Chelsea Jewell and Llama were selected to undertake a 12 week studio residency as part of SWELL Sculpture 2024.

Jewell proposed the shopfront studio and its public interface to be used to explore;

  • performative making

  • evolving shopfront installations using light and the accretion of sculptural material

  • Sunday morning walking sculpture

  • material negotiations

  • tidal movement of sculpture in the public realm

  • the generative activation of vacant retail spaces

The residency proved integral to an exploration of embodied practice and facilitated a series of works that have relational aesthetics at their core. Material negotiations using light, place, site and colour along with developments in practices of care were possible through the commitment to daily studio work where the passage and rhythms of time, light and occupation were wholly generative .

Several making circles were hosted in the studio. The local community were invited into the space to engage in making and conversation with some of these outcomes being included in the collaborative work for SWELL.

MIAMI ONE ARTIST RESIDENCY

SWELL Sculpture Festival initiative: July-September 2024

I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work, the land of Kombumerri families of the Yugumbeh Language Region, and I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.