Hitomi Fukui

• 1986: Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture
• 2010: Graduated from Tama Art University with a major in oil painting

Artist's message

It is a great pleasure to have such a wonderful opportunity to stay, create and exhibit my artwork at the Australia House.

When I visited the Echigo Tsumari region for the first time last year to see the Art Triennale 2009, the natural beauty and energy of the region left a deep impression on me. It was an unforgettable experience. As part of the JAAM Project, I would like to express what I feel when I am in Urada through my artwork and create a work that will resonate with the earth.

I look forward to living with Fiona, Nerida and Mandy at the Australia House, and to sharing our views on culture and art with each other.

With kind assistance from local residents and other supporters, I hope that six of us will work together to create a dynamic exhibition.

Keiichi Chigasaki

Born 6 December 1984 in Hokota City, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Video installations and paintings based on the themes of the translation of meaning, layers and emptiness.

Major Works

• July 2008
  Collaborative Studio Program - Dialogue With Art and Environment
  Workshop: "Tokyo, Ogasawara, shio2 Eat and Imagine"
  "Monjun Kaihatsuto" (Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Kurage Café)
  
• August 2008 Art Student Exhibition 2008 (ISE Cultural Foundation, New York)
• September 2008 geisha#11 (Tokyo Big Sight)
• November 2008 IMITATION ART (Tama Art University Art Festival, Tokyo)
• December 2008
  THE SIX (Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo)
  SHADOWY TALE (gallery ni modo, Aoyama, Tokyo)
  
• April 2009 Lamp-zaka Show, "Love Pyroxene" (CCAA Art Plaza, Tokyo)
• June 2009 "Train" (Tokyo)
• July 2009 Art Student Exhibition 2009 (ISE Cultural Foundation, New York)
• September 2009 KOMAZAWA MUSEUM X ART (Komazawa Park Housing Gallery, Tokyo)
• November 2009 "HAPPY HOUR!!" (ISE Front Space, New York)
• December 2009 New York Japan-US Art Students Award Winners Commemorative Exhibition, young artists supported by Ise Cultural Foundation (TAMADA PROJECTS, Tsukishima, Tokyo)

Awards

• August 2008 Art Student Exhibition 2008(ISE Cultural Foundation, New York), Lisa K. Erf Award
• November 2008
  MTV Best. Show. Ever.　Best Video of the Week
  Tama Art University Art Festival Fine Art Award, IMITATION ART (Tama Art University, Tokyo)
  

Artist's message

I would like to thank everyone involved in this project for giving me such an amazing opportunity. I am sure that my interaction with the people of Urada, the historic 150-year-old building that is Australia House and the beautiful natural surroundings will inspire me to create a wonderful work of art.

I will do my best to create a work of art that can be become part of the Australia House.

Saeko Shimojo

Fourth year student at Tama Art University majoring in oil painting.

Awards

• 2004 The 8th TEPCO Ginza Energy Exhibition, Director's Award
• 2009 The 2nd NBC Meshtech Silkscreen International Print Art Biennale Exhibition, Japanese Screen & Digital Prints Association Award
• 2010 "Wonder Sheet 2010" Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo

Artist's message

I intend to make the most of the collaboration by absorbing energy and inspiration from the national environment and my fellow artists. I believe that the JAAM project will be an excellent opportunity for us to reevaluate our artworks and ways of thinking so that we can move on to developing new works of art. I am sure that communicating with the project participants, local people and visitors will inspire me to create a wonderful work of art. The exhibition will have a special meaning for me as an artist as it is connected with the local community. I look forward to interacting with participants in the project at the 150-year-old house in Urada, a building that forms a valuable piece of the local area's history.

Hiroji Noda

Professor, Oil Painting Department, Tama Art University

• 1952 Born in Gobo city, Wakayama, Japan
• 1976 Graduated from Tama Art University, Oil Painting Department
• 1990 Awarded the Cultural Encouragement Prize at Wakayama Prefecture
• 2001 Awarded Art Encouragement New Artist Prize by the Ministry for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
• 2001 Awarded the Cultural Prize at Gobo city, Wakayama
• 2005 Awarded the Mainichi Newspaper Prize
• Since 2003 Professor, Oil Painting Department, Tama Art University

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 1977 Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1983, 84, 86, 90 Gallery White Art, Tokyo, Japan
• 1985, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99 Galerie Humanité Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• 1985, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 95, 96, 98 Galerie Humanité Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
• 1990, 91, 93, 96 Suzakawa Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
• 1990, 91 Ishiyacho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
• 1994, 95, 97, 98, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 08 Galerie Petit Bois, Osaka, Japan
• 1995 Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
• 2000, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09 Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 1977 "Drawing by 5 Artists" Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1979 "Kusuo Shimizu and Artists" Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1984 "4th Hara Annual Exhibition" Hara Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• 1986 "Contemporary Art of Japan" Taipei Municipal Art Museum, Taipei, China
• 1987 "18th Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Kita-Kyushu Municipal Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Miyagi Prefectural Art Museum, Miyagi, Japan
• 1988 "A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan-Painting Part 2" Museum of Modern Art Toyama, Toyama, Japan
• 1989 "Exhibition of Arts and Crafts Residents of Setagaya Ward" Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (participated every year until 1997)
• 1990 "Fine Art in Present" Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
• 1992 "'92 Selected Art Exhibition"　Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan
• 1994
  "Modernism-a historical overview" Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan; Umeda Modern Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
  "Two person's exhibition with KOIE Ryoji" 3rd NICAF, Pacifico Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
  
• 1996
  "An exhibition of 50 contemporary Japanese artists" Nabio Art Museum, Osaka, Japan.
  "Seoul International Art Fair" KOEX, Seoul, Korea
  
• 1996-97 "Collaboration: Okamoto Atsuo and Noda Hiroji" Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo Japan; Galerie Humanité Tokyo, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
• 1999
  "The Rendering of Space in Painting – How Do We See the World in contemporary Art?" Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
  "Selected Works from the Terada Collection: Part 1" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan
  "Vision of Contemporary Japanese Painting" Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
• 2000 "Collaboration 2000: Okamoto Atsuo and Noda Hiroji" Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo, Japan; Morioka Crystal Gallery, Iwate, Japan
• 2001 Contemporary Art after 1980, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
• 2002 "Korea Japan Contemporary Art", Jean Art Center, Seoul, Korea
• 2004
  "2004 Purchase of Outstanding Works of Art Exhibition organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs", The Japan Art Academy, Tokyo, Japan
  "ONDO ARTSCAPE Genius Loci: 2004" Ondo, Hiroshima, Japan
  
• 2005 "Collaboration: Okamoto Atsuo and Noda Hiroji – the 21st Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition" Ube city, Yamaguchi, Japan
• 2006
  "Kakuzo Tatehata – the Ministry of Education Awards for Arts Exhibition", Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo, Japan
  "With Art – Kotaro Terada Collection" Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  "Collaboration: Hiroji Noda and Risaku Suzuki" The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
  
• 2008 KIAF (Korea International Art Fair), COEX, Seoul
• 2009
  "The 37th Jean Gallery Collection" Jean Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
  "Hara Museum Collection: What's interesting about Japanese contemporary art?" Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan
  

Public Collections

• Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
• Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
• Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• Gobo City Hall, Wakayama, Japan
• Jeju Museum of Art, Korea
• Hara Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
• Miyagi Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
• Niigata City Art Museum, Japan
• Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo Japan
• The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
• Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
• Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan

Yoshiaki Kaihatsu

1966 Born in Yamanashi
1993 Master of Art at Tama Art University
2007 to present Part time lecturer at Tama Art University

Profile

Yoshiaki Kaihatsu mainly creates art works that invite the audience to participate. These include his works shown at the "Dia del Mar/By the Sea", PS1 MOMA New York, USA, 2002; "OTAKU persona = space = city" at the Japanese Pavilion as part of the Venice Biennale's 9th International Architecture Exhibition "METAMORPH", 2004; and his installation at the Echigo-Tsumari art Triennale 2006. He has exhibited his works in Japan and overseas and has participated in the "berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin" exhibition at the Berlin New National Gallery in 2006. He also produces the "THANK YOU ART DAY" which is held throughout Japan every year.

Natsuko Kitamura

1982 Born in Miyagi prefecture, currently lives in Tokyo
2006 Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course

Solo Exhibitions

• 2004 humanité lab vol 1 "A wants to run a stock farm, when he retired. This room is his dream" Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
• 2006 "-agri-house- Case of asparagus. Misunderstanding of aspargus" Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
• 2008 "hanging" Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo
• 2009 "swimming pool" Galerie Tokyo, Humanité, Tokyo
• 2010 "Memorise of a special day" GALERIE petit bois, Osaka and Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

• 2003 "compeito", duo exhibition, Yokohama
• 2004 "gen-ten", Gallery KAZE, Tokyo
• 2005 "gen-ten 2", Gallery KAZE, Tokyo
• 2006 "cupboard", Gallery SUDOH, Tokyo
• 2009
  "Satoyama Art Zoo", Matsudai Nobutai, Niigata
  "Swaying Life/ Crossroads of Arts Visions of a New Generation of Artists", Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama-city, Fukushima
  "Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2009", Niigata
  "YOUNG ART, Taipei" Taipei
  
• 2010 "Delicious arts in Satoyama", Matsudai Nobutai, Niigata

Art projects, workshops

• 2007 - 2008 "Machida Municipal Hospital Art Project", Tokyo
• 2009 Chiba Children's hospital workshop, Chiba

Professor Anne Graham

Master of Art, Royal College of Art
Graduate Diploma of Education, West Australian Institute of Technology
Diploma Art and Design, Manchester College of Art
PhD, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Professional Career Summary

University of Newcastle

• Chair, Fine Art University of Newcastle 2007-2010
• Foundation Board Member Newcastle Regional Gallery 2005-2009
• Chair National Association of Visual Arts 2005-2008
• Research Convenor, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle 2006
• Head, School of Humanities, and Head, School of Fine Art 2005
• Head, School of Humanities, and Dean of Students 2003-2004
• Acting Deputy Executive Dean, Faculty of Education and Arts 2002-2003
• Professor, Head, School of Fine Art1999-2001

University of Western Sydney

• Associate Professor, Head of School, School of Fine Art 1986-1999
• Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Contemporary Art 1990-1986

Department of Corrective Services NSW

• Education Officer, Senior Education Officer, Acting Regional Education Officer, Western Region, NSW 1986- 1990

University of Sydney and University of NSW

• Lecturer 1984-1986

Perth Technical College and The West Australian institute of Technology

• Lecturer 1976- 1983

Selected Major Creative Works

• Graham, A. (2010) Chill-Trailer, Momentum, Carriage Works, curated by Rachel Rits-Voller. Sydney, May.
• Graham, A. (2009-10) 'By George', City of Sydney Laneways, 'Chill Trailer'. Commisioned by the City of Sydney. (Performance and Installation ( October-January)
• Graham, A. (2009-10) The Niigata Land and Water Festival, July 2009 –April 2010. Niigata Prefecture, Japan.(+performance)
• Graham, A. (2008) Rooms of Engagement, Gosford Regional Gallery, June-August 19th July-14th September. (+performance)
• Graham, A. (2007) In Between Space, Artspace, Sydney, July. (+performance)
• Graham, A. (2006) Anne Graham Sherman Galleries, April 6th-22nd, Sydney
• Graham, A. (2004) The North Wing Project, (permanent public artwork) Newcastle City Council.
• Graham, A. (2004) Anne Graham. Sherman Galleries, Paddington, Sydney 12 Feb-6 March.
• Graham, A. (2003) Anne Graham - Selected Works 1983-2003 Bond University Art Gallery, Gold Coast
• Graham, A. (2003) The Seven Bowls, (permanent public artwork) Nanatsugama, Nigata Prefecture Japan
• Graham, A. (2003) The Fisherman's Table (permanent public artwork) Nanatsugama, Nigata Prefecture Japan
• Graham, A. (2002) Memory and Things, School of Fine Art Gallery Newcastle.
• Graham, A. (2002) Wish Transmitter, (permanent public artwork) Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo
• Graham, A. (2000) Passage, Martin Place, The City of Sydney Sculpture Walk, Sydney City Council, Sydney Open Museum (major public artwork)

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Graham, A. (2010) Constructed City, ME Gallery, 798, Beijing, China, June 19th-
• Graham, A. (2010) The Listener, Biejing Art Fair. Beijing, April.
• Graham, A. (2009) A Treasury of Seeds, The World Seed Bank, CSIRO, Canberra.
• Graham, A. (2008) Down Under Ground. Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland July –September.
• Graham, A. (2008) Art and the Archive John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, October. 7th-26th
• Graham, A. (2007) Verve, Tamworth Regional Gallery, 4thMay-June.
• Graham, A. (2007) Lightness, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, 19th October-4th November.
• Graham, A. (2007) New Adventures of Mark Twain, Lovett Gallery, Newcastle 11th May – 16June. Pearl Street Gallery, New York. September 28th – November 4th.
• Graham, A. (2006) Moving The Royal, Framing The Memories, a collaboration with Miranda Lawry for The Newcastle Royal Hospital exhibition program. Installed April 2006.
• Graham, A. (2005) Beach in "Black Epiphanies", Virginia Wilson Art in association with William Wright. December 1-23rd.
• Graham, A. (2005) Needle and Comb, Revealing Secret Treasures, Maitland Regional Gallery, Oct 7th-Nov20th
• Graham, A. (2005) Glass Cabinet of Curiosities, Dawn Light, Gosford Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, September 16th –Oct 23rd
• Graham, A. (2005) Angels and Insects, The Nine Dragons Exhibition and Symposium, Cheong-ju City, Korea, April.
• Graham, A. (2004) Site: (unseen), Depot Gallery, Sydney, Nov 6-8th.
• Graham, A. (2004) Festivus 04, unique-state photographic works, Sherman Galleries Sydney. Nov 17th-Dec18th.
• Graham, A. (2003-4) Life Stocking, Museum of Art, BYU, Utah 9 October 2003-17 April 2004.
• Graham, A. (2004) Habitations, Look Hunter Art 1, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, 13 Feb-16 April.
• Graham, A. (2003) The Snake Path, Community installation for The Echigo Tsumari Triennale, Nanatsugama.
• Graham, A. (2002) Dressing and Dreaming, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, April-May.
• Graham, A. (2001) Inaugural Exhibition, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery.
• Graham, A. (2000) Soft House1, Installation for the Newcastle Botanical Gardens
• Graham, A. (2000) Soft House 2, Construction and Process- 2000. The International Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland.
• Graham, A. (2000) Amanda, Masters and Apprentices, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.

Nerida Ackland

2010 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Newcastle University
Recipient of the 2010 Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship
2010 Brian and Rohma Cummins Award

Selected Solo Shows

• June, 2010 "Bound to Happen" The Pit
• July, 2008 "Stick It Up Ya Craft" The Loading Dock

Selected Group shows

• September, 2010 "Stand and Deliver" Watt Space
• August, 2010 "High in Fibre" Watt Space
• August, 2010 "Annous Artis" The Long Room
• July, 2010 "Gifted" Newcastle University Gallery
• August, 2009 "Handwise II" John Paynter Gallery
• May, 2009 "Spectrum" Watt Space Gallery
• December, 2008 "Soft" Pod Space
• April, 2007 "Clipping" Watt Space Gallery
• August, 2006 "Spin" Watt Space Gallery (curated and exhibited)
• September, 2006 "The Inquirer", Watt Space Gallery
• August, 2005 "First Timers Club" Watt Space Gallery

Artist Statement

My practice focuses towards soft sculpture, craft-based objects and installation works, with an approach to materials that invites the audience to reflect on the process of making. With my work for the Australia House project, I have chosen to work with easily accessible materials, with neutral tones and natural fibres. I am drawn to materials with a three-dimensional linear form, with soft and malleable properties.

My practice involves the endless repetition of a simple technique, to create a powerful aesthetic. The physicality of repetition and the movements required to make the individual pieces are important to the reading of my work; I repeat an action, the action becomes obsessive and hypnotic, and has a meditative effect. My work has a direct connection to my body. Movement and the positioning of my body determines the resulting form. The act of making is embodied in my work, so the objects become almost artifacts from a performance.

Mandy Francis

Artist Statement

I love the challenge of creating sculptures that are made with a wholistic approach...encompassing the site, history, material sourcing, interactive experience and social fabrics. The sculptures that I make adhere to no particular style, but I love to turn simple and often overlooked materials into inspiring and thought provoking objects and spaces.

Currently I am completing a PhD at The University of Newcastle and the research can be summarised as an investigation of materiality in contemporary sculpture. Through this investigation I question contemporary, relational and dialogical art practices and whether they run the risk of losing the very quality that makes art different from any other form of communication. I ask this question because it is relevant to my position as an artist. I find that I am torn between the love and compulsion to create intuitive visceral artworks that materialize as heartfelt, sensual sculptural installations, and socio environmental ideologies that drive process and community based art.

Mandy Francis b. Cairns 1975
Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School, Sydney 2000
Master of Fine Art, University of Newcastle 2007
Completing a PHD of Fine Art, University of Newcastle 2008-2011

Selected Exhibitions and Residencies

• 2010 Three month residency at Artspace, Sydney. April to July
• 2009-10 Invited artist, Faces of Gosford Artist Residency Project, Gosford Regional Gallery
• 2008-2009 Comenced the Ettalong House Project. This is an ongoing collaborative, process based work that forms part of the PhD , Material Poetry
• 2008 Completed a series of commisioned works for Pretty Beach House, Pretty Beach, Australia
• 2008 Completed a studio residency at The Lock up, Cultural Centre, Newcastle
• 2008 solo exhibition and public talk, My Little World, The John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle
• 2006 Turpentine Flower, Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi
• 2005 Sea Urchin, Sculpture By the Sea, Bondi
• 2002 Invited artist for the Walcha street furniture project, The Last Blow
• 2001 Solo exhibition Shadows, Tin Sheds, Sydney
• 2001 Shadows, Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi

Prizes, Awards and Collections

My work is in the collections of Janet Holmes a Court and Ann Lewis OA

• 2008 Awarded a scholarship from The University of Newcastle, Research and Higher degrees.
• 2006 Awarded the Clitheroe Foundation mentorship program grant
• 2005 Won Australian Un-represented artist Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi, Sea Urchin
• 2005 Awarded The NUPSA artist grant, University of Newcastle.

Fiona Lee

Born 1981 Vancouver, Canada
2010 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) – University of Newcastle, Australia
2003 Advanced Diploma of Fine Art – Newcastle Art School, (TAFE) Australia
2002 Diploma of Fine Art - Newcastle Art School, (TAFE) Australia
2001 Certificate III Photography Art Production - Newcastle Art School, (TAFE) Australia

Solo Exhibitions

• 2010 Subterranean Archaeology, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
• 2008 The History of Brick Making in Newcastle, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
• 2005 Shelter, Forsight Gallery, Newcastle
• 2003 Internal, Field Contemporary Artspace, Newcastle

Public Art

• 2010 Ring I, Permanent Public Artwork, Civic Park, Newcastle
• 2007 Architecture a Pilotis, Mistletoe Sculpture Garden, Pokolbin

Awards

• 2010 Dr. Brian and Rohma Cummins Award
• 2010 University of Newcastle Postgraduate Research Scholarship
• 2009 Deputy Vice Chancellor Honours Scholarship
• 2009 Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship
• 2009 William Fletcher Foundation Award
• 2008
  Winner Make Do- Watt Space Open Prize Show, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
  The Most Compelling Public Statement for Public Art
  
• 2008 Joe Punshon Memorial Award for excellence in sculpture

Select Group Exhibitions

• 2010
  ARThive 1st Birthday Exhibition
  ARThive Artist Run Initiative, Newcastle
  
• 2009
  Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition
  University of Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
  
• 2008 Say My Name: Graduating Bachelor Fine Art Students, University of Newcastle. Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
• 2008
  Guerilla Gallery facilitated by 10% Pending Artist Run Initiative
  Touring exhibition- Hobart and Newcastle as part of This Is Not Art, Newcastle
  
• 2008
  Invasion of Space
  John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle
  
• 2007
  Mistletoe Acquisitive Sculpture Award
  Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
  
• 2004
  Footprint- A Tribute to the Life of Dr. John Turner
  Newcastle Police Station Museum & John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle
  

Artist's message

On arrival in Urada, I began amassing experiences, ideas and materials which directly responded to my new surroundings. Having a long-running theme of shelter and place in my work, I was instantly drawn to the unique melange of rural Japanese architecture. Bold geometric shapes used in modern buildings made of steel and wood are juxtaposed against the more traditional Japanese architecture using local cedar (sugi) and clay daub. This observation encouraged me to make two separate bodies of work, the continuous thematic thread was the notion of shelter.

Element (brick wall) was a continuation of my previous work using brick as my primary building material. I collected clay, sand, gravel and corn and rice husks from the local area in a conscious effort to incorporate elements that strongly signify the place of Urada and are also found in traditional Japanese farmhouses. I combined these ingredients into earthen bricks which were left to dry in the sun. The earthen blocks were then used to brick up a void in Australia House, subtly intervening with the function of the space. The void was lit from within, the warm light evoking human occupation.

The second work is comprised of three minimal, geometric representations of shelters constructed of re-purposed metal, wood and plastic sourced from the local area. These materials came imbued with their own history, a history of Urada and were used to build Shelter Series.

Together, these bodies of work explore materiality in rural Japanese architecture in relationship to basic concepts of housing design and construction.

Maude Bath

Nuno Felt Notan Shoji Screens

South Australia based textile artist Maude Bath will create a series of shoji screens contrasting the natural beauty of the Urada region with the brilliant colours of the Australian outback.

Japanese silk organza will replace the traditional rice paper in the screens and Australian merino wool will be felted to create the patterns. The translucent quality of the silk and the opacity of the merino will create a double image effect.

Maude intends to combine her usual method of nuno felting with another Japanese design technique called notan, to create the screens. Generally created using ink and paper, notan designs use the idea of light and dark to create positive and negative images.

Biography

Maude Bath has has been a feltmaker since 1991. Over the years she has done workshops and courses with many internationally renowned feltmakers. Her work has evolved over the last 20 years into bright and delicate felts that are finely textured and light.

Maude grew up in the outback mining town of Broken Hill and moved to Adelaide in the late 1970s. She began making felt as part of her love of millinery.

The inspiration for many of her designs is the Australian bush, in particular our 300 acre block of mallee that sits on the clifftops overlooking the River Murray in South Australia.

In 2002 Maude became a founding member of the T'Arts (Textile and Arts) Collective in Adelaide. This is a group of 35 textile artists who showcase their work through their gallery and shop in Gay's Arcade in the centre of Adelaide. Now into its 8th year, the collective has built a strong reputation for quality textiles. Maude was a director of the collective from 2006 and chair from 2007 to 2009.

Maude Bath website

Exhibitions

• Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence: Canberra (1996), Caloundra (1998), Nelson - NZ(2000), Adelaide (2003), Canberra (2005), Masterton - NZ (2009)
• SALA Festival - Hand Spinners and Weavers Guild Exhibition (2002 - 2010)
• SALA Festival - T'Arts Exhibition (2002 - 2010)
• Adelaide Fringe Festival - T'Arts Exhibitions (2002 - 2010)
• T'Arts Individual Exhibitions (since 2003)
• Royal Adelaide Show (2005 - 2009) - multiple awards
• Hand Spinners and Weavers Guild - Birthday Exhibitions (1995 - 2005)

Photo by Malcolm Downes

Chris Tugwell

Adelaide based Chris Tugwell will accompany Maude and stay at the Australia House for 2 months this summer (2010). Chris, a playwright and novelist, will keep a diary of the entire journey and hopes to develop a script based on local legends, and combining them with conversations with the local people and their memories.

As well as this he will support Maude's felting workshops with local people and be available to be the designated driver for the program, and assist with the making and setting up of the exhibition.

Biography

Chris Tugwell is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for the 2003 stage play X Ray; about Australian citizen David Hicks held for five years without trial in Guantanamo Bay. Directed by Geoff Crowhurst, X Ray was named the "sensation" of the 2004 Adelaide Fringe and the "highlight" of the 2005 Darwin Festival.

His radio adaptation of X Ray, commissioned by the ABC, went to air on Radio National's Airplay in November 2004 and repeated in 2005 and 2006. The play was awarded the Bronze Medal for Best Drama Special at the New York Festivals' 2006 International Radio Awards.

The feature film script of X Ray (funded by the SA Film Corporation) was runner-up in the Adelaide Film Festival's 2007 Unproduced Screenplay Competition and is in development with ABC TV.

Before turning to writing full-time, Chris trained at Flinders University Drama Centre as a dancer and actor. He then performed with some of Australia's most prominent Theatre-in-Education companies, most notably in Magpie's world premiere season of David Holman's No Worries in 1984.

He has written more than fifty scripts for film, stage, radio, television, documentary and multimedia. His work has been performed by such companies as Patch Theatre, Urban Myth, Magpie and The Acting Company. His play Seasonally Adjusted (Urban Myth) was a showcase work at the 1987 Come Out Festival, while Runaway (Magpie, 1984) toured regional NSW for 12 months.

He was a writer for the highly successful ABC children's TV series Finders Keepers (1991), directed by Scott Hicks, which screened repeatedly in Australia & around the world.

His first novel for teenagers Kid Brother (HarperCollins, 1994) was short-listed for the West Australian Young Book Readers Award (Older Readers) in 1997. Solo Spots, a book of monologues for senior drama students (written and co-edited with Ruth Starke) was published by Oxford University Press in 1998.

His radio play Radio Days, which he directed for ABC Local Radio, was performed live with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in 1999. His most recent novel for young readers, Sleeping Tiger was completed in 2003.

He was Chair of the SA branch of the Australian Writers' Guild from 1996 to 2005, was a committee member for 16 years and on the Guild's National Executive for 5 years as well as on other committees.

Chris regularly teaches screen and play writing workshops with adults and young people throughout South Australia.