OUTPUT 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.