Vietnam

Zoe Butt (2007)
Thea Baumann (2007)
Caroline Fry (2004)
Cuong Phu Le (2006)
Tania Cleary (2003)

Zoe Butt (2007), Vietnam

At the time of her residency Zoe Butt was Assistant Curator, Contemporary Asian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery. For over 10 years she has been researching contemporary Asian art, curating exhibitions and contributing to various international art publications. Her knowledge of contemporary Asian art was drawn upon for her residency with the San Art, an independent artist run space, where she curated the exhibition Diary of a Travelling City and organised a series of workshops by local artists, curators, writers and arts workers as part of the first large-scale contemporary art endeavor of its kind in Vietnam. Butt is now Director of International Programs for the Long March Project and based in China.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Queensland

Thea Baumann (2007), Vietnam

Media artist, curator, and producer Thea Baumann has worked as Projects Coordinator for MAAP - Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, and recently curated Manhua Wonderlands, a public exhibition program and education initiative promoting and supporting cross-cultural projects between media artists and Asian-Australian communities. Through her curatorial residency at contemporary art space a little blah blah in Ho Chi Minh City, she coordinated an artist talk programme, screenings, and a multi-arts exhibition, The Last Vestige, which explored concepts of nomadic curatorship. Baumann is now Executive Producer of Aphids.

Funded by Arts Queensland and the Australia Council

Caroline Fry (2004), Vietnam

Caroline Fry has been working as a painting conservator for several years and was employed at The University of Melbourne Art Conservation Centre at the time of her residency. Fry was based at the Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi, where she worked on the restoration of a nationally significant oil painting, Little Thuy, by Tran Van Can. She also surveyed the condition of the paintings in the collection and conducted teaching workshops for other conservators, museum personnel and museum studies students. As a result of her work, Fry was awarded the prestigious Cultural Soldier medal for contribution to the conservation and care of artworks in Vietnam.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Cuong Phu Le (2006), Vietnam

At the time of his residency Cuong Phu Le worked as Asian-Australian Community Cultural Development Officer at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Le spent the first month of his residency at the Amrita Performing Arts in Phnom Penh, participating in a workshop that exposed him to the many different traditional art forms in Cambodia. Le then spent two months with Blue Space Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City working on the 14th International Performance Art Conference, setting up an exhibition by 7 Myanmar artists, undertaking research on fine art since 1975 in Saigon and Ho Chi Minh City and being interviewed by media about his past exhibition I Love Pho.

Funded by Arts NSW and the Australia Council.

Tania Cleary (2003), Vietnam

At the time of her residency Tania Cleary worked as a conservator, curator and collections manager for the Australian Museum, Powerhouse Museum and Historic Houses Trust of NSW. Her residency, which was split between Vietnam and Thailand, enabled her to advise on nationally significant art works and on their preservation. In Bangkok she worked with About Café & Studio in Bangkok to develop their collection management practices and facilities. The Museum of Fine Art in Hanoi hosted the second part of her residency where she undertook an assessment for the restoration of a significant Vietnamese oil painting Little Thuy by Tran Van Can.