OUTPUT: Art After Fire
Image Featured Above: It Doesn't Look Like Paradise Anymore by Cara Despain 2019OUTPUT Art after Fire: A Folio
OUTPUT Art after Fire: A Folio provides an insight into the work of ten visual artists and creative writers who have faced and addressed the wild fires that devastated southeast Australia and western United States of America in 2019-20.
Electing to participate in the international pilot project, OUTPUT Art after Fire, artists Alice Ansara, Karen Sedaitis, Karyn Thompson, Katherine Boland, Lee Grant and Rhonda Ayliffe from Australia together with Cara Despain, Kelly Ramsey, Emily Schlickman and Daniela Naomi Molnar from the United States have generated new work arising from their personal experiences augmented by remote engagement with selected mentors who are knowledgeable in creative art field research techniques. The Project mentors are: Kate Cole-Adams, Caren Florance and Heather Burness (AUS); Erika Osborne and Richard Saxton (USA).
This publication is a showcase of the new work the artists have made and is intended for distribution in the artists’ respective communities or, as an electronic file, anywhere in the world.
OUTPUT Art after Fire is a bilateral, international pilot project facilitated jointly by South East Arts and FieldScreen International. The project was supported financially by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grant Program.
Click on the image below to open the Folio.
APRIL 2021 UPDATE
The OUTPUT project is nearing completion, with the main field research and studio work phase ending in early May. Since the start of this year our participating artists in Australia and the US have been researching, developing and creating new work. The visual and written output will be presented through an online catalogue publication in June. See the Gallery for a few examples of works in progress created by some of the participating artists.
The project will be professionally evaluated by Charles Tambiah from the Australian National University in Canberra, where he is Science-Art Researcher and Science Photographer. With an international research background in wildlife management and community engagement, Charles has over 30 years of both research and practice in over 25 countries. Charles' ongoing research focuses on the nexus between Science and Art.
He is highly ranked within Australia and internationally for his photographic works, including among the global top-100 science images and top-4 science photographs in Australia. Beyond the science circles, his images and practice are also recongised in significant arts arenas and festivals, with roles such as artist-in-residence and featured in living artist exhibitions. His practice-led research is framed within the context of remote, rural and regional arts.
DECEMBER 2020 UPDATE
We are pleased to announce the participating artists and mentors for the OUTPUT: Art After Fire project. 10 visual artists and creative writers from Australia and USA will be supported by 5 mentors to undertake field research and produce a new body of work over the next 4 months.
Artists from Australia include Rhonda Ayliffe, Alice Ansara, Karen Sedaitis, Lee Grant, Katherine Boland and Karyn Thompson, joining US artists Kelly Ramsey, Emily Schlickman, Daniela Naomi Molnar and Cara Despain.
Our mentors from Australia are Caren Florance, Heather Burness, and Kate Cole-Adams, and from the USA Richard Saxton, and Erika Osborne.
This website will be updated soon with more information on artists and mentors as the project kicks off.
OUTPUT: Art After Fire Project Outline
South East Arts, NSW Australia, is pleased to announce a new pilot project OUTPUT: Art After Fire. The project aims to support communities in bushfire ravaged southeast NSW, Australia, and western USA, by assisting their visual artists and creative writers whose practice has been affected by recent fires and who would benefit from mentoring in field-based creative practice to make new artwork about their experiences.
FieldScreen International, a network of creative artists experienced in field research techniques, has compiled a list of 40+ Australian and US mentors for this project from which participating artists may nominate mentor preferences. View the Mentor List & Meet the Artists.
Using Zoom to facilitate online webinars, mentored reviews of work-in-progress and group ‘show & tells’, artists in Australia and USA will link to develop supportive networks based on their individual art production. The mentoring and field study components of the project will take place between December 2020 and March 2021 and the focus will be south east NSW in Australia and New Mexico, California, Oregon and Colorado in the USA.
The project will be professionally evaluated and an online publication will be created to document the project. This is a small pilot version of a larger project that South East Arts hopes to expand in the future.
OUTPUT is supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through their Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program.
South East Arts is the regional arts development organisation for southeast NSW covering the Local Government Areas of Bega Valley, Eurobodalla and Snowy Monaro
FieldScreen International is co-ordinated by John Reid.
OUTPUT Project Team: Andrew Gray, Exec Director, SE Arts; John Reid, Emeritus Fellow, ANU; Dr Hanna Hoyne, Artist, Designer, Researcher; Prof Bill Gilbert, Dist. Prof of Art & Ecology, Dept. of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico; Prof Yoshi Hayashi, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California; Dr Amanda Stuart, Convenor, Environment Studio, School of Art & Design, ANU; Amelia Zaraftis, Lecturer, Environment Studio, School of Art & Design ANU; Dr Caren Florance, Visual Com/Creative Writing, University of Canberra; Erika Osborne, Assoc. Prof, Dept. of Art and Art History, Colorado State University; Ryan Pierce, Wide Open Studios, Signal Fire, Oregon
Image Featured Below: Distilling the Pyrocene II by Emily Schlickman