First artist in new program to provide sensory experience
Participants will create artworks and olfactory installations which showcase Toowoomba region’s natural, environmental, and cultural historic and living heritage.
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The Toowoomba Arts Footprint has welcomed the first of three artists who were successful in their application for a $20,000 Artist in Residence opportunity.
The program is a residency opportunity designed to fill an identified gap in career pathways, income security and professional development opportunities for emerging and established artists in regional Australia.
The grants were awarded to emerging or established artists, working and living in regional, remote or rural Queensland participating in a paid month-long residency.
Cara-Ann Simpson is the first recipient and is the curator at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery.
She is local Goombungee resident returning to Toowoomba as an artist, curator, consultant and cultural heritage expert.
Ms Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist who has exhibited broadly within Australia and internationally, with a focus on photography, installation, sensoria and space.
Ms Simpson’s project, Spectral Sensoria, centres on exploring sensory perception and how people engage with their environment.
“Each discovery I make has its own story about where I found it, what I heard, smelled, saw and felt, as well as how I reacted to the space,” she said.
Audiences will be enticed by interesting smells, tempted by curious sounds and engaged by beautiful images.
Spectral Sensoria is a collaborative project including high school students, USQ students and community members.
Participants will create individual artworks and olfactory installations which showcase Toowoomba region’s natural, environmental, and cultural historic and living heritage, as well as having creative outcomes.
They will also have the opportunity to learn about how Ms Simpson develops her spectral photography, using visual analysis of soundwaves to interpret the projects through their own preferred visual mediums.
Spectral Sensoria is fully funded by Arts Queensland and South West Qld Regional Arts as part of the Toowoomba Arts Footprint Artists in Residence program.
Expressions of Interest are now invited for participants in this innovative project which will run from April 9 to April 22 as part of Ms Simpson’s month-long residency.
Head to the Toowoomba Arts Footprint Facebook page for more information.
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