Ebb+Flow Network Project
Ebb+Flow has evolved from a Touring and Residency Framework driven by Hub organisation, North Midlands Project and adopted by the Regional Arts Network.
Ebb+Flow sees multi-artform creatives from each of the WA regions (including Perth) explore the theme of Ebb+Flow with the Carnamah community in the Mid West region. This includes looking into how changes in regional areas are often temporary and how periods of decline and growth, drought and rain, hardship and prosperity are factors that ebb and flow outside of our control.
Each residency includes seven community workshops to be held in different towns, schools, hospitals and at Culture+Arts Community Days.
The three-year framework consists of:
- 2021 – Ten multi-artform creatives from across each of the WA regions undertake a six-week residency in Carnamah (Mid West) to deliver community workshops and a solo exhibition
- 2022 – Works created during each residency will focus on a joint exhibition, and the exhibition will tour each Network members’ locations across all nine regions
- 2023 – All artworks will be showcased in Perth
Find out more on the North Midlands Project website
Artist Development
The Regional Arts Network is working together to find opportunities to support the artists involved in the Ebb+Flow program.
With funds provided by Minderoo Foundation through the Regional Arts Network initiative, the Network collectively decided that they would celebrate the artists and build their professional capacity by:
- Providing professional development for the artists
- Coordinating a series of stories highlighting each of the artists
- Investment in the artists’ travel and freight expenses
Knowing that workshop delivery would be part of the Ebb+Flow program, the Network teamed up with Broome artist and educator Jacky Cheng to create a series of videos about workshop facilitation. The Network is delighted to provide these videos as a free resource to the wider arts sector. Click here to watch the videos.
