David Thomas is an inter-disciplinary artist, with critical interests in photography, installation, sound, painting, video, performance and collaborative works. Hosted by the Indonesian Visual Art Archive, Yogyakarta, his residency provided an opportunity to explore how the 'self' operates in a highly communal culture. Thomas was the co-founder and manager of CBD Gallery (Sydney) and has also curated exhibitions for the Art Gallery of NSW, the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) and Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute and The Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland.

Zanny Begg recently conducted an artistic study on gentrification in Hong Kong as part of an Australia-China Council Residency. She is completing her PhD in Art Theory and writes for a wide range of publications. Keg de Souza, a bookbinder and active member of the zine community, studied architecture and fine arts, and has pursued an on-going interest in the politics of space. Begg and de Souza work as a curatorial team and have a long-term collaborative work - the 2016: Archive Project. At the Indonesian Visual Art Archive in Yogyakarta they created an archive of photographs, drawings and interviews exploring the gentrification of street vendors.

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute and the Australia Council.

Wanda Gillespie works in installation, sculpture, photography, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited widely in artist run spaces, at the Contemporary Centre for Photography and the National Gallery of Australia. Gillespie's recent exhibition, the Museum of Lost worlds and the Kingdom of Wandaland, traced findings of a lost kingdom off the coast of re-bun-to, north of Hokkaido, Japan. Artefacts retrieved from an air wreck in Wandaland confirmed its existence. Based at Bandung’s Galerie Soemardja, Gillespie created three new works including Olah Rasa – A Testing Ground for Truth - a series of performance and installation-based photographs, inspired by Javanese mysticism and local modern Indonesian culture.

Watch Wanda's Creative Journey documentary on the Australia Network website

Supported by the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Australia Council.

Danius Kesminas' practice is conceptual, project-based and highly collaborative. The work is non-media specific and he engages the traditional disciplines of sculpture, painting and print making, together with video, film, installation, architectural and site-based interventions, performance and the application of incendiary devices. For over a decade he has investigated the interface between art and music. In 1998 he co-formed the art/music collective Slave Pianos, a group devoted to the collection, analysis and performance of sound work by visual artists. Slave Pianos have presented exhibitions and performances in New York, Los Angeles, Kassel, Aachen, Edinburgh, and throughout Australasia. Kesminas has also taught in various tertiary faculties in the areas of painting, sculpture, architecture and landscape architecture, and in 2002-3 he was the Australian artist-in-residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute and Arts Victoria.

Kim Portlock is an artist whose work sits between painting and photography.  She has worked on multicultural art projects as an artist, coordinator and curator.  During Portlock’s residency at Sika Contemporary Art Gallery in Ubud she continued work that explored mortality and the fragility of human experience using locally made banana and pineapple papers to make ink and wash drawings.

Funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute and Arts Tasmania.

Cindy South Czabania began woodcarving in order to expand her existing range of skills that include textile design, figurative sculpture and jewellery. This also enabled her to experiment and expand her sculpture into the area of puppetry. As part of her residency Czabania exhibited puppets in both Bali and Java and conducted puppetry workshops and performances with local artists and children at the Benda Gallery, Yogyakarta, in collaboration with the Cemeti Foundation. The masks were subsequently exhibited in the International Mask Exhibition at the Palace Exhibition Hall.  She also participated in a three-day event on recycling, organised by environmental group AIKON, during which she demonstatrated paper mache techniques.

Funded by the Australia Indonesia Institute, Arts South Australia and the Australia Council.

Megan Kirwan-Ward is a textiles based craftsperson who also works as an arts administrator.  Kirwan-Ward has collaborated with textile workers in Padang, Sumatra in the past and during this residency set up her own experimental textile workshop making resist dyed and stitched quilts and printed and stitched lengths of silk organza which she hopes to exhibit in Padang, Bukittinggi and Perth.  Following her residency, Kirwan-Ward exhibited some of the works produced during the residency in Fremantle and Melbourne.  She returned to Indonesia in 2001 to maintain the workshop and to establish links between it and the Art Department of IKEP Padang as well as to organise an exhibition in Jakarta.

Funded by the Australia Indonesia Institute and Arts Western Australia.

Peter Adsett is a Northern Territorian artist born in New Zealand in 1959.  Prior to this residency Adsett had participated in the Australasian Print Project which included Filipino, Indonesian and Aboriginal artists. This centred around the Meeting of Waters through which the artists explored a visual language for understanding ‘Place/Site’.  Working with Ardiyanto Pranata, a batik painter and designer from Yogyakarta, Adsett began to compare ideas of land/site as a sacred area.  In Indonesia Adsett, with his wife and two small children, lived in a village house overlooking Mt Merapi.  This active volcano was the inspiration for his series of works entitled Seven Winds of Merapi which were exhibited at Galeri Ardiyanto in December 1999.  Adsett has been invited by the custodians of Mt Lawu to return to paint the sacred cloud there in 2001.

Supported by the Northern Territory Government Department of Arts and Museums, the Australia Indonesia Institute and the Australia Council.

Amanda Johnson is a Melbourne based teacher, curator, writer, arts administrator and costume designer and artist.  Her artwork is concerned with the impact of Western imagery and landscape legacies on traditional art forms in Java and Bali.  During her residency in Indonesia Johnson continued this research in the Bandung region as well as taking an active role at Institut Teknologi Bandung, teaching and learning from the students and staff. 

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australia Indonesia Institute.

Damon Moon’s arts background began in ceramics but has extended further into digital design technology and theoretical research into exploration and mapping.  His residency in Yogyakarta began with an interest in Abel Tasman’s famous map of parts of the coast of Australia and Indonesia, but was soon disrupted by the ‘reformasi’ movement.  As a curator as well as an artist, Moon then developed an exhibition, Awas!, with partners, Mella Jaarsma, Cemeti Gallery and Dwi Marianto from the Institute Seni Indonesia to explore the role of political reform in contemporary art.  The exhibiton then toured in Australia, Japan and Europe from 1999 until 2001.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australia Indonesia Institute.

Adam Rish has held 28 one-man exhibitions around Australia over the past 25 years.  His interest is in cross cultural collaboration as "world art" (like "world music") to affirm indigenous culture, regional diversity and the possibility of productive inter-cultural relations. During his residency Rish was based at the Insitut Kesenian Jakarta.  There he produced a series of linocuts about Jakarta "Taksidrivers" based on Wayang Kulit characters. He  lectured at IKJ and also ITB in Bandung on his textile collaborations in Turkey and Sumba and about Australian contemporary art.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australia Indonesia Institute.

Laurel Frank is a costume designer who produces theatre costumes.  She spent four months at ASKI, the Institute for the Arts in Padang Pandjang, West Sumatra.  She was invited to design some new costumes for RANDI, a dance-drama form dating back to the 1930's.

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

Painter Janis Somerville spent four months at the Institut Teknologi Bandung.

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

Installation artist, Margaret Roberts spent four months at the Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta.

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

Greer Taylor spent one month at the Institut Kesenian Jakarta. During her residency Taylor revitalised IKJ’s textile studio and gave lectures and presentations to students.

Funded by the Australia Indonesia Institute.