WHERE DO WE TRULY BELONG?

MY HEART FEELS THE EARTH THROUGH MY HANDS

DADAA | KRISTEN MARTIN

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

MATERIAL CONFLUENCE

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.

From My Mother’s Mother

Persie Toindepi is a Zimbabwean-Australian emerging artist. Currently, the primary focus of her work is hair, which she uses as a tool to dissect her struggles with femininity, masculinity, race and her upbringing in a Western culture.

Dream Pool Press

A printing revolution in our sleep, Gok-Lim Finch’s Dream Pool Press provides space for the community to connect through their shared imaginations, the pool of dreams. Finch will host creative storytelling and zine workshops, inviting people to learn how to produce their own publications using a risograph printer and office photocopier.

Consume

A collaborative residency project between Elizabeth Knuckey and Nina Raper, CONSUME investigates the consumption of women’s bodies and stories. Looking closely at the cycle of consumption of women's experiences, it will be a material investigation through practice-based processes to create a resolved body of work, using forms of 'women's work' and commercial mediums designed for mass consumption.

Various artists connected to DADAA’s Midland Hub will work in residence across a variety of media. DADAA is a leading arts and health organisation that creates access to cultural activities for people with disability or mental illness.

Falling UP!

Collaborators: Sze Tsang and Georgi Ivers

Falling UP! is a work-in-progress project that aims to bomb the ubiquitous action-man-hero narrative by presenting an alternative story of “Mom Rage”. Writer/Director/Performer Michelle Hall will work with creative collaborators Sze Tsang and Georgi Ivers, diving into the deeply gendered, undervalued labour of care work.

Muriel’s residency focuses on the development of a dance syllabus for Maloya dance, which will involve identifying common movements and developing a well-organised teaching method.

Alongside the West Australian Quilters’ Association’s stitched and bound exhibition, local contemporary quilt artists will work in residence, challenging the concept of the ‘quilt’ medium.

André Lipscombe will be trialing experimental methods of painting over the course of his residency. André is a visual artist based in Perth, represented by Art Collective WA, whose practice focuses on a formalist approach to painting and drawing.

With a belief that everyone should be able to access the conversations that happen around art, Bowman will write for and in response to the arts using forms (zines and audio) that have low barriers to access for the community.

Is time a sensory experience? In this print-based project, van Leeuwen will explore transparency, layering and repetition to mark the passage of felt time in a personal chronography. Using natural forms, a recurring motif, these unique state monoprints will utilise handmade stencils, found textures and drawing techniques as markers of unfolding events and traces of memory.

Morgan, an artist and arts educator, continues developing a body of work encompassing painting, ceramic sculpture and printmaking that explores themes of social control, wellbeing, mindfulness and mental health.

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.