Art Residency - Carnamah, Western Australia

Selected as the first of ten artists to attend the Ebb+Flow Residency with the North Midlands Project, supported by Regional Arts Western Australia.

A month in the Western Australian bushland. Vast, raw, unhurried. The kind of space that does something to your sense of scale, of yourself, of time, of what matters. I found a deeper stillness out there than I expected. The remoteness has a way of returning you to something essential.

The residency theme was Ebb+Flow, an acknowledgement that change is the nature of things. That communities, like people, move through periods of growth and decline, drought and abundance, hardship and ease. Nothing is permanent. Everything shifts. And within that shifting, there is always a returning.

During the month I ran seven community workshops across local towns and schools, and collaborated with the community to create a new artwork together. That work became part of the Ebb+Flow exhibition, which brought all ten residency artists together and has since toured across Western Australia.

It was one of those experiences that quietly changes how you see