Chris Henschke works with digital media, mainly in audio and visual explorations and hybrid art forms. His works have been shown in many Australian and international exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, & MILIA 99 (France). Henschke currently lectures at RMIT University. During his residency, Henschke worked with the Visual Art Department, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, on audiovisual pieces inspired directly from his surroundings and capturing elements of his experiences of the residency. Two of the works Henschke developed Ayutthaya Annicha and Shopping Mall Dukkha, were screened by the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival in 2008.

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

Benjamin Grant’s interests lie in fostering relationships with regional communities. His art practice incorporates several image-based media and in recent years his work has focused on the interpretation of documentary. During his stay in Thailand at Chulalongkorn University's Art Centre, Grant engaged in cross cultural exchange with residents of Bangkok and Kon Kean, allowing him to develop an understanding of various types of contemporary cultural practices in the Kingdom. He engaged at a community level in the Klongtoey and Petchburi districts in Bangkok with over 150 inhabitants living under a make shift shelter. The result was a body of contemporary art photography titled Make Shift – an exploration of migration in Thailand.

Supported by the Australia-Thailand Institute.

Alex Davies’ art practice involves sound and time-based image production, spanning a diverse range of media including film, network, real-time audio-visual manipulations and responsive installations.  He has produced and presented work both nationally and internationally including Heterodyne and Anchortronic Performance in Germany.  At Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Davies presented his work Pugilist Series 449 as part of the 2006 Platform series of exhibitions, performances and symposiums at the university’s Art Center.  He also undertook spatial audio and photographic field recordings of Muay Thai that will form the basis of future work.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australia-Thailand Institute.

At the time of the residency Dominic Redfern was a lecturer in video art at RMIT University in Melbourne.  During his residency at Chulalongkorn University Redfern worked on a project with Thai and British exchange students, challenging them to consider the history of Britain and Europe in Asia.  Redfern also exhibited in the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and attended the Asiatopia Symposium on Performance Art in SE Asia.  He represented Australia at the Thailand Animation and Multi Media Conference.  Since his return Redfern has been working on a large-scale installation that combines his work on subjectivity and the video image with Thai and Australian landscapes. In 2007 Redfern returned to Bangkok to exhibit this work, supported by the Australian Embassy in Bangkok.

Supported by the Australian Embassy Bangkok and the Australia Council.

Megan Walch is a painter who has been artist in residence at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the Taipei National University for the Arts, Taiwan. Walch’s residency at Khon Kaen University in Northern Thailand allowed her concentrated studio time to develop ideas and new work.  Whilst there she created twenty small works in acrylic on canvas, collaborated with students in the sculpture department on a series of six large-scale screen prints on canvas and developed source material and sketches for future large-scale works on canvas.

Funded by Arts Victoria, the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy Bangkok.

During the past 20 years Ian Bonde has undertaken residencies and exhibited in London, Paris, Germany, U.S.A., Thailand and Australia.  Bonde's work references Eastern and Western formal gardens and examines the mapping or marking of land. His installations have used odours, processes and transient materials (including painted leaves, fruit and gravel) in contrast with precious metals. During his residency at Silkaporn University, Bonde exhibited new work and was able to further his interest in Thai culture. His exhibition, Insula, was very well received and comprised a wall piece of scented eucalyptus leaves and a large floor work made from locally sourced crushed onyx.

Funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council.

Alexander Knox studied public art at RMIT and has a background in film and industrial design.  He has exhibited widely both in Australia and overseas with recent commissions including two major sculpture projects in Melbourne’s Docklands.  Knox’s residency followed up connections he developed during UseBy at Bed, a new multi disciplinary art venue in Bangkok. There he produced Little God, a large sound and light work based on ancient sacred geometries. 

Funded by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.

Over the last ten years Tina Gonslaves’ work has focused on employing new media to explore the human condition. Her work has been widely exhibited, screened and received awards internationally and is held in the collections of SBS Television and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.  Gonsalves’ four-month residency in the faculty of New Media at Chulalongkorn University was spent developing new work through writing and researching a major art project called PLASMA. During her residency Gonsalves also exhibited at the Changmai University Museum, spoke at the first Changmai New Media Art Festival and at Khon Kaen University in the Faculty of Fine Art. 

Funded by the Australia Council, Arts Queensland and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

James Verdon works primarily with digital timebased technologies. At the time of the residency Verdon was Coordinator of Electronic Design and Interactive Media at Swinburne University of Technology and completing a PhD in Media Arts at RMIT University, Melbourne. While undertaking his residency at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Verdon produced work for public art exhibition titled Shopping at the Siam Discovery Centre, undertook a new digital video work which was screened at both the Bangkok International Film Festival and the 3rd Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and produced a collaborative piece with Michael Shaowanasai as part of the Month of Photography event in Bangkok.

Funded by the Australian Network for Art and Technology, the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Chris Caines is an artist working in online and disk based multimedia as well as video and sound. He has been exhibiting widely since the early nineties in national and international galleries including MoMA in New York, The Tate, UK and the State Galleries of NSW and QLD. During his residency at Chulalongkorn University, Caines was able to research and develop various ideas for writing, video and on-line projects. He also collaborated with the non profit artspace, Project 304, in Bangkok, in the design and development of their website [http://project304.net] as well as planning an outdoor installation project and site specific video works scheduled for realisation in 2002.

Funded by the Australian Network for Art and Technology, the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Chris White is a sculptor and installation artist who has exhibited throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom since the late 1980s.  At the time of the residency, White taught Fine Arts at the Northern Territory University.  White first visited Thailand in 1993 after meeting and teaching a number of Thai students in the Sculpture Department at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. During his residency White worked on a collaborative project and exhibition with Kreecha Puphaiboon investigating and comparing cultural values and change occurring in their respective societies.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Domenico de Clario is a visual artist with a strong performing component in his work.  In Bangkok de Clario collaborated with other artists to create three site specific performances, one of which took place on the rooftop of the About Cafe from sunset to sunrise through a large thunderstorm.  De Clario was invited to go back to Bangkok to continue this work and he worked again with the same artists in Melbourne in November 1999.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Virginia Hilyard is an artist whose art practice explores urban change, place and memory using experimental filmmaking, installation and drawing.  In Thailand she worked extensively on digital, drawing and xray projects at Chulalongkorn University where her residency was based and she exhibited her work at the NumTong Gallery.  She also organized an outdoor rooftop screening of her film and video work at About Caf, an independent gallery/caf space in a corner of the Chinese section of Bangkok. Towards the end of her residency Hilyard began working with Indian artist Varsha Nair, projecting their collaborative piece onto the surface of a lake in Sarnrom Park in Bangkok as part of Womanifesto2.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Sculptor Wendy Teakel spent four months at Songkhlanakarin University in Song Khla.

Funded by the Australia Council and Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Jeweller and metal smith David Walker spent four months at The Silpakorn University.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Sculptor David Jensz has been working professionally for the last twenty years and has exhibited regularly in Australia.  During his residency Jensz spent four months at The Khon Kaen University.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Ceramicist Alan Lacovetsky spent four months at the Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom Campus.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Printmaker Diane Mantzaris spent four months at the Silpakorn University.

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

Installation artist Noelene Lucas spent three months at Silpakorn University.

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

Installation artist and sculptor Joan Grounds undertook her residency at Silpakorn University.

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