Sydney-based artist Melody Willis works primarily in painting and drawing. Her work reconfigures elements of incidental architecture, suggesting new possibilities for seemingly incomplete, overlooked or discarded objects. Willis is also involved in a number of collaborative projects, including the art collective Imperial Slacks, and operates the independent arts venue "Sydney" with three other artists. Her residency at Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, offered an opportunity to exchange ideas with Chinese artists in the dynamic framework that Platform China fosters and to make new work in response to the rapid pace of urban transformation in Beijing.

Supported by the Australia Council.

Artist Hermie Cornelisse works mainly in the area of ceramics, but her practice also extends to embroidery, painting and drawing. Cornelisse exhibits widely in Australia, notably participating in a group exhibition Design Island that toured through Australia, including to the Sydney Opera House, Object Gallery NSW, and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, followed by a solo exhibition of ceramics and painting in 2006. During her residency at Jingdezhen Sabao Ceramic Art Institute in Jiangxi Province, she visited ceramic collections and studied and practiced ancient ceramic methods.

Supported by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council.

Robin Best has worked in the medium of porcelain for the past decade. Her work is informed by patterns from nature and more recently she has been influenced by cultures other than her own including the Pitjantjatjara artists of Ernabella in the far north west of South Australia and the porcelain artists of Jingdezhen in China.  During her residency Best expanded her knowledge of Chinese porcelain, making use of the collection of the Palace Museum and the Porcelain Research Centre in Beijing as well as travelling to Jingdezhen and Shanghai to create porcelain for two separate exhibitions.  Work made during Best's residency was exhibited in Snuff at Madam Mao's Dowry in Shanghai and exhibited in Writing the Painting as part of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts.

Funded by Arts South Australia and the Australia Council

Iain Mott is a sound artist from Melbourne whose work focuses on interactive installation.  His residency project with the Long March Foundation in China resulted in a project entitled Zhong Shuo which was exhibited in Beijing and Chongqing. Zhong Shuo is a sound installation which took the form of a kiosk 'confessional' from which nearly 1000 stories were collected.  The interwoven stories and field recordings were broadcast from loudspeakers at each installation and converted into a realtime MP3 stream on internet radio. Hundreds if not thousands of people tuned into this 24h per day broadcast which ran from August up until December. Zhong Shuo (Stage 1) was awarded 3rd prize in the UNESCO Digital Arts Awards.

Funded by the Australia China Council.

Linda Judge studied fashion design at RMIT in the early 1980s, and spent several years working in the industry before completing a BA majoring in painting at VCA. Judges’s monochromatic, stencilled works reflect her interest in early photography.  Judge has held eight solo shows in Australia, the two most recent with Smyrnios Gallery. During her residency at Beijing Art Academy, Judge exhibited work made at Renmin University in the Australian Studies Department in an exhibition entitled few thinkings.

Funded by the Australia-China Council and the Australia Council 

Elizabeth Cross has over thirty years experience as an arts practitioner, as well as extensive curatorial and academic experience.  Her art practice is concerned with the direct observation and experience of nature, exercising the qualities of draughtsmanship and form. During her residency, Cross produced a large body of drawings of the rural and urban landscape, connecting ideas, surrounding representation, expression and the significance of the culture of her environment.

Funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts, the Australia-India Council, and the Australia Council.

Tasmanian painter and installation artist, Megan Keating, maintains a practice that includes painting, installation and paper cutting. Keating has exhibited extensively with solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. At the Taipei International Artists Village, Keating undertook a broad range of activities, extending her practice to include performance, collaboration and site-specific outdoor installation work. She participated in two major exhibitions, Loop and In Dreams Begin Responsibilities; two performances, Her name is Tan Hua and On A Winter's Night; as well as giving workshops, artist's talks and an open studio. She has since held several exhibitions in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney which have continued to explore the theme of displacement, using the paper-cutting technique she learnt in China.

Funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council.

New South Wales based painter, Philipa Veitch spent four months in 1999 at the Beijing Art Academy.

Funded by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council and the Australia China Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts.

Painter Liz Coats spent four months at The Beijing Art Academy.

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

George Gittoes is a prominent Australian artist, photographer and filmmaker.  He has worked in Central America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, in several cases with Australian Army Peacekeeping Missions, and after working in Somalia was nominated Australia’s official Peacekeeping Artist. In China Gittoes was based at the Bejing Art Academy and he also travelled to outlying areas including the Yangtzee River and Tibet to paint farmers and other rural workers.  A documentary team from Australia followed Gittoes in October making a program for the ABC and the BBC which screened in Australia in 1999.

Funded by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council and the Australia China Council.

Painter Greg Pryor spent three months at The Beijing Art Academy.

Funded by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council.

Painter and installation artist Jayne Dyer spent two months at The Beijing Art Academy.

Funded by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council.

Painter Lindy Lee spent four months at the Beijing Art Academy. Her residency enabled her to develop intimate personal and professional relationships with other artists working in china. She was invited to the Beijing International Women's Conference and has been given an open invitation to return to the Beijing Arts Academy.

Funded by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council.

Painter Rodney Pople spent four months at the Beijing Art Academy.

Funded by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council.

Queensland/South Australian based painter, Helen Lillecrapp-Fuller spent four months in 1992-93 at the Zhejiang Academy Hangzhou.

Funded by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council.