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Bundanon Residency awarded to new media artist
Western Sydney based new media artist, Daniel Kojta has been awarded the 2010 Accessible Arts Bundanon Residency.
This is the second residency developed by Accessible Arts in partnership with the Bundanon Trust, to further opportunities for NSW artists with disability.
A selection panel was formed in response to the art forms and proposals submitted. This panel comprised of Julia Tsalis, Program Manager, NSW Writers' Centre, Bec Dean, Associate Director, Performance Space, Rhonda Davis, Senior Curator, Macquarie University Art Gallery and Sarah-Jane Rennie, Director, Accessible Arts.
Kojta will use the residency to further develop his current series that concerns ‘bringing life and movement to unnatural elements of the everyday.’ Kojta states, “ I am highly motivated to locate myself within a new and compelling environment such as Bundanon.”
Wollongong based abstract painter Keith Rutherford is the recipient of the third Accessible Arts’ Bundanon Artist in Residence program. With support from Bundanon Trust, Fern Studio at Bundanon has been made available for the artist in residence program.
In 2008, Accessible Arts and the Bundanon Trust launched a bi-annual artist in residency opportunity for NSW based artist(s) with disability. This project has fostered a strong working relationship between the two organisations. Artists,
Daniel Kojta, new media artist and recipient of the 2010 Accessible Arts Bundanon Residency, spent four weeks at Bundanon’s Fern Studio in April 2010.
During 2010 Bundanon Trust is including a number of initiatives in their program that are inclusive of people with disability.