ALICE ANNA FORD

Taking Shape was an annual artist residency held at Donnelly River Timber Mill Village on Bibulman boodjar, Western Australia.

Six artists cohabited and worked within a shared domestic setting over one week, forming a temporary studio ecology. The residency functioned as an intensive period of collective exchange, with practices spanning painting, soft sculpture, ceramics, engraving, sound, and moving image.

Rather than operating as isolated production, the week emphasised proximity: shared meals, shared tools, shared attention. The surrounding Karri forest acted as both site and collaborator, shaping tempo, material choices, and conversation.

During her residency, Alice Anna Ford worked with gouache and oil, tracing movements across the forest canopy and ground plane — treating the landscape as an active field rather than backdrop.

The project situates making as a communal and ecological process, held briefly within place.

Further information about the exhibition context can be found via Early Work Gallery

2022/06/30 Taking Shape

CATALOGUE : archived

LOCATION : Bibbulman Country, Donnelly River + Whadjuk Country, Walyalup, Australia

WITH : Shupiwe Chonge, Blake Poole, Baz Emerald, Georgia Herbert, Nansen Robb with Early Work Gallery

this project is dedicated shared meals with friends