26 February 2024
In 2024 we are thrilled to announce the recipients of our three major residencies along with a Special Projects Program recipient.
We’re excited to share that sculptor and ceramicist, Ellis Moseley, has been selected as the recipient of our prestigious British School at Rome Residency for 2024. This immersive 3-month residency, valued at $30,000, offers a unique opportunity for artistic exploration in the vibrant city of Rome. The residency includes a stipend to cover airfares, materials, freight, and other travel-related expenses.
Ellis is an Adelaide-based artist, whose practice encompasses installation and ceramics, often seeking to draw attention to social concerns through conceptual mechanisms that encourage a deeper consideration of attitudes and behaviour. Since graduating from Flinders University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts), he has had solo exhibitions at Linden New Art Gallery in Victoria (2021) and Hugo Michell Gallery in South Australia (2023).
“This residency comes at the perfect time in my career, where I have the conceptual and material maturity to extract maximum value from the opportunity the residency and Rome offers,” comments Ellis.
Painter and sculptor, Katey Smoker, is the final recipient of the 2024 Helpmann Academy / ACE Studio Program residency valued at $15,000. She will be joining artists Carly Tarkari Dodd, Marian Sandberg, Emmaline Zanelli, and Abbey Murdoch. The program includes a 12-month residency at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental along with extensive professional development.
Katey is one of the 22 artists exhibiting in our 2024 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition. Having trained and practised as a Metallurgical Engineer, she engages with art-making logically and methodically, embracing imperfections and flaws. Her approach is process-driven, based on experimentation, pushing boundaries, and exposing the act of art-making to explore contradiction, form, and materiality.
University of South Australia graduate and ceramicist, Lauren Downton, was awarded the 215 Magill Studios Residency at the Opening Night of the 2024 Helpmann Academy Graduate Show on Thursday 15 February 2024. Valued at $6,000, this unique 12-month rent-free residency will provide Lauren with the critical time, space, and freedom to evolve her practice, create new work and expose her to new networks.
Lauren is an emerging ceramic artist living and working on Kaurna Country. Working primarily in clay, she combines animal, botanical, and human-made forms into ghostly hybrid assemblage that examines humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Downton uses grafting as a conceptual and methodological device to examine notions of hybridity and excess in contemporary society.
“This would be transformative for my practice, pushing my work into new and exciting directions,” says Lauren.
In 2024, we are delighted to announce that filmmaker Bryce Kraehenbuehl has been awarded our Special Projects Grant. Helpmann Academy will be providing Bryce with $5,000 in funding to expand his knowledge, practice, and networks overseas in Tromsø, Norway and Milan, Italy.
Bryce is an Adelaide-based filmmaker who works on a wide range of formats with his focus being horror narrative films and celluloid experimental works. His recent career highlight was being selected for the Hanlon Larsen Fellowship in 2023, resulting in him producing Red Earth, an experimental short that premiered at the 2023 Adelaide Film Festival.
“Being able to immerse myself in different cultures and visit film labs and festivals with different ways of working will help me to bring new skills and techniques back here to the South Australian art community,” comments Bryce.
Images: (1) Bryce Kraehenbuehl, supplied (2) Ellis Moseley by Naomi Jellicoe (3) Katey Smoker by Sam Roberts and (4) Lauren Downton with Mark Jones, 215 Magill by Thomas McCammon
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
David McKee AO and Pam McKee
