Individual Residencies
2022 | Penelope Bartlau and Jason Lehane
We are collaborating, interdisciplinary artists and partners. We have begun early creative development on a multi-year, international project called Feathers and Earth. Collemacchia was the second site in our project. We planned to create and document a simple, locative, and ecologically sustainable installation at/for/with each site we visit. The volcanic terrain, salt lakes and extraordinary birdlife surrounding our studio in regional Australia have been the ignition point for our creative investigation.
Our concern is for the degradation of our natural world. Our aim is to explore cycles of decay, destruction and rebirth (feathers/birds) while looking at what may last beyond the annihilation of climate-change (earth). Our time at the residency included investigating flora and fauna as we explored and listened to the surrounding forests and terrain.