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Artist in Residence Program

The Faculty of Creative Arts has had an Artist in Residence program in place since 1984. The opportunity for students and staff to interact with noted national and international artists is extremely important for stimulating new ways of observing, working and thinking. Artists with expertise complementary to the teaching program and beneficial to staff and students, are invited to give a series of master classes and workshops over a period of 1-4 weeks and also to give a Colloquia seminar if appropriate during their residency.
For enquiries, please contact Jenny Robertson .

Artists selected for 2006:

School of Journalism and Creative Writing...

Alana Valentine

31 March - 13 April 2006

Alana Valentine's writing has been awarded the 2004 QLD Premier's Award for best Drama Script, 2003 NSW Writer's Fellowship, the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, and a International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. She has also received a 2001 commendation for the Louis Esson Prize, a 1999 AWGIE Award, a residency at the Banff Playwrights' Conference in Canada, the ANPC/New Dramatists Award in NYC, a Churchill Fellowship for England and Ireland and a NSW Premier's Award. Most recently her stage play Savage Grace was nominated in the 2006 Victorian Green Room Awards as best script.

Her stage plays include Love Potions (New Theatre), Butterfly Dandy (Women on a Shoestring) Covenant (Powerhouse Youth Theatre) The Prospectors (Monkeybaa/STC, ANMM), Run Rabbit Run, (Company B, Belvoir St Theatre) Titania's Boy (Riverina Theatre Company, Wagga Wagga and Griffith), Savage Grace (Steamworks/La Mama, Performing Lines, Subiaco Arts Centre, Blue Room, Religion, Literature and Arts Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre) Row of Tents (New York Fringe Festival 2001), The Conjurers (Playbox, La Boite), Ozone (Brisbane Festival), Spool Time (Vitalstatistix) and Swimming the Globe (Freewheels, Northern NSW Tour, Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival, Malaysia). She is currently working on commissions for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Company B, Belvoir and Bryan Brown's Newtown Films.

Alana has written numerous award winning radio plays and is the recipient of a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies (with Merit) from the University of Sydney in 2000. The Prospectors at the Australian National Maritime Museum was the first in a series of works Alana has done for museum spaces, including The Mapmaker's Brother at the ANMM, Radio Silence at the Australian War Memorial, The Witnesses at the Museum of Sydney and Leaps of Faith at the Sydney Observatory.

Nigel McCarthy

28 April - 9 May 2006

Nigel McCarthy began his journalism career in print and worked for a number of newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald and the London Daily Mirror. He moved to television and is a former NSW State Political Correspondent for the Seven Network, the economics commentator for the SBS Insight program and the Jakarta correspondent for SBS World News. His foreign reporting assignments have included the 1987 Fiji coup, the 1994 Rwanda genocide and the 1997 Asian economic collapse. Nigel has many years experience as a news and current affairs producer and also collaborated on the multi-part documentary series A Yen for a Dollar (ABC 2002) and She'll Be Right Boss (SBS 2004). Nigel has a B.A. and M.Litt. (Economic History) from UNE and is currently undertaking a PhD within Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.

School of Music and Drama...

Drew Fairley

17 July - 22 September 2006

Dysfunctional Feed Arts Collective

31 July - Late August 2006

School of Art and Design...

Joan Grounds

14 - 15 September 2006

Joan Grounds practice has included sculpture, performance, film, installation, and video.  She has both an individual and  collaborative practices.  In 1975 she was in the Paris Biennale with visual artist Aleks Danko and in 2004 the Sydney Biennale with sound artist Sherre De Lys. She has also collaborated on extended projects with musician Stevie Wishart and visual artist N. S. Harsha. She has held several residencies in Thailand and in India where she has exhibited since 1990.  She is the Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council 2003 Emeritus Artist.  

Geoff Kleen

28 August - 1 September 2006

Information Updated March 2006

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