Celebrating our 2024 Paris Residency Fellows

A gathering to celebrate our 2024 Nicholas and Angela Curtis Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellows

Join us for food and drinks, and an opportunity to meet our four Fellows, and learn more about the exciting research projects they have planned for Paris in 2024.

About the Fellowship

Each year, the Power Institute offers four Fellowships to artists, scholars and other art workers to spend three months at our studio at the Cité des Arts Internationale in Paris. Since 1997, more than seventy residencies have been awarded. The Fellowship covers the rental fee for the studio for 3 months. Residency winners will also receive $6,000 towards travel and living expenses.

The Fellowships are made possible thanks to the generous support of Nicholas Curtis AM and Angela Curtis.

Our 2024 Fellows:

Amala Groom is a Wiradyuri conceptual artist who employs a Wiradyuri based ontology and embodied research-based methodology that considers traditional cultural practice and academia with formal research as a whole of person approach as both inquiry and investigation in the actual and literal sense. During her time in Paris, Amala intends to research the intersection of Surrealism and Indigeneity, investigating the archives and collections at the Centre Pompidou, the Espace Dalí and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Gail Priest is a sound artist, curator and writer living on the land of the Darug and Gundungurra people now known as Katoomba, NSW. Her practice encompasses performance, recording, sound design for dance and theatre, installation, curation and writing. During her time in Paris, Gail plans to to study the rich history of musique concrète as developed by sound artist, composer and radio producer Pierre Schaeffer, exploring the Institut Mémoires de l'Édition Contemporaine (L’IMEC) in the Ardenne Abbey in Caen, the Bibliothèque Sigmund Freud, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, and the Groupe de Recherche Musicales (which Schaeffer founded in 1951).

Anthony Bond OAM is a freelance writer and curator. He was formerly the Director Curatorial at the Art Gallery of NSW where he was responsible for collecting and displaying International contemporary art 1984 - 2013. In Paris, Anthony will pursue a project on the history of the avant-garde in Europe and Australia, accessing archives at the Centre Pompidou and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and conducting interviews with artists and gallerists.

Blythe Worthy is a sessional academic in the discipline of Film Studies at the University of Sydney and works predominantly in the fields of transnational television and adaptation theory. Blythe will use her time in Paris to research the influence of 1960s Parisian critical theory on the transnational television sphere, and on female directors in Australia, France and India. Blythe will research at The Cité de Mémoire, The Picture Factory and LTC Patrimoine, as well as the Institut National de l'audiovisuel, the Cinémathèque Française and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Learn more about our the Residency and each of our Fellows here.