Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024
Creative Australia
Studio #210
Artist
Tom Polo
Tom Polo works across painting and installation, creating material forms that capture exchanges between people. His practice draws from a rich accumulation of social encounters, keen observations, and personal histories, recording the emotional and performative relationships between the self and others within social, theatrical, and psychological spaces. Through a blend of abstraction, text, and figuration, Polo explores how conversation and gesture become embodied acts of portraiture, simultaneously masking and revealing the complexities of our inner worlds.
Tom Polo has exhibited work at Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), all in Australia, among others.
Tom Polo, I still thought you were looking, 2019, painting installation, dimensions variable. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Tom Polo, free fall, 2022, painting installation, dimensions variable. 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Tom Polo, The Most Elaborate Disguise, 2019, 40 mixed media works on paper and acrylic wall painting, 158 × 478 in. (401.32 × 1214.12 cm). The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tom Polo, If you want to, feel to, 2023, acrylic, Flashe and wax pastel on canvas, 71 × 54 in. (180.34 × 137.16 cm). Courtesy of AMES YAVUZ, New South Wales
Tom Polo, other options (a mask for a mask), 2022, acrylic, Flashe and wax pastel on canvas, 83 × 77 in. (210.82 × 195.58 cm). Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Melbourne
Residents from Australia
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Feb 28, 2025
Guadalupe Phillips
Studio #211
Artist
Paloma Contreras
Paloma Contreras Lomas works across various media, including film, drawing, writing, sculpture, and video. Her practice explores themes such as the landscape as a witness in Mexico, autofiction, and class horror. Through a blend of research and humor, and by weaving together genres like horror and science fiction, Contreras Lomas creates installations that immerse viewers in narratives shaped by her vision of Latin American political historiography.
Paloma Contreras Lomas has exhibited work at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, among others.
Paloma Contreras, Amar a Dios en tierra de indios, es oficio maternal, 2023, installation, dimensions variable
Paloma Contreras, Uno muere muchas veces, Lazarito, 2023, charcoal and graphite in canvas, 314 × 78 in. (797.56 × 198.12 cm)
Paloma Contreras, ¿Y usted cómo se supone que se llamaba?, 2024, oil on canvas, 473/16 × 473/16 in. (119.89 × 119.89 cm)
Paloma Contreras, La fiebre de oro, 2023, film, 23:31 min
Paloma Contreras, SIEDO antes SEIDO, 2023, sculpture made of plush and textile, 35 × 895/16 × 355/16 in. (88.9 × 226.82 × 89.66 cm)
Residents from Mexico
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #212
Artist
Ulrike Königshofer
Ulrike Königshofer is a visual artist based in Vienna whose work explores the visibility of the world around us. Through technical arrangements, she finds new ways to capture the most ephemeral qualities, like the ripples on a lake. Her pieces draw our attention to aspects of reality that often go unnoticed, exploring the boundaries of what can be depicted and reflecting on the nature of images themselves.
Ulrike Königshofer has exhibited work at Camera Austria, Austria; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; and Halle für Kunst, Austria, among others.
Ulrike Königshofer, Sunlight Traces, 2014, burn traces on paper, 19 × 4 in. (48.26 × 10.16 cm)
Ulrike Königshofer, Graphs, 2022-2023, silver gelatin prints, 15 × 19 in. (38.1 × 48.26 cm)
Ulrike Königshofer, Cast of Water, 2021, installation, 39 × 47 × 39 in. (99.06 × 119.38 × 99.06 cm)
Ulrike Königshofer, Shades of Glass, 2020, framed Photogram, 19 × 9 in. (48.26 × 22.86 cm)
Ulrike Königshofer, Empty Walls, 2023, pencil on paper, 55 × 39 in. (139.7 × 99.06 cm)
