Tim Silver is a Sydney-based artist working across various media, primarily focused on sculptural casting and photography. His work is concerned with the perpetual state of entropy: the theory that all forms and systems are in a constant state of decay or change. This idea permeates both his objects and installations, themselves captured in this process of decomposition through free-falling photo-narratives. At Galeri Petronas in Kuala Lumpur, Silver researched and developed a new series of cast objects, utilising the processes of rubber production in Malaysia.

Supported by the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur and the Australia Council.

Tobias Richardson works with broad media including installation, painting, archiving, sculpture and drawing. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and later moved to the Northern Territory to teach in indigenous communities. Exhibiting frequently, Richardson currently lectures at Charles Darwin University and holds positions on local arts boards. His current work concerns the cultural and social values of architecture. At Petronas Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Richardson developed new work on themes relating to travel and the built environment, as well as personal and cultural memory.

Watch Tobias' Creative Journey documentary on the Australia Network website

Funded by Arts NT, the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur and the Australia Council.

Glen Clarke believes that the world is made of art materials and that any one element can become one of millions of DNA building blocks. During his residency hosted by Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Clarke produced a new body of work and researched contemporary issues in Malaysian art and Islamic aesthetics and culture.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur.

Victoria Cattoni is a visual artist working in the mediums of video, installation and multimedia.  Cattoni’s practice during the residency focused on dress and its cultural interpretations.  The first half of the residency took place at Rimbun Dahan and culminated in the presentation of a collaborative video work TREE.  During this time her work was also screened at the not that balai festival and she presented a public lecture at Galeri Petronas.  In the second half of her residency Cattoni completed works for a growing list of exhibition commitments in Malaysia and Indonesia.  Since completing the residency Cattoni has participated in the Bali Biennale 2005 with a digital media work titled White Onion:Bali Bride and exhibited new work entitled Kedai Kebaya.

Funded by Arts Northern Territory, the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur and the Australia Council.

Eva Wanganeen was born in Wallaroo, SA and began silk painting in 1997 while part of Mara Dreaming, a women's group in Salisbury. Since then she has shown in several group exhibitions including Between Remote Regions (touring to Malaysia) and has held two solo exhibitions. During her residency at the Society Atelier Sarawak Wanganeen worked with indigenous Malaysian batik and textile artists to create work which she exhibited at the World Eco-Fibre and Textile Network Forum in September in 2003.  Wanganeen also presented a keynote paper to 200 people at this international conference and received invitations to work with Indian, West Malaysian and American artists in the future.

Funded by the Australia Council, Arts South Australia and the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

With an extensive background working in fashion and textiles, Sara Thorn co-founded her own label in Melbourne which focused on original hand printed collections in 1983. In 1997 she relocated to Paris where she designed customized laces, prints and embroideries for Christian Lacroix. Thorn undertook her residency in Sarawak, Malaysia to study weaving and textiles and was cohosted by Balai Seni Lukis Negara (National Art Gallery) in Kuala Lumpur and Society Atelier in Kuching.  There she worked wtih Iban weavers to creative three substantial ikat hangings which blend local myths and Thorn’s own iconography. Thorn  returned to Sarawak to participate in an international textile festival and conference.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

Originally a lawyer, Micheline Yoke Yean Lee gave up full-time legal practice to work as an artist. Her work is driven by a strong sense of mortality, passion for the physical world, and a fascination and fear of the supernatural world. Lee's  residency produced several works that explored her Chinese-Malay heritage and the interrelationships and contradictions inherent in both east and west culture. The experience culminated in a major exhibition of work titled Memory is a different culture, a highly personal narrative inspired by the artist's return to her country of origin.

Funded by the Australia Council, the Northern Territory Department of Arts and Museums, and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur.

Lisa Roet has spent much of her career travelling and exhibiting overseas in Europe and the USA. Since 1995 her art practice has led her into the world of zoo entertainment. Her residency was based at Balai Seni Lukis Negara in Kuala Lumpur where she produced a series of work based on the information gathered in Borneo and from her investigations into folklore aspects of the orangutan in traditional Malaysian literature and arts. At the end of the residency she held a drawing seminar/open day and an exhibition of drawings and a video piece featuring orangutan hands and fingers, investigating the genetic closeness we share with these animals as expressed through gesture.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

Brian Ash is a sculptor whose work explores the changing nature of Darwin's cityscape and how it’s residents interact with their built environment.  He has exhibited overseas and his work is represented in international collections.  During his residency at Galeri Petronas Ash took part in the Sekali Lagi: Australian artists revisit Malaysia exhibition. He also delivered a lecture on his own work and contemporary art practice in Darwin as part of the gallery’s  education program.

Funded by the Australia Council, and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur. 

Sandra Appleby-Lake is a jeweller and designer from Brisbane who was the first of Asialink’s residents to go to Kuching.  Based at the University of Malaysia’s Sarawak campus, Appleby-Lake spent four months making jewellery from local spices such as pepper and cloves, working with students on industrial design projects and researching the local crafts of Sarawak.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

Matthew Calvert is an installation artist and sculptor, currently working with lighting, petrol etched polystyrene and digital photographic images.  He has travelled through Asia previously and has won the prestigious Samstag Award to study at Goldsmiths College at the University of London as well as being awarded a residency at the McCulloch Studio at Cite International des Arts in Paris.  In Malaysia Calvert made sculptures from glass shards found buried on a site at Rimbun Dahan where he stayed. He also collaborated with the other artists living at  Rimbun Dahan for a group exhibition there. In 1999 Calvert participated in the critically acclaimed exhibition and residency project, Sekali Lagi: Australian Artists Revisit Malaysia.

Funded by the Australia Council, Arts Tasmania and the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

Anne Neil is a Perth based artist who works in the fields of sculpture, design and public art.  Together with her partner Steve Tepper, Neil travelled to Malaysia to undertake a residency based at Rimbun Dahan.  During this time Neil produced several series of ephemeral works that she exhibited there and as a collaborative team, Neil and Tepper made significant contacts with Malaysian architects resulting in a commission to produce lights and signage for a new golf course and residential development.  In 1999 Neil participated in the critically acclaimed exhibition and residency project, Sekali Lagi: Australian artists revisit Malaysia with seven other past residents.

Funded by the Australia Council and Rimbun Dahan.

Annette Douglas spent four months at the Institut Teknologi MARA.  She gave several lectures on both her art practice, and art in general to students and staff at ITM, and gave practical demonstrations to sculpture students, as well as interested painting and print making students.  She held an exhibition of her installation work at a private gallery and artists residence, Rimbun Dahan, with two other artists, Renee Krall and Enid Ratnam Keese.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

Architect and design draftsman Kevin Todd sought a residency with ITM, Malaysia to lecture on, study and research Islamic and Vedic art.  Following his residency Todd spent a further four months working with architects Hijjas Kasturi Associates as a consultant artist developing cultural components for the New Kuala Lumpur International Airport and an office tower for Telecom Malaysia.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

Rod McLeish is a Melbourne based installation artist with a background in architecture. McLeish spent the first two months of his residency travelling around Malaysia and interacting with the Kuala Lumpur art scene.  He spent the second half of his residency based at the Institut Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam where he conducted workshops and lectures for the students.  McLeish was able to curate a group exhibition at the ITM gallery and was also granted the opportunity to show his own works, in a critically acclaimed exhibition entitled Culture: In Context, at the Australian High Commission.  In 1999 McLeish participated in the exhibition and residency project, Sekali Lagi: Australian artists revisit Malaysia with seven other past residents.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Brigid Cole-Adams is a sculptor and installation artist.  She undertook her residency at the Institut Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. During her residency Cole-Adams worked on her own practice expanding the types of materials she was accustomed to and also worked with the students, becoming involved in critique sessions and a group exhibition at the Australian High Commisssion.  In 1999 Cole-Adams participated in the critically acclaimed exhibition and residency project, Sekali Lagi: Australian artists revisit Malaysia with seven other past residents.

Funded by the Australia Council.

David Castle is a sculptor and jeweller who undertook a four month residency at the Institut Teknologi MARA.  During his residency Castle concentrated on producing a body of work that was exhibited at the ITM Fine Metal Staff Exhibition, at Isetan, Art School Gallery on the ITM campus and at the Australian High Commission building.

Funded by the Australia Council.