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Jacob Canet-Gibson, Stirling Kain, Harrison Waed See, Jordee Stewart

Quick Response Artists-in-Residence

Quick Response Artists-in-Residence

During their Quick Response residency at PICA, the artists will develop their collaborative project Redaction Toolkit ahead of its exhibition at Lightworks in March 2026.  

Redaction Toolkit is a collection of artistic responses to speculative conflict and disaster events, and their subsequent potential social effects such as redaction, censorship, mythologising and silencing. During the development of these works, the artists have not revealed to each other what they perceive this event to be, leading to a shared ambiguity. This approach in turn makes space in the work for unexpected developments and surprises. Through optical lens technologies, historical and contemporary photographic workflows, painting and drawing, soft sculpture and graphic design, the artists’ diverse practices reveal different facets of subject matter. 

About the artists

Jacob Canet-Gibson is an Australian practice-led multidisciplinary artist and academic researcher. His work covers photography, videography, soundscapes and installations and is focused around deconstruction and the brute forcing of technology to produce novel results. He has been exhibited by Spectrum Arts Space and PCP (Australia). Working with USST (China) he produced a documentary monograph and film. In 2020 he was awarded Australasian emerging documentary photographer of the year. His doctoral research, funded via the RTP Scholarship, has been shown at STILL: The National Still Awards, CLIP (Australia) and Revelation Perth International Film Festival. His work is held in private collections in Perth and Tokyo.

Stirling Kain is an emerging photographer using experimental film and darkroom practices to speculate fictive worlds. Her practice is strongly influenced by nineteenth-century photographic workflows (wet plate collodion), and twelfth-century monastic mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Kain is interested in idiosyncrasy, iconolatry, and ephemera as throughlines to communion between art object and viewer. Kain exclusively uses second hand, broken, and gifted cameras. She improvises props and sets as subjects for her tintype and ambrotype prints, splintering historical photographic techniques with contemporary film practices. Kain has exhibited locally and nationally since 2023. She graduated with a Bachelor of Art (History of Art maj., History min.) from the University of Western Australia in 2020. As an arts worker, she produces art festivals and events.

Harrison W. See is a sessional tutor and lecturer in the Creative Humanities at the School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University (ECU) and a part-time researcher at the ECU node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Originally an industrial and digital designer, Harrison is also a practice-led and qualitative researcher, as well as a contemporary artist and curator, having exhibited between Australia and Asia. His practice-led research focuses on studio collaboration as a means of cross-cultural dialogue, exchange and storytelling, specifically, exploring themes of diaspora, cultural hybridity and cultural representations within the Asia-Pacific region. His qualitative research focuses on children’s perceptions of their digital lives. Harrison is a New Colombo Plan Alumni and the recipient of numerous awards, grants and scholarships.

Jordee Stewart is an emerging artist and craft maker living and working in Boorloo/Perth. Her practice is process driven, inspired by a deep need to explore and externalise ideas through any medium at hand. She primarily works across graphic design, drawing, zinemaking, and painting. Her current work is influenced by her lifelong fascination with the computer and a youth spent very much online. She is interested in analysing the materiality of digital spaces, collective memory and archival processes. Since 2020, she has contributed to several local artist-run initiatives and exhibited work at local galleries. Alongside her creative practice, she is studying a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and works in research at the UWA School of Population and Global Health. 

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