CURRENT STUDIO ARTISTS
Dave Crowe
Alice Springs-based songwriter/producer Dave Crowe performs and produces music under the name Resin Moon, as well as producing music and sound for many Northern Territory musicians and arts projects.
He has written music for the U.S feature film Grounded, and international T.V shows Akward and Made in Chelsea. He has also penned major TV ad campaigns for Mitsubishi, Australia Post, Medibank, Olive Grove (U.S) and Tourism NT and is currently works with Gaga Music Publishing.
As an artist, he has twice won the NT Song of the Year (2013, 2016), an Australian Independent Music Award, and placed 3rd in the International Songwriting Competition.
Kelly Lee Hickey
Kelly Lee Hickey was raised on the sweat soaked wetlands outside Darwin and has made her home in the dusty red heartland of Mparntwe/Alice Springs since 2008. An artist and creative producer, her practice explores the intersections between people and places, through collaborative and participatory works including festivals, performance, publication and installation.
Her work has been published and performed in Australia, China, Finland, New Zealand, Indonesia and Germany, with recent projects include Local Knowledge, Vessels for Stories and the Museum of Intimate Memories. Her current work is located within the climate justice movement, and explores place making and creative responses to climate change.
She is currently undertaking a Masters by Creative Research at Victoria University.
Image: Local Knowledge Sunset Cruise Photo Credit Anna Cadden.
Jonny Rowden
Jonny Rowden is a British-born performing artist who relocated to Alice Springs in 2015. His work has spanned theatre, performance art, and performance installation, often using humour, food and soundscapes to create delicate, interactive, and sometimes intimate performance experiences.
Recently, Jonny’s concerns have shifted towards identity. He has begun to scrutinise and unpick the social, cultural and technological structures that prop up his privilege in the Western cultures. Using writing and semi-improvised performance he reflects the positions and responsibilities he occupies within this matrix, which will remain an ongoing concern within his artistic practice.
Artwork: Portrait of a White Man (2017) - Artefact of embodied performance
Beth Sometimes
Pakeha artist Beth Sometimes works in diverse arts-based roles, alongside a personal arts practice comprising a multitude of scales and mediums. She usually works socially, also maintaining a practice spanning sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, sound, performance and music. She has been involved in multiple exhibitions, performances, installations and recording projects in addition to publishing comics and books. Beth was the gallery manager of Watch This Space ARI in 2011 and currently sits on the curatorial committee.
From 2016-2018 Beth initiated and produced Apmere angkentye-kenhe with local Arrernte people and Watch This Space, an artist-led social project exploring language, power and place. Beth also works in numerous ways with Pitjantjatjara and Arrernte languages and cusodians as an interpreter, translator and facilitator, including co-teaching Pitjantjatjara and working with NPY Women’s Council as part of the Uti Kulintjaku team.
Beth has recently completed an MFA by research through VCA, Melbourne. She is committed to working in ways which expose or attempt not to replicate the modes of success or shapes of power that continue to oppress various groups, be that via race, class or gender. She embraces artistic practice as a vital method by which to build and reshape communities, construct and challenge identities and rearrange social imaginaries.
Mimi Catterns
Belle Moody
Belle Moody is a psychologist and artist living and working in Mparntwe / Alice Springs. Belle employs visual mediums such as painting and woodcutting to examine identity formation, displacement and human relationships to nature.
Belle has had work exhibited in Tasmania and Alice Springs.
...Stay tuned for info on other studio artists
Our 2018 Creative Program supported…
STILL ALIVE AFTER 25 PROGRAM
Dave Crowe
Steph Harrison
Sy Browne
Xavia Nou
Edward Gould
Belle Moody
Suzi Lyon
Elliat Rich
Alex Pye
Alex Kelly
Kieran Finnane
Jennifer Taylor
Madeleine Krenek
Frankie Snowdon
Jonny Rowden
Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts
Sandrine Frapier
Danny Lopez
Elyse Constable
Tessa Snowdon
Betty Sweetlove
Kelly Lee Hickey
Mogahid Ahmed
Nicole
Michael Lindsey
Hannah Ekin
Jorgen Doyle
Beth Sometimes
Al Bethune
Cy Starkman
Craig San Roque
Fiona Walsh
Sue Grant
Josh Davis
Mimi Catterns
Pip McManus
J9 Stanton
Franca Barraclough
Sue Dugdale
Brandy Alexander
DJ Don’t Argue
EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
Al Bethune (NT)
Lucy Parakhina (TAS)
Emma Collard (NT)
Cecile Galiazzo (NSW)
Priscilla Beck (TAS)
Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts (NT)
Lydia Cohen (UK)
Kiki Albury (NT)
Lisa Kunoth (NT)
Sharona Kunoth (NT)
Christine Kunoth (NT)
Shabella Rambler (NT)
Caspar Connolly (VIC)
Grace Pickford (VIC)
Chips Mackinolty (NT)
Elliat Rich (NT)
Belle Moody (NT)
Billie Rankin (TAS)
Clare Powell (TAS)
Olivia Nigro (NSW)
Owen Kelly (NSW)
Bobbie Bayley (NSW)
Magic Steven (VIC)
Plastic Loaves (VIC)
TRAVELLING ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Anna Dakin (UK)
Holly Macdonald (VIC)
Frankie Snowdon & Madeleine Krenek (NT)
Cecile Galliazzo (NSW)
Tom Fry (NT)
Phoebe Beard (TAS)
Lucinda Kennedy (VIC)
Henry Copas (NSW)
Paula Mahoney (VIC)
STUDIO ARTISTS (LOCAL)
Emma Collard
Hannah Muir
Alex Kelly
Tamara Cornthwaite
Dave Crowe
Beth Sometimes
Jonny Rowden
Hannah Ekin
Kelly Lee Hickey
Caddie Brain
OTHER PROGRAMS, PROJECTS & EVENTS
Annual Zine Fair
17 artists
Practicing The Social: the art of community panel discussion
Beth Sometimes (NT), Danny Butt (VIC) & Kate Just (VIC)
Annual Lawn Sale
Supported by 8CCC Community Radio, The Goods Coffee Shop & Du Yu Coffee
+ 39 stall holders
Poo Party
Community fundraiser for an accessible toilet
Better Together exhibition for World Environment Day
Partnership with Arid Lands Environment Centre
+ 21 artists
The Writing On The Wall public notice board
Beth Sometimes, Phoebe Beard, Harry Copas
Apmere Angkentye-kenhe
WTS supported the financial administration of the project in 2018, and provided in-kind support by offering space for meetings and working bees.
Building Walls / Desert video
Samaya Wives, GUTS, Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts, No Mono
Our 2017 Creative Program supported...
EXHIBITIONS
Mel Matveyeff
Bridgid Fitzgerald
Debris Facility
Rod Moss
Wendy Cowan
Judy Brumby
Naomi Kantjuriny
Anawari Mitchell
Pantjiti Lewis
Margaret Smith
Maringka Burton
Katelnd Griffin
Sally Mumford
Eramaya Albrecht
Ira Gold
Marlene Rose Firkin
Christopher Brocklbank
Yoana Mynah
Lelep Wighton
Blair McFarland
Joshua Santospirito
Suzi Lyon
Georgie Igoe
Chris Ng
Kimberley Zeneth
Petal
Karine Tremblay
Hannah Hall
Maggie Gleeson Briscoe
Peachy
Cam Candy
Gretel Bull
Mela Melankolia
Carmel Vandermolen
Jennifer Taylor
Catherine Phillips
Nancy Wilson
Esther Nunn
Alice Springs Town Council Youth Action Group
Jeff Tan
Heather Jensen
Madeline Bishop
James Langer
Leela Schauble
Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts
Clare Jackson
Tessa Millerick
Beth Sometimes
Claire Capel-Stanley
Melissa Hunt
Lorrayne Gorey
Margaret Boko
Lisa Twomey
Aoife Milson
Elliat Rich
Golda Rich
Stephanie Day
Susan Gourley
Theia Connell
Grace Herbert
Joseph Burgess
Mervyn Rubuntja
Doris Kngwarraye Stuart
RESIDENCIES
Mel Matveyeff
Lisa Stewart
Rachel Feery
Frankie Snowdon
Madeleine Krenek
Tara Samaya
Kelly Beneforti
Alice McIntosh
Nell Pearson
Susan Gourley
Elisa Carmichael
Kristen Coleman
Robert Hope-Johnstone
STUDIO ARTISTS
Peter Raftos
Dave Crowe
Edward Gould
Joaquin Hourbiegt
Beth Sometimes
Emma Collard
Dord Burrough
Jeff Tan
Hannah Muir
Kelly-Lee Hickey
PUBLIC PROGRAMS, PROJECTS & EVENTS
Alice Sings Pop Choir
Edward Gould & Dave Crowe + 60 community members
Apmere Angkentye-kenhe (A Place for Language)
Beth Sometimes, Arrernte language experts and traditional custodians, Batchelor Institute, Akeyluerre Healing Centre, Children’s Ground, the Alice Springs Library & the Alice Springs Language Centre + wider Mparntwe/Alice Springs community/language learners
An Act Of Showing ARI group exhibition in Melbourne
Exhibited artwork by Pamela Lofts
Shiny Party Fundraiser / Community Market / Performances
Edward Francis, Alice Sings Pop-Choir, Ash Steel, Apakatja, DJ Drazic's GF, Cutlery
Consequences Workshop
Kerri Meehan & Alex Ressel
60,000 Artists Fundraiser and Climate Change awareness
Arid Lands Environment Centre
Facts On The Ground Reading Groups
Hannah Ekin & Jorgen Doyle
Violet Sunset Presentation
Kim Mahood
Full Disclosure Spy offsite installation
Wide Open Space Festival
ART Talks
Jacquie Chlanda, Jennifer Taylor & Jonny Rowden
Ideas Incubator 2.0
Community programming session for the 25th Birthday Celebrations in 2018
Magic Hour @ Coles Carpark exhibition in Hobart for HOBIENNALE
Beth Sometimes, Harry Hayes & Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts
Discursive Noticeboard Public Art
Hannah Ekin & Jorgen Doyle