Constance is an off-site, project based A.R.I (Artist Run Initiative) based in nipaluna / Hobart. Constance ARI is focused on creating critical dialogues and engagement within, and beyond, the local Tasmanian arts community through supporting experimental and critical praxis.
We create paid opportunities for early career arts practitioners to develop and present innovative and experimental work in varied settings. Constance provides artists with critical support, resources, and audience engagement to realise quality projects.
Constance projects are situated in, and responsive to, a wide variety of sites. Our projects have occupied historic buildings, vacant real estate, underground spaces, city streets, arts festivals and partnered with conventional galleries.
Constance’s site-less model minimises ongoing administrative expenses, allowing us to position artist remuneration and production quality as the priority of all our projects. Furthermore, this model allows CONSTANCE to be flexible and adaptive, pushing the organisation into ambitious, new territory with every show.
Constance ARI works across Country cared for by the Palawa of lutruwita and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout so called Australia, as well as First Nations people from elsewhere, and their deep connection to the lands, skies and waterways over which sovereignty was never ceded.
We pay our respect to all Elders; we are grateful for their continued sharing of knowledge and Culture.
CONTACT US:
constance.director (at) gmail.com
ABN: 90 032 660 228
Constance ARI works across Country cared for by the Palawa of lutruwita and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout the so called ‘Australia’, as well as First Nations people from elsewhere, and their deep connection to the lands, skies and waterways over which sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to all Elders; we are grateful for their continued sharing of knowledge and Culture.
CONSTANCE ARI IS ASSISTED THROUGH ARTS TASMANIA BY THE MINISTER FOR THE ARTS
THE BOARD OF CONSTANCE 2024
Hannah Foley
Co-Chair
Hannah Foley is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in nipaluna/Hobart. Her process-driven practice considers the phenomenological and relational body; incorporating performance, installation, and sound, each work begins with embodied processes of gestural and lived investigation. Having completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) at the University of Tasmania, she is now undertaking doctorate research, drawing on hydrofeminist theory to generate modes of performing and scoring encounters with more-than-human bodies of water. Alongside her practice and research, Hannah is involved in tertiary arts education, and has previously worked for arts organisations and galleries including Salamanca Arts Centre.
Jade Irvine
Co-Chair
Jade Irvine is an artist and writer living in nipaluna. Her creative work centres on re-examining her cultural identity and articulating a sense of place through landscape. Jade has written for a number of arts publications including the National Gallery of Australia, ArtsHub, Assemble Papers, and un Magazine. She is currently working across digital mediums to produce audio and video content as part of her professional practice.
Dominique Gartlan
Treasurer
Dominique is a solicitor from nipaluna Hobart, currently based in naarm Melbourne. She loves the arts and is forging a career in arts/community focused legal practice. Having practised commercial law in lutruwita Tassie, she sought to gain experience in arts governance and management, and assumed the role of the Governance Advisor at ACMI in naarm. Shortly she will recommence legal practice as a solicitor at Consumer Affairs Victoria and assist in enforcing the rights and responsibilities of consumers and businesses, including incorporated associations such as Constance ARI! Dom holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Tasmania. She previously held the office of Public Officer and is the current Treasurer of Constance ARI.
Josh Prouse
Public Officer
Josh is a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, working and living in the mountains of Glenlusk, in the south of lutruwita. They work with their hands, specialising in the use of reclaimed metals, incorporating blacksmithing and jewellery techniques into their work, with an emphasis on the act of making. Josh’s work focuses on the histories of the colonised island known as lutruwita/Tasmania - examining these narratives through the scope of an Indigenous person, reworking found materials, extruding the knowledge they hold. Josh examines injustices of the past in a contemporary setting, appropriating skills and materials typically associated with the industrial industries that helped build this colonised island. Through this process they have formed their own making- and material-language, defining their practice under ‘BLAKsmith’. Outside of their arts practice, Josh works in Cultural Collections at the University of Tasmania, and as a technician at Plimsoll Gallery.
Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie
Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie is a multidisciplinary artist, curator & community development worker based in nipaluna (Hobart), lutruwita (Tasmania). Her creative practice is responsive and explores belonging and cultural heritage in contemporary Australia. She draws on personal experience and understanding of diasporic identity and cultural dislocation to engage with broader conversations on the same. Her curatorial practice is primarily concerned with addressing gender and cultural diversity imbalances in the arts sector.
Chris Arneaud-Clarke
Chris Arneaud-Clarke is a writer and critic. He has performed at LanFranchi’s Memorial Discotheque, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Melbourne Now, and his writing has appeared in Art + Australia magazine.
Nani Graddon
Nani Graddon is an emerging artist based in Nipaluna (Hobart) who is currently working out of Good Grief studios. She holds a bachelor of Fine Arts with first class honours from UNSW Art and Design, and has worked collaboratively in Sydney, Nipaluna, and Glasgow, organising, and exhibiting in group shows.
Emma Hamasaki
Emma is an up-and-coming social scientist and science communicator based in Nipaluna (Hobart), lutruwita (Tasmania). She completed her degree in a Bachelor of Marine and Antarctic sciences (BmarAntSc) and is now involved in a multidisciplinary projects which explore the way science can be communicated by using creative and alternative mediums. She is passionate about discovering different perspectives and is looking at ways to bridge the gap between science and art.
Yumemi Hiraki
Yumemi is a multidisciplinary artist and youth arts worker based in nipaluna (Hobart), with a rapidly growing interest in community-based arts, education, and socially engaged practices. Her works and collaborations are often process-driven, posing intimate offerings and intersections of memory, nostalgia, cultural practice and an emotional response to site. Yumemi uses her practice as personal interventions of vulnerability, confrontation and reflection, that long to connect with a deeper sense of self.
Tüli Morris-Merkel
Tüli Morris-Merkel is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, creating and facilitating in Nipaluna/Hobart. Currently undertaking their second year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University Of Tasmania, Tüli works with illustrative motifs using mediums such as printmaking, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, music and occasionally video, as a way of storytelling. Their practice echoes a passion for D.I.Y and an experimental attitude to making, adaptation, learning and losing themselves in the act of creativity.
Cassie Sullivan
Cassie Sullivan is a lutruwita/Tasmanian Indigenous contemporary emerging artist living and working on Melukerdee Country. Cassie has a responsive, intimate and experimental arts practice that crosses disciplines of moving image, photography, writing, sound, installation and printmaking. She graduated from University of Tasmania with a bachelor of Fine Arts with honours (first class) in 2021 and has exhibited both locally and interstate.
Constance ARI works across Country cared for by the Palawa of lutruwita and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout the so called ‘Australia’, as well as First Nations people from elsewhere, and their deep connection to the lands, skies and waterways over which sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to all Elders; we are grateful for their continued sharing of knowledge and Culture.
CONSTANCE ARI IS ASSISTED THROUGH ARTS TASMANIA BY THE MINISTER FOR THE ARTS
PROPOSALS:
Do you have a project you’d like to propose to Constance ARI? Email us with the below information.
We accept expressions of interest from experimental and contemporary artists and curators year round. Submissions can be from individuals or groups, in any medium, may be developmental in nature, or may involve a future body of work. We are open to ideas that may be presented in the off site, online, or part of a public program.
Things to keep in mind
- The exhibition program is developed at least 12 – 18 months in advance, but if there is a specific reason why a project has a particular timeframe you can let us know in your submission
- Projects will be developed in close contact with our board
- Budgets available to support projects are limited and will be negotiated with the board, or the applicant will need to seek funding
Eligibility
- We welcome EOIs from artists in diverse communities – if you have any questions or require assistance please contact us. We will preference artists and curtors who work within or collaborate with Tasmanian practitioners in some capacity.
Submissions
- A one page description of the concept, proposed artwork/s and the curatorial framework of the exhibition/project. You may like to consider where and how the work will be installed
- One page CV (pdf) per participant
- Visual support material:
- Up to 12 clearly labelled images as a single pdf OR a URL to sound/video support material of no more than 5 minutes
- Support material in the form of relevant published writing by the applicant can be included as a single PDF or URL (optional)
Constance ARI works across Country cared for by the Palawa of lutruwita and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout the so called ‘Australia’, as well as First Nations people from elsewhere, and their deep connection to the lands, skies and waterways over which sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to all Elders; we are grateful for their continued sharing of knowledge and Culture.
CONSTANCE ARI IS ASSISTED THROUGH ARTS TASMANIA BY THE MINISTER FOR THE ARTS
VOLUNTEER WITH US!
Constance is governed and operated by a volunteer board. Working with an off-site model and operating primarily on public funding, means that we rely upon the vital efforts of volunteers to ensure the successful delivery of Constance projects. In the past, volunteers have generously given their time in the capacity of bar work, invigilation, and install assistance, as well as undertaking project specific tasks. Our volunteers share a keen interest in the arts, and bring their skills, expertise and passion to each of our projects. We recognise and appreciate the value of our volunteer community, and aim to offer reciprocal value to our volunteers.
We are currently developing a new volunteers program, which centres reciprocity and exchange. We would love to hear from you about you would like to see happening in this space! Are there skills you would like to learn? Are you more interested in making friends? Let us know!
Thank you for your interest in working with Constance, and we look forward to connecting with you soon.
The Constance Board
EOI - Link to form
If you are unable to use this form, you can email us at constance.director (at) gmail.com
Constance ARI works across Country cared for by the Palawa of lutruwita and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout the so called ‘Australia’, as well as First Nations people from elsewhere, and their deep connection to the lands, skies and waterways over which sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to all Elders; we are grateful for their continued sharing of knowledge and Culture.
CONSTANCE ARI IS ASSISTED THROUGH ARTS TASMANIA BY THE MINISTER FOR THE ARTS