Category: Residencies
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week 5
‘Festive Meal’ is a video poem documenting my family’s home Passover meal, during the pandemic. This work contains over 170 individual line drawings! The Passover Seder includes the retelling of the story of the Jewish people’s escape to freedom from slavery, in a special order. The Passover Seder also includes a festive meal. This video poem…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week Four
The weeks are flying by! I am putting the finishing touches on my video poems. This is a snippet from my work ‘Why is this Passover Night Different?’ There is always a full moon on Passover, as the Jewish holiday follows the lunar calendar. My mother’s Haggadah has intricate illustrations and I photographed the textures…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week Three
I’m writing about my creative process this week! Below are the photographs I took, documenting my family’s Passover Seder table. These photographs and visual records helped me write my poems. After the documentation and writing process, I then recorded my voiceover reading the poems. The next stage is to create the animations. I visualise what…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week Two
Below is my week two work-in-progress from my video poem ‘Why is this Passover Night Different?’, as part of MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. I was inspired by the experience of cooking matzah balls with my Mum this year. To create this animation, I used digital collage techniques. I cut out the matzah ball shape…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week One
Welcome to my week one update! Below is an animation-sketch from the opening of my video poem, ‘Festive Meal’, which I am creating thanks to MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. This looped sequence contains seventeen drawings! Usually I would peel twenty eggs for the Passover meal; one egg for each person. As we couldn’t celebrate…
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Museum of Brisbane -Artists @ Home Residency
I am very grateful to the Museum of Brisbane for selecting me as one of ten finalists for MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. Over the next six weeks, I will work on writing and animating two video poems: ‘Why is this Passover Night Different?’ and ‘Festive Meal’, created from my home studio. These works are…
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Varuna, the National Writers’ House
This week I took up a Writer Development Residency at Varuna, the National Writers’ House in Katoomba, the Blue Mountains. It was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had. I stayed in the Bear room, which I soon discovered was named for its collection of teddy bears on the shelves above the books.…
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ATYP National Studio, 2014
Anna was selected for the 2014 National Studio, run by Australian Theatre for Young People. She will be one of twenty young Australian writers and playwrights aged 18-26, who will be mentored by three of Australia’s leading playwrights. From 1-7 September Anna will be working on a seven minute monologue in the beautiful Bundanon surroundings.