During their Quick Response residency, Kate O’Shea and Enya Moore will build on their collaboration around The Wild Goose (1867), a handwritten newspaper created by Irish political prisoners aboard the Hougoumont as it sailed from Portsmouth to Walyalup/Fremantle. The artists explore how cultural practices such as print, song and spoken word can forge solidarity across oceans and histories of colonisation. They will extend this research by engaging with the Western Australian State Archives to consider how creative practice can generate solidarity across distance and time. This residency forms part of their wider dialogue linking projects in Ireland and Australia, including A Collection of Ocean Waifs (TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, 2025), an audiowork they created with Ron Bradfield Jnr, a Bard and Jawi saltwater man, and Padraig Stevens that revisits The Wild Goose through sound and storytelling.
Kate O'Shea, Enya Moore
Quick Response Artists-in-Residence