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Russell Milledge (2001), singapore

Russell Milledge is a Queensland based curator, project manager and artist who has worked with diverse local communities engaged in contemporary cultural issues. Rather than feel isolated from the cultural centres of Australia, Milledge is helping to build an extremely liberated contemporary art scene based on living cultures and industries. During his Singapore residency, Russell Milledge worked in partnership with Rebecca Youdell in a project combining the visual and performing arts and installation work at The Substation Arts Centre. The project culminated in three major presentations of work in Singapore at The Substation, Plastic Kinetic Worms Gallery and the Australian High Commission atrium.   

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission, Singapore.

Solan Ariel Hayes

Sohan Ariel Hayes (2009), singapore

Sohan Ariel Hayes is an award-winning animator and visual artist working across a variety of media. Based in Perth, he has developed animated films, illustrations, public art sculptures, computer games and projections for theatre and still photography. Recurrent themes in Hayes’ work include the physics of perception, time, love, deity, the unbearable grief of separation and its manifest symptoms in the mind and body, as well as the fantastic imagery of dreams and hallucinations. During his residency at Objectifs in Singapore Hayes collaborated with writer and theorist Laetitia Wilson on DATADRUM - a digital filmmaking percussion instrument. Artists using DATADRUM can create palettes of images/sequences, which can be edited or remixed in real-time by DATADRUM players.

Supported by The WA Department of Culture And The Arts, and The Australia Council. 

Guan Wei (2000), singapore

Guan Wei is a Chinese born artist who emigrated to Australia in 1989. His painting focuses on east/west interactions, often with humor and whimsy but also with political critique.  This residency was Guan Wei’s first visit to Singapore and resulted from a request from La Salle College of the Arts for him to exhibit at their Earl Lu Gallery in February 2000. There he worked with students giving lectures, talks and open studios as well as completing two large bodies of work.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Spiros Panigirakis

Spiros Panigirakis (2008), singapore

Spiros Panigirakis is a Melbourne-based visual artist whose art practice involves working with groups in both curatorial and collaborative capacities. Panigirakis is interested in how curatorial frameworks and presentational devices work in the visual arts. He recently explored these issues in two publications - Enjoy's (Wellington, NZ) Critical Publics and Fiona Macdonald's publication Gratuitous Intent. He has presented projects at a range of artist-run initiatives including Loose projects, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space and CLUBSprojects. Anecdotes about food captivate him and Panigirakis used this energy in a project regarding hawker cuisines at p-10 in Singapore.

Supported by the Australia Council.

Jacqueline Felstead

Jacqueline Felstead (2009), singapore

Jacqueline Felstead is a photo-media artist working with digital and experimental photo formats. Currently completing her MFA she also holds Bachelor degrees in Media Art and Social Science. She was awarded a studio residency at the Banff Centre, Canada, in 2005 and has participated in numerous exhibitions Australia-wide, including recently commissioned works for Melbourne’s City Museum in 2008. To date the exploration of shared personal insecurities forms the lynchpin of Felstead’s art practice. During her Objectifs residency in Singapore she developed new photo-media works that intersect illuminated handwritten text with cityscapes, in a response to the country’s experience of industrialisation.

Supported by The Australia Council.

Louise Paramor (2003), singapore

Since 1988 Louise Paramor has exhibited extensively throughtout Australia and overseas. She has held twenty-six solo exhibitions, including The Love Artist at Breitengraser - room for contemporary sculpture, Berlin, and Outback Heat at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover. Her work was included in the group shows Oblique Shadows in Sculpture Square, Singapore, 2000; Satellit (2000) at Berliner Pavilion, Berlin, 2000; and National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, in 2001. During her residency Paramor worked at La Salle SIA in Singapore for three months prior to and during a major exhibition she was invited to stage at the Esplanade Arts Complex in October and November 2003.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Lisa Kelly (2007), singapore

Lisa Kelly’s practice involves art making, writing, collaboration and organisation. She has been involved in local, interstate and overseas exhibitions and projects and published critical essays and reviews in a range of arts and artist publications. Recent practice includes being a coordinating member of Loose projects and participation in the residency-driven project It's a new day. During her residency at p-10, Kelly developed a site responsive installation work – “Attention Seekers_____Drawings with Invisible Objects.” Kelly also developed a new collaborative dialogue with artist Dennis Tan of “The Other House”.

Supported by the Australia Council.