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Rural Utopias Assistant Producers: Spotlight on Elizabeth Pedler’s Team

Through our programming, we have the opportunity to work alongside many diverse artists to realise an ambitious series of public activations.

Elizabeth Pedler has been supported through her Rural Utopias residency by a team of Assistant Producers. Learn more about Kerry Dell’Agostino and Richard Davy.

Kerry Dell’Agostino is a farmer, emerging artist, and arts producer based in Wellstead. She has a background in permaculture, animal husbandry, and biodynamic farming practices. Splitting her time between breeding cattle, photography, writing, craft, and raising her daughter Esmae, Kerry has recently been assisting Elizabeth Pedler as a producer for the Spaced Rural Utopias Stage 2 project in Wellstead.

Farming for more than 20 years, Richard Davy manages a 5000-acre organic certified oat and cattle operation in Wellstead. His farming focus has been on quality food production without degrading his farming system and soil resources. Richard is also a leader in revegetation and the production of biological fertiliser to replace synthetic fertilisers, and he has hosted workshops to encourage innovation and improve knowledge of soil biology and regenerative farming. Richard is also a published poet and photographer, sharing his experiences of working closely with the land.

 

Images from top: Kerry Dell’Agostino and Richard Davy.

Explore our current programs

Know Thy Neighbour #3 (2021-23). Know Thy Neighbour #3 investigates notions of place, sites of interest, networks, and social relationships with partner communities.

Rural Utopias (2019-23). Rural Utopias is a program of residencies, exhibitions and professional development activities organised in partnership with 12 Western Australian rural and remote towns.