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Fiona Hall (2002), sri lanka

Fiona Hall's art practice has increasingly concentrated on the ways in which Australia been shaped by its colonial past. With works in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, several State and regional galleries throughout Australia and commissions including the Fern Garden at the National Gallery of Australia, Hall has established herself as one of Australia's leading artists. During her 2001 Lunuganga residency Hall undertook work on a major body of work utilizing aspects of local plant species - focusing on the meanings of plants for local communities and responding to "connections between the plants animals and humans that together shape the land." Hall also conducted two highly successful artists workshops with landscape architecture students and contemporary Sri Lankan artists during her stay.

Funded by the Arts Council of South Australia and the Australia Council.

Niko Kelly & Belinda Newick (2004), sri lanka

Nico Kelly is a craft-based furniture and lighting designer and Belinda Newick is a jewellery designer at Zu Design Jewellery & Objects.  They undertook a joint residency to Lunuganga in Sri Lanka during which Kelly developed new designs from his research into of Sri Lankan furniture, particularly the works of Geoffrey Bawa.  Newick researched aspects of traditional Sri Lankan arts and crafts that informed a series of drawings and designs for new work.

Belinda Newick is a jewellery designer at Zu Design Jewellery & Objects and Nico Kelly is a craft-based furniture and lighting designer.  They undertook a joint residency to Lunuganga in Sri Lanka during which Kelly developed new designs from his research into of Sri Lankan furniture, particularly the works of Geoffrey Bawa.  Newick researched aspects of traditional Sri Lankan arts and crafts that informed a series of drawings and designs for new work. 

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts South Australia.

Sue Pedley (2000), sri lanka

Sue Pedley has a Master of Visual Art from the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales and has studied at Tasmanian School of Art, Sydney College of the Arts and the Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany. During her residency at Lunuganga, Sri Lanka Pedley created a series of cyanotypes and site specific works which she exhibited at Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo. Pedley was also involved in a road painting project on suicide bombing sites around Colombo.  In Australia, Pedley exhibited the cyanotypes, photographs of the site drawings and produced a sound sculpture in collaboration with Boyd, titled Sound of Bamboo. The work Sound of Lotus and Sound of Bamboo was exhibited at Gallery 4a, Mori Gallery and Artspace in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

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

Andrew Seward (2002), sri lanka

Artist Andrew Seward’s work is represented in a number of prominent collections including the National Gallery of Victoria and Monash University. Seward was hosted by the Lunuganga trust in Sri Lanka. During his residency he spent six weeks working in the gardens of the estate producing a large number of plant studies, photographs and nature prints and he also completed a major commission for the English Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to add to their library in London. Working in the lush tropical environment of Lunuganga exposed him to many new varieties of plants and habitats thus deepening his ongoing interest in plant depiction, and enabling his art to develop in new ways.

Funded by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council. 

Patsy Payne (2003/4), sri lanka

Patsy Payne went to Sydney College of the Arts and majored in printmaking. At the time of the residency Payne was head of Printmedia and Drawing at the National Institute of the Arts in Canberra. During her residency at Lunuganga Payne made a significant amount of work including large scale drawings of the body in the environment using clay from the Lunuganga garden on elephant dung paper.  Some of these works were subsequently shown at the Helen Maxwell Gallery in Canberra. As a result of the residency Payne has been invited to return to Sri Lanka to exhibit at Lunganga and at Gallery Café

Funded by Arts ACT and the Australia Council.

Lauren Black (2005), sri lanka

Lauren Black began practising botanical art in 1997 at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, and continued refining her craft when she moved to Hobart in 1999.  Black's interest in Tasmania's rich botanical history has led to exhibitions aimed at engaging audiences with the past and present, often highlighting botanical works and figures that are little known in the public arena. Her desire to see contemporary botanical artists recognised in Tasmania has inspired her promote the work of others as well as her own. During her residency Black worked at the Peradeniya Gardens in Kandy, researched historical Sri Lankan illustration at the Natural History Museum in Colombo and gave workshops to students and the general public.

Funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council.