Artists in residence

Jayne Christian is a Baramadagal woman of the Reid/Goldspink family belonging to the Dharug Nation. Jayne chairs the Parramatta City Council First Nations Advisory Group and is an Ambassador for the Treaty Council. Jayne has practiced as a social justice lawyer for ten years, with a focus on working with Aboriginal Communities across NSW.

Jayne belongs to the weaving communities in both Wagga Wagga and Western Sydney, is a member of Parramatta Weaving Garden Collective and practices traditional and contemporary styles of weaving and bush dying. Jayne was awarded highly commended finalist in the Blacktown City Council Art Prize 2023. Jayne’s work has been acquired by the Australian Museum, Blacktown City Council and as part of a collective work acquired by the Wagga Wagga City Council. Jayne uses weaving as a cultural practitioner to maintain a strong Dharug presence on-Country and contribute to the process of truth-telling of this place, now known as Sydney.

Alexis Chrun, born in 1991 in Paris and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016, seeks to point out the contradictions of contemporary society and its representations as well as to question the role of art in the production of cultural consensus and values. In his work, he addresses head-on and questions the contexts, conditions and outcomes of artistic production, including professional relationships and the status of the artist.

In 2017, he received the Paris Fine Arts prize at the 62nd Salon de Montrouge for a book project. Since then, he has exhibited in various venues on the French scene and more recently in a biennial in China. He is an active member of in.plano, a studio and exhibition space awarded by the François de Hatvany Foundation.

Each medium he uses is a medium that he tries to question and deconstruct, sliding from one to the other, from sculpture to book, from word to pocket, from spectator to work. His work is shaped by an unfailing fascination with the sculpted gesture – millimetrically calibrated through practice – inspired in particular by Brancusi as much as by Zidane. His attention is focused on details and fragile balances. Words, puns, objects and bindings are all accidents on which he clings to develop his projects.

– Alexandra Goullier Lhomme

Artemis Chrysostomidou is a multidisciplinary artist, author and director. Her original pieces for theatre were presented at Alkantara Festival Lisbon (PT), Altofest Naples (IT), Espaço da Penha Lisbon (PT), FrankfurtLAB (DE), EXPO Festival, English Theatre Berlin (DE), BIOS Athens (GR) etc. She presented video, site-specific, text-based and installations at Flux I bell Berlin (DE), Lichtenberg Studios (DE), Lettrétage Berlin (DE), Travers, Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), Temporars, Muzeum Susch (CH) etc, while as a dramaturge she collaborated with various directors. In 2023 her book Oh, that hand of Yours was presented at Frankfurter Buchmesse as it was awarded the Young Book Designers Award (GR/DE). She received fellowships at O Rumo do Fumo Lisbon (PT), Frankfurt LAB (DE), Art Stations Foundation Switzerland (CH), European Theatre Convention as European Emerging Artist (DE). In 2018 she was awarded the State Prize for Literature (CY) for her book Dogs don’t bark in France.