Artists in Residence

Current Artists in Residence, October 2024 - February 2025

Carla Zimbler

Carla Zimbler bends light across architectural surfaces and soaks sculptural forms in vivid textures as a live performative experience and meditation on existence. Carla builds conduits and connective passageways between physical and spiritual boundaries through hypnotic colour and transformative symbolism. As a gateway to the otherworldly and the afterlife, Carla's multimodal installations examine ephemerality, transitional states, extrasensory perception and contemporary memorialisation.

Whilst in residence at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Carla will collaborate with multidisciplinary artists to create a series of performative rituals and odes to the ocean. These participatory works will transform the site into a space for reflection, remembrance, connection and transcendence. 

Drew Connor Holland

Drew Connor Holland is a Sydney-based artist examining how memories are catalogued across digital archives, physical spaces, and human consciousness. The artist views his practice as a form of contemporary archaeology through the transformation of hoarded digital data, particularly screenshots, which are degraded through analogue reproduction processes, the finished pieces reading as dilapidated visions of their original states. These works question how we value the data that surrounds us.

Each artwork is intentionally rendered fragile; rather than appearing slick and new, they have a battered and aged finish—evoking the quality of a crumbling fresco or tapestry. In this state, they invite a gentle engagement and call for care.

Whilst in residence at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Drew draws upon childhood memories of living in the Eastern Suburbs in the late 90’s, where his grandmother served as principal of the local public school. Working within this memory-laden landscape, he weaves personal and local histories together to create a new reflective body of work.

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