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Rebecca Holborn

Rebecca Holborn (VIC), China

Rebecca Holborn has curated exhibitions in Australia and overseas, including at the ICA in London, and as part of the 2005 Melbourne International Arts Festival working with eminent Chinese contemporary artist Xu Zhe. Holborn’s residency will build on her past experience and further inform her contribution to discourse surrounding cross-cultural exchange and multimedia practice. She will work with Shanghart Gallery, Beijing to extend her understanding of curatorial practice in China.

Supported by the Australia Council.

Rosemary Miller (2005), China

At the time of her residency Rosemary Miller was Director of Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart, headquarters to many of Tasmania’s arts organisations and activities. She has strong interests in performance, visual and media arts and in culturally diverse arts practices.  To further these interests, she worked with Reckless Moments in Shanghai on Creative Futures, a three-year program of cultural collaboration between China and Australia.  Valuable contacts and networks were further developed whilst based with the Shanghai Animation Film Studio and through her travels in Hong Kong and Beijing.  In India she was based with Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Gujarat, where she explored their inter-cultural and interdisciplinary arts programs.

Funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council.
Benjamin Hampe

Benjamin Hampe (QLD), China

Benjamin Hampe was most recently Manager - Visual Art Projects at the art and cultural consultancy firm Positive Solutions. He is based in Singapore this year managing a commercial art gallery, working with Sculpture Square Ltd, and starting his own consultancy company. For his residency, Hampe will be based at the Beijing Film Academy where he will participate in the first international internship program, working with curatorial and public programming staff to present an international new media festival.

Supported by the Australia-China Council and the Australia Council.

Xing Jin (2005), China

At the time of her residency Xing Jin was working as the Multicultural Marketing Manager at the Sydney Symphony.  During her residency, which was divided over three months between Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, she met with all the major Chinese arts festivals and arts venues and worked with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Beijing International Music Festival.  She contributed to the program planning and market development strategies of these arts organisations and promoted opportunities for the exchange of musical performances and artists between China and Australia.

Funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts and the Australia Council.

Susan Kukucka (2006), China

Susan Kukucka has worked as a festival manager, policy officer, researcher and arts writer and was a Senior Research Assistant at Griffith University's School of Arts, Media and Culture at the time of the residency. Her time in China expanded her knowledge of arts management practices in an international context. She explored the areas of arts research and practice, particularly within the performing arts, in rapidly changing China and established international networks, research and artistic collaborations. Kukucka attended and presented at the China Europe Performing Arts Symposium in Beijing and plans to collaborate with Chinese representatives through cultural research projects and symposiums as part of her role at Griffith University.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Queensland
Rebecca Allen

Rebecca Allen (2011), China

Rebecca Allen has worked with Australia’s leading performing arts companies as stage manger, company manager and producer, including the Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies and Sydney and Adelaide Festivals. Recently Rebecca was the Creative Producer of the Darwin Festival. A main aim of Rebecca’s residency at Hong Kong Fringe Club is to develop international networks that can be used to give exposure to Northern Australian artists. Rebecca hopes to explore bilateral exchanges between Chinese and Australian artists, specifically Indigenous artists. (SUPPORTED BY ARTS NT AND THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS)

Sally Sussman (2001), China

Sally Sussman was formerly Performing Arts Manager at the Perth International Arts Festival. Sussman studied Chinese Opera performance and directed contemporary Chinese drama at the Central drama Institute, Beijing and the Shanghai Conservatorium from 1984-87.  During her residency, Sussman worked with the 2001 Shanghai International Festival for the Arts on the Performing Arts Conference and liaison between the Festival and Australian sections of the program. She also delivered a paper (in Mandarin) to the Performing Arts fair about the Perth Festival and an overview of other Australian International Festivals.

Funded by Arts WA, the Australia China Council and the Australia Council.

Kelly Gellatly (2007), China

Kelly Gellatly is Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria where she is responsible for collection development and exhibitions of contemporary Australian and international art post-1980. She has also held curatorial positions at Heide Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Australia. During her residency in China, Gellatly developed an exhibition of Chinese new media art for the National Gallery of Victoria, scheduled for March 2008. She also investigated the contemporary art scene more broadly in order to establish professional networks that will benefit future exhibitions and collaboration.

Funded by the Australia Council 

Catherine Croll

Catherine Croll (NSW), China

Catherine Croll has worked in the Community Cultural Development and Cultural Planning sectors for over 20 years as a facilitator and trainer. In Beijing she will work with Red Gate Gallery on the 10th anniversary of their residency program, and a series of exhibitions to be held in China as part of the Year of Australian Culture in China. The program will include a tour by six Australian artists to artist colonies and studios in Chengdu, Chongqing, Lhasa and Beijing.

Supported by the Australia-China Council and the Australia Council.
Steve Eland

Steve Eland (NT), China

Steve Eland has worked in arts management for the past 12 years, including working in Maningrida, Arnhem Land, being founding Director of Mass Gallery, Melbourne, and Director of 24HR Art – NT Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin since 2005. His time at 24HR Art has seen the development of a broad range of artistic projects. Eland was based at Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, assisting with the project ‘The Edge – Contemporary Art from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and Indonesia’, to building networks for developing exchange projects between the Northern Territory and Asia.

Supported by Arts NT, The Australia China Council and The Australia China Council.

Christen Cornell

Christen Cornell (2009), China

Christen Cornell has worked as Rights Manager at the publishing house Allen & Unwin for three years, travelling regularly to international book fairs, selling foreign rights for books, and arranging for the export of Australian literature to the major Asian markets. She has lived and worked in China, and has an ongoing interest in contemporary Chinese literature and Chinese-Australian cross-cultural exchange. Cornell also co-runs a small, Sydney-based independent publishing company, Local Consumption Publications. She spent three months working in China hosted by leading independent literary publisher, Shanghai 99, where she will developed translation projects with Chinese literary editors, and worked with the major literary festivals in China.

Supported by The Australia China Council and The Australia Council. 

Benython Oldfield (2006), China

Since leaving Charles Sturt University, literary arts manager Benython Oldfield has worked as a radio and TV producer at the ABC and commercial stations and and as a book publicist at Random House Australia.  In China he worked across five different organisations researching the Chinese publishing industry to identify cultural exchange and publishing opportunities for Australian and Chinese authors. Since his residency Oldfield has founded the Zeitgeist Media Group to facilitate the publication and sales of Australian books in China and vice versa, advised Australian writers' festivals on Chinese writers and assisted Chinese writers, editors, and literary reviewers to come to Australia and learn about Australian publishing.

Funded by the Australia-China Council