Creative Exchanges: 1993
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Malaysia
Brigid Cole-Adams (VIC) Institut Teknologi MARA
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts
Brigid Cole-Adams is a sculptor and installation artist. She undertook her residency at the Institut Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. During her residency Cole-Adams worked on her own practice expanding the types of materials she was accustomed to and also worked with the students, becoming involved in critique sessions and a group exhibition at the Australian High Commisssion. In 1999 Cole-Adams participated in the critically acclaimed exhibition and residency project, Sekali Lagi: Australian artists revisit Malaysia with seven other past residents.
Rob McLeish (VIC) Institut Teknologi MARASupported by the Australia Council for the Arts
Rod McLeish is a Melbourne based installation artist with a background in architecture. McLeish spent the first two months of his residency travelling around Malaysia and interacting with the Kuala Lumpur art scene. He spent the second half of his residency based at the Institut Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam where he conducted workshops and lectures for the students. McLeish was able to curate a group exhibition at the ITM gallery and was also granted the opportunity to show his own works, in a critically acclaimed exhibition entitled Culture: In Context, at the Australian High Commission. In 1999 McLeish participated in the exhibition and residency project, Sekali Lagi: Australian artists revisit Malaysia with seven other past residents.
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Philippines
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.
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Thailand
Alan Locovetsky (NSW) Silpakorn University
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok
Ceramicist Alan Lacovetsky spent four months at Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom Campus.