice that explores histories, sites, ecologies and memories.

 

Thomas Friend (b.1987)

Thomas Friend is an emerging Tasmanian creator, teacher, activist who typically works by carving and creating with Tasmanian timbers. He has been working with local timbers since 2018, carving spoons and making sculptures. Since 2021 he has held a studio at Good Grief. The wild places of Tasmania inspire him to create and protect.

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Ian Johnston (b. 1952)

Ian Johnston was a full-time professional ocean racing skipper for 11 years and 150,000 sea miles. He is holder of numerous race records, boat builder, teacher, timber worker and sailing coach. He now spends his time in creative pursuits, using his boat-building experience to create wooden artworks that push the limits of physics and spark playful interactions with audiences and the environment.

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Caroline McGregor (b.1966)

Caroline McGregor was seduced by the practice of sculpture whilst studying at the National Art School in Darlinghurst where she completed her MFA in 2017. Influenced by the insistent materiality of the minimalist sculptors, she creates steel sculptures and botanic works
that speak of both the expressiveness and the composure of geometry whilst intentionally referencing architecture and the act of construction.​

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Our next Perennial Residency is TBA.

For further information or questions, contact Amy Jackett, Art Farm Birchs Bay Coordinator.  info@artfarmbirchsbay.org.au