SEEDFUND Residency – Alycia Bennett & Tara Pattenden
Interactive media, instrument-making, sound and performance, Bennett and Pattenden meet here for the first time.
In collaboration with Metro Arts and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Gallery, this SEEDFUND Residency connects Adelaide-based artist Alycia Bennett and Brisbane-based artist Tara Pattenden, offering time, space, resourcing and curatorial support to develop new ideas through process-led experimentation.
This also marks the beginning of an ongoing collaboration between Metro Arts (Brisbane) and ACE (Adelaide), building a shared platform for artists to develop ambitious, experimental work across contexts.
The first phase of the residency takes place at Metro Arts and will culminate in an open studio presentation of works in progress, with the residency continuing later in 2026 in Adelaide at ACE Gallery.
IN-DETAIL – BLOG POST
Read the In-detail blog post highlighting the artists time during the residency, challenges and outcomes, as well as what they plan for the next part of the residency in Adelaide with ACE gallery.
Read Here.
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SEEDFUND Residencies support artists to test ideas quickly, experimentally, and with low pressure. Artists receive space, funding for artist fees and project expenses, and creative guidance to explore new concepts, collaborations, and small-scale public outcomes.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alycia Bennett & Tara Pattenden’s SEEDFUND Residency is a collaboration between Metro Arts and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE). This SEED FUND Residency and Metro Arts Program is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its funding and advisory body.
Image Credits:
Banner image: Left – Alycia Bennett. Photo by Christopher Arblaster. Right – Tara Pattenden. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Tara Pattenden Headshot: Courtesy of the Artist.
Alycia Bennett Headshot: Courtesy of the Artist.
Alycia Bennett
Alycia Bennett (aka Anoname) is a multi-displinary artist based on Kaurna Land. Bennett is a graduate of Adelaide Central School of Art with Honours 2017. Their works spans across social practice, relational performance, tapestries, installation, sculpture, video and sound. Bennett’s practice investigates ideas surrounding commodification of bodies, surveillance, public and private space, and re-distribution of class and power. Their practice is informed by ideas of autonomy, self-sustaining communities and non-institutional learning. Bennett has exhibited locally/internationally; Guildhouse ARTWORKS, Art Informal (Philippines), ACE, Sister Gallery, Holy Rollers, FELTSpace, Format, Floating Goose, Incinerator Gallery, Watch This Space, and co-facilitated a number of activities in non-traditional spaces, and is Co-director of Adelaide ARI Sharehouse.
Tara Pattenden
Tara Pattenden is an artist and creative technologist working with tactile electronic instruments, programming, time based media and performance. She is the founder of Cyber Palace, a studio for creative technology workshops and Cyber Bunker, a project space for experimental practice in Meanjin. Tara is a PhD candidate at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, her project combines wearables with participatory practices to discover how costume-based, audience-worn instruments – with visually impactful and intuitive electronic interfaces – can enhance engagement and expression for coauthored audience engagement during participatory sound works.