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Harry Klein
Sydney, Australia
Music, Video, Performance
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"Looking for beauty in the bittersweet."
Hi! I’m Harry Klein — an artist and educator based in Eora/Sydney. My practice centres on the synergy between sound and image, blending music production with visual artistry to create immersive, left-of-field audio/visual performances. I work in a post-genre space, weaving colour, texture, and experimental narrative across a wide range of electronic styles.
I recently completed my second album, On The Path, which explores themes of impermanence, stillness, and transience. This project brought me into collaboration with some incredible artists, including Billsbry, Just Jen, Sam Thompson, and Tom Spencer.
Alongside this, I’ve had the privilege of creating live audio-reactive visuals for a range of acts and events across Sydney — a practice that has recently taken me on a European tour with the psych/jazz outfit Almost Toast.
From 9 to 5, I teach and mentor emerging artists as the Senior Technical Officer of Screen Arts and Photomedia at Sydney College of the Arts.
I'm looking forward to having the time and space at Arteles to expand my practice and begin developing my third album.
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Michelle Decker
Los Angeles, USA
Writing
Michelle Decker is a writer and an academic who lives in Los Angeles and is from Bedford County, in rural south-central Pennsylvania. Her work, regardless of whether it's written or enacted in the classroom, plays with accepted concepts of the aesthetic and the political. She is especially interested in how geography and landscape shape self-perception, creativity, and ideology. Decker is currently working on her first creative project, which is animated by the idea of the middle of nowhere.
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Wendy Raisanen
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Fiber arts, Mixed media, Curatorial
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Understanding myself and humanity is a constant throughout my art practice. I am investigating subjects as varied as environmental disasters because of climate change, the worldwide shipping industry, feminine pleasure vs taboos, and the addictive effects of social media. Currently, I create art quilts using foundation paper piecing with bold color contrast and messaging to convey my emotional responses through these subjects, using text, and imagery.
As a curator, I bring art exhibitions to the community who might otherwise feel intimidated by a museum setting, in Scottsdale's Civic Center library. Enlightened art experiences are for everyone. My hope for this residency is to clear the way to write and communicate more truthfully and directly in line with my artwork and curatorial goals.
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Anne Rainwater
Pacifica, CA, USA
Music, Writing, Curating
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My work explores hidden and overt moments of musical joy, wonder and whimsy. I enjoy probing the boundaries of time, speed and density as they reflect our frenetic, modern experiences. I gravitate towards works that include movement, electronics, vocalization, and extended pianistic techniques, and I particularly delight in exploring dense textures in contemporary and Baroque pieces. In my writing and teaching, I foster a detailed understanding of a work’s structural and expressive trajectory. As a performer, I guide audiences towards a deeper, collective experience, from moments of introspection to outward exhilaration. I am interested in the intersection of nature and music, particularly as it relates to the parallels between thriving ecosystems and optimal systems of learning and performing music. As someone who cares deeply about the Earth, I am a member of Beyond Artists, an organization whose members pledge to donate portions of their performance fees to organizations they support and care about. My performances have been praised for their “boldly assertive rhetoric” (San Francisco Examiner) and “sensitivity to performance and interpretation” (TEMPO Magazine), and I regularly engage audiences as a soloist, chamber musician and lecture artist around the United States.
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Amy Poliero
London, UK / USA
Painting, Sculpture
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Amy Poliero (b. 2000) is an American multimedia artist currently based in London. Her practice spans 2D, 3D, and occasionally 4D, translating ideas from cosmology and physics into visual form. Through an intuitive and materially driven process, she explores the limits of human perception using speculative geometry. Her work invites viewers into a world devoid of time and scale by combining the atmospheric qualities of romantic art with geometric forms reminiscent of a physics textbook.
She reflects on complexity and human progress, informed by authors such as Margaret Atwood, H.G. Wells, and Cixin Liu, as well as contemporary writing on physics and the sublime. In the age of quantum computing and commercialized space travel, what will be the interstellar reach of humanity? Her response is a visual testimony to the worldview being revived by quantum physics: we are part of a massive cosmic exchange of energy happening on an unimaginably small scale. |
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Genevieve Gadd-Carolan
Australia
Painting, Drawing
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"A great painter is always a student"
I am an artist working in the representational genre, and I’ve been expanding my practice in the last couple of years to include still life, landscape and figure. Learning to paint and studying art has made me see the beauty in all sorts of different things, and now I am just as inspired by a flower as I am in a pile of dirty dishes. I know that I am still early on my art journey and haven’t landed on my “thing” yet, but I’m finding immense joy in trying new things and keeping an open mind to where art can take me.
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Joanne Fedler
Sydney, Australia
Writing, Sketching, Watercolours
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"Writing is my prayer of thanks for the life that moves in me."
I started with words early as my deaf sister’s interpreter. I wrote my first story at six and find myself still writing. Born in South Africa, I now live on the land of the Gadigal people in Sydney, Australia as a Second Nations immigrant.
I am mother to two young adults, an open water ocean swimmer, soup-maker, collector of dreams, myths, sea glass and feathers. I am working on my 17th book, The Ransom of Rain, kin to my novel, The Whale’s Last Song (Harper Collins, 2024).
I write small soulful stories that are logic-adjacent; hoping they leave you touched like a soft dream, lifting.
When I am not writing, I teach. I run writing retreats for women to witness and support them to find their voices.
I have just lost both my parents and am in the liminal passage of being no-one’s daughter.
I wonder what makes for belonging and identity in a complex uncertain universe and how we navigate the tensions of individuation and ancestry; motherhood and grief; trauma and transcendence.
What fuels the creative flame of this life which burns in us so vehemently, and then … where to?
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Tristan Stein
Australia
Writing
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I am a West Australian psychotherapist with a special interest in supporting midlife women who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain.
In my counselling work, I strive to create a safe and compassionate space—one where even the most hidden parts of a client’s self can emerge and be welcomed with curiosity, gentleness, and respect.
Writing has long been one of the most direct paths into my own inner world. I am also deeply drawn to folktales, which I see as evolving frameworks that can offer guidance and nourishment through real-world, modern-day challenges and transitions. Lately, I’m exploring how the tale of the Handless Maiden can illuminate and accompany women through the transformation of menopause.
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Clara Elliot
Edinburgh, UK
Site-responsive, Installation, Participatory
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Clara is a Scotland based artist with a background in landscape architecture and art history. Her practice centres around the relationships between people and place, exploring the sociopolitical and ecological contexts that underpin these dynamics. Her projects frequently stem from community engagement and cross-disciplinary collaboration, foregrounding situational and embodied forms of research to culminate in process-oriented and site-responsive artworks. Moving across different mediums in response to subject matter, her past commissions include a woven installation exploring the relationship between deer, land and people in the Scottish Highlands; a woodland sculpture making visible the ecological processes of the temperate rainforest in Lochaber; and an installation for the Begehungen Kunstfestival in Thalheim, collating fragments of archival material into patchworks of collective memory and community storytelling.
Her time on the Arteles residency will be spent exploring approaches to site-responsive materiality, recording the ecology and hydrology of the surrounding landscapes through paper making processes.
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Chia-Ying Tai
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Photography, Film
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Chiaying Tai (b.1986, Hsinchu, Taiwan) is a photographer whose practice spans landscape, portrait, and still life. She received her BA in Radio and Television from National Taiwan University of Arts and later completed an MA in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, UK (2018). Drawing inspiration from everyday experiences, her works often challenge viewers’ visual perception and invite reflection beyond the surface of images.
Her photography journey has taken her across Asia, Oceania, and Europe, and her works have been exhibited internationally, including Medway Photo Festival, Zandra Rhodes Gallery, Free Range at The Old Truman Brewery, and the MA Show in Canterbury, UK.
Now based in her hometown Hsinchu, Chiaying continues to develop her artistic projects and runs a studio that serves both as a creative space and as a platform for dialogue within the local art and photography community.
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Yung Chih Teng
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Dance, Improvisation, Multi-Site Performance
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"圓, O, Circle, o"
Yung Chih Teng is a movement practitioner from Taiwan. Through ongoing practice and improvisation, she traces the body’s shifting relations with natural ecologies and social worlds. Her work attends to subtle exchanges between humans, environments, and collectives, seeking moments of encounter and transformation. In this continuous search, the body becomes both vessel and witness, expanding its possibilities through performance, video, and installation, where ecological rhythms and social currents are embodied and reimagined. Yung’s practice is informed by her studies in Expanded Dance Practice (MA, London Contemporary Dance School) and Dance (BFA, University of Taipei), which deepened her interest in how the body negotiates social and ecological contexts.
Yung’s current project, ""Park/Playground"", imagines these spaces as metaphors where body and society meet. Moving between solo and collective practice as well as screen dance, the work explores how the body adapts, communicates, and transforms within these encounters. It attends to the tensions between freedom and social norms, reflecting on how bodily expression is shaped by relationships, fluidity, and structures.
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Scott Fruhan
San Francisco, CA, USA
Creative writing, Memoir
Scott Fruhan is an American academic emergency physician, writer, and musician. He practices medicine in a San Francisco trauma center, as well as in emergency rooms within the Navajo and Apache nations. Fruhan’s writing emphasizes the fallibility of medicine, and portrays the vulnerable experience of a physician working in a system that is overwhelmed by mental illness, drug use, and social distress, while navigating a personal journey of self-discovery, intimacy, and relational fear. His creative work seeks to erode the traditional barriers of decorum that serve to elevate the doctor and subordinate the patient.
Fruhan’s academic research focuses on clinical systems improvement and patients’ understanding of their medical care.
His music project, Heath Street, is available on the major streaming services. |
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