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A 'light' residency using found materials at the location of the island residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point, an old school on the site of an Indigenous area of cultural significance. A large, expansive mass of knotted acrylic twine was found in a communal art supply cupboard. In an effort to clean out the cupboard and find some 'useful' materials, the work became a week-long process of untangling the rope, with the goal of returning it to the cupboard in a more useful format. In a time and place of past trauma, continuing world unrest and oppression, ghost stories, and a place to pause and interact with nature - and in contemplation of the usefulness of the art object - the work became a participatory project that held open a space for sharing stories, witnessing, and proposing alternate futures.​ Many of the artists amongst the FAC residency group participated in the work, and each handled the material in their own different ways. The tactility of the rope and the material processes it enabled, materialised diverse and thought provoking stories and experiences.

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Documentation and remnants of the process were shown in the space at the FAC Residency Open Studio event, and an artists' book was created. A presentation of the work was also made to a visiting cohort of students from Falmouth University, UK. Led by fellow residency artist Natalie Kauffman, the students were working on a collaborative international course with a focus on sustainable approaches to making and design. 

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The residency work was informed and expanded by the FAC programming and the feminist community that developed over the residency period.

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FAC 2023 Residency Artists