The UWA Conservatorium of Music is a vibrant centre for research in all areas of music, and has a thriving community of scholars engaged in robust disciplinary debates nationally and internationally.

Join Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson for a conversation in which she will discuss her approach to community-engaged practice, and the work that she developed for her participation in Know Thy Neighbour #3, which recently won her the Ellen José Art Award for Young Women.

Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.

Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.

Georgie Mattingley is currently working with the community of Karlkula / Kalgoorlie-Boulder. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

Here, Georgie shares an update.

Spaced will be attending the Asialink Regional // Regional programme of Festival Alliances across Australia and the Indo-Pacific in Darwin 10 and 11 August.

Nathan Gray has been working with the community of Roebourne as part of Spaced’s Rural Utopias program. Here he shares an update.

This symposium brings together artists, researchers, and organisers to yarn, present, and perform about their diverse arts practices and imagine creative approaches for the future of work in the visual arts sector. Participants will present creative ideas that challenge existing processes and structures to create more equitable, inclusive, and collaborative approaches that recognise and embrace the diverse cultural and social values in artistic and creative practices today.

We’re looking forward to hearing Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, who is an artist within our current Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, speak as one of the panellists at the Working with Communities: Artist Talk hosted by Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Through Spaced’s Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, Amy Perejuan-Capone works with the community of Melville.

Here, Amy shares an update.

Through Spaced’s Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, Yabini Kickett works with the community of East Fremantle.

Here, Yabini shares an update.

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 with Jo Darbyshire in Lake Grace, we have been generously supported by the Lake Grace Contemporary Art Space.

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.