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Project artists are:
Mathieu Gallois
Caroline Comino
Vesna Trobec
Project partners are:
Real Estate Institute NSW
Habitat for Humanity
Project helpers are:
Poppy Dowsett
About Performance Space
Established in 1983, Performance Space is Australia’s national cultural agency for interdisciplinary arts. We support practices that explore the intersections between theatre, dance, performance, visual cultures, new media and sound, questioning assumptions about the relationship between artist and audience and engaging with the concerns of the ever-evolving society in which we live. Our program is comprised of four seasons and an interwoven program of residencies, professional development, presentation, exhibition, publication and discussion. Performance Space presents over 50 projects each year and works with over 300 artists. We are a founding tenant company of CarriageWorks Centre for Contemporary Art in Sydney. See website.
About Habitat for Humanity Australia
Habitat for Humanity have built nearly 300,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1.5 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter since their founding over 30 years ago. A new Habitat home is completed somewhere in the world every 24 minutes.
Habitat for Humanity Australia was established in 1988. Nationally, nearly 80 homes have been completed since 1991. Their vision statement is to create a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live. See website.
About the artist / undergraduate architect Mathieu Gallois
Mathieu Gallois graduated from the Institute of the Arts, Australian National University in 1996. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, participating in over 45 exhibitions. Gallois has received major Grants from the Australia Council, and has been selected for numerous national art awards. In 2003 he received a Samstag Scholarship which enabled him to complete a Masters Degree at Goldsmiths College in London U. In 2004 Gallois’ work was reviewed in Monument magazine by Jeff Gibson. In 2005 Gallois had a survey exhibition of his work at UTS gallery and exhibited at Shermans Gallery. Gallois completed a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University Technology Sydney in 2007, and launched the art / architecture project the Reincarnated McMansion Project on ABC Radio National’s by Design program in 2008.
See website.
About the artist / architecture graduate Caroline Comino
Caroline Comino completed a Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Sydney in 2005. Her honors thesis examined the crossover between installation art and architectural practice. Whilst studying Caroline was selected as part of the team to build 'The Cardboard House' as part of the Houses of the Future exhibition erected in the Opera House forecourt, which cemented a lasting interest in alternative methods of housing. In 2006 Caroline participated in the Next Wave festival as part of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Since graduating Caroline has worked for the Housing for Health program set up by Health Habitat looking at the link between health and housing conditions in both remote and regional Indigenous Communities; as well as in private practice both in Sydney and London. Caroline has her own topical design segment on the community radio station FBi.
About the artist / undergraduate architect Vesna Trobec
Vesna Trobec has been awarded scholarships to architecture masterclasses including the Glenn Murcutt masterclass in Australia; Global Studio in Vancouver, Canada and most recently Urban Design Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2007 Trobec received the Australian Institute of Architects traveling scholarship to investigate alternate and innovative uses of public spaces in urban and suburban New York City. In 2008 Trobec spent three months living with a remote community rebuilding their village on the east coast of Papua New Guinea with a group of selected students. The project won a World Community Architecture Award. Vesna Trobec completed a Bachelor of Design in Architecture at the University of Sydney in 2006. She currently teaches design at UNSW whilst finalising a Master of Architecture degree at the University of Sydney.
About the project helper/ graduate architect Poppi Dowsett
Poppy Dowsett graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2007. Part of that degree involved building a house in partnership with Habitat for Humanity in Suva, Fiji. She currently works in social housing.
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