Queensland’s Wet Tropics will be the focus of a special publication produced through an artist-in-residence initiative highlighting Australia’s World Heritage sites.
Brisbane-based literary magazine Science Write Now was one of three recipients of $50,000 Creative Australia grants through its Australian World Heritage Residency Program.
The free online magazine, dedicated to creative writing and art inspired by science, will take eight writers to the Wet Tropics in the State’s Far North for an 11-day residency to engage with the local environments and cultures for a 2027 planned edition The Hot Wet North.
In a statement Creative Australia said writers would work on commissioned pieces throughout the residency and present their written works in an event in Cairns.
Southwest Queensland-based Bidjara photographer Michael Cook was another grant recipient and will develop a new creative project on k’Gari over his year-long residency.
“Drawing on his own knowledge of place and working closely with the Butchulla people, Michael will examine the early contact with the First Fleet and subsequent aftermath of colonisation on the island to culminate in a new photographic series,” Creative Australia stated.
The third recipient was Bathurst artist Jonathan Jones, a member of the Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi peoples of south-east Australia, who will live on Wiradyuri Country within the Gardens of Stone National Park in the Greater Blue Mountains for 21 days alongside elders and environmentalists to learn about the site and the issues faced by the changing climate and produce nature tracks and a series of free public talks.
