Artist-in-Residence Program Summer 2016-2017
Image: David Rosendale
Image: Hiroyasu Tsuri, No Fear, The Man Hotel, Falls Creek
Falls Creek Resort Management Board endorsed an Arts Strategy in Mar 2016 and, soon after, established the Arts and Culture Development Committee, known locally as the ACDC, to help realise community aspirations to reposition Falls Creek as Australia’s ‘Arts Mountain’. The Artist-in-Residence Program sought expressions-of-interest from artists wanting to spend time in the resort over the summer period 2016-2017 and create new work reflective of the alpine environment and the Falls Creek community. Our supporters for the 2016-2017 program:
Six artists were hosted by Falls Creek Resort Management over the summer of 16-17:
Dr Mary Rosengren: 18 Jan – 28 Feb, 2017 Vic McEwan: 19 Feb – 6 Mar, 2017 Hiroyasu Tsuri: 19 Feb – 6 Mar, 2017 David Rosendale: March 20 -27 and April 24 – 30, 2017 Rebecca Jones: 19 – 30 April, 2017 Dore Stockhausen: 20-31 March, 2017
Artists have been posting on social media during their residencies using these hashtags: #fallscreekresort # fallscreekculture #artfallscreek
Tony runs his business as a digital and commercial business but his heart has always been in the artistic side. The project for him gave him ROSENGREN a chance to explore what his business might have MARY been in an ideal world, where the creative, hand-done side of industrial art was understood and appreciated. He enjoyed the fact that the project allowed him to promote that vision to people During her residency Mary progressed her ongoing study of who ecologists stopped and talked vegetation to him. of the Bogong High Plains. At researching Falls Creek, Mary gathered audiovisual material on peatlands that she intends to use in projections, potentially onto snow. She undertook several fieldtrips and attended presentations in the courses presented by the Research Centre for Alpine Ecology. Outcome Mary contributed to discussions of Falls Creek Resort Management’s application to Australian Alps National Parks Cooperative Management Program to engage artists in developing public understanding of environmental values and raise community awareness around complex issues of longterm management. The proposal aims to bring about extend responses to the alpine environment by connecting artists with current science research of the alpine environment.
Image: M Rosengren, Yonder, Peatlands 2017
Image: M Rosengren, Yonder, Peatlands 2017
VIC McEWAN I am completely surprised by how much I love it here. I have been travelling a lot over the last few years, to all sorts of places and environments as part of my arts practice and I have enjoyed them all but there’s something really special about Falls Creek. I imagine it’s completely different in winter with thousands of people all here for skiing, but summer is such a fabulous mix of fascinating landscape, people and climate. And there’s so many things to explore artistically, I have only begun to experiment with ideas here. Outcomes • 1 workshop at Falls Creek Primary School • 1 workshop at Falls Creek Pre-School • 1 public evening presentation of work in progress at the Waterfall • 1 public evening presentation of work in progress at B Foodstore • A touch screen interactive app about outcomes from the residency • Artists’ blog at http://www.vicmcewan.com/falls-creek • Fellowship Application for Australia Council for subsequent residency at Falls Creek and creation of new work, Clouds and Symphonies http://www.cadfactory.com.au/ https://twitter.com/CadFactory
Images: Early explorations at Falls Creek by Vic McEwan
Image: Vic McEwan
Image: Vic McEwan
Image: Vic McEwan, Bogong Moth projection at Nordic Bowl
Image: Vic McEwan, Specimen, projection at Water Fall, Falls Creek
HIROYASU TSURI Hiroyasu Tsuri is a contemporary artist also known as TWOONE. Born in Yokohama, Japan, he moved to Melbourne in his teens where he lived till 2013. He is now based Berlin, Germany. Hiro developed his creativity through the skateboarding and graffiti culture. As an outsider, where language has always been an obstacle, he turned his art practice into his voice. He works with a wide range of materials and forms including painting, sculpture, installation and sound. His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, and museums. His A-I-R proposal for Falls Creek included painting the brown water tank at the top of Ory’s trail with a large and striking image of the Bogong Moth. FCRM undertook a crowd-funding campaign to fund this, raising just over $10,000.
Outcomes • BigFella: rebirthing the Brown Tank as a Bogong Moth • Powerful Owl: side wall of the Man Hotel • Currawong: painting a rear external wall at Diana Lodge • Huski: painting a Huski on an internal wall at Huski https://www.instagram.com/t_w_o_o_n_e
Image: BigFella by Hiroyasu Tsuri, media launch, April 2017
Images: Hiroyasu Tsuri, street art on walls of the Man Hotel, April 2017
Images: Hiroyasu Tsuri, Huski at Huski; Currawong at Diana Lodge, 2017
DAVID ROSENDALE The concepts that brought me to Falls Creek have grown and shaped, from a simple graphic focus, when the landscape is quietened and set back in snow, to a broader affection for the landscape: light and organic symmetry when the landscape is not sitting dormant, a rhythm and pulse as the landscape changes and the weather rolls in. The graphic order and harmony I found in the symbolic man-made objects in the resort are reflected in the mountains themselves. Outcomes • David produced 12 finished works from his autumn residency and these will be exhibited in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in August 2017 • David’s study of Falls Creek will be exhibited at the Photo Access HUW Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre Canberra, in October 2018 • Planned exhibition of the entire journey at Falls Creek in 2018 • Two prints were donated to FCRM: one will be auctioned online later in 2017, the other will remain in our permanent collection www.davidrosendale.com.au https://www.instagram.com/david_rosendale
Image: David Rosendale
Image: David Rosendale
CREATIVE EVALUATION
Images: David Rosendale
CREATIVE EVALUATION
Image: David Rosendale
CREATIVE EVALUATION
Images: David Rosendale
DORE STOCKHAUSEN Dore’s residency at Falls Creek was for the purpose of creating a series of medium-sized paintings based on visual influences and inspiration of the natural and man-made environment surrounding the resort. Her method involves collecting photographic images during walks in the early morning, late evening and night time. Long exposure and deliberate camera movements assist in creating abstract images suggestive of motion. The use of lights at specific sites enhance black and white contrast and pin point special features. Dore is particularly interested in natural sights like rocky outcrops, vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss), insects, the change in weather and seasons, and also the built environment such as the huts, the dam, the village itself and especially the power station. Outcomes • 7 paintings in Windy Corner • Plans for a Falls Creek exhibition in 2018 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dorestockhausen
Image: Dore Stockhausen, new work, Falls Creek 2017
Image: Dore Stockhausen, new work, Falls Creek 2017
Image: Dore Stockhausen, new work, Falls Creek 2017
REBECCA JONES My work explores the interaction between people and the landscape, capturing movement, colour and space in aquatic and alpine environments. Drawing is the starting point of all my work, expanding into painting, collage and iPad digital painting. My residency involved documenting 10 days of sunrises and sunsets in the high alpine landscape and the daily events that shape Falls Creek. I went hiking and biking for en plein air drawing and painting to various sites within the Falls Creek Resort and its surrounds including Lakeside, Ruined Castle, the Summit and back country outside of the winter season. Once I had picked my spot, I observed and recorded the landscape and the human interaction with the environment. Outcomes • Workshops at Falls Creek Primary School and Falls Creek Childcare and Kindergarten using I-pad for painting en plein air • Visual documentation of the high alpine landscape and the daily events that shape Falls Creek • Daily digital paintings posted on Instagram • A body of work completed in studio post residency http://www.rebeccajones.com.aul https://www.instagram.com/rebeccajonesart
Image: Rebecca Jones, new work, Falls Creek 2017
Images: Rebecca Jones, new work, Falls Creek 2017
Image: Rebecca Jones, new work, Falls Creek 2017
Report prepared by LINDY ALLEN Chair: Falls Creek Arts & Culture Development Committee Falls Creek Resort Management Board June 2017