My Le Thi's work takes many different forms including mixed/multi-media, installation, painting, sculpture, sound, music and video.  In Vietnam she reconnected with her community, learning and sometimes re-learning the culture, arts and music of the Central Highlands.  From her experiences and documentation she plans to create a new body of work and develop ongoing projects based on receptive communication between Central Highlanders, the Vietnamese and Australians.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Clare Martin is a sculptor whose ideas tend to come from scientific fields and adapted images from archaeology, anatomy, botany and museum collections. Her installation work focuses on the way museum conventions simultaneously transform the reading, meaning and aesthetics of their objects. In Vietnam, Martin was hosted by the Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology where she studied and re-interpreted items from their collection. Martin’s work resulted in the exhibition, Freedom / Tu+. Do, at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology’s temporary exhibition area.

Funded by Arts ACT and the Australia Council. 

Craig Walsh has trained in intermedia and sculpture and works as an artist, curator and project manager in the fields of temporal site-specific installation and sculpture in public space. During his residency in Vietnam he explored new forms of cross-cultural collaboration whilst introducing contemporary public art practice to the region. In Hanoi Walsh worked with the Vietnam Architects' Association on a public display involving the video projection of images on to the glass front of the Vietnam Architects' Association.  It was a highly accessible exhibition catching pedestrians in the area by surprise as they watched the front windows of the Architects' Association transform into an enormous aquarium.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Michael Bullock completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University of Technology and has exhibited widely with sculptural and two-dimensional work exploring tensions between old and new technologies, materials and techniques.  Bullock undertook his residency at the Hanoi Arts Design College in 1999 and followed this by further work at a ceramic village, Bat Trang.  He developed an elegant and well-resolved body of work using fish as a metaphor for the movement of traffic in Hanoi and using materials associated with bicycle repair vendors. The work was exhibited at the Australian Embassy in Hanoi attracting wide press coverage and was further developed in an exhibition called Rubber Fish at Gallery 4A in Sydney.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Victoria.

Pat Hoffie is a painter and installation artist who has exhibited prolifically in Australia and internationally  since the early 1970s.  In addition to her own art practice, Pat is recognised as regular commentator in the arts media as well as a curator, teacher and high profile advocate for the arts and Asia related issues in Australia. In 1993 Pat undertook an Asialink residency in the Philippines where she has maintained strong links ever since and has extended her network to involve many other Brisbane artists.  In 1998 Pat was the first artist to take up a second residency with Asialink, this time in Vietnam where she occupied a studio at the Hanoi Fine Arts College.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Jenny Watson is a high profile Australian artist with a substantial exhibiting reputation overseas, especially in Europe.  In 1986 Watson represented Australia and was a gold medalist at the Indian Triennale and in 1993 she was Australia’s sole representative at the Venice Biennale.   Her interest in Vietnam was due to a desire on her part to experience a contrasting culture to her own as well as to create work in isolation from her familiar art world.  During her time in Vietnam Jenny completed a large body of paintings on local fabrics that she researched and purchased in the local markets.  She also travelled to the country on field trips to source materials and to paint water buffaloes.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Sculptor and installation artist, Debra Porch spent four months at the Hanoi Fine Art College.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Helga Groves holds a Master of Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts and has been exhibiting since 1988.  She is represented in most large Australian gallery collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of NSW plus private collections.  Career highlights have included winning the Moet & Chandon Art Prize in 1997 with a work inspired by her time in Vietnam during her two-month residency at the Hanoi College of Fine Arts.

Funded by the Australia Council.