Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / FEBRUARY <strong>2023</strong><br />
Julienne van Loon<br />
Australia<br />
www.juliennevanloon.com.au<br />
About<br />
My most recent book is The Thinking Woman. Published into<br />
the US, UK, Australia/New Zealand and Korean markets, it<br />
profiles the work of six leading women thinkers on topics<br />
relevant to everyday life: work, play, love, fear, friendship,<br />
and wonder. I'm also the author of three novels, including<br />
Road Story, which won The Australian/Vogel’s Award for an<br />
Australian writer under 35 years of age and was shortlisted<br />
for the Commonwealth First Book Prize. A recipient of<br />
fellowships and residencies with Asialink through the<br />
Australia-China Council, Bundanon, Varuna, Redgate Gallery<br />
(China), Banff Centre (Canada) and the International Writing<br />
Program at the University of Iowa (US), I live and work in<br />
Melbourne, also known as Naarm, Australia, where I teach<br />
in the creative writing program at RMIT University. During<br />
my residency at <strong>Arteles</strong>, I will be working on a developing<br />
non-fiction project exploring feminist literary practice as<br />
method, as well as the first draft of a new novel on the theme<br />
of dwelling justice.<br />
Silence. Practise. Comradery.<br />
The combination of regular group meditation, the quiet of<br />
deep winter in a beautiful landscape, and the goodwill and<br />
generosity of the resident artist community at <strong>Arteles</strong> made<br />
for a generative and productive month-long stay. My practise<br />
really flourished. I came away nourished, better read and<br />
with substantial progress made on key projects.<br />
The little drawing model (pictured), purchased along with<br />
some charcoal pencils in nearby Hämeenkyrö, took a new<br />
form each week, according to how I was feeling in relation<br />
to my practise. Here, the model walks a tightrope, balancing<br />
disappointment and excitement, as I read, edit and notate a<br />
long-form work-in-progress.<br />
During my stay, I was inspired by Sophie Howarth's book The<br />
Mindful Photographer (Thames & Hudson, 2022). Two quotes<br />
stood out:<br />
""Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity""<br />
(Simone Weil). I wanted to pay attention to both artistic and<br />
spiritual (Buddhist) practise while on retreat at <strong>Arteles</strong>. I<br />
came to understand that the integrity of such attention can<br />
be a form of generosity, both to oneself and to others.<br />
I also contemplated confidence in one's practise. Howarth<br />
quotes from John Daido Loori: ""When you learn to trust<br />
yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something<br />
through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it<br />
is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens<br />
just as you grow your hair. It grows."" I was privileged to<br />
catch a rare glimpse of such trust, on occasion, during my<br />
residency.