Our artists in residence are very special members of the Courthouse family.
Currently we have two positions which are: :
Photographer in Residence
Applications closed – Photographer soon to be announced. Watch this space to find out about our beand new photographer in residence! Squeee!
Jenna Ramondo
Curator
Jenna is the Curator of Kaleidoscope Gallery. Alongside her role at the Courthouse, she is a graphic designer and self-taught photographer who loves collaborating and meeting artists of all genres. After completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Graphic Design & Multimedia) in 2008 she began working as a graphic designer at MooMedia Australia where she continued to enhance her skills for four years with particular focus in the performing arts. During this time she also experimented with photography, a hobby since her early teenage years and as her love for it grew she decided to pursue it full-time and began ‘Jenna for Jethro Photography’ in 2009.In 2010 Jenna was an Artist in Residence at the Courthouse in which she exhibited digitally manipulated photography in the ‘Emerging Artists’ exhibition. She has also exhibited paintings and large scale fashion photography on the Lemon Wall, a film experimentation for ‘Illumination’ and projected her photography onto the windows at Customs House. Over the years, Jenna’s involvement at the Courthouse has given her the freedom to evolve an an artist and expand her skills through experimentation and collaboration. This has inspired her to encourage other artists to do the same. As Curator of Kaleidoscope Gallery her passion is to expose hidden local talent and construct creative collaborations, encouraging young artists to experiment, believe in their ideas and help bring them to life!
Artists in Residence
2011 to 2012
Rachel Joy
Visual Artist
Rachel is a Melbourne based visual artist who takes old-school printmaking techniques to the streets with her paste-ups of messed up pop-culture icons. She likes to play with our pre-conceived ideas about identity, history, space and place. Rachel has received artists’ residencies, commissions and is published in books and journals. Her work has been exhibited at the national Wool Museum, the Counihan, George Paton, Margaret Lawrence, and Brunswick Street Galleries and is held in the Acacia Art Collection.
Rachel has received residencies in such places as Tasmania, Warburton WA and Taiwan, but this is her first one in her old home town, Geelong.
Courthouse ARTS is proud to announce Rachel Joy as our very first ARTIST IN RESIDENCE in the newly renovated building. The residency will commence 14 November 2011. During this time Rachel will create a large scale steel stencil sculpture for the Courthouse ARTS courtyard as well as conducting a series of stencil and paste up workshops.
Donna Jackson
Performance and Installation Artist
Donna has a Bachelor of Education with a major in Drama from Melbourne University. She has been an Artistic Director for twenty years, and is a writer, performer and theatre maker. As a result of working at a women’s refuge Donna initiated a show for schools with West Theatre about domestic violence No Myth.In 1989 Donna became the Theatre Department coordinator at Footscray Community Arts Centre. In this position she wrote, devised and directed seven productions, including The Bridge, a production about the collapse of the Westgate Bridge. Donna is the Artistic Director for Illuminated By Fire and We Built This City. She works in large scale community performance. In 2002 she established the Women’s Circus, developing a passion for outdoor large-scale performance works in non-traditional spaces.
