Visual Arts/Crafts Residencies

During the past 20 years Ian Bonde has undertaken residencies and exhibited in London, Paris, Germany, U.S.A., Thailand and Australia. Following a number of prior journeys to Thailand, Terra Firma 2002 (supported by the Australia Council) was shown at the Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai. Bonde's work references formal gardens, both Eastern and Western and mapping or marking of the land. His installations have used odours, processes and transient materials; painted leaves, fruit and gravel, in contrast with precious metals. During his residency at Silkaporn University, he hopes to further his interest in Thai culture and to exhibit new work.

Cath Bowdler is an artist, curator and arts administrator based in Darwin. After three years as Director of 24HR Art, Bowdler is returning to freelance work and her art practice, which is based round photography, installation and large-scale environmental works. She has exhibited widely in the NT and elsewhere in Australia and has been a contributor to art journals such as Realtime, Artlink and Art Monthly. She has recently curated Kawing, a partnership between Asialink and 24HR Art and has an interest in Filipino contemporary art and culture. In the Philippines Bowdler will work with the University of the Philippines and Green Papaya Gallery in Manila and Gallery Luna in Cebu.

Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1998, Louisa Bufardeci's work has been focussed on the representation of information. She has translated statistics on local social issues such as mandatory sentencing, deaths in custody and refugees into bowls of lollies, digital sounds and large empty boxes. Much of her work is experiential and emphasises the importance of presentation in defining the meaning of information. During her Asialink residency she will spend six weeks at Khoj artists studios in New Delhi, then work with Oxfam in Bangladesh and finally at the new Academy of Fine Art in Mumbai.

Funded by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council.

Founded in 1996, pvi collective produce art combining elements of performance, video & installation with public acts of intervention. often with a dissenting focus, pvi seek to actively engage audiences within their artwork. recent projects include
s n i f f e r - a tactical media installation mapping local retail outlets who harbour biological & chemical agents, true crime - a car sticker campaign targeting the most 'stealable cars' in australia, and more recently, tts: route 65 - an alternative site seeing terror tour of australian cities. pvi's asialink residency will involve artists, kelli, steve & james conducting an interactive web event enlisting members of the public as elite surveillance operatives.

pvi's residency is organised in partnership with the Australian Network for Art and Technology and supported by Arts WA and the Australia Council.

Constantly moving between urban centres in Asia, Australia and Europe, Emil Goh documents the minutiae of daily life wherever he is. His main focus are the fleeting moments and details we see out of the corner of our eyes that delight us but escape our memory seconds after. Emil Goh was born in Malaysia and has studied in Australia and England completing his Masters degree at Goldsmiths College, London. He has exhibited in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Australia and his works are in the collections of the Australia Council, Artbank & Australia Parliament House. In Korea, Goh will spend three months at SSAMZIE Contemporary Art Space, Seoul.

Funded by the Australia-Korea Foundation, the NSW Ministry for the Arts and the Australia Council.

Alexander Knox is a Melbourne based artist working with a wide range of techniques to produce an architecture of effects. Through a combination of lighting, optics, audio, kinetic and formal elements he engages with ideas of representation of myth and spirituality within the late capitalist spectacle. Knox studied public art at RMIT and has a background in film and industrial design. He has exhibited widely both in Australia and overseas including the UseBy Asia-Pacific Artist's Initiatives Project 1(Melbourne 2001) & 2 (Bangkok 2002). Recent commissions include two major sculpture projects in Melbourne Docklands. Knox's residency will involve the production of a large kinetic work for 'Bed' a new mixed-use art venue in Bangkok.

Since 1988 Louise Paramor has actively exhibited in Australia and overseas. She has held twenty-six solo exhibitions, including The Love Artist at Breitengraser - room for contemporary sculpture, Berlin, in 2002 and Outback Heat at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover, 2001. Her work was included in the group shows Primavera at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1998; Oblique Shadows in Sculpture Square, Singapore, 2000; Satellit (Z2000) at Berliner Pavilion, Berlin, 2000; and National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, in 2001. Paramor will stay at La Salle SIA in Singapore for three months prior to and during a major exhibition she has been invited to stage at the Esplanade Arts Complex in October and November 2003.

After studying archaeology at Sydney University in the mid 1970's, then a brief period in the public service, Patsy Payne went to Sydney College of the Arts and majored in Printmaking. Since then she has exhibited and taught and is currently head of Printmedia and Drawing at the National Institute of the Arts in Canberra. Payne's projects revolve around an interest in the way that technology both mediates between experience and creates the codes with which we represent our environment, including the tangential relationship between medical imaging data and being, between rationality and intuition. Her work is held in the collections of National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW and Queensland University of Technology.

Indigenous artist Eva Wanganeen was born in Wallaroo, SA and began silk painting in 1997 while part of Mara Dreaming, a women's group in Salisbury. Since then she has shown in several group exhibitions including Between Remote Regions (touring to Malaysia) and has held two solo exhibitions. Wanganeen's practice combines her traditional Arrente and Wirringu heritage and her perspective from a non-traditional upbringing. During her residency at the Society Atelier Sarawak in East Malaysia, Wanganeen will work with both East and West Malaysian batik and textile artists to create work to be exhibited at the World Eco-Fibre and Textile Network Forum in September in 2003.

Funded by Arts SA, the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur and the Australia Council.

The Visual Arts/Craft residency program is also hosting two artists from Asia this year. Both are yet to be chosen but will be from Indonesia (staying at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institure) and from Taiwan (staying at Artspace, Sydney and funded by the Taipei City Government).