Soda_Jerk (Dan and Dominique Angeloro) are Sydney-based remix artists who work across the media of video, photo-collage and installation. Working exclusively with found material, their practice involves reconfiguring fragments of screen culture and vintage print media into new constellations. In addition to their collaborative work as artists, writers and curators, Dan Angeloro is completing a PhD on remix practices and Dominique Angeloro is a freelance arts writer. During their residency at 1 Shanthi Rd, Bangalore, Soda_Jerk researched Bollywood cinema culture and modes of spectatorship. They also collected DVD and print material for a new video remix work and a suite of photo-collages.
http://www.sodajerk.com.au

Supported by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council.

Ceramicist Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott has been presented with a Visual Arts and Crafts Emeritus award and an Order of Australia Medal in recognition of her contribution to the visual arts. Recently honoured with a major 50-year survey exhibition, Hanssen-Pigott's works are highly acclaimed overseas and are extensively represented in collections internationally. She has also represented Australia at the Museo Internazionaledelle Ceramiche in Italy. Hanssen-Pigott travelled to Sanskriti Kendra, near New Delhi, to research India’s rich clay tradition.  She produced a new body of work for exhibition in India and Australia entitled The Hope Trail which was presented at the Terra Cotta Museum at Sanskriti Kendra.

Supported by the Australia-India Council and Arts Queensland.

Ruth Watson is an internationally renowed Australian artist whose recent shows include the 2004 group exhibition Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific at the Asia Society Museum in New York and The World Over at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and City Gallery, Wellington in 1996.  During her three-month residency in India at Sanskriti Kendra Watson made a new series of 'miniatures' based on maps, a large-scale work based on a game board 'a form of spiritual Snakes and Ladders'.  She also gave a public lecture in Delhi at the Garhi Studios, part of the Lalit Kala Academy, and attended a new media conference at the Max Mueller Bhavan.

Funded by Arts ACT and the Australia India Council.

Louiseann Zahra works as a sculptor, installation artist and curator and has had numerous group and solo exhibitions in Australia and Paris.  Her work embraces a range of media and technique with a special interest in textiles, metal casting, sound, photography and film.  In India Zahra created a large-scale installation work at Sanskriti Kendra that was exhibited in 2006 in Melbourne.

Supported by the Australia-India Council and Arts Victoria.

Josephine Starrs is an artist whose video and new media works have been shown extensively in Australia and overseas at electronic art and media festivals.  During her four-month residency at Sarai, New Delhi, Starrs created an interactive multi channel video installation.  The resulting work, Seeker, was exhibited at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in February 2006 as part of the Contemporary Commonwealth exhibition. At Sarai she also conducted a workshop on gaming culture resulting in participants designing locative fictional game experiences.  Additionally Starrs attended, 'World-Information City' in Bangalore, an international exhibition and symposium event focusing on the way the city is affected by information and communication technologies and the rise of electronic surveillance and control.

Funded by the Australian Council.

Artist Mandy Ridley is an experienced theatre and costume designer and has also worked in art project management. During her residency, Ridley worked for six weeks at the Khoj artists’ workshop in New Delhi and collaborated with Indian artist Reena Saini Kallat in Mumbai.

Funded by the Australia-India Council and Arts Queensland.

 

Louisa Bufardeci completed her undergraduate degree in fine art, majoring in drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts and has frequently exhibited her work in group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne and overseas. During Bufardeci’s residency in India in 2003/4 she worked for six weeks in Delhi at the Khoj International Artists Residency. At Khoj Bufardeci re-mapped the constituency of Malviya Nagar an area in Delhi’s suburban south, focussing on mapping the shanties, commercial stalls, animals and people that are generally overlooked in mapping processes. Louisa also travelled to Mumbai, Hampi, Kochi, Madurai and Chennai where she gave lectures and informal talks on her practice and connected with local artists.

Funded by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council.

Joan Grounds went to Silpakorn University in Bangkok in 1989-90 as the first resident with this program, then initiated and run by the Australia Council's Visual Arts Crafts Board. Grounds has forged a strong working relationship with Thai artists, in particular La Harsha, and has since returned to Thailand to lecture in Chiang Mai. In 1996, she was selected to work with NS Harsh who she previously worked with in Asialink's Fire and Life exhibition. Her self-initiated residency in Mysore, India in 2002/3 continued an artistic dialogue maintained between these two artists.  Grounds and Harsha initiated and completed a temporal work together and completed a video-document of their work.

Funded by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council. 

Melbourne artist Emily Floyd completed her Fine Arts Degree at RMIT University in 1999.  Her sculptural installations have investigated ‘the space of literature’, mapping out the structure of several novels including Heart of Darkness, Wuthering Heights and Crime and Punishment.  In India Floyd was based at Sanskriti Kendra in Delhi where she used the retreat in part to plan for a major exhibition called New03 at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in March 2003. While there she also to devised a performative work about cross cultural experiences critiquing the model of the guide book.

Funded by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council. 

Peter Callas has worked in the fields of film, video art and computer graphics for over twenty years. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.  Yuri Kawanabe was born in Japan and came to Australia in 1984. She has held individual exhibitions worldwide and her work has been represented in a number of important Australian exhibitions, which have traveled to Asia. During their 2001 Indian residency, Callas and Kawanabe worked collaboratively on an experimental ephemeral installation incorporating ideas of enshrinement and emblematisation - themes common to both artists' practice.  

Yuri Kawanabe was born in Japan and came to Australia in 1984. She has held individual exhibitions worldwide and her work has been represented in a number of important Australian exhibitions, which have traveled to Asia. During their combined 2001 Indian residency, Peter Callas and Kawanabe worked collaboratively on an experimental ephemeral installation incorporating ideas of enshrinement and emblematisation - themes common to both artists' practice.

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

Brook Andrew is an artist whose work encompasses digital photography, video and sound, performance, neon, web based projects, drawing and installation.  During his residency at Sanskriti Kendra, Andrew investigated global issues of capitalism, mainstreaming and propaganda.  He created a collection of hand painted tin signs that mimic advertisements in streets, on buildings, trees, fences and telegraph poles.  He also created work based on the stereotyping of the ‘blak’ body and the dominant modes of capitalist representation within the Bollywood cinema genre. 

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australia India Council.

Rodney Stennard works predominantly within the drawing medium producing art based from models constructed in his studio.  Stennard has been the recipient of Australia Council and Arts Tasmania grants which have contributed to solo and group exhibitions in Tasmania, Sydney and Melbourne. During his residency at Sanskriti Kendra, Stennard was influenced by colour and Hindustani classical music as well as the meditative discipline of yoga.  He produced large pastel drawings on handmade paper for an exhibition entitled Jhana Raga at the Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery in Delhi, and these were subsequently shown at Smyrnios Gallery in Melbourne.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Tasmania.

John Meade studied sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he taught while he finished his Masters of Fine Art. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney since 1993 and has received strong critical comment in local and national publications. Meade’s sculptures are surrealistic and his sleek, dreamlike objects invoke ideas of a kitsch ‘sixties homeware design or futuristic models of bizarre furnishings. During his residency, Meade spent two months at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculptures and installation works which explore the metaphorical potential of selected materials.  Whilst in India, Robyn research heavily, studying a range of subjects from sari cloth to architecture which contributed to projects in Bombay, Baroda, Ahmedabad and at Sanskriti Kendra.

Supported by the Australia Council.

Charles Green and Lyndell Brown have been working as a collaborative team since 1989.  In India they were able to consolidate their research into cross-cultural, cross-historical and postcolonial issues, incorporating Indian objects, books and fabrics into their work.  The residency also facilitated research on contemporary Indian artists for international art magazines and the two artists were able to meet and work with people from a wide cross-section of Indian cultural life; from broadcasters and famous Indian artists to craftspeople from the most isolated regions of the country. The timing of the residency coincided with the Indian Triennale and a conference in Mumbai called ‘Frameworks for Understanding Contemporary Art’.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Rodney Spooner served for eight years Military service Australian Regular Army and in the British Army, Hong Kong before becoming a full time artist. During his residency at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India created works for successful exhibition, Homespun at the Lalit Kala Fresco Gallery in New Delhi.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australia India Council.

Deborah Ostrow spent four months in India, working at the SNDT Women's University and the Sir J.J. School of Art, both in Bombay before completing her residency at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi.  She conducted slide-talks and lectures, on Australian contemporary art and her own work and curated an exhibition of Australian artists and one other Sanskriti resident from New York. Her own exhibition there was entitled comfort zone, an architectural installation of stretched transparent and decorative plastics. 

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

Painter Kate Daw spent three months at the Maharaja Sayajirao University.

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

Installation artist and sculptor Louise Paramor spent her three month residency at Bharat Bhavan Multi-Arts Complex, Bhopal.  She has since been back to India where she curated an exhibition of Indian works on paper, Bilkool, which came to Melbourne in 1998 and toured to Western Australia in 1999 as part of the Festival of Perth.

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

Painter and printmaker, Judy Watson spent four months at the Bharat Bhavan Multi-Arts Complex, Bhopal.

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