the CORRIDOR project artist residency 2024
26 January – 3 February 2024
Lismore Regional Gallery, Arts Northern Rivers and the CORRIDOR project have partnered for a second year to offer a joint residency to four Northern Rivers artists.The CORRIDOR project is a regional not-for-profit arts organisation on Wiradjuri Country, along the Galari/Lachlan River. It is a place for creative thinkers to develop their practice through professional development, collaboration, art, culture, and science, and it provides a space to explore, ideate, create, and experiment.
The participating artists Dr Jenny Fraser, Jenn Rowe, Ellen Ferrier, and Tia Mavanie have creative practices that intersect with each other and align with the environmental framework of the CORRIDOR project: opportunities for field research, access to natural environments, collaboration with environment experts, support for sustainable practices, and interdisciplinary approaches.
This nine-day residency involves participating in Architectural Interventions, a professional development training with Cave Urban and a self-directed residency to explore and expand their practice.
Dr. Jenny Fraser is a digital native working within a fluid screen-based practice, celebrated internationally. Her old people hail from Migunberri Yugambeh Country in the Scenic Rim, the Northern Bundjalung, on the border district between South East Queensland and the NSW Northern Rivers region. Her current focus is healing work with Bush Foods, Plant Medicine, Flower Essences and other Body Work, using the raw energy of plants, helping people to help themselves and revitalising ancient practices. Dr Fraser has a professional background in Art and Media Education spanning over three decades. She also runs Solid Screen Retreats and maintains a creative practice alongside lecturing and publishing.
Jenn Kooroo Rowe draws on her Trawlwoolway culture by using traditional and natural materials that embody and represent the Spirit of Country. Her work suggests and represents the living and spiritual entities of the land – the animals, trees, rocks, mountains, oceans and sky. She works with installation, sculpture, and assemblage to interrogate and challenge the prevailing mindset, habits and structures that preserve the systems counterintuitive to the ‘sustainable living’ tenet and that attitude that has placed society, and our flora and fauna, in a state of precariousness. Taking existent, organic materials such as driftwood, rocks, feathers, shells, echidna quills, reeds, kelp, and ochre, she reconfigures them into a sculptural narrative relating to contemporary Australia and our colonial history.
Tia Mavanie is an installation artist working with timber, metal, paper, and ethereal projections to reclaim their indigenous Assyrian identity and challenge artificially constructed colonial narratives. Their work meticulously cuts, burns, and sculpts its way back to their Mesopotamian Ancestors and the advanced knowledge that existed before Arabization and colonisation. They investigate the experience of diaspora and the Other by illuminating the erasure of this ancient culture. Mavanie draws on the act of regeneration and decay, incorporating pattern, form, duality, mythology, and eco-surrealism to question our understanding of history, freedom and systems of control.
Ellen Ferrier is an installation artist based in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Exploring the possibilities of traditional and emergent sustainable materials and technologies, she creates speculative objects and architectures as propositions for a future built on an ethics of care, connection, and reciprocity. With preliminary studies in Interior Architecture, wood-fired ceramics, and bodywork modalities, she has cultivated a sensitivity and appreciation of materiality, spatial relations, and the potency of embodied perception. These have all become paramount concerns within her art practice.
The CORRIDOR project is a not-for-profit multidisciplinary arts organisation providing a platform for residency, education, cultural pursuits and/or research. This initiative has been supported through the CORRIDOR project, the Australian Government through Inspiring Australia NSW, Lismore Regional Gallery, Arts Northern Rivers, the Friends of the Gallery, and the New South Wales Government through Create NSW.
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