Philippines

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  Audrey Lam (QLD)

  Green Papaya Art Projects

  Supported by Arts Queensland

Audrey Lam works in film, photography and installation. Her work often builds on shared experiences, re-chronicling curious and playful everyday moments to reflect on the nuances of place and belonging. Audrey graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a BA in Screen Production in 2001 and a Master of Visual Art in photography in 2009. Her work has screened at major film festivals that highlight art cinema, including London, Rotterdam and Oberhausen. She has participated in various festivals, including Next Wave, Otherfilm and Yebisu Festival (Tokyo). At Green Papaya Audrey will develop new work and collaborate with Green Papaya's interdisciplinary art community. new work and collaborate with Green Papaya's interdisciplinary art community.

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  David Finnigan (ACT)

  Sipat Lawin Ensemble

  Supported Arts ACT

David Finnigan is a writer, theatre-maker and festival producer with an extensive history of working in the Philippines, including as writer in residence with Tanghalang Pilipino, the key government-funded theatre company, in 2006. David has undertaken residencies at the University College London Environment Institute, the Battersea Arts Centre in London and Campos de Gutierrez in Medellin, Colombia. In 2012 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research the intersection of climate science and the performing arts. He founded and co-directed the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle (2009-10), and the You Are Here festival in Canberra (2011-13). In Manila David will collaborate with site-specific theatre company Sipat Lawin Ensemble on a new work to be performed at Fesitval B:om in Seoul in 2016.

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  Brett McCallum (SA)

  Manilia Fringe Festival

  Supported by Arts SA

Brett McCallum has over ten years experience as an arts manager and producer, with a focus on arts and community festivals across Australia and the UK. He is interested in the role that festivals play in helping a community to celebrate itself and its culture. Brett will work with Manila Fringe Festival to help them produce the first Fringe Festival to be staged in the Philippines. He brings with him experience from senior roles with Darwin Festival, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Assembly Theatre in Edinburgh and Soho Theatre, London.

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  Fiona Gavino (WA)

  98B Collaboratory

  Supported by The Department of Culture and the Arts, WA

Fiona graduated from Charles Darwin University with a BA Visual Arts in 2006 and was selected to exhibit in Hatched at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2007. Her work has toured nationally in exhibitions Momentum (2008-10) and ReCoil (2007-10) and internationally in A Prefix:Re (Japan, 2011) and Fibreface (Indonesia, 2011). In 2012 Fiona was commissioned by London based Blink Films to re-construct an ancient Iraqi basket boat. Fiona works with basket making materials and techniques to create sculpture that explores transcultural themes. At residency space 98B Collaboratory, Fiona will collaborate with local artists and visit rattan furniture makers to study the fabrication of armatures.

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  Stuart Cooke (NSW)

  Bieinenido N. Santos Creative Writing Centre,  De La Salle University

  Supported by Arts NSW & The Australia Council for the Arts

Stuart Cooke is a poet, translator and literary critic. He has published 2 collections of poetry, Edge Music in 2011 and Corrosions in 2010, as well as a work of translation. His book about Australian and Chilean postcolonial poetics, Speaking the Earth’s Languages is forthcoming. At De La Salle University Stuart will research a number of features of major importance to Filipino literature, including colonisation, linguistic hybridity and biological diversity. This research will inform Stuart’s current project, a new book of poems that explores relationships between colonisation, environmental destruction and Spanish and English languages around the Pacific Rim.

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  Susan Gibb (NSW)

  Green Papaya Art Projects

  Supported by Arts NSW & The Australia Council for the Arts

Susan Gibb is the Associate Curator and Project Manager at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Susan was responsible for the inclusion of two Filipino artists in the exhibition The River Project. She is interested in the under representation of Filipino arts in international surveys of art from the Asia Pacific region. During her residency at Green Papaya Art Projects, Susan will research cross-disciplinary and collaborative practices in the Philippines and the feasibility of developing artistic exchanges between the Philippines and western Sydney.

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  Hayley West (VIC)

  Green Papaya Art Projects

  Supported by Arts NT and The Australia Council for the Arts

Hayley West's installation/performance practice focuses on place, memorial and the exploration and exposition of memory. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in a variety of contexts and has held residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris, Hill End AIR Program NSW, Lost Generation Space - Kuala Lumpur; and she has a future residency later this year at ACME Studios, London. She enjoys a variety of arts advocacy roles in Darwin. During her residency with Green Papaya Art Projects, West will undertake research on experiences and representations of death and mourning.

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  David Griggs (VIC)

  Green Papaya Art Projects

  Supported by Arts Victoria and The Australia Council for the Arts

David Griggs works across various mediums. Predominantly a painter and photographer, Griggs has also created large-scale site-specific installations that comment on politics, poverty, prostitution, gang tattooing and freak shows. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and Asia and conducted research for projects during residencies in Barcelona, Manila, Thailand and Burma. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions including Fluid Zones Biennale Jakarta XIII (2009), Blood on the Streets, Artspace, Sydney (2007), The Independence Project, Galerie Petronas, Kuala Lumpur (2007), Exchanging Culture for Flesh, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2006), Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006), and The Buko Police, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila (2005).

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  Jeff Khan (NSW)

  Art Cabinet

  Supported by The Australia Council for the Arts

Melbourne-based curator and writer Jeff Khan is currently Artistic Director of Next Wave, a biennial festival and artist development organisation. He has held positions at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and the John Curtin Gallery in Perth. Khan was a Curatorial Advisor for Rapt!, a major cultural exchange project between Australia and Japan in 2005-6. He is a founding board member of unProjects, an editorial committee member of unMagazine and has contributed to numerous magazines, catalogues and artists’ projects. Khan undertook his residency with Art Cabinet Philippines, an organisation that works with emerging artists.

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  Alwyin Reamillo (WA)

  Cultural Center of the Philippines and Galleria Duemila

  Supported by The Department of Culture and the Arts, WA, The Australia Council for the Arts, and the National Commission on Culture and the Arts in the Philippines.

Filipino-born Alwin Reamillo is a cross-media artist who works in mixed media painting, sculpture, sound, installation and performance and has participated in various national and international exhibitions, residencies and festivals. His projects often examine and incorporate relational/social processes, developed with individuals and communities. Reamillo's residency at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Galleria Duemila involved the restorative construction of an art case upright and grand piano in collaboration with a team of Filipino piano makers from the now defunct Javincello & Co., makers of Wittemberg Pianos in Manila. The residency culminated in a two part public exhibition with piano performances from local pianists.

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  John Alsop (NSW)

  De La Salle University

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Supported by Arts NSW

John Alsop has worked as a professional screenwriter since 1980. His credits include the landmark Australian TV mini-series Brides of Christ and recently made his debut as a director with short film Cool White. Alsop is currently adapting two major Australian novels, An Imaginary Life and Mister Darwin's Shooter as feature films, and is also writing new film and TV scripts. John's residency at De La Salle University in Manila resulted in the short film He. She. It. which premiered at the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival, in addition to character research and story backgrounds for future projects.

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  David Griggs (NSW)

  Ateneo University

  Supported by the NSW Ministry and the Australia Council for the Arts

Artist David Griggs uses painting, installation and dark humour to highlight the human potential for violence towards others and the environment.  At Ateneo University Griggs developed a series of photographs and paintings directly influenced by emerging westernised tattooing practices in Manila.  He exhibited this work at the internationally renowned Green Papaya Gallery and produced a 76-page book to accompany it.  In full colour the book, THE BUKO POLICE, details a collection of photographs depicting varied tattoo styles in and around Manila. Griggs will return to Manila to complete collaborative work made with a local billboard painter.

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  Maria-Lourdes Doronila (ACT)

  Bienvenido Santos Writing Centre

  Supported Arts ACT & the Australia Council for the Arts

Maria-Lourdes Doronila is a playwright and performance poet. Based at the Bienvenido Santos Writing Centre at De La Salle University, Manila, for her three-month residency, Doronila facilitated numerous playwrighting workshops and engaged with performance, dramatic and literary communities. Highlights included a poetry reading at the Australian Embassy featuring members of the Cultural Centre of the Philippines reading and interpreting poems written by Filipino-Australians; extensive workshopping her play Manila Takeway with a group of Manila playwrights to further develop the play and enhancing authenticity of voice; and work on community development projects for the residents of Borias Island.

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  Paschal Berry (ACT)

  Anino Shadowplay Collective

  Supported Arts ACT & the Australia Council for the Arts

Paschal Daantos Berry is a writer and dramaturg for theatre and dance. He is interested in creating hybrid theatre through collaboration with artists from different art forms. At the time of his residency he was based in Canberra where he worked with choreographers and dancers through The Australian Choreographic Centre and its Quantum Leap Youth Choreographic Ensemble. He developed his new work The Folding Wife whilst in the Philippines working with Anino Shadowplay Collective in Manila. Through the time he spent with the collective and their wide network of theatre and visual arts practitioners, Berry was able to understand the immense impact that the arts have on disadvantaged sectors and communities.

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  Maria Cruz (NSW)

  Green Papaya Art Projects

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the NSW Ministry for the Arts

Maria Cruz's practice encompasses painting, video, film and installation. Cruz was born in Manila and returned to her city of birth to undertake her residency. Whilst there she had the opportunity to screen her previous work Shangrila Collective at Green Papaya Art Projects. She also researched and filmed a video adaptation of The Exorcist using Filipino actors. The resulting work was shown as a multimedia projection/installation in Sydney and the Philippines in 2005 and 2006.

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  Robert Nery (NSW)

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Robert Nery studied social anthropology and philosophy at Sydney University and has published film and art criticism in various magazines. Nery has made five films in various media including Black Nazarene, a feature-length video-film documenting the festival of the same name which occurs each January in Manila. During this residency Nery screened Black Nazerene and another film I Eugenia which he made with director Gabrielle Finnane. During the residency he worked on a new video installation Manila Labyrinth, which follows local Filipinos on their daily journeys. Nery also made still photographs of Manila’s architecture.

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  Cath Bowdler (NT)

  Green Papaya Art Projects & Big Sky Mind

  Supported by Arts NT and the Australia Council for the Arts

Artist, writer and curator Cath Bowdler was formerly the Director of the 24HR Art Space in Darwin. There she developed very strong links with the Philippines, hosting curatorial workshops and curating Kawing, a partnership between Asialink and 24HR Art. Bowdler 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. During her residency Bowdler, worked between Green Papaya Art Projects and Big Sky Mind in Manila. At Green Papaya she exhibited transit, and a video installation drowning, produced in Australia.

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  Beth Yahp (Malaysia)

  Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Centre

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Beth Yahp was born in Malaysia before moving to Australia as a teenager. She has written a novel, The Crocodile Fury, a libretto Yue Ling Jie: Moon Spirit Feasting, for composer Liza Lim, as well as numerous stories and articles. Yahp was in the Philippines as a literature resident at the Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Centre of De La Salle University in Manila where she researched a new novel and undertook several workshops, readings and collaborative events with local writers. The Crocodile Fury is under consideration for publication by De La Salle University and she has been invited back to participate in workshops and also to contribute short works for publication in local journals.

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  Berni Janssen (VIC)

  Cultural Centre of The Philippines

  Funded by the City of Melbourne and the Australia Council for the Arts

Berni M Janssen is a writer/performer and project manager. Amongst many other projects, she has co-ordinated the Writing Programs of Next Wave Festival, St.Kilda Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. During the first half of her residency, berni worked on various regional projects with the Literature Division of the Cultural Centre of The Philippines and, along with Hermie Beltran, from CCP, began organising a literature festival for February 2002 in Manila.

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  Gavin Robins (NSW)

  Barangay of Manila

  Supported by the NSW Ministry of the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts

Gavin Robins has created and performed theatre in Australia, and internationally. His residency in the Philippines was split over two visits and focussed on conducting an extensive program of physical training workshops with dancers and performers in remote communities and the implementation of a series of creative development projects. He will return for the third time in June 2003 to work with the company and a core team of physical artists who are now training to be accredited physical theatre and yoga teachers. This residency has set in motion an ongoing training and theatre making culture in the Barangay of Manila and the wider Philippines.

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  Nicole Tse (VIC)

  Supported by Arts Victoria

At the time of her residency Nicole Tse was the Projects Conservator at the Ian Potter Art Conservation Centre specialising in the development of conservation programs in South East Asia. During her residency, Nicole undertook an archival and analytical research project on tablas paintings from the island of Bohol in the Philippines. She presented papers at the Cultural Heritage of the Church Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and submitted another paper Developing Networks and Ongoing Conservation programs in the Philippines for publication in Historic Environ, Australia ICOMOS, 2001.

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  Simon Barley (VIC)

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria

Bambuco, led by Artistic Director Simon Barley, creates singular, visually dramatic structures made from bamboo, appearing over some days yet gone the next week, leaving a lasting memory of place and moment. During his residency in the Philippines Barley presented an installation of Bambuco's ARCH in Manila for the DFAT festival All The Best From Australia as well as an installation at the Baguio Arts Festival. Bambuco's works now feature in international festival from Moscow to Manila, with crew members from Australia, Europe and the Philippines.

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  Jim Cathcart (WA)

  Cultural Center of the Philippines

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria

Jim Cathcart spent his residency based with the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

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  Graham Pitts (VIC)

  Philippines Educational Theater Association

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Victorian based playwright, Graham Pitts spent three months with the Philippines Educational Theater Association (Peta).

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  Jacqui Geia

  Cultural Centre of the Philippines

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria

Jacqui Geia was an arts manager who worked extensively in the area of contemporary music, particularly with Aboriginal musicians. During her residency, she worked closely with the Performing Arts Department of the in Manila and met with local artists and organisations in Manila and Mindanao. Geia was involved in all aspects of arts management at the CCP, from writing sponsorship applications for government funding to lecturing in audience development and sponsorship. She conducted workshops with the entire 500 person staff at the CCP and also tutored classes at the Sabu Youth Orchestra. In addition, Jacqui travelled to regional communities bringing back local crafts and has assisted in finding Australian markets for these products. She is remembered with fondness and respect by all who knew her.

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  Jane Scott (VIC)

  The Cultural Center Of The Philippines

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria

At the time of her residency Jane Scott was working at the National Gallery Of Victoria. Scott spent two months at The Cultural Center Of The Philippines.

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  Rachel Apelt (QLD)

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Rachel Apelt spent four months in Manila networking with artists and institutions and producing new work. Her artistic production culminated in an installation at the Australia Centre in Manila. She presented seven lectures in Manila and Davao, providing an overview of her practice, information on artist run spaces and artist collectives in Australia and the difficulty of emerging artists gaining representation.

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  Virginia Hilyard (NSW)

  University of Phillipines

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Virginia Hilyard's art practice explores urban change, place and memory using experimental filmmaking, installation and drawing.  During her residency in the Phillipines she was based at University of Phillipines, Manila.

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  Pat Hoffie (QLD)

  Australia Centre

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Pat Hoffie is a painter and installation artist who has exhibited prolifically in Australia and the Philippines and also in the UK, Korea, Vietnam and Japan since the early 1970s.  Hoffie spent six months at the Australia Centre plus two weeks at the University of The Philippines.  In 1998 Hoffie was the first artist to take up a second residency with Asialink, this time in Vietnam where she occupied a studio at the Hanoi Fine Arts College.