In our programs we work with community partners to foster new and more productive modes of interaction between contemporary artists and communities and to promote a dialogue between regional, metropolitan, and international perspectives.

The Lake Grace Bushcare project will see 3,700 native seedlings planted around the town during the month of June. The plantings follow a Flora Survey of townsite remnant bush by local botanist Anne Rick which recorded 115 plant species. Included in the survey are eight acacia (wattle) species, eight types of melaleuca (paperbarks, honey-myrtles) and ten eucalypts species.

Bennett Miller has been working with the community of Mount Barker as part of Spaced’s Rural Utopias program. Here he shares an update.

We are thrilled to see Know Thy Neighbour #3 artist Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson announced as a joint winner in the Ellen José Art Award for Young Women.

Spaced artist Alana Hunt will be presenting part of her work on the Rural Utopias program this Thursday, 30th June.

This year NAIDOC week will be held 3 -10 July 2021.

Themed: Get Up! Stand Up!, Show Up! we are all encouraged to to champion institutional, structural, collaborative, and cooperative change while celebrating those who have already driven and led change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over generations.

Jo Darbyshire reflects on her recent work in the community of Lake Grace, where she presented her exhibition Rural Utopia/Radical Disappearance with Spaced.

Bennett Miller has been working with the community of Mount Barker as part of Spaced’s Rural Utopias program. Here he shares an update.

Celebrating the Margaret River community, its stories, its makers and its shapers.

If you are in the Margaret River area you can drop in to see the work made by Spaced artist Jacky Cheng and the community as part of our Rural Utopias program.

After a two-year hiatus, Sarah Rodigari returns to the community of Ravensthorpe for her Rural Utopias project as part of Spaced 4. She reflects here.

This weekend Spaced artist Jo Darbyshire opens with her exhibition Rural Utopia/Radical Disappearance at the Lake Grace Regional Artspace. This forms a component of Spaced’s core programming, Rural Utopias.

Join fellow residents of Victoria Park and surrounds for a gentle, creative workshop on the themes of home, place and identity led by artist Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and creative arts therapist Cara Phillips. This workshop forms part of Eshraghian-Haakansson’s residency in the Know Thy Neighbour #3 program.

With Fremantle Art Centre recently sharing their Groundwork artists, we are excited to see two names among the lineup from our own programming. Yabini Kickett and Bennett Miller have been part of our Know Thy Neighbour #3 and Rural Utopias residencies, respectively, and will continue to deliver work on these projects across the year.

We are happy to share the news that Spaced artist Alana Hunt has been granted an inaugural arts fellowship to join the 2022 Asialink Leaders program.

As part of UWA’s Empowering Communities Through Design masters unit coordinated by Lara Camilla Pinho, speakers from Know Thy Neighbour #3 will be discussing their work and reflecting on community engagement. ⠀⠀

Panellists will include Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and Amy Perejuan-Capone, with Mayma Awaida (Curator, Know Thy Neighbour #3) and Soula Veyradier (Director Programs, Spaced) as moderators.

In our programs we work with community partners to foster new and more productive modes of interaction between contemporary artists and communities and to promote a dialogue between regional, metropolitan, and international perspectives.

For the Rural Utopias residency, we have been generously supported by Salvatore (Sam) and Nigel, Margaret River locals and artisans.

Through Spaced’s Rural Utopias program, we have been working with Emerging Producer Francesco Geronazzo during Jacky Cheng’s residency in Margaret River.

Francesco Geronazzo lives and works in Margaret River, Western Australia and Castel del Rio in Italy, and teaches printmaking techniques through his studio Margaret River Printmaking

Rural Utopias artists Alana Hunt and Jacky Cheng have been included as finalists in the seventy-eight artists from across Australia shortlisted for the 2022 National Works on Paper.

Over the next weeks, we’ll be introducing our Know Thy Neighbour #3 artists, along with their community partners.

Here, we introduce Yabini Kickett who will be working with the Town of East Fremantle.

As part of Rural Utopias, Jacky Cheng working with the community of Margaret River will be facilitating a Japanese Stab Stitch Book Binding workshop.

Spaced Director Programs Soula Veyradier guest reviewer on the UWA Design Jury Week.