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Aaron Claringbold, Rebecca McCauley, Aziziah Diah Aprilya

Open Studios: Makuru

Open Studios: Makuru

Join us for an evening with our current Hyper Local artists-in-residence, Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca McCauley, alongside our BREEZE: Perth-Makassar exchange artist, Aziziah Diah Aprilya, for an evening to peek inside their studios and see what they’ve been working on during their time at PICA.  

During their six-month residency at PICA, Rebecca and Aaron have been using their time to consolidate their project What can I say without touching the earth with my hands, a new body of images which considers people’s interconnected relationships with their environments. The project was initiated during a residency with ART ON THE MOVE in Shark Bay and facilitated by the Shire of Shark Bay. It continues to be developed in conversation with Malgana Traditional Owners and Rangers, DBCA staff, scientists and members of the community.

Makassan artist Aziziah Diah Aprilya has spent the past four weeks in Boorloo/Perth as part of BREEZE, a residency exchange between Western Australian and Makassan artists that facilitates cultural exchange and develops international connections. Aprilya’s project has focused on the plants, myths and stories representing cultural and ecological ties between the two regions. 

Facilitated by artist and ART ON THE MOVE Project Coordinator, Kristen Brownfield, don’t miss your chance to hear directly from the artists about their projects and residency experiences. 

Schedule: 
6.00pm: Studios Open 
6.15pm: Artist Talk: Aziziah Diah Aprilya 
6.45pm: Artist Talk: Rebecca McCauley & Aaron Claringbold 
7.30pm: Studios Close 

About the artists

Aziziah Diah Aprilya, known as Zizi, is a photographer, writer and cultural practitioner based in Makassar, South Sulawesi.  She recently published her first photobook, Got Your Back (SOKONG! Publisher, 2024), which reflects on themes of home, generations, change, burdens and the relationships that connect them.  Her works also explore environmental, social-political and women’s issues, and have been exhibited around cities in Indonesia. In 2024, she was selected as the recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Award for the Emerging Photography category.  

Aaron Claringbold and Rebecca McCauley are artists whose work centres on the role of images in shaping how we see and imagine the world. Working on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, they use photography as a means to navigate the complexities of the present. Coming from settler-descendent and English ancestry, they are interested in how we inhabit this place; about what we bring and what we take — and the many discrepancies and spaces between. Rooted in a photographic approach, their practice has evolved to include performance, publication, sculpture, installation and moving images. Under the collaborative moniker Big Four Holiday Camp, they work alongside Jack Mitchell and Eliki Reade. 

Kristen Brownfield (she/her) is an artist and artsworker living in Boorloo/Perth. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours) from RMIT University. Through artmaking Kristen explores relationships to time, materials, memory, place and the environments in which we are entangled. Her work unfolds through observation and listening, is often temporal in nature or site-related, composed of found objects, photography, sound and video, writing and drawing. Recent projects include an invitation to dance (Cool Change/PS Art Space, 2024), remember the blue sky (DADAA, 2024), repackaged (Pig Melon, 2022), an artist residency at the Commonwealth of New Bayswater Post Office (2022), and dust and rocks (Gotham Studios Peek-a-boo Gallery, 2022).  Kristen currently works with ART ON THE MOVE where she coordinates the Artist in Residence program, supporting artists to undergo residencies in regional WA. 


Supporters

PICA’s Studio Program is supported by PICA’s Art Ambassadors. PICA’s International Studio Exchange Program is supported by North Metropolitan TAFE, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Project 11 and Rumata’ Artspace.