THE CORRIDOR PROJECT OFFERS A RANGE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTS AND CULTURAL RESIDENCY PROGRAMS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ARTISTS, AND ORGANISATIONS.
WE ARE LOCATED ON WIRADJURI COUNTRY ADJACENT TO THE BILA GALARI/LACHLAN RIVER,10 MINUTES FROM WYANGALA DAM, WITH ACCESS TO OVER 250 ACRES TO EXPLORE, IDEATE, CREATE AND EXPERIMENT.
INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDES ONSITE ACCOMMODATION X12 BEDROOMS, KITCHEN, DINING, LIVING QUARTERS AND STUDIO SPACES
WE ENCOURAGE ARTISTS TO CONTACT US TO DISCUSS COSTS, DATES AND HOW BEST WE CAN SUPPORT THEM
CONTACT: PH:0413 910697
THE CORRIDOR PROJECT ARTIST RESIDENCY
17 - 26 NOVEMBER, 2022 -Lismore Regional Gallery [LGR]- PARTNERSHIP with tcp
NOTE: postponed DUE TO NOVEMBER WYANGALA DAM RELEASE AND WEATHER EVENT rescheduled February 13th-23rd - 2023
Lismore Regional Gallery and The CORRIDOR project (TCP) are partnering to offer a residency to three Northern Rivers artists impacted by the Lismore floods in early 2022. Participating ceramic artists selected include Wally McGregor, Antoinette O’Brien and Luke Atkinson
A new initiative in development supporting Northern Rivers multi-disciplinary artists affected by flood during November 2022 offering residency, accommodation, studio spaces, equipment, peer to peer mentoring and sector support.
The 10-day residency will give the artists space to devote time and care to their practices. Participating artists Luke Atkinson, Antoinette O’Brien, and Wally McGregor were each delivered a massive blow by the recent floods, with flooding to their homes and studios. The residency is intended to help them to prioritise their practices in a difficult year and provide a supportive collegiate to inspire their work. Infrastructure on this beautiful rural property has been architecturally adapted for artist residencies, providing living and studio spaces. The artists will also spend time at Rebecca Dowling’s ceramic studio, located close to TCP, to explore their shared interests in clay
About the artists
Luke Atkinson had a long and successful career as Art Director in magazine design, working for esteemed publications. In 2018 Atkinson changed direction to pursue ceramics, studying at The National Art School and Lismore TAFE. He is experimenting with form, mark marking, and developing his own language in the medium of clay
A rising talent in Australian contemporary art, Antoinette O’Brien’s work explores the figure within the social and the natural world. Her mixed media ceramics are animated by conflicting emotions and questions of identity. O’Brien studied at Tasmania University and Lismore TAFE. She is represented by Edwina Corlette, Brisbane.
Growing up in the Blue Mountains, Wally McGregor was surrounded by pottery from a very early age. Both his mother and grandfather were potters. Keen to establish his own creative voice and identity, he studied painting and drawing at the National Art School, but at the start of COVID, he was called into the medium of clay, adding it to his practice.
This initiative has been supported through the CORRIDOR project and the New South Wales Government through Create NSW.
Ensemble offspring - Hatched Academy Composer Intensive - 7th-12th November
Wonderful to welcome back musicians from Ensemble Offspring to mentor emerging composers through Hatched Composer Intensive developing new works for the Hatched Composer showcase @Sydney Conservatorium 12th November. Read further about Hatched Composer Intensive HERE
Our Hatched Composer Intensive brings together six emerging composers from around Australia for an intensive week of workshops with Ensemble Offspring’s core musicians, industry specialists and a guest mentor composer, culminating in a professionally documented showcase concert of the composers’ new works. Hatched Composer Intensive offers composers the opportunity to have their music workshopped by some of Australia’s finest chamber musicians with years of experience working with composers of all ages. Feedback is delivered in a warm, honest and constructive manner and composers are supported in their plight to create the most idiomatic and effective chamber work possible.
Throughout the week the participants were given the opportunity to discuss and share ideas with mentorship in programming, funding, marketing, audience engagement, First Nations protocols and provided with important industry contacts. Open to emerging composers of all ages. In 2022, Hatched Composer Intensive will took place in residence at the CORRIDOR project (Cowra)
Visual Artist TESTIMONIALS
“My experience at TCP has been a key period of support and development in my artistic career. My practice was given the necessary assistance through TCP to create a new body of site-responsive paintings, which were recently exhibited at Orange Regional Gallery. Without the support of a residency space, time to commit to the development of the methodologies, support my collaborators (photographer and writing) and the incredible site at Wyangala I wouldn’t be able to progress in my professional artistic career as I have. The partnership of TCP and ORG has allowed the incredible artists working at TCP to take their conceptual workings into finalised artworks and present them to the region via an exhibition. It has been a humbling and amazing experience to work over the last two years with Phoebe and Lucy to bring this all together. As a young emerging artist I consider TCP and ORG to have provided me with an extremely important career moment in my professional artistic practice.”
“The residency experience at the Corridor Project has increasingly redirected my art practice towards a strong union of process, activation and increased production of work. It was a unique experience where support came from all contexts, sustained by the generosity of people and the realisation of the supportive nurturing aspect of the site itself. My residency has left an indelible mark, it is evidenced in the change of my direction, in terms of my studio production and resultant works - it has all of the nuanced dynamics present. It certainly has been a turning point and reaffirmed the motivations and drive for what I do. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
CORRIDOR AAIR - program [Annual Artist in Residency] - 2022 durational
This new initiative was developed in 2021 in consultation with artists and organisations to support and strengthen artists practice to ideate, research and produce new work over a duration of 12 months. TCP will offer artists accommodation, studio spaces, equipment, Industry introductions and peer to peer mentoring.
2022 - Inaugural selected artist Victoria Hempstead is currently undertaking a 12 month durational residency facilitating interactions & co-creations with the environment on-site. Victoria plans to experiment through process and develop new work in response to the site’s unique seasonality and environment, specifically focusing on organic material.
2023 - Selected artists Sammy Hawker, Matt O’Brien and Angus Fisher will undertake individual residencies ideating, researching and developing new work.
“My daughter was born this time last year and upon entering motherhood, it reshaped me, my practice and my awareness entirely. After 9 years of working in metal, I made the pivotol decision to embark on collaborating with a new medium, soil (specifically the granite from the Wiradjuri/Wyangala region), and influenced by my daughter and readings on the impact of the Anthropocene, to engage in an exchange of energy with site. In my time here, I’m creating two new major bodies of work, have spoken to Orange Regional Gallery about potentially exhibiting the works, have witnessed a cultural burn led by Greg Ingram, worked with Dylan to experiment with biochar and I’ve only just passed the halfway point of my time at TCP. Time and a nurturing space have truly been the biggest gift and this experience will have an impact on my practice for years to come. Image below Victoria Hampstead at TCP.”
ORANGE REGIONAL GALLERY - PARTNERSHIP - 2022…ongoing
MATERIAL MEASURE EXHIBITION - VIEW HERE
In 2022 Orange Regional Gallery (ORG) curated a group show of site-specific work by artists selected from the CORRIDOR AIR + PD-LAB. Running across 2020-2021 the CORRIDOR AIR + PD-LAB was a curated residency program of Arts and Science residencies that included professional development, presentations and workshops. Artists, writers, and curators collaborated during the program, expanding upon the themes of the Galari, Anthropogenic Biomes, Geomorphology and Herbarium.
The CORRIDOR project partnered with Orange Regional Gallery presenting seminars online, and meeting artists on residency throughout the program. As part of the partnership, ORG worked with a selection of AIR + PD-LAB artists currently exhibiting as part of group show Material Measure in 2022. Artists Matt O’Brien, Stephan van der Merwe, Steven Cavanagh, Thomas Thorby-Lister and Heather Vallance were selected for the group exhibition. The artists have worked with Orange Regional Gallery curator Lucy Stranger to create new work, building upon key ideas that were formed during the residency at the CORRIDOR project.
The ongoing partnership between Orange Regional Gallery and the CORRIDOR project aims to support and strengthen the arts ecology of artists, art spaces and institutions in the Central West of New South Wales.
“My residency at the CORRIDOR project has been an enriching and supportive experience. The chance to slow down, listen to my thoughts and be in conversation with the environment has been invaluable. I’ve made new site-specific work and witnessed a beautiful leap forward in my professional development and process. The creative partnership between the CORRIDOR project and Orange Regional Gallery is an exciting addition to the arts landscape in NSW Central West, bringing benefits to artists and the communities they nourish.”
Orana arts - CO!LAB @ CORRIDOR AIR - partnership - september 8th-11th
A partnership residency program between Orana Arts and the CORRIDOR project. The inaugural residency in 2021 was the beginning of a three-year partnership supporting artists to further practice in a regional setting. Each year, a short durational residency is offered to a visual artist, performing artist and writer who is a member of Orana Arts’ Studio Co!Lab program. View Orana Arts’ Studio Co!Lab video - HERE
Artists were selected for this paid residency by a panel through an EOI process for Round 2 in 2022. The Program supported peer-to-peer mentoring and enabled connections with arts organisations and the creative industry sector.
The 2022 selected artists included Shani Nottingham [Cowra], Jason Richardson [Leeton] and Inel Date [Cowra]. Artists discussed the benefits this opportunity provided from individual practice, peer to peer exchange, collaborations, experimentation, to process and access made possible through the provision of accommodation, studio space and living quarters. The artist studio activity produced painting, drawing, collage, soundscape, photography…..while writing collaborative haiku, reading books/journals…… discussing geomorphology/landscape/architecture/big skies/weather…..surrounded by the Galari/Lachlan river, mountains, natural environs, whilst soaking up ideas through Japanese bathing and bird-song……all cocooned in a beautiful landscape!! We are looking forward to seeing this content develop into exhibitions and projects….
Images below: ARTIST work from top left to right - image 1 - Shani Nottingham, image 3 - Inel Date, image 6 - Shani Nottingham
“Inspiration was taken from residing at TCP and I’ve much to digest in the writing, audio and imagery recorded during the visit. The landscape is beautiful and I feel blessed by the variety of fauna observed on the site, including species of birds I can now add to my twitcher list. While the accommodation was comfortable, the opportunity to meet new artists from outside my region and discuss our creative processes has elevated the experience through their warmth and humour. I didn’t realise how much I needed the nurture in nature that was afforded to me and am grateful for the opportunity to discuss practices. There’s now an optimism that our time together will translate into future opportunities in the region and beyond.”
“The Corridor Project Residency has imbued me with a renewed sense of purpose and motivation to keep experimenting, questioning, extending my arts practice. The energy and beauty that pervades this special location is both quiet and humbling, yet strong and dynamic. Engaging with the flora and fauna, geology, forms, textures, shapes the soundtrack of birds, frogs, weather is pure inspiration. It is nurturing place, a safe space, requiring reflection and gratitude. In parallel, the experience of sharing creative process, collaborating, setting up a space for dialogue and development of ideas is unquestionably positive. The benefits cannot be underestimated, both in the long and short term. At risk of hyperbole, The Corridor Project has a pice of my heart there, and I will carry the time spent there as a talisman to move forwards. I am already imagining bodies of work and projects that are possible, stemming from the opportunity to play, explore and ferment ideas. I look forwards to having what I hope is an ongoing connection to this place”
“The residency experience at the Corridor Project allowed me to completely immerse myself in the landscape, the Galari/Lachlan River, the history and the architecture. I am most grateful for this opportunity provided by a partnership between Orana Arts and The Corridor Project to be onsite to continue with my current riparian river series. Every moment was savoured … waking to the song of the Pied Butcher bird, waiting for the full moon to rise and sketching long into the early hours of the morning. As a geographer I couldn’t help being inspired by the geomorphology and the long changing skies. I valued the space in the woolshed and the many easels so I could set up a large make shift studio. I had the opportunity to do many hours of en plein sketching, oil and acrylic painting. In so doing building up a portfolio of studies to continue with on return to my own studio. After a full day of painting I appreciated the creative exchange and contact with fellow artists and residents. This wonderful and deep peer-to-peer exchange and collaboration was meaningful and insightful. A very special place to form special bond. I am now looking forward to resolving and developing this content to form part of my current projects and future exhibitions”
Arts Outwest - Partnership - GALARI writers in residence - november 25th-27th
In partnership with Arts OutWest and Blak Books, First Nation community, artists and writers will engage in self guided practice and professional development through a curated program led by curator Aleshia Lonsdale, involving key professionals and cultural knowledge holders.
TREK - corridor air - artist and community initiative - future program
TREK - [Tracing riparian ecological knowledge] Regional artists gathered at TCP during March to ideate a long term community program involving artists, cultural experts, and scientists presenting talks and field studies to community located near riparian systems, woodland habitat, and granite terrain leading to a public program of onsite works produced in the field between artists and community. Locations include: Wyangala Dam and Bila Galari/Lachlan river.
Artists/Art-workers involved in this project include Phoebe Cowdery, Lizzie Buckmaster Dove, Aleshia Lonsdale, Peachy and Mosig, Jessica Rascke, Steven Cavanagh, Jaq Davies, Genevieve Carroll, Ira Ferris, Scott Saunders, and Simon Mould.