Swaroopa Unni develops EarthSong, a solo Mohiniyattam performance exploring the deep connections between women and nature.
Rebecca Jensen will be working with the community to develop an archive of their voices or “Community notices” capturing the every day.
Ric Burkitt invites visitors into the creative process, offering insight into his contemporary painting practice.
In this residency, Sarah Thornton-Smith continues her enquiry into monoprinting as a site of material and perceptual exploration.
Writer, Director, Choreographer, Actor & Dancer Ivan Tarakanov, with Composer & Producer Valery Niazov, Mentoring Director Susie Conte, and Dancer & Actor Sergey Pevnev develop their production In search of Nureyev: The search of an immigrant for his real identity.
BUNGAAN (JOANNE PARFITT) AND DARCY RANKIN
Alongside the stitched & bound exhibition, twelve artists open their arts practice to visitors.
Una Bell presents Ode to the Sun, a residency and solo exhibition celebrating the sun as the centre of life on this planet, through paintings, linocuts and poetry.
Through her watercolour paintings, Sheree Dohnt investigates and reflects on the experiences of women undertaking acts of labour, whether it be paid work in a public space, or unpaid and undervalued labours of love and care.
Local resident Clive Ryder presents his first solo exhibition of large scale acrylic landscape paintings created on the road from Marble Bar to Port Hedland, Telfer to Newman.
Whiskey and Boots research and develop their new community engaged project HOME.
International Artist in Residence Sakshi Agarwal explores the concept of modern-day reliquaries.
WHERE DO WE TRULY BELONG?
THE SPACE BETWEEN
MY HEART FEELS THE EARTH THROUGH MY HANDS
DADAA | KRISTEN MARTIN
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE OTHER
ARCHIE & HIS SUITCASE
From 30 November, local artist Mollie Edgecombe will be in residence at MJAC exhibiting a range of artworks including portraiture, landscapes and signwriting created over a 60-year period.
DADAA Midland artists Harvey Arnephie-Cook, Emma Vedeniapine and Jasmine Meyer expand their ceramic practice under the guidance of ceramicist Val Barron. They are part of a collaborative clay project that connects into broader workshops being facilitated across the City of Swan through the Re-Connection: A Multigenerational Art Project through Community Voices project.
For the Best promises a new evolution in the highly anticipated and memorable community engagement programs Whiskey & Boots offer. Partnering with The Last Great Hunt and writer Jeffrey Jay Fowler, For the Best fuses community interviews, music and performance, seeking insight into why we sometimes lose contact with the people who were once closest to us.
An exploration of textural painting examining the relationship between immigration and assimilation within the Iranian diaspora. Yasamin Khadembashi’s project focusses on aspects of Persian culture, women's liberties, queerness, art, poetry, landscape and music, utilising the medium of impasto oil paints to mimic the texture of fabric, water, hair and a multitude of other materials.
Drawing on the participatory nature of informal inscription culture, Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary create a series of performance art experiments and woven fibre artworks in conversation with a graffiti site on the Helena River.
Swan Youth Workshop Series in partnership with FORM – Building a State of Creativity Ltd
Johnny and Izy look at the interplay of language and identity for artists of the Asian diaspora in Australia, inviting artists to participate in forums and community arts projects as an exploratory tool to inform curatorial practice and projects.
The Veranda Studio turns into a hub of textile joy when ten of the stitched & bound artists open their arts practice to visitors. Dividing the residency in blocks of time will allow visitors to come back again and again to meet different artists, watch their techniques up close, learn a few tricks and contribute to community projects through stitch.
Braiding Memories is an intergenerational research project led by artist Annick Akanni, exploring the profound bond between Annick and her Tanzanian mother, Dottie, through the art of braiding,
Mothermorphosis invites ten independent artist-m/others to collaborate through ‘creating a space’ that collectively imagines a feminist maternal future,
Our hands, my heart, all at once is a creative residency project led by Colin Smith and Gabby Loo. Exploring queerness, trans identities, and neurodiversity
A multidisciplinary celebration of the mountainous environments of WA’s South West, Alex Boyds’ The Living Mountains uses field sketchbooks, photographs and footage recorded in the ranges themselves
Utilising bright and alluring materials, Apparent and Immanent from Megan Shaw uses MJAC’s building and considers its role as a heritage site
Martien van Zuilen focuses on the nexus between human interaction with the land, heritage, conservation, and the provenance of the materials she selects. Building on her established career in handmade felt and fibre art, van Zuilen investigates the marrying of wool fibres with complementary techniques and materials.
