Artists

Campion Decent & Rae Kennedy are a collaborative writing team based in Candelo NSW, Yuin Country 

Campion is an award-winning playwright of many years standing. His most recent play, Unprecedented premiered at HotHouse Theatre and was subsequently shortlisted for the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and nominated for a 2024 AWGIE in the Stage – Adapted category. He has worked extensively in a regional context, most notably as Artistic Director of HotHouse Theatre.

Rae is a poet, storyteller and visual artist originating from Canada. Since 2013 the rural village of Candelo, has been her home and community. Her creative practice is deeply informed by the ordinary stories of the people, objects and land she resides amongst and within. In 2024 she co-wrote and performed Voice: a deconstruction in 13 movements, a collaboration with musician Robyn Martin, commissioned by Headland Writers Festival.
 

In Residence at Bundanon

Tell Us Everything is a community-focused collaboration encompassing multiple artforms in which Rae and Campion will co-create a series of interlinked new works responding to the lives and stories of the Candelo community in the NSW Bega Valley. In residence we plan to develop a shared dramaturgical approach in progressing to the next draft of our theatre script, interrogate the purpose and content of the proposed installation of recorded voices in juxtaposition with the developing theatre script, and curate/refine a potential exhibition of photographic portraits representing the people we have interviewed.