Bonnes nouvelles au Couvent : les artistes en résidence pour 20 ans.25 – 2026 have been selected!
We are pleased to welcome three formidable new additions à la conventiont communauté créative.
Chaque année, Abbotsford Convent invite les artistes et les leaders des industries créatives à poser leur candidature pour s'engager dans notre enceinte unique par le biais de deux résidences de studio. Ces opportunités uniques offrent aux praticiens créatifs le temps, l'espace et le soutien nécessaires pour entreprendre des recherches, des investigations et des réflexions spécifiques à un site ou adaptées à une situation donnée.
Le couvent d'Abbotsford est ravi d'annoncer les artistes retenus cette année :
Carmen Yih (Jul — Dec 2025)
Kate Davis (Jan — Mar 2026)
Helen Svoboda (Mar —Jun 2026)
Maggie Maguire Artiste-En résidence
Carmen Yih is the recipient of this year’s Résidence de Maggie Maguire for early career artists.
Carmen is an artist whose practice skates along the boundaries of hybrid dance-theatre, telling urgent stories that draw on forgotten histories and marginalised voices. In her work, Carmen uses movement scores and structures influenced by non-Western narrative world-building, immersive theatre, and street and club dance forms.
Carmen’s residency will help develop her current project, to disappoint a god, a hybrid Asian-futurist dance-theatre work using Nuwa (女媧), a Chinese mythological creation deity as a vessel to call for personal reflection and accountability amid the global breakdown of climate, culture and communication.
https://hitahhchi.cargo.site
@hitahhchi
La résidence Maggie Maguire est rendue possible grâce à un don généreux de la Fondation Patagorang, fondée par Roger Allen et Maggie Gray. en l'honneur de la première directrice générale du couvent d'Abbotsford, Maggie Maguire OAM.
Artiste en résidence au couvent d'Abbotsford
This year, we have two wonderful artists selected for our Abbotsford Convent Studio Residency,
Kate Davis is a highly accomplished artist, designer, director, and dramaturg working across contemporary performance and visual arts. Kate is a pioneer of her unique performance style, having played a key role in shaping and nurturing the contemporary performance landscape over the last two decades.
Kate will use her residency to develop ALTAR, a new body of work investigating themes of death, devotion, and decomposition. This work will be comprised of miniature sculpture, installation, video, sound, and photography in order to confront our deep-seated fear and aversion to death, while simultaneously honouring the dying process.
https://www.kate-davis.com.au/
@theladykate
Helen Svoboda is an award-winning double bassist, vocalist, and composer with a practice grounded in experimental performance, abstract songwriting, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her current works explore language and lyrical structures in conjunction with traditional performance styles.
Throughout her residency, Helen will be exploring the intersection of language, memory, and vocal improvisation to reconnect with her Finnish heritage — drawing on her childhood experiences in the country and translating them into a performative context to reestablish a meaningful connection to culture and self.
http://www.helensvoboda.com
@helensvoboda_music