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Lesley Buckley (2008), Korea

With 25 years in the arts, Lesley Buckley combines skills as a practising performing artist with professional experience in arts management, project development, event co-ordination and cultural planning. For the past decade, she has worked in local government and won the inaugural Brendan Hartnett Award, which recognizes distinguished effort in working with communities. Buckley was based in Andong, a centre of Korean culture and folk traditions, and hosted by the local tourism foundation to assist in the production of the Andong Maskdance Festival, which is one of Korea's premier arts events. She used this opportunity to seed the inclusion of Australian and Pacific Island region content in future festival programs.

Supported by Arts NSW and the Australia Council.

Virginia Hyam (2007), Korea

Former Melbourne Fringe Festival Director Virginia Hyam is the Executive Producer of The Studio at Sydney Opera House, curating a program of contemporary performance across the year. The Studio both produces and presents an eclectic mix of smaller scale productions, representing independent artists from across Australia and internationally. In Korea Hyam will be hosted by the Seoul Performing Arts Festival to engage with its operations and programming, with the aim of building an understanding of local practice and seeking out opportunities for future exchange and collaboration between Korean and Australian artists. (Supported by the Australia-Korea Foundation)

Alexie Glass (2005), Korea

Alexie Glass has worked as a curator, art critic, publisher and gallery manager. She was appointed Director of the Getrude Street Contemporary Space during her residency. As the inaugural Asialink curator-in-residence at SSamzie Space, Seoul, Glass had unlimited access to their in-residence studio artists as well as their extraordinary archive of catalogues, artists' documentation, DVD's, slides and journals. Glass met with over 100 artists and curators, visited many exhibitions, and developed several ongoing dialogues with collegiate organisations that have provided platforms for many new partnerships, including the opportunity to participate as a contributing curator in Bitmap, a photographic exhibition at LOOP Alternative Art Space, Seoul in 2006.

Funded by Arts Victoria and the Australia-Korea Foundation.

Liz Hughes (2004), Korea

Liz Hughes has a long history of working in film and digital media. As Artistic Director of Experimenta, Hughes has curated and co-curated a number of ambitious exhibitions which have toured nationally, attracting massive audiences and extensive media coverage. Hughes' residency was split between two organisations, Arts Initiatives in Tokyo and the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea. Her time in Korea was spent primarily curating and installing the 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale. Through meetings with Korean artists and curators, Hughes has identified Korean artists and a curator for Experimenta's Vanishing Point exhibition in Melbourne in 2005, which will tour Australia and internationally. In Japan, Hughes undertook research into Japanese artists, venues and curatorial practice.

Funded by Arts Victoria and the Australia-Korea Foundation.

Annie Greig (2001), Korea

At the time of her residency Annie Greig held the position of Artistic Director of contemporary dance company, TasDance. In Seoul Greig worked with the Son Mu Ga Zen Dance Company where she undertook an intensive workshop and master class series with Artistic Director, Dr Sun Ock Lee and assisted her with the administration of the workshop series and to explore cultural exchange possibilities. In May 2002, Greig was invited back to co-convene the Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network 4th International Festival and Symposium with Dr Sun Ock Lee, at which Tasdance also performed. As a result, Tasdance was invited to perform at the fourth Australia-Korea Forum held for the first time in Tasmania in 2002.

Funded by Arts Tasmania, the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council.

Andrea Kleist (2000), Korea

Andrea Kleist has worked extensively in the areas of Visual Arts, film and public relations in Australia. At the time of her residency she was the Exhibitions Manager at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and previously held the position of Executive Officer of the Visual Arts Program for the Adelaide Festival 1998 & 2000. In Korea Kleist worked with the Artsonje Centre in Seoul on a range of projects focussing on the solo exhibition Stockexchange II by Korean-French artist Kim Soun-Gui and Artsonje’s contribution to MAAP’s 2000 online conference.

Funded by the Australia Council.