CORRIDOR AIR - residency mARCH - 2024


Emily Ebbs, Clementine Belle, Lauren O’Connor and Bronte Leighton Dore

What a privilege to host x4 alumni from the National Art School Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Visual artists Emily Ebbs, Clementine Belle, Lauren O’Connor and Bronte Leighton Dore immersed themselves in the natural surrounds of The Corridor Project [TCP] located in the Central West NSW and Wyangala Dam to develop, process and explore new ideas, rest, reboot, stretch, examine practice and support each other through peer to peer exchange. Serendipitous timing as UK visual artist Tyga Helme began her AiR at TCP during this period [find out more about Tyga Helme HERE]. What transpired was a brilliant collegial mix up of cultural exchange, painting, drawing, installations, sculpture, staining, dying, testing new methodologies with the aim of producing new work for a future group exhibition.

TESTIMONIALS

The Corridor Project was such an enriching residency. It enabled me to delve into my practice and experiment with new ways of making. The residency’s close proximity to the natural environment offered the opportunity to use natural dying techniques with matter found around the property. The enormous wool shed offered an inspiring space to create in and allowed me to be ambitious with the scale of my work. The chance to collaborate with the other artists on residency was beneficial and important to everyone’s experience at the residency and allowed us to learn from each other’s practices. I would love to come back to this residency to further the development of my practice and further explore the natural landscape that surrounds.
— Emily Ebbs
The Corridor Project has been an incredibly rewarding experience. As a rural emerging artist, this residency provided me the invaluable opportunity to collaborate with fellow metropolitan and/or overseas creatives whilst delving into my site-specific art-making practice. The woolshed studio became a haven for exchanging and sharing ideas, methods and observations learnt at The Corridor or from afar. The enveloping environment encouraged me to reconnect to my practice of plein air drawing whilst developing my site-specific art making methods in plant-based dyeing/staining and nonhuman collaborative mark-making on cloth. Experiences here and work developed during my two week stay will be informative for years to come.
— Clementine Belle
Moments of silence filled with noise. The caw of cockatoos, rhythmic pulse of cicadas, crickets and frogs, the howl of the wind and rattle of rain on old tin. The corridor project is situated among the grass lands and hills of Wiradjuri country. The Lachlan river spills out below you. The panoramic views hit you with a sense of awe. The Corridor project provides the comforts of home while being immersed in the landscape. With the big old wool-shed studio set up to respond and explore your practice. Phoebe was a great host and made our time at the Corridor project very fruitful and fun. It was also great to explore the town of Cowra. I look forward to coming back and to deepen my connection to this land.
— Bronte Leighton Dore
Thankyou for everything! The last couple of weeks have been so inspiring and restful for me, just what I needed to get my creative proactive up and going again after a big show opening. What you’re doing here is so valuable and its a privilege to have been event a small part of it. All the best to you nad your community. I hope to visit again in the future
— Lauren O’Connor