Artist In Residence 2023/2024
Our 2023/2024 Partner: Rethinkable
Rethinkable の代表者 Nina Fitzgerald:
Nina Fitzgerald は、クイーンズランド州極北のトレス海峡諸島カカドゥとシェルボーン湾のウサティ族出身の誇り高きアボリジニ・トレス海峡諸島民の女性です。ファッションとクリエイティブ分野の仕事に携わり、クリエイティブディレクション、キュレーション、写真、執筆などの役割を担っています。Fitzgerald は、Going North のクリエイティブディレクターであり、Laundry Gallery の創設者でもあります。先住民の声と知識体系を高め、オーストラリアの先住民にとって有意義な機関を推進することに情熱を注ぎ、先住民、非先住民を問わず、多くの生活に前向きで影響力のある変化をもたらすための新しいクリエイティブ視点の力を信じています。
Rethinkable は、認定を受けた B Corp ソーシャルイノベーション集団で、インパクト、プレイスメイキング、ストーリーテリングの分野で活動しています。成長、ポジティブなコミュニティ、環境的な影響の交差点を見つけて革新的な戦略を結果重視のイニシアチブに変換することで、組織の将来性を確保しています。Rethinkable のミッションは、新しい再生可能な経済を構築することです。
Jazz Money
Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri heritage, producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing has been widely published nationally and internationally, and performed on stages around the world. Working across different mediums, Jazz’s practice is centered around questions of narrative and legacy: place memory, First Nations memory, colonial memory and the stories that we tell to construct national and personal identity. Jazz’s best selling poetry collection, “How To Make A Basket,” received the David Unaipon Award and they became a Clothing Store resident artist at Carriageworks in Sydney earlier this year.
Money was in residence during the month of July 2023 and showcased their exhibition, ‘All Our Seasons’ at Ace Sydney from August 2023 – October 2023.
Mia Boe
Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures is the focus of her practice. Boe’s paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to historical and contemporary acts of violence perpetrated on the people and lands of Burma and Australia.
Boe was in residence during the month of October 2023 and showcased her exhibition, ‘I Can’t Stop Thinking About You’ at Ace Sydney from November 2023 – January 2024.
Solomon Booth
Solomon Booth resides in Kubin Village native on Moa Island in the Torres Strait, located between mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea. In 2000, Booth joined the Mualgal Minarral Artist Collective alongside renowned artist Dennis Nona which later evolved into the MOA ARTS – Ngalmun Lagau Minaral Art Centre. Booth takes great pride in his role as a founding committee member of MOA ARTS and continues to draw inspiration from the surroundings of his island home as well as Torres Strait and Melanesian influences in his multimedia printmaking.
Booth was in residence during the month of January 2024 showcased their exhibition, ‘Dhangalal urgnu tadaik’ at Ace Sydney from February 2024 – April 2024.
Maddison Gibbs
Maddison Gibbs is a proud Barkindji woman who grew up in Dubbo, NSW. She currently lives and works between Sydney and Kandos, NSW. Both artist and activist, Gibbs’ practice examines dual histories, focusing on stories of past and present Aboriginal societies and spirit. A multidisciplinary artist, she works across a wide spectrum of cultural praxis, utilizing many methods and ideologies. Gibbs tells intergenerational stories of contemporary Aboriginal affairs with a focus on exploring women’s narratives.
Gibbs was in residence during the month of April 2024 and showcased her exhibition, ‘Transfiguration’ at Ace Sydney from May 2024 – July 2024.