Creative Exchanges: 1995

Lindy Lee (NSW) Beijing Art Academy

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

Painter Lindy Lee spent four months at the Beijing Art Academy. Her residency enabled her to develop intimate personal and professional relationships with other artists working in china. She was invited to the Beijing International Women's Conference and has been given an open invitation to return to the Beijing Arts Academy.

Deborah Ostrow (VIC) Sanskriti Kendra

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia India Council

Deborah Ostrow spent four months in India, working at the SNDT Women's University and the Sir J.J. School of Art, both in Bombay before completing her residency at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi. She conducted slide-talks and lectures, on Australian contemporary art and her own work and curated an exhibition of Australian artists and one other Sanskriti resident from New York. Her own exhibition there was entitled comfort zone, an architectural installation of stretched transparent and decorative plastics.

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia India Council

Painter Kate Daw spent three months at Maharaja Sayajirao University.

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia India Council

Installation artist and sculptor Louise Paramor spent her three month residency at Bharat Bhavan Multi-Arts Complex, Bhopal.  She has since been back to India where she curated an exhibition of Indian works on paper, Bilkool, which came to Melbourne in 1998 and toured to Western Australia in 1999 as part of the Festival of Perth.

Kevin Todd (QLD) ITM

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur

Architect and design draftsman Kevin Todd sought a residency with ITM, Malaysia to lecture on, study and research Islamic and Vedic art. Following his residency Todd spent a further four months working with architects Hijjas Kasturi Associates as a consultant artist developing cultural components for the New Kuala Lumpur International Airport and an office tower for Telecom Malaysia.

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.

Carlier Makigawa (VIC) Kookmin University

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

Carlier Makigawa, one of Australia's foremost contemporary metal smiths, spent three months based at Kookmin University.  There she worked with students and also held seminars and lectures on Australian craft and metalwork. She held a one-person exhibition, Flower and Flame, at the Craft House Gallery and her work was included in a major Australian craft exhibition at the Seoul Arts Centre.  Both exhibitions received wide media coverage.

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Korea Foundation

Painter/printmaker Yvonne Boag first went to Korea in 1993. During her residency she spent four months at Chung Ju University. Boag has since worked as a visiting Professor of Painting at Ewha University, Seoul and as a Professor at Seoul National University of Technology. In October 2005 a retrospective exhibition of Boag's work, inspired by ten years of engagement with Korea, was held at Stonnington Stables in Melbourne.

David Walker (WA) Silpakorn University

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok

Jeweller and metal smith David Walker spent four months at Silpakorn University.

Helga Groves (VIC) Hanoi College of Fine Arts

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Helga Groves holds a Master of Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts and has been exhibiting since 1988. She is represented in most large Australian gallery collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of NSW plus private collections. Career highlights have included winning the Moet & Chandon Art Prize in 1997 with a work inspired by her time in Vietnam during her two-month residency at the Hanoi College of Fine Arts.