CENTRAL STUDIOS INC

The oldest continuously running studio collective in Australia, Central Studios Inc is a space for artists by artists.

In addition to eighteen individual studios occupied by diverse creatives, Central Studios awards two six month residencies annually for South Australian artists with the support of the Government of South Australia through the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

As a part of our commitment to education and professional development, the studios also present workshops and masterclasses for people of all levels of ability.

The Artists of Central Studios

Featured

Margaret Ambridge

I am interested in boundaries around age at both ends of life, around love and faith and the confines we place on them.

Murray Baum

The nexus between paint and flesh continues to fascinate me.

Jason Cordero

Jason Cordero is a visual artist based in Adelaide, Australia. His practice is focused on painting and drawing with an increasing utilisation of digital media. Exhibiting regularly, he has received numerous awards and has a strong interest in concepts of possession, perception and belonging.

Carly Dodd

Audrey Emery

Gill Hicks AM MBE

A published author, musician, artist and mother, Gill’s appreciation and gratitude for life is present throughout all her creative works.

Narrowly escaping death but horrifically and permanently disabled by the actions of a terrorist attack in London during the summer of 2005, Gill left her career within architecture, design and the arts, notably a respected curator and publisher in London, to devote her life to deterring anyone from following a path of violent extremism and the destructive ideologies that seek divisive outcomes for our global societies.

Combining her passion for design and her devotion to building public peace, she formed M.A.D Minds – A ‘Think’ ‘Create’ and ‘Do’ agency to find powerful ways to communicate the true brilliance of humanity.

Art and artistic expression is a language that enables Gill to ‘talk’ to a very diverse and global audience, a medium that speaks to hearts and minds.

Liz Jenner

Suzie Lockery

Suzie Lockery works across various mediums, including printmaking, painting, drawing and installation to form a multi-disciplinary art practice that focuses on ideas of place, transience and human interaction. Suzie has exhibited her work throughout Australia and the U.S. since 2008 and has been a Central Studios member since 2018.

Alison Main

Alison Main is an Adelaide artist and writer, after thirty years as a Sydney architect. She practices mainly as a painter. Her current theme of ‘serious nonsense’ allows exploration of stories lurking in our subconscious, an idea now overflowing on to the surfaces of her new ceramics. Her creative interests have involved digital media, photography, and book design, with paper/junk sculptures as a secret vice.

Sorayya Martin

Sharifah Sorayya Martin Jamalullail, multidisciplinary artist, straddles two worlds. She began studying art in her youth, then started a career in Medicine. Moving to Australia in 2000, she decided to return to her earlier passion for the Arts.

After attaining her Associate Degree in Visual Arts from the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2015, Sorayya has since explored a range of mediums and participated in a range of group exhibitions. A full-time General Practitioner and practice partner at Hazelwood Clinic, Adelaide, Sorayya has long balanced a range of perspectives and skills through her different personal and professional lives.

In her drawing, oil painting, printmaking, textiles, batik and needlework practice, Sorayya explores her duality of her cultures as an Asian Muslim woman from Malaysia with her life in Australia now.

She has works in private collections in Malaysia and the UK as well as in Australia.

Lindsay Nicholson

Christopher Orchard

Abe Phillips

Datsun Tran

Leonie Westbrook

Leonie Westbrook grew up on a family farm in the mallee of South Australia, making the move to Adelaide to study arts at university, where she discovered a need to make and a love of contemporary craft, going on to complete a Bachelor of Applied Arts at Uni SA.

Previous to becoming a member at Central Studios, Leonie has worked out of JamFactory, then Gray Street workshop where she is currently undertaking a mentorship with founding partner and celebrated contemporary jeweller and object maker Catherine Truman, awarded through Guildhouse Catapult mentorship program.

Public collections include the Toowoomba City Collection acquired in both 2017 and 2019 from Contemporary Wearables award exhibitions; and the Art Gallery of South Australia collection, where her work was recently exhibited in 2018-19 in To have and to hold, The Daaldler Collection of Contemporary Jewellery.

Laura Wills

Laura Wills is an Adelaide-based multidisciplinary artist. She has an expanded practice exploring social and environmental themes through using found materials, collaborative and participatory processes and community-based projects. She regularly exhibits and has received numerous grants, awards and residencies in Australia and overseas. She is represented by Hill Smith Gallery Adelaide.

Dan Withey

ED Tweddell Studio Residency

GRANT PARKE - current Ed Tweddell Studio resident Pen on Paper, 30x21cm each — **GRANT PARKE** **- current Ed Tweddell Studio resident**
Pen on Paper, 30x21cm each

The Ed Tweddell Studio Residency

The late Dr Ed Tweddell was a generous supporter of visual artists and contemporary visual arts practice and had a particular and practical interest in supporting the career development of South Australian artists.

Artists seeking to develop new work for an exhibition or other specified project are invited to apply for rent-free use of the studio for a period of six months.

An initiative of Central Studios Inc, the Ed Tweddell Studio is supported by the Government of South Australia through the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

Applications for 2021 Round 2, 01/07/2021 to 31/12/2021, are now open.

APPLY HERE

Former Residents

Lucy Turnbull

Tony Giles

Ruth Fazackerley

Ken Orcherd

Jon Orth

Sue Kneebone

Berenice Carrington

Paul Sloan

Eileen Lubiana

Louis Haugh

Katia Carletti

Josef Felber

Gail Hocking

Sheila Whittam

Julie Strawinski

Cathy Frawley

Thom Buchanan

Andrea Malone

Lisa King

Vivienne Robertson

Fran Callen

Kellie Ferguson

Gill Hicks AM MBE

APPLICATION FORM

APPLICANT DETAILS

Name

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THE PROPOSAL

Media

What is the primary medium/media or field your work employs?

Referees

Provide name, organisation (as appropriate) and contact details of three referees. NB: at least one referee should be established in your field of practice.

Project Description

A brief description of what you intend to use the Ed Tweddell Studio for.

Provide a one page CV

Work

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Alternate Funding

Have you sought funding from other sources for the proposed project?

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