Makeshift

Comprising of two artists with backgrounds in graphic design, design teaching and sustainability, Tessa Rapaport and Karl Logge are emerging interdisciplinary artists whose collaborative practice also encompasses writing, research and curatorial projects.

In the last year and a half Makeshift have undertaken and completed a series of temporary, site-specific works that activate public spaces and encourage new ways of reading and interacting with urban and 'natural' environments. These have been large scale interdisciplinary works and have featured in visual arts festivals around Australia, including En Plein Air, a live residency and exhibition located in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens as part of the Next Wave Festival, 2008 and They talk of Disphorrea, again a combined residency and exhibition located in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs. Most recently, Tessa and Karl were involved with The hanging Gardens & Other Tales, an installation of over 50 borrowed pot plants hung in the foyer of Carriageworks, in Sydney, as part of the Underbelly 08 Festival.

The Bundanon residency will provide Makeshift with an opportunity to focus on researching and developing the solar-etching and printmaking side of their practice.