RESIDENTS – 2025

Kelly Pelissier

Based in the USA.

Though mostly working in the field of design for over 25 years in corporate, non-profit, and educational settings, Kelly has recently split her time pursuing watercolor painting. She creates whimsical watercolor portraits of birds wearing hats, a lighthearted visual language that encourages viewers to pause, smile, and engage more deeply. At its heart, her work is about joy, connection, and care—for nature, for culture, and for community. Her work celebrates the intersection of art, nature, and cultural storytelling by pairing watercolor portraits of local birds with historically or regionally inspired hats. She hopes to spark curiosity and connection in a way that feels both joyful and meaningful.

More about her design and watercolor work here.

Claire Stephens

Based in Brighton, UK.

Claire Stephens’ work is a melange of stories, poems and comedy about her lived experiences within the LGBTQ community in the UK and France. Within her writings she sometimes refer to how she has coped with her recurring depression through her non-binary approach to life.

The ultimate aim of the book she is currently writing is to help promote awareness of mental health issues within the LGBTQ community. As her audience grows, She looks forward to inviting some of the extraordinary people in the community to participate in an innovative photographic project that will help to educate the wider population about the challenges faced by trans, non-binary and all the other people within the non-gender specific community.

Jonaki Ray

Based in India.

Jonaki Ray was trained as a scientist, and is now an independent researcher, poet, writer, and editor. Her work explores the themes of migration, displacement, and inequities.

Honors for her her work include Pushcart and Forward Prize for Best Single Poem nominations, as well the 2019 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award.

Her poetry and essays have been published in Poetry, Poetry Wales, The Rumpus, Indian Literature, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and elsewhere. Her collection, Firefly Memories, and chapbook, Lessons in Bending, have been published from Copper Coin (India) and Sundress Publications (USA), respectively.

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Lucille Bone

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Lucille Bone is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, dance and performance.

Her practice is deeply informed by her work in art therapy, where embodied presence, emotional resonance, and relational sensitivity shape her approach to image-making and movement.

Through portraiture, somatic exploration, and landscape, she evokes atmospheres that are psychological, sensual, and evocative. Her imagery speaks in gestures rather than declarations—inviting curiosity, intimacy, and reflection.

Whether working with the stillness or the language of the body, she creates from a place of attunement. Her process follows intuition, revealing vulnerability, desire, and transformation. Her work invites you to see differently, to feel, and to step into the unknown edges of the self.

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Cameron Sinclair

Based in the USA.
Cameron Sinclair is an artist and musician based in North Carolina. Through the use of language and allusion, her work asks questions like “What are pop songs about?” and “What does a demonstration do?”. The objects in her studio combine sculptural and painterly processes. They behave as props in the enactment of a situation, often through performance or their relativity in space. She is currently exploring the idea of subcultural movements and their aesthetic impact by drawing influence from band flyers, clothes, and lyrics. Guided by art historical research, her work is heavily referential. She aims to connect pop to a larger social framework by cataloging the experiences of those who identify within a collective.

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RESIDENTS – 2024

_{Luiz Henrique Otto De Santana Filho}

Based in Brazil.
Luiz Henrique is an art historian (UNIFESP) and multimodal artist. His most recent project, ‘música-rasgo’, covers the relationship between archives and electronic music. His investigation of sound is expanded through the duo Furniture Makers and the queer experimental music label Matula Records, of which he is co-founder. He works in museums and other cultural institutions, mediating activities and proposing workshops, with an expanded interest in curating. His practices also interrelate photography, collage, video and text.

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_{Hannah Dotzenroth}

Based in Australia.
Working in painting, photography, textiles, and gardening, her artistic practice is diverse, ecologically based, and deeply rooted in community. After recently graduating with a BFA in Art and Design, she works in expanding my work through interpersonal projects, community building, and continuous care towards both human and non-human neighbours.

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_{Niamh Wood}

Based in Australia.
A creative writer and researcher she is adapting European fairy tales into works of contemporary eco fiction set in Australia, through a practice-led research methodology.

The stories explore the unique experiences of ordinary Australian women as they react to the changing world, ecological events, and personal journeys of grief and discovery.

As an emerging creative writer, her short fiction were published in Voiceworks Magazine and Fiction Kitchen Berlin. More here.

_{Rachel Lewindon}

Based in Australia.
An award winning composer, sound designer, pianist and musical director, her work revolves around immersive theatre performances where sound interacts with the space and text, processive and texturally focused live ensemble work and ambient timbral synthesis. She is a keen multidisciplinary collaborator working extensively in theatre and live performance.
Her notable work Orlando presented at fortyfive downstairs in late 2023 was met with critical acclaim.
She has been nominated for many performing arts awards, and recently won a Green Room Award for Best Sound Design/Composition for her work on The Gospel Acccording to Jesus Queen of Heaven which additionally won Best Production.

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_{Archanaa Marnavalan}

Living between the UK and India.
Her inspiration is mostly drawn from Spiritual philosophy, intricacies of the subconscious mind and the mental reflections of the beauty in everyday life.

Her works have been showcased in Galleries in Australia, India and in NewYork.

She works mainly with watercolours, Archival ink, Acrylic. Her unique body of work involves vivid colours and golds. She practices her craft full time from her home studio in India.

_{Edward Grant}

Based in the USA.
His project is to complete a book drawn from my 45 years of involvement in many facets of the construction industry that lends dignity and respect to the men and women who construct our built world. For him there is little awareness among non-construction people of how much intelligence and imagination is required to accomplish building the roads, houses, commercial structures, dams hospitals, etc, that make our modern lives possible.

_{Sarah Chircop}

Based in Malta.
She attempts to blur boundaries and displace peripheries, while practicing a reflexive and refractive methodology. An exploration facilitated by the play of porous vulnerability. Curatorially, she is interested in a discourse motivated and developed by collaboration and experimental work. Recent projects include Rebecca Bonaci’s first solo exhibition, “ġuf”, which reflects on identity, the social position of women, and freedom of expression. In 2024 she co-curated DREAM OF LAND with Elyse Tonna. She also organized IN SEARCH OF LINE, which explored the open-ended nature, complexity and transformation of the line on the page, as well as the role of the artist in the image-making process.

_{Jennifer Johnson}

Based in Canada.

With a background spanning roles as a gallery director, arts administrator, curator and mentor, her creative practice encompasses a range of mediums including video, performance, installation, photography, poetry, and creative non-fiction.

My current project, The Archivist, embodies my own journey of healing..

More info here.

Malgorzata Karczmarzyk

Based in Poland.

Polish interdisciplinary artist who combines artistic creativity with academic and educational activities. She participated in approximately 50 exhibitions both nationally and internationally and conducted art workshops in various countries, including Poland, Sweden, Turkey, Germany, Ireland, the USA, Ukraine, Italy, Malta, and Portugal.

In her artistic and research work, she strives to connect the conceptual apparatus of art and science, demonstrating that these fields are only seemingly distant from each other..

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RESIDENTS – 2023

_{Anna Neisvestnova}

Based in France.

Anna Neizvestinova is a book artist by education. She produces experimental visual art projects with representation of local social memory. During her stay she worked on the ‘Shadow Party’ project.

More info here.

Yelena Kholodova

Based in Moscou. Yelena Kholodova is an interdisciplinary artist, performance researcher and psychologist.

She is interested in the everyday life’s performance, the creation of utopias and the dream about a totally inclusive future. She appeals to ancient and contemporary bodymind practices, works with communities, documentary materials and rituals.

_{Sarai Devi Dasi}

Based in California.

Sarai is an artist, photographer, film maker, and writer. Broadly, her work focuses on human emotions and lived experiences. She is currently exploring these concepts as they relate to the feminine experience in the world at large.

Kevin Andrew Heslop

Writer, filmmaker and film producer.

Living in Montréal, Canada.

More info here.

_{Louisa Yousfi}

Author.

Author of an important essay entitled Rester Barbare (“Remaining Barbarian”), which reflects on the weight of a culture that cannot and does not necessarily want to assimilate.

_Sam _Alekssandra

Writer, journalist, visual artist.

_{Cameron Evans}

Visual artist, architect based in Australia.

Relinquishing ideals of the every day, and appropriating in his own sense, Cam has developed a stylistic sense which draws in the viewer and transports them to a space of interpretation.

_{Isabella Hindman}

Architect and mixed media artist based in Meanjin/Brisbane in Australia. Her practice in sculpture and painting explore the themes of consumerism, decay/renewal and utopia. Her primary sculptural work is for the public realm to provoke and explore the tensions that exist in the human/nature relationship. Her utopic paintings ensue as dream-like visions of a more hopeful future.

^{Valérie Marin La Meslée}

literary journalist in the culture department of Le Point and a contributor to Le Point Afrique. The Afro-Caribbean cultural worlds are the favorite fields. She published “Chérir Port-au-Prince” and “November in Bamako” (with photos by Christine Fleurent). She is also the author of “Confidences de gargouille” with Béatrix Beck, and of “Stupeur dans la civilisation” with Jean-Pierre Winter.

OUTCAST

Five dancers and performers stage their journey as LGBTIQ+ activists in Tunisia and then in Europe. We follow the heartbreak of these refugee and immigrant artists who are both nostalgic for their country of origin and undergoing a certain racialization in Europe, while having the means to experiment with a liberated identity. The show is a eulogy to collective struggle.

Art directors : Chakib Zidi and Mohamed Ali Aguerbi

Choreographer: Chakib Zidi

Performers : Noura Abedlhafidh, Mohamed Issaoui, Chakib Zidi and Shayma Al Queer

Sound and Light designer: Mohamed Ali Aguerbi

Illustration : Noura Abedlhafidh

For more informations, the artists’biographies and the dates, see the press file here

With the support of the DRAC nouvelle Aquitaine. The French ambassy in Malta and the Malta Arts Council.

Eva Doumbia

Since 2019, her company has occupied the Théâtre des Bains Douches in Elbeuf, a multicultural working-class community and since 2022 she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, alongside including Virginie Despentes and Armel Roussel. She creates her own texts or those of Edward Bond, Alfred de Musset, Peter Turrini, Lars Noren or Bertolt Brecht. A Text discoverer, she edits Kouam Tawa, Dieudonné Niangouna, Aristide Tarnagda or Léonora Miano. She adapts the novels of Chester Himes, Maryse Condé, Yanick Lahens, Fabienne Kanor, Jamaica Kincaid.