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What we do

The SPACED donor program is centered on our unique identity as a recurring event of context-responsive art that connects regional and remote locations with contemporary art. Our program comprises artist residencies, exhibitions, public and school programs, mentoring, publishing and networking.

When you donate to SPACED, as a not-for-profit organisation, all donations help us achieve our mission: to continue to work with artists and host organisations in a whole-of-community approach to facilitate conversations and possibilities for creation and collaboration.

Your donation directly invests by

  • Funding artist residencies, to produce context-driven high calibre temporary public art in communities across Western Australia

  • Supporting the presentation of new work in the community in which it’s made

  • Part-time employment of local residents, with in-built mentorship and professional development

  • The continued operation, including documentation and archiving, of the longest-running art residency program in Australia

At SPACED, we combine artistic experimentation with social participation.

Explore some of our programs

Rural Utopias (2019-23). A program in rural and remote Western Australia. Artists include Jacky Cheng, Jo Darby­shire, Nathan Gray, Alana Hunt, Georgie Matting­ley, Bennett Mil­ler, Eliza­beth Ped­ler, Sarah Rodi­gari, Tina Stefanou, and Ana Tiquia. Ten artists develop­ed new works alongside their host commu­nities, res­p­on­ding to complex social, environmental, and histori­cal contexts.

Know Thy Neighbour #3 (2021-23). A provocation to the famili­arity of place, asking communities to step outside of fami­liar en­gage­ments and locations; to seek out scenarios or contexts that defamiliar­ize and re­contextual­ise “the local” for communities, audi­ences, or the artists them­selves and ask how we can meaning­fully engage in the making of our cities.