We caught up with Kate Beynon, multidisciplinary artist and Bank of Melbourne Collingwood Yards Resident, to learn more about her recent work and how the residency helped take her creative career to the next level. From collaborating with the Centre for Projection Art, creating the TudoKB Art X Fashion project and connecting with The Social Studio, Kate has done some incredible things since being awarded the 2021 Bank of Melbourne Collingwood Yards Resident.
Luke George is a performance and installation artist and ropeworker. With the main focus of his 20-year artistic practice primarily being dance, experimental and participatory performance, Luke has recently expanded his work to further include visually based approaches such as craft and installation to explore intimacy, queerness and desire. DISPLAY OF AFFECTION #4 – SOFT OPENING is Luke’s upcoming installation at Hope Street Radio as part of Craft Contemporary. He is also an artist-tenant at the Room to Create studio here at Collingwood Yards.
Uncle Andrew is our deputy chair, a proud Wurundjeri clansman of the Woi Wurrung people, and an Aboriginal Muslim Australian. Uncle Andrew’s working life has been in the service of Indigenous communities, Indigenous community control and self-determination.
Studio Artist Rainbow tells us about her practice, making the move to Naarm and her forthcoming new work The Bridal Lament
So, sitting down with Joe Alexander, Director of Music in Exile, actually, which would you prefer, Director or CEO of Music in Exile? (laughs) Ha, um…I think I like Director.
Louise Marson has been working out of Collingwood Yards as an emerging artist for the last 18 months, developing an important series of work for her solo exhibition at the Dax Centre from 22 September to 18 December 2021. The series are titled Dialogue of the OK!, Threaded Passages and Forging A Head. Louise says “The artwork created in my studio at Collingwood Yards is about a journey from un-wellness to the passages leading forward in order to forge ahead in a well way. It is also about how Collingwood Yards has provided me the vehicle or essential tools to rapidly develop my creative practice. I am so grateful to belong to such a cutting edge Yards community and this has been integral to the professional artist I have become over the last two years.” View a short film that delves into Louise’s personal practice here.