Bundanon

Agnieszka Golda and Jo Law have been collaborating for 7 years and have an extensive track record of both exhibitions and critical writings that engage the public in relational place-based and environmental storytelling.

They work with a range of researchers and scientists to combine handmade textile techniques, novel technologies, and science to create large-scale artworks. Their projects include Twilight States (2016) at Bundanon’s Siteworks: Ghostings, Spinning World (2018-9) at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Alchemical Worlds (2021) at the Wollongong Art Gallery, and Alchemical Worlds: Projects at the Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong.

In Residence at Bundanon

We will develop a co-authored book proposal that focuses on the transformative process of making to explore the cultural and familial connectedness with the place. The departure point is the stories of our grandmothers: a matriarch sheltering her family from the oppressive Soviet regime and Martial Law in Poland, and a widow and mother of nine making ends meet as a dressmaker in British Hong Kong. The aim is to unfold and entangle these multilayered stories through creative non-fiction writing, hand-drawn illustrations and archival photographs, linking stories of textile artefacts and making as relational practices that tether us to places, spaces, and times.