Creative Studios

Artist's bio

Rosie Bird is a ceramic artist based in Moreton Bay. Her work looks at ecological exchanges, material memory, and the unseen forces that shape the natural world. Originally from South London, she has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts in Animation and Game Design. Rosie combines traditional ceramic methods with experimentation, sometimes working with wild clay to explore the physical marks left by both nature and human activity. She is particularly interested in how clay can act as witness, recording marks of time, space, and change. 

During her residency, Rosie will be developing new ceramic work that will appear in her upcoming solo exhibition at the Caboolture Hub Gallery towards the end of 2026. Moreton Bay in Clay builds on her earlier experiments with local clay, conducted during her previous residency, and expands into a sculptural response to the region’s ecosystem.

The work will explore both the natural life cycles evident in Moreton Bay and the materiality of the clay sourced from it. Special attention will be given to flying foxes and small creatures that often go unnoticed. The project reflects on the cycles of life, place, and memory embedded in the local landscape.

Studio days and hours

• Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM

Artist's bio

Lauren Edmonds is a multimedia artist working across object-making, installation, animation, drawing, and ceramics - with an interest in interactive artworks blending technology and handmade elements. Their work serves as socio-political commentary, exploring themes such as media influence, activism, social agency, and the challenges of contemporary crises, particularly climate change.

Edmonds completed a BFA with Honours in 2015 and was recently awarded the Environmental Art Award at the Queensland Regional Arts Awards 2024. Their work I dun good (2015) featured in Experimenta Make Sense International Triennial of Media Art (2017–2021). They also received SCAP New Media awards (2014/15).

As a recent recipient of the Environmental Art QRAA award, Edmonds has been granted a solo exhibition funded by Flying Arts Alliance and Griffith University QCAD. In the initial period of this residency, Edmonds will be busy continuing the creation of new artworks in preparation for this exhibition in August. These include multiple new media installations and 2D mixed media works.

Post exhibition - the remainder of their time in residency will see them have a focus on creating new 2D and sculptural works, including the experimentation of various mediums.

Studio days and hours

Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Artist's bio 

Rebecca is a self-taught, multi-talented artist, qualified Transpersonal Art Therapist and founder of Hearthfire Grove - a creative business devoted to bringing more magic into the mundane world. Through workshops, creative expression, intuitive art and meaningful community connections, Rebecca inspires others to rediscover their inner magic, playfulness and authentic self.

Deeply inspired by nature, fantasy and fairy tales, Rebecca’s personal work (Botanical Bec Art) invites you to experience more magic, joy and whimsy in your everyday life - reconnecting you with yourself, each other and our living world.

During her residency, Rebecca plans to deepen both her community offerings and personal art practice through her two interconnected businesses; Hearthfire Grove and Botanical Bec Art. Her goal is to create meaningful connections, support community wellbeing and expand her creative body of work. Rebecca will continue her "Windows of Wonder" collection, as well as nature-inspired fantasy art. Rebecca will also commence work on creating an online library of creativity, wellness and art therapy resources for others to access whenever they need inspiration or comfort.

Studio days and hours

• Tuesday 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
• Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Saturday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Artist bio

Becc Edwards is a multidisciplinary artist based in Meanjin (Brisbane). Being an animal lover, native flora and fauna has always been the main inspiration for Becc’s work. While studying at LCI Melbourne, Becc discovered the joy of eco printing and has made the art a large part of her practice. She uses gum leaves found by her home to create textile works that raise awareness about endangered animals. She also hopes to use her experiences as disabled creative to help make the arts accessible for all.

During her residency Becc will be developing a series of textile works that highlight the importance of green spaces for native flora and fauna. As Becc has recently moved from Naarm, she will be using her residency to explore the natural beauty of Moreton Bay, working with local plants and birds as inspiration. She will also be using the time to explore working with new mediums such as sculpture and printmaking.

Studio days and hours

• Monday and Sunday: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Natalie Lord and Summer de Vries

When: July - December

Natalie Lord Artist's bio

A studio resident since July 2024, Natalie Lord is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, creative workshop facilitator, qualified florist and flower farmer, aspiring roving entertainer and Arts philanthropist.

Natalie draws inspiration from ancestral roots and the intricate beauty of nature, translating its essence into unique art pieces and products made from natural materials. Blending universal wisdom with the natural world, she grows and creates natural body and home products that reaffirm her bond with Mother Earth.

Creative by nature, Natalie envisions a space to explore and weave together all aspects of her art, including textiles. She values expression and connection, aspiring to evoke curiosity, promote deeper environmental appreciation and offer transformative, nature-inspired art and self-care experiences through fun, community workshops where creativity can thrive.

Natalie invites others into her studio for holistic heART workshops, exploring colour, texture, form and scent while creating natural products aligned with the seasons and lunar cycles. 

Summer de Vries artist's bio

Summer de Vries is a qualified florist, practising visual artist as well as an aspiring musician, vocalist and lyricist.

Summer's art can be viewed in Starlight Aus Qld Headquarters as well as the Qld Children's Hospital. Summer has also had artwork published within and as cover features for Livewire Magazine. Additionally, Summer has had her poetry printed in an Anthology book publication.

To pursue her exploration of the Arts, Summer will continue to create music under a current mentorship. She endeavours to utilise the Caboolture Hub Creative Studio and Sound Studio spaces to create a complete body of work as part of her explorative process.

Furthermore, Summer plans to pursue her love of fashion design, styling and customising her own original creations!

Follow Summer's journey on Instagram.

Lauren Edmonds

When: January - December

Artist's bio

Lauren Edmonds is a multimedia artist working across object-making, installation, animation, drawing, and ceramics, with a growing interest in interactive artworks blending technology and handmade elements. Their work serves as socio-political commentary, exploring themes such as media influence, activism, social agency, and the challenges of contemporary crises, particularly climate change.

Edmonds completed a BFA with Honours in 2015 and was recently awarded the Environmental Art Award at the Queensland Regional Arts Awards 2024. Their work I dun good (2015) featured in Experimenta Make Sense International Triennial of Media Art (2017–2021). They also received SCAP New Media awards (2014/15).

As a recent recipient of the Environmental Art QRAA award, Edmonds has been granted a solo exhibition funded by Flying Arts Alliance and Griffith University QCAD. During their residency they used the studio space to experiment with different concepts and media, with the ultimate goal of creating a cohesive collection of new work for the solo exhibition. Edmonds particularly sought to make the most use of the physical space to experiment with installation and larger scale work that would otherwise be difficult to work on from home.

Rosie Bird

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Rosie Bird is a ceramic artist based in Moreton Bay. Her work looks at ecological exchanges, material memory, and the unseen forces that shape the natural world. Originally from South London, she has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts in Animation and Game Design. Rosie combines traditional ceramic methods with experimentation, sometimes working with wild clay to explore the physical marks left by both nature and human activity. She is particularly interested in how clay can act as witness, recording marks of time, space, and change.

During her residency, Rosie will create a site-specific body of work that investigates natural interactions and disruptions in the Moreton Bay region. She will study wild clay from local sources to understand how geological, ecological, and human forces leave their marks on the landscape. By experimenting with form, surface, and environmental collaboration, Rosie's work will reflect on themes of disruption, resilience, and transformation. This project may also include interactive elements to help local audiences engage with these connections.

Rebecca O'Leary

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Rebecca is a self-taught, multi-talented artist, creative, qualified Transpersonal Art Therapist and founder of Hearthfire Grove - a creative business devoted to bringing more magic into the mundane world. Through workshops, creative expression, intuitive art, healing and meaningful community connections, Rebecca inspires others to rediscover their inner magic, playfulness and authentic self. She believes that creativity is innate within us all - we just have to remember!

Deeply inspired by nature, myth, fantasy and fairy tales, Rebecca’s work invites you to experience more magic, joy, wonder and whimsy in your everyday life - reconnecting you with yourself, each other and our living world.

During her residency, Rebecca will offer services to the community, group workshops and create her own whimsical art. She will facilitate community-focused creative workshops, exploring Transpersonal Art Therapy, nature connection and art for the pure joy of creating. Each workshop is designed to foster connection, self-discovery, joy and support inner and outer exploration.

Rebecca will also be creating a new body of work - “Windows of Wonder”. Whimsical landscape paintings that evoke the feeling of looking through a window into another realm. Each piece is an immersive sensory experience, inviting viewers to slow down, wonder and dream.

Daniella D’Cruz

When: January - June

Artist's bio

Daniella’s artistic journey is a relentless search for calm amidst the chaos of life. Since entering motherhood, she has found solace in art, particularly through the process of creating still life paintings, drawings and sculpture. This practice allows her time to focus on simplicity and to find beauty in the everyday. Reflecting on consumption and consumerism, Daniella frequently paints the same objects again and again, considering them “forever objects” which will outlive their maker.

Daniella’s style exists at the intersection of abstract and realism, with a contemporary graphic feel.

During her residency, Daniella explored form and shadow to evolve her still life compositions, alongside creating vessels from paper pulp. Striving to make art intimate and accessible using a variety of mediums and a strong commitment to minimizing waste. Daniella sought to craft beautiful pieces that enhance their surroundings while promoting sustainability. Each work is an invitation to pause, reflect and to appreciate the things we already have.

Nga Pakiwaitara O Matariki Maori Artist Collective

When: January - June

Artist's bio

Our Deepest Acknowledgement to The First People of this Land Tangata Whenua Moemoea we see you, we feel you, we hear you.

Artists: Julian Ratana/Makareta Leathart /Nina Maika /Rangi Maika/Shai Whetu/Jennis Ardern/Hera Tawai/Ani Sword

All artists are connected with Maori whakapapa/genealogy. Each from their Iwi and their own practices.

Our Kaupapa:

Experience the rising of the Matariki star cluster, signifying the Māori New Year in Te Ao Māori. Immerse yourself in the heart of Matariki - remembering those lost to us over the past year, celebrating the present and giving thanks, and reaching out to the promise of the future. Explore each of the nine stars and their pakiwaitara/stories through the sharing of cultural knowledge and kupu tuku iho/histories, waiata/song, mahi toi/visual arts, and kapa haka/dance. Embrace the past, present and future of Matariki in Moreton Bay.

Kua haehae ngā hihi o Matariki. The rays of Matariki are glistening.

Their residency aligned with Māori wellbeing which also can be reflected within the Moreton Bay community.

Where Māori can connect as a community, the benefit would be improvement of taha Wairua/Spiritual, taha Tinana/physical, taha Whanau/family and taha Hinengaro/mind. The four pillars of health in Māori dom.

The Māori creative process facilitates all of these processes. All families that are involved with the project will benefit in learning matauranga Māori and mahi toi through Akoako learning from each other. The studio space will be transformed into a living breathing Māori creative space.

Nau mai Haere mai all peoples are welcome.

Serinah Williams

When: January - December

Artist's bio

Serinah Williams is a Yiman artist living on Gubbi Gubbi land, studying a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at the Queensland College of Art and Design. She is focused on representing her identity as a pansexual, Aboriginal woman through many mediums, With a current focus on photography, and aims to create work others can relate to while creating pieces that are healing for herself.

Williams experiments with many mediums. Recently she has been exploring analogue photography as truth-telling, shedding light on the negative effects of colonialism. In an attempt to decolonise her life, she has been learning weaving and incorporating recycled materials into this practice.

Williams uses a variety of mediums and has a strong connection with materiality and process, often using these elements to bring meaning to her work. She uses photography as a medium of truth-telling to shed light on the negative effects of colonialism, and to explore her own identity and the media and influences that have shaped her.

During her residency, Serinah worked on decolonising her mindset by connecting back to weaving and using analogue photography as a form of truth-telling. She will continue to create photographic and painterly works around her identity as a pansexual, Aboriginal woman, and her experience with societal expectations relating to her identity.

Williams also delved into challenging the representation of women in media. Using cinematic, analogue film photography, she explored the effects of the male gaze and its inescapable influence on the female gaze. Williams asked, "How does this influence affect women's beliefs, behaviour, and self-image, and how can we begin to break away from these perpetuated stereotypes?" She hopes to expand her practice and speak with women from different age groups and backgrounds to better understand this.

She aimed to have a new body of work to show and develop her practice. She is hoping to share the knowledge of weaving with Mob in the Moreton Bay area and organise workshops and weaving circles later to share cultural knowledge within Community.

Mira Chorik

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Mira Chorik is an artist who writes songs. Her work explores loss and meaning-making through music, performance art, community projects, and experimental collaborations. She facilitates group workshops and creates participatory art-making spaces using conversation and ritual that aim to invite connection and emotional intimacy.

Mira also hosts the Songwriters Roundtable, a supportive space for songwriters to meet and hone the art of storytelling through words and music. In 2024, she was awarded the National Regional Arts Fellowship for emerging artists.

During her residency at the Creative Studios, Mira wrote songs, and developed a new group performance work about self-compassion.

Larysa Fabok

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Larysa uses a combination of traditional methods and digital tools in her artwork, such as combining modelling and animation with photography and painted surfaces. Her influences come from nature and playing. She practices art to release the inner child, playing and satisfying her curiosity and interests daily. 

Larysa has enjoyed exhibiting her film works, books, and art internationally and locally. Her latest work, Ashling's Forest, was initiated during a previous Artist Residency. Larysa experiments with ways of producing this as an artist book. Her methods are influenced by Carl Jung's Red Book, and his Active Imagination process.

During her residency, Larysa extended her inquiry into Carl Jung's Active Imagination process to develop a series of small group workshops that will invite community members to explore their own creative processes. She has been working with the Active Imagination process for many years. During her residency, she brought this process into a public conversation, into the outer world. 

Emma Grey

When: January - June

Artist's bio

Emma Gray is a multidisciplinary artist who has been exploring the themes of childhood and play in her works for quite some time.

Unlocking core memories, reliving through the senses, classical art and colour theory have been major starting points for her works.

As she began teaching high school her desire to help and inspire others to see the benefit that art can bring has led her to rethink and explore art making in new and exciting ways.

Emma primarily works with paint, collage, photography, and clay. Her past sculptures and ephemeral works have been playful and energetic. She is inspired by artists who push the boundaries of art, use popular culture to enliven and help us feel something new and powerful.

During her residency at The Hub, Emma explored a new avenue in her practice while carrying out one on one contemporary art classes, group classes for adults and children and therapeutic art exercises.

Kylie Harries

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Kylie is a multidisciplinary artist influenced by the natural world around her, specifically observed on her farm in Lacey’s Creek. The comings and goings of the seasons, river and creek systems, animals, birds, mushrooms, fungus, rocks and weeds are all sources of inspiration. Kylie applies her love of the natural world to her art practice, letting it move and guide her through colour, movement, and perspectives. She consciously chooses practices and techniques that minimise waste and have low environmental impacts. Kylie has been regenerating her creativity by exploring new techniques such as cyanotype, monoprinting and environmental sculpture.

Kylie has been exploring her matrilineal history through family relationships and shared histories and pastimes. Through this research she has discovered familial links through the migrant stories of her great great grandparents who arrived in the Moreton Bay region in the 1800s. She has only been able to uncover snippets of her Great Great Grandmother Maria Kanowski, a woman who reared 14 children and died at 49. Kylie's residency ‘Egg Stories’  explored this untold history.

Sarah O’Neill

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Sarah O'Neill is a self-taught photographer and emerging artist based in the Moreton Bay region.

She is a two-time finalist in the Moreton Bay Region Art Prize and also the social media manager and photographer for the volunteer-run Redcliffe Art Society.

Sarah has a passion for people, animals and the environment and likes to experiment with different subjects and styles in her photography and mixed media.

During her residency at Caboolture Hub Creative Studios, Sarah planned and created a body of work for an upcoming exhibition, through portraiture, storytelling and video. She had an open studio for people in the region to connect and network with. Through community consultation, Sarah also did a call out for Moreton Bay locals who wished to participate in her artworks.

Tammie Maree

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Tammie Maree is a self-taught mixed medium artist with a bold, quirky abstract style inspired by feminine form, nature and sacred geometry. Creativity has always been a part of her life, Tammie's current practice is centred in returning to love through playful exploration and trial and error, using mediums like watercolour, clay, words and digital layers to express and weave learned concepts of archetypes, energetics and meditation.

As an ex-social worker and circle holder, Tammie has witnessed the profound impact of storytelling and creative expression, allowing individuals to feel less isolated and more empowered. Tammie is passionate about inspiring individuals to use art to enable their personal and spiritual transformation.

During her residency, Tammie offered a variety of playful experiences alongside her main project entitled UNBOUND, which explores self-love through the lens of awareness and beliefs. Curiously exploring the suppressed or hidden aspects of oneself she aimed to deeply weave her personal journey into a collection of poems and art that documents her path of reclaiming through self-discovery.

Emma-Lee McGregor

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Emma-Lee grew up in the region with a family history of artists and surrounded by the opportunities of art in the community. Emma-Lee has worked as a teacher aide for Indigenous children and with adults and children with disabilities as a support worker. Whilst creating art with clients, Emma-Lee noticed how incredible art can be for the soul, mental health and to be part of a community. Seeing what it can do, and the value of someone being able to express themselves and tell their story, created Mind Your Mind Art Therapies to help people spiritually connect with their inner selves through art.

During this residency, Emma-Lee ran art therapy workshops for children, adults, adults with disabilities and Mindful Mums Groups, all with the goal to better the soul and mental health of participants whilst making connections with others in the community. The outcome of the workshops saw participants sharing their art through a community gallery. On the odd occasion, other small businesses in the community were also welcomed to collaborate on workshops.

Janet Fletcher

When: January to June

Artist's bio

Janet Fletcher’s practice examines and reinterprets idiosyncrasies, myths, landscapes, and vernacular that make Australia so unique to the rest of the world. Working across a variety of disciplines and materials, she creates alternate ‘worlds’ in which her works reside. Sculptures are characterised by painterly textures and often, humorous, or grotesque forms that combine to create unorthodox ‘props’ that are then interacted with in performance. Through tactile engagement with her creations, she considers that the works are imbued with agency – an ability to continue to live, and even ‘think’ after performance, creating their own connections and futures.

During her residency, Janet explored aspects of popular local urban and youth culture that recur through generations of Australians, and how they may have been shaped by historical perceptions of the ‘hard-working man of the land’ and the ‘lovable larrikin’. Using the juxtaposition of humorous and uncomfortable visual motifs, sculpture, text-based works, and video performance, provide a feminist interpretation of such male-dominated myths. It is hoped that an awareness and reminder of where the female is positioned within Australian history and culture, encourages us to continue to question and respond to certain beliefs and values that make up our collective identity.

Felicia Lloyd

When: January to June

Artist's bio

Working in digital and new media, photography, and printmaking, Felicia created and presented a number of community-based arts initiatives and experiences in the Gladstone Region prior to relocating to Bribie Island in 2020. With professional experience including teaching and workshop facilitation, design, curation and events management, her work has been featured in the Queensland Regional Art Awards, solo and group exhibitions and private and public collections, including the QLD State Library. Felicia has created a number of temporary public artworks in the Gladstone Region and recently for the Moreton Bay Region Art at Large Foreshore Footpaths project.

During this residency, Felicia created an open printmaking studio to undertake the research and development for a new body of work. Creation of prints, artist books and boxes, altered books, reclaimed objects and artefacts will explore the historical development of Bribie Island in terms of place (physical location, geography, landscape), time (pre and post world war 2) and space (psychological, collective memories). Found objects and imagery from early enterprise and tourism will be utilised to explore the impact of development of the Moreton Bay region on its environment and people. In the last month of the residency the space was transformed into an “inconvenience store” where visitors were invited to explore a makeshift souvenir shop.

Shan Michaels

When: January to June

Artist's bio

Shan Michaels is an emerging artist living on Jinibara country whose work is informed by her lived experience as a queer woman. She uses textiles to explore themes of identity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability. Shan’s practice deliberately disrupts narratives attached to the traditions of sewing, quilting and embroidery with a contemporary aesthetic.

During her residency, Shan combined textiles and intuition to create a body of work called Think and you miss it. She is focused on unlearning old narratives, both in life and her practice, particularly around releasing attachment to outcome. It was her intention to press pause on her logic brain and let creativity lead this work. To be thoughtful without thinking.

Shan used repurposed textiles and play with visual contrast and layers of textures to create quilted artefacts. Challenging tradition and releasing perfection through improvisation.

Natalie Lisa Tucker

When: January to June

Artist's bio

Born in the Land of the Long White Cloud (Aotearoa), Natalia Lisa Tucker (Lisa) has resided in Australia for the last 36 years. She graduated as a qualified Transpersonal Art Therapist in 2016 and specialises in Chinese brush painting, selling many of her artworks (art2cin2u.com).

She practises spirit work with art and culture to take you to dimensions seeing into yourself. Lisa facilitated the Together Apart Art Project with local Elder Terry Saleh creating paintings with totem animals. She has run many community groups, school holiday programs and various retreats, including a Cultural retreat in New Zealand.

During this residency, Lisa practised her Chinese brush painting and offered a variety of classes including women's circles and weaving workshops.

In January 2023, Lisa spent time learning constellation work and string geometry. She also had art available for purchase from her previous workshops held at the Caboolture Neighbourhood Centre. Some of these artworks were from clients that have worked on the Together Apart Project.

Jennis Ardern 

When: February - December

Artist's bio

Jennis Ardern is a multidisciplinary artist who embraces creative play and storytelling to promote individual and community empowerment. Jennis draws upon her childhood love of stories such as fairy tales, mythology, and comics. By combining the narratives of popular superhero storytelling, with mindful practices and gestalt therapy, Jennis invites viewers and participants to envision themselves as the hero of their own stories.

Jennis’ collaborative and interactive installations harness co-creation strategies and often invite viewers to physically explore the concepts of wellbeing, resilience, and self-acceptance by participating with or adding to her artworks.

During the studio residency, Jennis made soft puppets with The Puppetarium to represent emotions.

Jennis says: “I currently create textile artworks on canvas to represent big emotions, ones that feel out of control, as monsters. Then I consider ways that these monsters might be tamed – listened to and responded to in a way that reduces the overwhelm, so that the emotion can be helpful, like a sidekick. This monster artwork is effective but I want to use puppets to represent an emotion at multiple levels: ‘normal’, out of control, and shut-down to add nuance and be more playful.”

Annalisa Aum

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Annalisa Aum is a creative reveller, producing a diversity of written and screen works, installations and performance art over the past twenty years.

Following postgraduate studies in Screenwriting at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School, Annalisa worked as a children’s television writer for Network Ten, freelance script assessor and story developer. Her short films have been screened in Australian and international film festivals, group and solo gallery exhibitions, and public art installations.

Annalisa’s work is influenced and driven by compassionate environmentalism, Buddhism, Taoism, feminism, equity and Jungian thought.

During the residency, Annalisa unpacked several interconnected projects: researching and puzzling together a quirky futuristic self-help novel; a blog on parenting against the grain with musings around capitalism and the patriarchy perpetuating the world of trauma; ideas for a gallery exhibition proposal that explores swinging the world back from the extremes of patriarchy towards the Buddhist/Taoist middle way of peace and harmony.

The studio space held a detective’s unpuzzling of a complex case. Writings, rantings, ideas and poetry on the walls. A journey into the madness of the mind, and (hopefully) a safe return home.

Mel Brady

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Mel Brady is a painter and installation artist living on Gubbi Gubbi land, working with fabric and paint to create site-specific, immersive installation art and light-hearted craft. Mel’s love of vintage fashion has informed art and craft workshops in galleries and museums in the Moreton Bay Region since 2017. A recent highlight is Expedition, a travelling art experiment in conjunction with the Side Gallery, Brisbane and the New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale NSW.

Following on from a three-part installation series made in 2020 with an RADF grant, Mel created a series of immersive environments that people can experience and respond to. The overall goal was to spark a sense of wonder and delight in the viewer and charge their everyday lives with the electricity of discovery. Using a variety of media, including cardboard, fabric, paint, lighting and music, she made environments such as:

• a giant garden
• a nest or pillow fort/cloud land for relaxation and imagination
• a secret club-house/tree-house with games and meetings

Mel created environments in response to visitor feedback, to make a feedback loop with the local community. Mel facilitated a series of crafting, imagination or meditation workshops and will collaborate with Council to plan artist talks/open studio events.

Ruth Ellington

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Ruth Ellington’s creative practice as a multi-disciplinary artist and visual arts teacher demonstrates her passion for creative exploration and adventure; both in life and in her artwork. With a strong personal context, she continually explores new ways to create, incorporating sculptures and installations with fabric, fibres and textured materials, painting, drawing, photography and printmaking.

During the studio residency, Ruth Ellington combined the elements of visual imagery and the written word to weave together stories of her life to create a body of work titled The Tulip Project.

Ruth’s current focus is on extending her craft to writing her memoir and creating a body of work where the artwork intertwines with the written word. Not only will it be a written memoir but a visual one, where the viewer and reader are taken on a journey. Two- and three-dimensional visual artefacts will be created with mixed media, sculpture and photography.

Alongside housing Ruth’s creative project, this studio will allow access to visual art students, fellow artists and the general public to view her works in progress, engage in workshops and interact in a working artist’s studio.

Jana Daniels

When: February - June

Artist's bio

Jana Daniels is a writer, fine artist and student graphic designer. She has worked in the arts sector as an assistant in secondary education and has ambitions to pursue art therapy for people from all walks of life and ages.

Jana believes that the power of creativity is in all of us. She desires to help people tap into that natural energy for guidance, direction and added enjoyment in their lives.

During this studio residency, Jana focused on building her freelance business, Crooked Flaw Creations, which offers illustration and graphic design services, as well as fun and therapeutic creative workshops for the community. Jana has also researched and experimented with drawing illustrations for children's books and graphic novels.

Larysa Fabok

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Larysa uses a combination of traditional methods and digital tools in her artwork, such as combining modelling and animation with photography and painted surfaces. Her influences come from nature and playing. She practises art to release the inner child, playing and satisfying her curiosity and interests daily.

Her methods are influenced by The Artist's Way, Carl Jung’s Red Book, and his Active Imagination process, a rigorously defined procedure for channelling creativity. Her story, Play Like a Rite, documents the process of using Active Imagination for health and holistic medicine.

During this studio residency, Larysa used the Active Imagination process to channel the story of a child who grew up too fast, turning their back on all thoughts of playing. It is a story she wishes she had found in a library book when she was a child. The book will be full of soft, glowing, beautiful pictures, hinting at the unnerving horror of the life of an adult child in a dysfunctional family system.

Larysa experimented with ways of producing this as a storybook. She shared her work-in-progress with the community and facilitated workshops for people to explore their inner voices through pictures to discover their own unique stories.

Anna Turnbull

When: July - December

Artist's bio

Anna Turnbull is an artist who works with ceramics, mixed media and textiles. Her work encapsulates elements of the natural environment, drawing from the colours, textures and forms around the region.

Her ceramic works emerge from a receptive walking methodology as a contextual and conceptual mechanism for the production of contemporary artworks. She describes herself as a walking artist concerned with coming to know a place through experience and sensory perceptions of Moreton Bay.

During this studio residency, Anna continued working on her latest series of contemporary ceramics inspired by a wayfaring methodology of walking around the foreshores of Deception Bay, Nudgee Beach and Redcliffe. She had her ceramic wheel in the studio and interested visitors to The Hub were able to watch her work.

Anna's studio space provided a constantly changing display of her current developing body of work. During April and May 2022, Anna presented an exhibition of her ceramics, Desire Paths: Reflective Walking in Deception Bay, at The Hub Gallery.