
Matt O’Brien
Visual Art
2024
Read MoreWoven Kolektif is a group of seven artists who originally formed through shared diasporic connections to Indonesia.
The collective represents a diverse range of practices, including the use of performance, installation, video, photography, painting and sculpture. Their projects together are formed through collective thinking and resourcing: nurturing modes of exchange that offer reprieve from the siloed nature of a professional arts practice. Recent exhibitions include: Woven (2017) at Verge Gallery, Sydney; looking here, looking north (2019), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre; Breathing Room (2019) at Cement Fondu, Sydney; Bara: Embers (2020) at Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney; CASCADE (2021) Outer Space, Brisbane; Mengingat 25 Tahun Reformasi/Remembering 25 Years of Reformation (2023) at Cemeti Institute of Art and Society, Yogyakarta.
Woven Kolektif’s residency at Bundanon will involve a creative development and workshop series in collective art making. As past projects have been developed remotely and over distance, the time at Bundanon will be an opportunity to deepen their collective methodologies and work in proximity through a sustained residency period. Each member will lead activities through a structured series of workshops designed to generate new conversations within the group and to deepen their collective motivations and approaches to working together.