Artist in Residence Program

Artists selected for 2003:

Creative Writing...

Sydney novelist, essayist, and critic, Dr Delia Falconer will be visiting the faculty from 28th April to 9th May (Session 1). Her novel, The Service of Clouds, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, Age, Kibble, and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and has been published in the USA and Germany.
A recipient of the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, the HQ short story award, and the Island Essay prize, she has recently spent 6 weeks at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co. Monagahan, Ireland, on an Australia Council residency. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Best Australian Essays, The Best Australian Short Stories, nest, The Australian's Review of Books, and the Penguin Century of Australian Stories.

At Wollongong she'll be finishing a novel set in the USA.

Performance Music & Theatre...

Binh Duy TA - Visiting throughout Session 1. Binh Duy Ta trained in acting and mime in Vietnam. Since coming to Australia in 1988, Binh has performed for a number of theatre companies and festivals. In 1996 Binh founded (with Bruce Keller) Citymoon Theatre (The Vietnamese Australian Contemporary Theatre Company) which has involved many productions.
After completing a Master of Creative Arts in Theatre at Wollongong (2000), he was the writer and director of The Monkey Mother, co-director for Finding the Buffalo, and the director for Beat Box Vox Pop.
In 2002, Binh performed The Boy and the Bamboo Flute for Patch Theatre in USA and Canada (May/June) and wrote & directed Viet Food Village for Carnivale and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (October).
Binh has taught movement workshops (based on Qigong and Meditation) at Nepean University of Western Sydney, University of Wollongong, and for a number of theatre groups & festivals. With his expertise in movement, he will assist in shaping the choreographic components of the 2nd year devised theatre productions.

Graphic Design & New Media...

Andrew Johnstone will be coordinating a totally ONLINE residency with a designer from San Francisco and another from new York.
Andrew currently freelances and works on projects around Sydney. Andrew studied Graphic Design at the University of Wollongong then went overseas on an extended vacation. He came back two years later with a girlfriend from Ireland and not much else. He bought a Powerbook, got on the net, got addicted to the net, got into web design, got addicted to web design and got fatter and fatter. Andrew started Design is Kinky and started working in web design as well. He went through several jobs and is currently in a 'cool one', having fun, and that's about all that matters.

Visual Arts...

G W Bot is a printmaker and painter who has held 25 solo exhibitions in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, London, Paris, Los Angeles and Manila. She is represented in numerous public collections including National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Albertina, Vienna; British Museum, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Fogg Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University; Kharkiv Art Gallery, Ukraine; Lublin Museum, Poland; Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan; Queensland Art Gallery; Art Gallery of South Australia; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, and Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.
She has held numerous awards and residencies including several terms as Artist-in-residence at Arthur Boyd's Gift to the Nation, Bundanon; residency at the Kultervereinigung Nördliches Burgenland, Austria, and she was awarded CAPO Fellow for 2000. Bot has had many articles published about her work in Australia, UK and Asia. 
View her work.

Sound Composition & Production...

Warren Burt is a Melbourne-based composer, performer, visual artist and writer who performs his work throughout Australia and internationally. In 1998 2000 he was an Australia Council Fellowship holder and in 2001-2002, Visiting Professor of composition at the University of Illinois. His most recent work involves the use of computers in live performance of microtonal music.