Brave New Works
This Years visiting Artists:
Entertaining us on the street
Cocoloco
Cocoloco
A London performance company run by Trevor Stuart and Helen Statman, both of whom have extensive training in drama,clowning and mime. These experienced performers, writers, producers, choreographers and designers have an extensive history of work in theatre,film and television. They specialize in peripatetic performance and site specific work.
Recent triumphs: Working as Real Estate agents for the artists, Elmgreen and Dragset at Venice Biennale: directing and hosting a Victorian spectacular, The Bar of Ideas for Central School of Speech and Drama: directing Fool Spectrum - a celebration of Colour - for Tate, Liverpool; performing a homage to the Futurists for Avanti Display at Stockton International Street Theatre Festival...
Cocoloco believes in poetry, cinema, tennis, laughter, sex over lunch, lunch over sex, parties, dinners, oysters, red wine, sashimi, fresh orange juice, marmite, vegemite... and much more.
for more information go to www.cocoloco.co.uk
Artists' in Residence for the Kwoorabup Art Walk
Alison Clouston
Alison Clouston is a visual artist based in the Burragorang Valley NSW, working in sculpture and installation, drawing and photography. Alison is currently installing “BIRD CRY from the grassy box woodlands” at the Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, having just completed “Beaming” (2009), a site-specific work for the banks of the Wollondilly River at Goulburn, NSW, with solar-powered soundtrack by Boyd, commissioned by Goulburn Regional Art Gallery with funding from the NSW Government. During August, Boyd and Alison will also exhibit their collaborative environmental installation “Adrift” at the Muse Gallery in Sydney as part of National Science Week, 2009.
Alison’s work was included in “Creature Discomfits”, Suter Gallery NZ, 2009; “Kick the Carbon Habit” 2008 exhibition at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand for the UN Environment Program and Natural World Museum; and the Shoebox Sculpture Show touring USA 2008. She has been represented in national survey shows such as Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, Mildura Sculpture Triennial, and the Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne.
for more information on Alison’s work go to: www.burragorang.org
Sandra Hill
Sandra Hill is a highly acclaimed Noongar artist with paternal and maternal lineages to the Wilson Inlet and surrounding areas. She has been lecturing and running art workshops since 1984 and has had countless exhibitions and commissioned works. Since 1993 she has participated in 26 group exhibitions and had 4 solos. Since 2000 she has been awarded with 16 commissions. In 1994/95 she was awarded the prestigious Creative Development Fellowship awarded through the Australia Council.
She is represented at Art Gallery of Western Australia, Holmes A Court Collection, Claremont School of Art Collection, Edith Cowan University Collection, Berndt Museum of Anthropology Aboriginal Art Collection, Western Australia Museum Collection, Queens University Collection of Indigenous Art, Kingston-Ontario, Canada, Royal Archives-The Netherlands, City of Bunbury Collection, The Dutch Consulate, Canberra, Kidman/Cruise Collection, Sydney, Dr K. Schefczik, Frankfurt, Germany, City of Perth Art Collection, and the Sir James Cruthers Foundation, UWA.
Artists in Residence for Our Secret River:
Jonathan Mustard
Over the last 20 years, Mustard has gained a reputation as one of Perth's most innovative composers, writing many works for mixed media, as well as more traditional instrumental and vocal pieces for dance, theatre, film, concert and stage. He has been placing the performer at the centre of electronic music since 1991, bringing a heart and liveliness to a medium often accused of lacking these very qualities. Whether he is using dancers, or musical instruments to manipulate sound and video in ‘real-time’, there is a strong commitment to the things we value in live performance and a unique approach to his often-quirky sonic and visual materials.
Since collaborating with choreographer Chrissie Parrot, ongoing from 2003, Jonathan has extended his crossover into visual arts, making video and animation for and about dance. This, now rich partnership, continues to explore new territory in the collision between sound, dance, technology and visual media. Mustard also has a growing repertoire of solo audiovisual works that break new ground in the relationship between sight and sound; where the different elements of sound and music are entangled with way in which we see the moving images.
for more info on Jonathan's performance company Jambird go to: www.performinglineswa.org.au/downloads/1225/Jambird_2009_Media_Pack.pdf
Justina Truscott
Justina Truscott’s family is from the South/West Kojonup. Her training in Aboriginal dance began at the age of nine, in 1987 at the Abmusic Adu Dance.
As she grew older, Justina was drawn to the style of hip-hop and club dancing. When she was sixteen years old, she met Michael Leslie, then the Artistic Director for Black Swan Musical Theatre School in Northbridge. In 1997 Justina moved to Brisbane and was able to study under Michael Leslie at the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts. She graduated in 1999 with a Diploma in Musical Theatre (majoring in dance). Since then Justina has been active in the community, redeeming traditional Aboriginal dance.
