galang residency
The galang residency program, a collaboration between Powerhouse Parramatta and Cité internationale des arts (Paris).
‘The opportunity to be part of the galang residency has been a trajectory-changer by opening up connections and possibilities for the places and ways we can tell our stories.’
Powerhouse Parramatta and the Cité internationale des arts (Paris) are proud to announce the galang residency program 2024 supporting Australia-based First Nations creative practitioners.
It offers an opportunity for two Australia-based First Nations creative practitioners to travel to Paris for a fully supported 12-week residency hosted by Cité internationale des arts. The residency covers return economy flights to Paris from Australia, accommodation in Paris at the Cité internationale des arts and per diems for food, project materials and travel within the city.
2024 Recipients
Jody Rallah
Jody Rallah is a yuggera/yugggerabul and biri/bindal artist from Meeanjin/Brisbane. Rallah creates ‘knowledge vessels’ using various mediums and practices across object making and painting, sculptural installation, facades and thoroughfares, soundscapes and collaborative intergenerational approaches. She creates both large-scale and intimate forms to embody living histories and to explore an evocative sensibility with material creations and iconography. Rallah investigates how the aliveness of place is encoded in memory spaces, and how a haptic hands-on approach to art making and design can foster inclusive conversations by inviting curiosity about relationships with Country, the built environment and our place within it. Through the art-making process, Rallah is passionate about re-embedding First Nations knowledge back into the built environment by collaborating with Elders and organisations to create spaces and vessels that are inviting and alive with movement, memory and narratives.
Jack Gillmer
A proud Worimi and Biripi guri (man) of the Gathang language group, Jack Gillmer is an architect who explores Country as the driving narrative of his design practice. Through advocating and facilitating First Nations leadership and collaboration, his approach explores tangible and intangible cultural paradigms, negotiates multi-sensory outcomes and reveals latent knowledges embedded in Country. With a cultural obligation to care for Country, Gillmer is particularly interested in forging connections between cultural knowledge systems and the built environment as a space of unrealised opportunity and endless potential. Gillmer enables opportunities for Country to lead the design process alongside Traditional Custodians, recognising this is critical for successful projects and for the future urban fabric. Gillmer partakes in diverse professional and community initiatives, including university coursework, publications and public programs, and is undergoing a Certificate III in Gathang Language, aspiring to contribute to the revitilisation and knowledge sharing of his ancestral language.
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‘The galang residency program is a unique platform for First Nations artists based in Australia to create a fruitful dialogue with creators from the French and international artistic and professional scenes — and to open their references and practices to other horizons and new audiences.’
2023 Recipients
The inaugural galang residencies were offered to Bundjalung, Kullilli and South Sea Islander journalist Daniel Browning and Baramadagal weaver Jayne Christian.
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