RESET
Multi-Artist Studio Gallery Program
Aimed at strengthening community relationships and encouraging new creative work, WA artists are invited to participate in RESET: Multi-Artist Studio Residency, to develop their work over a six week period, responding creatively to current political, social, and environmental issues.
Bucking normal traditions, the PCP gallery will remain open during the residency, with successful applicants given a space in the studio, and their creative progress available for public viewing – members of the public may visit and follow the progress of the artists’ creative work.
During the residency, artists will have access to professional studio equipment, and be provided with extensive promotion. RESET will end with a ‘closing’ event, where work created during the project will be exhibited and artists have the opportunity to engage with the visitors in the form io. And Members of the public will be invited to attend, much like a traditional exhibition opening with artworks available for purchase.
All photo media artists from all backgrounds and career levels are welcome to apply. All forms and practices in photo media will be accepted including 2D traditional and non-traditional, film, digital, and other cross photo media practices, as well as interactive, performative, public, or peer collaborations.
The RESET program is supported by the City of Perth.
2020 RESET Artists
Lyle Branson – constructing dioramas using photographs and found and natural objects, to explore the nature of materials and our relationship with the landscape.
GAPE Collective – creating a body of work using still and time-based photo media to explore the way womxn apologise and minimise their existence and presence.
Perdita Phillips – experimenting with cyanotypes and anthotypes to create a dialogue with the public about local ecological issues.
Layli Rakhsha – documenting Murray Street and extending her visual investigation on the relationship between public and personal spaces; between solitude and companionship in public places.
Laura Sikes – exploring alternative modes of viewing photographic works and creating work that embodies the viewer. Touching on ideas of transformation, between, fragmentation and emergence.
Jacob Wallwork – Focusing on the themes of isolation, distance, and the home, his work would aim to provide a snapshot of daily life during the current unique social environment.
Kate Webb – responding to the rules of social distancing, specifically regarding newly implemented floor markings and our interactions with them.
2021 RESET Artists
Cole Baxter – a collection of studio portraits of Noongar people & Aboriginal people in our local community – showcasing how each subject connects to country in their own way.
Nicolee Fox – to record a snapshot of human presence, exploring memory, identity and technological obsolescence by using a multimedia approach that works as a reflection of the feeling of memory.
Perdita Phillips – experimenting with cyanotypes and anthotypes to create a dialogue with the public about local ecological issues.
Gregor MacGregor – a multi-media piece that will include photographic prints, a 3D print and a digital animation, exploring both the expanded role of photography in a post-photographic era as well as acting as a metaphor for the theories of Timothy Morton.
Donna Sadler – using collaging of printed and photocopied archival materials to create a selection of miniature archives and new abstract works.
Bernard Taylor – creating studio portraits and installations, exploring the concept of humans as just another historical moment in an infinite course of fleeting historical moments.
