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Past Artists-in-Residence
Discover the diverse talent that has graced our online residency program. From digital installations and realistic paintings to immersive sculptural works, virtual readings and community projects, our past residents have consistently pushed the boundaries of artistic expression while addressing critical environmental themes.
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Bronwen Gwillim
January/ February 2025
I live and work on the west coast of Pembrokeshire in Wales. Inspired by the Welsh concept ‘milltir sgwâr’ - the idea of deeply knowing and belonging in your immediate environment, I make work using materials, mostly those designated as ‘waste’, that I find very locally to me. I make assemblages, collages and reliefs focussing on synthetic and natural colour combinations from my old clothes combined with plastics, clay and natural pigments found on the shoreline. Thinking through the longer term future of the pieces - they are designed to be easily disassembled and recycled.
I’m interested in our emotional reactions to colour and the cultural meanings of both natural and unnatural colour. I’m an avid beach cleaner and feel both disgust, excitement and shame at the thrill of seeing glowing saturated plastic colour lying on the tideline, particularly when juxtaposed against earth or sand. Our addiction to plastic is understandable but disentangling our relationship more challenging. It is everywhere it is both vivid and invisible.

James Keul
January/ February 2025
I am a painter, printmaker and environmentalist. My work considers human resilience and the natural world, using classical painting techniques to convey the current issue of climate change in dramatic form.
I currently live in Durham, NC and work as an artist and art handler for top artists.
I received a Bachelors of Fine Art in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and continued my education at the Art Students League of New York, where I studied with artists Frank Mason, Mary Beth Mckenzie, Costa Vavagiakis and Cornelia Foss. My works grace collections around the world, including the Bekkjarvik Arts Society in Norway and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo, and have appeared nationally and internationally in over 100 solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the GreenHill Center for NC Art, CAM Raleigh, and the Brown Gallery at Duke University. My piece “Fish in Troubled Waters” was selected to represent the South Pacific Region in the 5th National Climate Assessment, published in October, 2023, by the US Global Change Research Project. A solo exhibition of my work, ‘Between Will and What Will Be’, runs from January 8-May 27, 2024, at Waterworks Visual Arts Center, in Salisbury, NC.

Jodie Posen
January/ February 2025
Jodie Posen is a weaver and textile artist based in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Her works combine colour, pattern and surface through playful and exploratory use of dyes, yarns and unconventional materials. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings, Jodie is interested in how the loom can abstract ideas and create beauty from the mundane.
Sensitive to the growing need for low impact methods of working, Jodie is currently adapting her practice to one which is more environmentally conscious including choosing natural dye processes over chemicals, upcycling waste into her artwork and taking care and consideration when sourcing materials.

Charlotte Mendel
Funded Program- January/ February 2025
I am a traveller, an author, a parent, a farmer, a teacher and an environmental activist. I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I spent three years travelling around the world, working in France, England, Turkey, and India, ending up in Israel where I spent ten years working as an Editorial Assistant in a publishing company and also as a freelance journalist at the Jerusalem Post. Since returning to Nova Scotia I have worked as an Instructional Designer and Teacher in a variety of positions, ranging from the delivery of Microsoft Office and business courses at TrainCanada to Creative Writing at Dalhousie University.
My fiction and non-fiction work have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Nashwaak Review, Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine, the Shore Magazine, the Meadowbrook Press anthology, The Breastfeeding Diaries and the Adams Media anthologies Horse Crazy and Horse Healers. I have lived in Nova Scotia for 20 years and raised two wonderful children; this year I left my partner of 32 years and I am in transit (we are allowed one guilt-free flight a year, even in a climate crisis :) . I am as free as I was at 18, but hopefully a tad wiser. My first destination is Europe.

Denise Felber
November/ December 2024
The climate is going crazy, working environments are changing rapidly, orders are disintegrating. Our world today is characterised by a multitude of crises that affect our lives in many different ways. Experiences of loss and fear of loss plague our society.
In the midst of the complexity and crises of our time, my work offers space for reflection and renewal. A silent manifesto for the rediscovery of the essence of our humanistic being.
Marvelling at the infinite beauty of nature - in the face of the fragility and need for protection of our environment: these are the themes of my work. On the one hand, painting: a poetic reflection on the transience of nature, a reminder of the fleeting beauty of the moment. A homage to nature, which in its constant change is an inexhaustible source of inspiration and reflection and invites viewers to allow their own thoughts and emotions about their relationship with nature to flow into it.
On the other hand, a printmaking work: an artistic statement on the ecological crisis of our time that forces viewers to reflect on the consequences of their own actions and at the same time inspires them to take concrete action to protect our planet.

Antonia Ablass
November/ December 2024
Antonia is a textile designer from Berlin and Brandenburg. Growing up between the city and the countryside, her textile work is influenced by this duality and aims at bringing together plants, humans and other living things. Early in her textxile-design studies, she began exploring the potenti al of textiles to reweave nature into the built environment. Since then, she is dedicated to deepening her understanding of plant physiology, wildlife, and human-nature relationships.
As an emerging artist, Antonia focuses on integrating plants into daily life, with the conviction that reconnecting humans and nature can be healing to both us and our planet.
In her early career, she has exhibited at a few festivals, with a wide range of topics, such as the Silbersalzfestival, an international festival for science and media, as well as at BLADE, a Berlin underground Techno Festival. She believes, that more plants can be integrated everywhere with healing effects on our bodies and minds, as well as the planets health.

Dodd Holsapple
November/ December 2024
Holsapple created the inventive and widely popular Living Sculpture works entitled the View Planter Series. These works were extensively published and exhibited internationally. Holsapple’s studio space is located in Santa Monica, California where currently produces contemporary visual artwork in Sculpture, Drawing and Painting. Dodd Holsapple studied Visual Art at Ball State University, Muncie Indiana receiving BFA’s in Drawing and Painting.
Dodd Holsapple creates visual art examining distinctive composition blended with a maximized color theory set to data driven patterning, mathematics and time executed to uniquely verify environmental awareness. Strong visuals weave through color filled linear constructions with rigid, measured definitions of space related to place that embrace time interlaced the with lush organic movement of nature. Dodd exemplifies a highly developed use of artistic methods and unique compositional balance culminating to amplify today’s contemporary landscapes in crisis. He is deeply focused on creating beautifully engaging visual artwork inspired by numerous environmental themes. Motivated by research related to environmental conditions and scientifically collected data recorded in charts and graphs, he explores climate recognition through art as social response awareness and habitat defender.

Andjelik
November/ December 2024
Andjelik is a multidisciplinary artist born in Serbia, raised both in Mexico, where she studied theatre, and the Dominican Republic, where she studied Fine Arts, Visual Communication and Animation at “Chavon The School of Design”.
Due to her multicultural nature, she has developed a vast curiosity towards self expression, capturing memories and emotional depth. Her study continues at “Firenze Arte Visive” and “New York Film Academy”, learning Etching, Analogue and Experimental Photography, and Film.
Andjelik strives to create work that transcends the limitations of the material world, speaking to the essential aspects of the human experience. It has been appreciated around the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil, Serbia, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Isabella Morales Salis
Funded Program-November/ December 2024
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Isabella Morales Salis (b. 1995, Porto Alegre, Brazil) is an emerging contemporary painter based in London, United Kingdom. Drawing on her Brazilian heritage, she weaves together cultural roots and contemporary influences to create art that explores the deep connection between the human psyche and the natural world.
Her work delves into the psychological impacts of climate change, inviting viewers to reflect on the emotional responses that arise from our evolving relationship with nature. Through surreal compositions, Isabella explores how inner landscapes mirror the environment, suggesting that true healing requires us to look both inward and outward.
Her paintings often feature symbolic animals, representing states of mind or spiritual connections, set against fragmented realities that evoke a sense of being between worlds. The use of vibrant colours and dynamic compositions creates a space where dreams and memories blend with lived experiences, inviting a deeper reflection on identity and belonging.

Francesca Busca
September/October 2024
I pioneer sustainable art since 2017 and I create my artworks entirely out of waste: my trashure.
Torn between optimism and surrender, I am haunted by the idea of mankind’s imminent self-destruction. Yet I believe in a future for humanity of resourceful innovation through systemic re-thinking. It is this hope that is made visible through my work: though I see the role of art as being meaningful rather than beautiful, in my case the two coincide - for the more beautiful the artworks, the clearer the message. Every tessera I create is in itself a protest against our disposable lifestyle, providing a different perspective on rubbish and embodying hope. In my world rubbish acquires new value, and becomes the undisputed protagonist of my artworks, as fun and beautiful a Cinderella as I can master it to be: from waste to wonder.

Rebecca Odessa
September/October 2024
I am a New Zealand born painter and film maker currently living and working on the Isle of Man. My art practice explores various aspects of the human condition, such as aging, suffering, and death, and draws from personal experience, observation, and in-depth research within various bodies of knowledge, such as mythology, history, psychology, and anthropology.
I have an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, and have participated in a number of online residencies/courses, such as: Contemporary Art Summer School, Royal College of Art 2021&2022; New York School of Visual Art Residency 2022; Berlin Art Institute Film course 2022.

Kenny Ros
September/October 2024
Kenny Ros is essentially a landscape photographer, further developed as an artist. He transgresses genre by mixing landscape- and documentary photography with fine art.
His attraction to the landscape, he says, is ‘to approach a unique perspective and a haunting perception, beyond the ordinary representation of reality’. ‘Because of a progressive muscle disease, I can’t enjoy the naïve beauty of traditional vistas. When I find the strength and assistance to work on location, I embrace my pain and suffering and use that as a reflection to create an intriguing scenery, roughly based on the captured landscape and strengthened by the better angels of my unconscious mind’.

David Bickley
Funded Program-September/October 2024
Anglo Irish artist, filmmaker and musician David Bickley (b. 1961) audio visual works/ installations are abstracted, largely process led adventures mainly on themes of nature/ landscape but also with points of reference to mythology and symbolism. They rely heavily on texture and mood and tend to sacrifice the topographical in an attempt to capture the spirit of the places depicted using memory or feeling. Other works are digitally manipulated landscapes designed to evoke a sense of animation and accelerated time-scale. His practice incorporates film, music, video, immersive environments and sound art.