Mothermorphosis invites ten independent artist-m/others to collaborate through ‘creating a space’ that collectively imagines a feminist maternal future,

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,

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

Utilising bright and alluring materials, Apparent and Immanent from Megan Shaw uses MJAC’s building and considers its role as a heritage site

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Muia will develop a body of experimental etchings inspired by the unique and diverse flora and fauna found in Perth’s eastern suburbs and hills. Using several different printing techniques on a single artwork, the outcomes will be exhibited in his solo exhibition Upper Reach at Midland Junction Arts Centre, opening 6 May 2022.

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.

SAM HUXTABLE

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.