In May 2026, artist Nick Comino and I undertook a week-long residency at Bundanon, on the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales. Working within a shared studio environment from 11–17 May, we developed parallel yet complementary practices that explored the relationship between materiality, space, sound and gesture.
The studio offered much needed space. I installed a series of ceramic platters and spherical forms, activating them as resonant sound objects through the use of transducers. These vessels functioned simultaneously as sculptural forms and acoustic bodies, allowing me to investigate the sonic potential of ceramics and their capacity to shape the sound. Alongside this installation, Nick Comino utilised the studio as a site for drawing, producing a body of large-scale oil stick works in direct response to the landscape and atmosphere of Bundanon.
The residency provided an invaluable period of concentrated research and development. During this time I undertook field recordings across the Bundanon landscape and began the final composition of the sound material that would later form the soundscape for Metaxi, our joint exhibition at Damien Minton Presents, Sydney. The residency allowed for an immersive process of listening, recording and composition, in which environmental sounds, resonant ceramics and electronic processing were brought together into a cohesive sonic work.
Bundanon offered the time, space and isolation necessary to develop these ideas with a level of focus rarely possible within everyday studio practice. The work produced during the residency became a significant foundation for Metaxi, informing both its sonic language and its broader exploration of resonance, memory, landscape and material transformation.
