![]() ![]() Several hundred thousand people use testosterone for gender-affirming hormone therapy, according to an estimate from the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. It could become more difficult to get hormone therapy online It often indicates a user profile.Ī game developer named Kole says he prefers to get care online. You can’t really put a price on that, but any money towards it is great.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() “If you have the right time and solitude to do that, you end up with really interesting work. “One of the really import things in creative practice is the time and the space to make bad work and to make mistakes … to basically sift out and edit one’s own work in a space where you have the freedom to explore things,” he says. Hammond says this kind of respite is essential for artists. “I’ve never been more busy or tired in my life.” “I’ve been consistently working hard, and now it feels like things have been going really well for me … it’s happened to be timed with having a baby,” Johnson says. She is also a PhD candidate at the School of Art at RMIT University in Melbourne. ![]() She has two residencies lined up later this year, and in November she is showing her work in a solo exhibition at Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia). In March, Johnson completed the installation of her first permanent public sculpture in Bonnie Doon on the Great Victorian Rail Trail. Now what she wants is more time to reflect. “It was the exposure I had to other artists from various disciplines, and time to reflect on what I wanted to do that was the most valuable.” It’s the second time she has had to travel for a residency: in 2018 she drove to the southern highlands in NSW to complete two on-site stays for a residency at the Sturt Craft Centre, supported by a small stipend. She has applied for a stipend from the Australia Council for the Arts to support her staying in Melbourne part-time during the six-week period. Photograph: Fred Krohīut the residency, which offers a dedicated studio space and materials, as well as the opportunity to connect with other artists in the city, requires a two-and-a-half-hour commute. skip past newsletter promotionĬara Johnson with her first public sculpture, Remnant, which is installed along the Great Victorian Rail Trail at Bonnie Doon. She often needs to travel long distances to develop her career. “The main barrier would be that even if you are successful … people often have to step out of their life,” Hammond says.Ĭara Johnson, an artist from the Otway Ranges in south-west Victoria, is familiar with these challenges. But he says that such involvement is dependent on continued funding from local governments and state government agencies.Įven when funding is available, residencies can be exclusionary simply because they require artists to take time away. Hammond hopes that by partnering with artist-in-residence programs, galleries can offer exhibition space and industry networking opportunities to new artists. “If the place offering the residency doesn’t have the funding … it has to come from the artists, so essentially they’re paying for time, and that puts a kind of pressure on them,” he says. Many regional galleries and arts organisations have restarted their artistic residency programs after pausing during the pandemic.īut the director of Orange Regional Gallery, Brad Hammond, says that artists still face financial barriers in being able to take part. Most importantly, he says, the residency gave him the confidence to call himself an artist. They also met with the directors of regional galleries in Orange, Bathurst and Cowra, and visited local studios.Ītkinson says he now feels encouraged to seek out more opportunities, including entering sculpture prizes and applying to take part in open studio trails and exhibitions. The residency took place in February, with artists living and working in converted shearers quarters at the CORRIDOR project at Wyangala. ![]() Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter “Personally it gave me permission to start creating again.” “It was a massive boost to all three of us – to our confidence – to be recognised by the gallery as people worthy of this residency,” Atkinson says. The Lismore Regional Gallery selected three local artists for a 10-day residency supported by the Cowra-based regional arts organisation the CORRIDOR project, and Atkinson was on the list. After the floods, the momentum he had gained as a ceramicist faded.īut as the town started to recover, he was given a chance to begin again. ‘It gave me permission to start creating again’ … Luke Atkinson at the pottery wheel during his CORRIDOR project residency in converted shearers quarters at WyangalaĪtkinson had moved to Lismore from Sydney in 2018 and swapped a career in graphic design for a diploma in ceramics at the local Tafe. ![]()
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