ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Assemblage’s Artist in Residence (AiR) Program engages leading creatives from Australia to extend the Centre’s vision of creative practice research that empowers people to live better lives; enriched by art and culture, marked by creative care of each other and our environment, and new futures for all.

2025 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE basil hogios

Basil joins the Centre as an accomplished composer, architect, music producer, sound designer, and audio technologist. He has worked internationally across film, television, performing arts, and audio-visual installation.

Earlier in 2025, he commenced his proposed project “Re-Present : Re-Transmit” — a new creative work investigating the potential role of immersive audio in the musical dramaturgies of text-based drama performance, and its implications for the intersection of live theatrical performance within immersive environments.

Drawing on the research infrastructure of The Cube, Basil and Assemblage’s Dr Chris Hurrell have already delivered a proof-of-concept employing ambisonic (3D) audio in the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s “lost music” from The Tempest. The next phase seeks to harness the discoveries made through exploring this technology in a historical context to inform new contemporary work, by creating a methodology for performer interaction with immersive sound design.

Basil’s project offers Assemblage the opportunity to expand and adapt The Cube Ambisonic Studio array for use in live performance and storytelling.

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Previous Artists
Assemblage runs an Artist in Residence programme each year which is the result of a competitive application process. Proposals for the AiR are invited from Artists of all disciplines. The two – three month residency is designed to benefit the chosen artist as well as our students and researchers. Their work is allied to the major research themes of Assemblage.

The program draws up-and-coming artists to Flinders University to conduct and share research activities that examines and extends creative practice. The program is an exceptional opportunity for creative arts practitioners to work collaboratively with creative arts staff and students at Flinders University. It provides the time and facilities for arts practitioners to conceptualise and develop new work. It supports cultural and artistic exchange, experimentation, creative ideas and innovative creative practice research.

The AiR program enables artists to undertake innovative creative practice whilst contributing to the transdisciplinary research culture across Flinders. Artists are welcomed into the College community, and are expected to collaborate with Flinders academics, present seminars or guest lectures, and engage with HDR students.

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2024 Artist in Residence
Lawrence Ashford

Dr Lawrence Ashford conducted a pilot project which explored participant experiences of narrative agency within interactive performances set in a virtual reality environment, and their potential application to healthcare settings.

Lawrie will worked across The Void and the Games Research Lab, and collaborated with staff in VEED and Drama to continue his exciting interdisciplinary arts practice.

See more of Sarah's work here.

2023 Artist in Residence
Sarah Neville

Sarah Neville is a choreographer, experience creator and researcher who devises new media performance, instigates inter-disciplinary practices.

We were so excited to work with Sarah! Her project focused on exploring the capacities of VR and AR to assist with mobility and balance (including after brain injury). Sarah’s project was co-supported by ArtsSA and ANAT (Australian Network of Arts and Technology).

Sarah's work connects not only to our work with creative technology and VR and AR but also with Assemblage’s connection to and support for the arts and health work. Sarah’s project Agile Embodiment is an artistic research project investigating virtual reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications for mobility, balance and connecting with the joy of dancing.

With the support of Jason and Cam in The VOID, Sarah used her choreographic tools applied in immersive digital environments (mindfulness, wayfinding, digital kinship and guided movement) along with the VOID’s Motion Capture studio and Unreal game engine.

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2022 Sound Artist in Residence
Dr Jesse Budel

Jesse Budel gave a stellar performance in the Ambisonic Sound Studio at the 2022 Flinders Festival of Creative Arts. Presenting his work Mandala, Jesse delivered 8 listening sessions and his final Artist in Residence presentation during the festivities.

On the night of his final presentation, guests (staff, industry reps, HDRs) braved the stormy weather and learnt about Jesse’s craft and the possibilities he discovered in the studio.

Mandala is Jesse’s ambisonic soundscape composition that he created in his artist residency at Assemblage. The piece metaphorically draws on the Tibetan Buddhist conception of the mandala as a three-dimensional projection of a particular deity's palatial residence.

Celebrating the soundscapes of South Australian national parks, Mandala is concerned with cultivating respect and reverence for their resident other-than-human inhabitants.

Congratulations, Jesse! He went on to gain a prestigious Arts South Australia Fellowship.

Jesse was awarded the Fellowship for the project titled “Building a Higher Order Ambisonic Studio Practice”. As a mid-career artist, Jesse has been granted $50,000 to extend his professional practice and contribute to the arts and cultural ecology in South Australia. Click here to find out more.

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2021 Environmental and Digital Artist in Residence
Rosina Possingham

Rosina is developing a very exciting VR project ‘Herding Caterpillars’ which is a creative digital approach to telling the story of the Chequered Copper Butterfly and its symbiotic relationship to a particular species of ant along with the flower of the Oxalis plant. These species are found in Adelaide, specifically in Nantu Wama/Lefevre Park where Rosina will be mapping trees using photogrammetry.

Rosina’s vision is to transform this basic material using actors, motion capture and 3D animation to create a dizzying, non-linear experience of this micro-ecosystem. To complete the project, Rosina will be working with local butterfly specialist Jerry Butler along with Jason and Cam in the Flinders Void. We’re eager to see how Rosina will bring her own unique artistic vision to bear on this eco-narrative.

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2021 Artist in Residence
Liam Somerville

Liam Somerville is a cinematographer and video artist living and working on Kaurna Land, South Australia. He graduated from the University of South Australia in 2011 with a Bachelor of Digital Media Arts, specialising in film and animation. Since then Liam has been committed to the exploration of the moving image and is obsessed with distortion and manipulation of digital visual realities. His video work plays with human interaction in the digital world by injecting human processing into virtual/digital realms by use of game engines like Unreal Engine, node-based coding and a range of interactive sensors and hardware. Liam’s experimental nature means that his work is forever evolving as new tools, techniques or technologies are discovered and introduced into the workflow.

For his residency at Flinders, Liam teamed up again with long-time collaborator Michael Ellingford who created the interactive techno soundtrack for his project Eschatech. They have worked together on multiple projects over the years and have developed a deep artistic connection. Michael has written, recorded, mixed and released music spanning genres from techno, noise, experimental and doom metal.

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2020 Artist in Residence
Kate Power

Kate is an Adelaide-based artist and writer whose practice embraces video, performance, textiles, sculpture and installation. She observes social environments to think about how seemingly insignificant moments affect us psychologically and physiologically. Over a period of 2 months Kate developed a new project titled Mush to Muscle that allied her sculpture practice with embodiment and the choreographic. Over this time she was able to make connections to staff, researchers and students, drawing on the facilities available to her at our university.

“I’m thrilled to be selected as the first artist-in-residence at Assemblage. The time to deep dive into my new project, while being part of a diverse community, was an incredible opportunity to expand my knowledge and creative approaches. While at Flinders I worked on a new performance project that will use text, movement and sculpture to research connections between emotions and the gut. Drawing on the writings of philosopher Sianne Ngai, poet Claudia Rankine and queer theorist Sara Ahmed, this new work asks how patriarchal control is processed and stored in the body. I explored the Medical Centre, Flinders University Museum of Art, the creative writing department and connected with academics and students who were interested in similar themes of intersectional research.” - Kate Power