Sarah Rodigari is currently working with the community of Ravensthorpe. This work forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

Here, Sarah’s Assistant Producer Emily Dawn shares an update about the project.

Congratulations to Virginia Miltrup, the incoming CEO with the City of Karratha. We are delighted to see our Board Chair working more closely with regional communities.

After a two-year hiatus, Sarah Rodigari returns to the community of Ravensthorpe for her Rural Utopias project as part of Spaced 4. She reflects here.

Elizabeth Pedler’s project is being developed as part of the Rural Utopias program, presented by Spaced.

Here, Linda shares an update from her first week in the her second residency in Wellstead.

Bennett Miller has been working with the community of Mount Barker as part of Spaced’s Rural Utopias program. Here he shares an update.

Elizabeth Pedler has been supported through her Rural Utopias residency by a team of Assistant Producers. Learn more about Kerry Dell’Agostino and Richard Davy.

Nathan Gray has been working with the community of Roebourne as part of Spaced’s Rural Utopias program. Here he shares an update.

The UWA Conservatorium of Music is a vibrant centre for research in all areas of music, and has a thriving community of scholars engaged in robust disciplinary debates nationally and internationally.

Join Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson for a conversation in which she will discuss her approach to community-engaged practice, and the work that she developed for her participation in Know Thy Neighbour #3, which recently won her the Ellen José Art Award for Young Women.

Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.

Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.

Georgie Mattingley is currently working with the community of Karlkula / Kalgoorlie-Boulder. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

Here, Georgie shares an update.

Spaced will be attending the Asialink Regional // Regional programme of Festival Alliances across Australia and the Indo-Pacific in Darwin 10 and 11 August.

Nathan Gray has been working with the community of Roebourne as part of Spaced’s Rural Utopias program. Here he shares an update.

This symposium brings together artists, researchers, and organisers to yarn, present, and perform about their diverse arts practices and imagine creative approaches for the future of work in the visual arts sector. Participants will present creative ideas that challenge existing processes and structures to create more equitable, inclusive, and collaborative approaches that recognise and embrace the diverse cultural and social values in artistic and creative practices today.

We’re looking forward to hearing Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, who is an artist within our current Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, speak as one of the panellists at the Working with Communities: Artist Talk hosted by Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Through Spaced’s Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, Amy Perejuan-Capone works with the community of Melville.

Here, Amy shares an update.

Through Spaced’s Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, Yabini Kickett works with the community of East Fremantle.

Here, Yabini shares an update.

In our programs we work with community partners to foster new and more productive modes of interaction between contemporary artists and communities and to promote a dialogue between regional, metropolitan, and international perspectives.

For the Rural Utopias residency with Jo Darbyshire in Lake Grace, we have been generously supported by the Lake Grace Contemporary Art Space.

In our programs we work with community partners to foster new and more productive modes of interaction between contemporary artists and communities and to promote a dialogue between regional, metropolitan, and international perspectives.

The Lake Grace Bushcare project will see 3,700 native seedlings planted around the town during the month of June. The plantings follow a Flora Survey of townsite remnant bush by local botanist Anne Rick which recorded 115 plant species. Included in the survey are eight acacia (wattle) species, eight types of melaleuca (paperbarks, honey-myrtles) and ten eucalypts species.