The Artist in the Park program is designed to give artists opportunities to access the Park’s amazing collection of flora, fauna, and naturalistic style exhibits in Darwin, Australia. The program serves to interact with and give a basic intro to the knowledge and experience of zookeepers and botanists. Artists are invited to interact with Park visitors and show their art practice, to get staff and visitors involved in their art practice through workshops and community art projects.
Artists will receive a greater level of access to the Park’s collection and staff, and for the residency period and interact with Wild Encounters free of charge. What is happening when you put artists against nature, what is an artist in nature. What is work that is colorful and playful? What is a beautiful technique when it comes to blending colors and if an artist’s work is to be seen as positive and bright. The program is open to a range of creative practices and platforms e.g. sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles and fiber, jewelry, photography, dance, theatre, text (writers and poets), sound (musicians and sound artists), and new & mixed media.
1. Support the creation of new work that is inspired by the animals, plants, and habitats.
2. Create environmental awareness among users of the park and a greater understanding of the relationships between plants, animals, and landscapes and showcase the processes that affect them through art, design, and creativity.
· Submission closing date – 30 November of each year
§ Current CV (no more than 2 pages)
§ 5 to 10 examples of work
Submissions can be emailed, mailed or delivered to:
Jasmine Jan
General Manager Visitor Services
Territory Wildlife Park
PO Box 445
Berry Springs NT 0838
PH: (08) 8988 7228
Email: jasmine.jan@nt.gov.au
As an example of creativity I would mention again, a Track Dance Company from Darwin, Australia, and their film „Aquarium“ produced as part of Tracks Choreographic Program 2014 in Australia, you can check it out at https://vimeo.com/400504087 by Video artist + Editor Zoe Scoglio. Dancers are like fish swimming through water, they do the human dancing forms in this film, move in and around in the frame of a water tank with real fishes at the Aquarium located at Territory Wildlife Park, Darwin. The film was made at Jess Devereux’s artist’s residency in 2014. This amazing dance film,, was put in the use for the artist-in-the-park Wildlife Park program in Australia and simply emits sparkle, with an attractive shadowy and experimental in, featuring local dancers, fish, turtles, aquarium life, pointing out all the symbolic features of underwater nature with nature of men. „ Nature is important,“ the dancers said! The film is like a wave, and perhaps inspires some reflection on our relationship with nature.
Just go to
https://territorywildlifepark.com.au/get-involved/artists-in-the-park-program