Asialink

philippines

Rachel Apelt (1995/6), philippines

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.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Virginia Hilyard (1994), philippines

Virginia Hilyard's art practice explores urban change, place and memory using experimental filmmaking, installation and drawing.  During her residency in the Phillipines she was based at University of Phillipines, Manila.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Alwin Reamillo (2007), philippines

Filipino-born Alwin Reamillo is a cross-media artist who works in mixed media painting, sculpture, sound, installation and performance and has participated in various national and international exhibitions, residencies and festivals. His projects often examine and incorporate relational/social processes, developed with individuals and communities. Reamillo's residency at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Galleria Duemila involved the restorative construction of an art case upright and grand piano in collaboration with a team of Filipino piano makers from the now defunct Javincello & Co., makers of Wittemberg Pianos in Manila. The residency culminated in a two part public exhibition with piano performances from local pianists.

Supported by WA Department of Culture and the Arts, the Australia Council and the National Commission on Culture and the Arts in the Philippines.

Robert Nery (2004), philippines

Robert Nery studied social anthropology and philosophy at Sydney University and has published film and art criticism in various magazines.  Nery has made five films in various media including Black Nazarene, a feature-length video-film documenting the festival of the same name which occurs each January in Manila. During this residency Nery screened Black Nazerene and another film I Eugenia which he made with director Gabrielle Finnane.  During the residency he worked on a new video installation Manila Labyrinth, which follows local Filipinos on their daily journeys. Nery also made still photographs of Manila’s architecture.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Pat Hoffie (1993), philippines

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.

Funded by the Australia Council.

David Griggs (2005), philippines

Artist, David Griggs uses painting, installation and dark humour to highlight the human potential for violence towards others and the environment.  At Ateneo University Griggs developed a series of photographs and paintings directly influenced by emerging westernised tattooing practices in Manila.  He exhibited this work at the internationally renowned Green Papaya Gallery and produced a 76-page book to accompany it.  In full colour the book, THE BUKO POLICE, details a collection of photographs depicting varied tattoo styles in and around Manila. Griggs will return to Manila to complete collaborative work made with a local billboard painter.

Funded by the NSW Ministry and the Australia Council.

Cath Bowdler (2003), philippines

Artist, writer and curator Cath Bowdler was formerly the Director of the 24HR Art Space in Darwin.  There she developed very strong links with the Philippines, hosting curatorial workshops and curating Kawing, a partnership between Asialink and 24HR Art. Bowdler has exhibited widely in the NT and elsewhere in Australia and has been a contributor to art journals such as Realtime, Artlink and Art Monthly. During her residency Bowdler, worked between Green Papaya Art Projects and Big Sky Mind in Manila. At Green Papaya she exhibited transit, and a video installation drowning, produced in Australia.

Funded by Arts NT and the Australia Council.

Maria Cruz (2004), philippines

Maria Cruz's practice encompasses painting, video, film and installation. Cruz was born in Manila and returned to her city of birth to undertake her residency. Whilst there she had the opportunity to screen her previous work Shangrila Collective at Green Papaya Art Projects. She also researched and filmed a video adaptation of The Exorcist using Filipino actors.  The resulting work was shown as a multimedia projection/installation in Sydney and the Philippines in 2005 and 2006.

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

Hayley West

Hayley West (2010), philippines

Hayley West's installation/performance practice focuses on place, memorial and the exploration and exposition of memory. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in a variety of contexts and has held residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris, Hill End AIR Program NSW, Lost Generation Space - Kuala Lumpur; and she has a future residency later this year at ACME Studios, London. She enjoys a variety of arts advocacy roles in Darwin. During her residency with Green Papaya Art Projects, West will undertake research on experiences and representations of death and mourning.

Supported by Arts NT and the Australia Council.
David Griggs

David Griggs (2009), philippines

David Griggs works across various mediums. Predominantly a painter and photographer, Griggs has also created large-scale site-specific installations that comment on politics, poverty, prostitution, gang tattooing and freak shows. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and Asia and conducted research for projects during residencies in Barcelona, Manila, Thailand and Burma. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions including Fluid Zones Biennale Jakarta XIII (2009), Blood on the Streets, Artspace, Sydney (2007), The Independence Project, Galerie Petronas, Kuala Lumpur (2007), Exchanging Culture for Flesh, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2006), Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006), and The Buko Police, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila (2005).

Supported by Arts Victoria and The Australia Council.