Celia Cox

Textiles and Printmaking
February to May 2024

Celia is a textile artist, based in Gulumoerrgin/Darwin. Her formal training in fashion design and garment construction has morphed into an obsession with all textile and dyeing processes.  

 

Her current focus is silk painting; exploring this medium as a site for experimentation and subversion. The artist residency is an opportunity to explore the traditional ‘mistakes’ within the silk painting process; investigate these nuances and by doing so, subvert the traditional boundaries of the medium. While working from within questions of how the environment of Gulumoerrgin/Darwin during the wet season affects the interaction of materials.  

 

 

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Kelly Rasmussen

Textiles and Printmaking

I am a local Darwin based artist who works with mixed mediums - photography, textiles, lino printing, acrylics, sketching, drawing and digital media. Through my practice I explore how all these mediums come together and the relationships of moving back and forth between them.


My inspiration stems from the uniqueness of the Northern Territories biodiversity, capturing the textures, flowers, animals, and the essence of what is and what has been. I recently completed my Batchelor of Arts at Charles Darwin University majoring in Creative Arts where I explored repeat block prints and lino prints on textiles.

 
 

 

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Denise Van Horen

Glass and Jewellery Studio
May to August 2024

Denise grew up and still lives in the Blue Mountains. She has been inspired by her dad, a tradesman in
carpentry who went on to make a living, designing and making timber furniture. This is where her love for
creating and making started.


She has been sewing and making Macramé since the 80s and still has a passion for both these disciplines.
Signing up for a Principles and Methods of Design class which included Jewellery, interior and graphics
opened many new possibilities.


She continued with jewellery using materials such as glass beads, crystals and semi-precious stones and
continued to do Silverwork while incorporating one of her favourite materials to work with into her designs
- Australian Hardwoods.


Denise is always on the lookout for new inspiration and loves to meet up with and learn from older artists
who are masters in their trade. Recently through her work, she met up with an artist who creates beautiful
handmade Tin Toys. It is through meeting others interested in preserving old-style techniques (sometimes
becoming obsolete due to technology) that Denise can see new ways of creating that special piece from
items around her.


Everything that is learned is useful as it can be adapted into an intricate piece of jewellery or a large-scale
sculpture.

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Anne- Marie Cullinan

Printmaking and Textiles
March to June 2024

Anne-Marie is passionate about sensory learning and the resulting benefits to well-being. During her Masters by Research at Charles Darwin University into the effects of material handling, she developed a painting process described as contemporary fresco.  

 

The multicultural Darwin community is her subject, her artwork seeks to reveal the subject's energy within the layered ebb and flow of paint and plaster, combined with her own artistic energy. The paintings explore the flow state, as the tactile materials drive the art creation. Smooth plaster, vibrant paint, and ochres are combined on a board to create a unique painting ground. Portraits are drawn in charcoal onto the ground and then sculpted in skim plaster as low bas-relief. Watercolour paint is applied over the plaster and then sanded or eroded with water to achieve a timeless textural surface. Her palette is inspired by the mineral paints of Renaissance fresco and the vibrant ochres of the Northern Territory, creating a connection in this practice between the two hemispheres of the earth.  

 

 

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