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| Lucy Wylie (Cherry) and Othy Willis. Photo by Kirsten Chow |
Lucy Wylie (Cherry) and Othy Willis are artists engaged in a perennial conversational collaborative practice. Our collaboration grew from inhabiting care for Frontyard Projects as Janitors. As collaborators we have written together for PLATYPUS: 00-02. Our artmaking and writing is an ongoing love-letter to shared practice and queer relationality.
"... During our residency at Gunyah, we wish to deepen our collaborating relationship through writing and shared meals, and involve a contemplation of land-based practice within the context of Worimi country. Through soaking in the storied walls of Gunyah from the artists before us we hope to shake up our creative processes, knowledges, and ways. We intend to write a collaborative article together, exploring how spaces like Frontyard serve as a creative commons for artists, dreaming of futures where shared arts-practices can flourish with radical trust. We imagine the writing would be centred within our time at Gunyah, reflecting on how it nourished the process. ..."
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| Lucy Wylie (Cherry). Photo by Teo Treloar |
Lucy Wylie (Cherry) is a white queer making art on unceded Gadigal land. Riverstone Literary Journal is their publishing project. They facilitate writing workshops and host open mic community poetry events and spend a lot of time in the bush. They tend to Frontyard Projects as a Janitor and have writing published in Cordite Poetry Review and PLATYPUS: 00-02 Energy. @ch3rrryyy333 riverstone.hotglue.me lucywylie.cargo.site
"... I'm looking forward to swimming everyday at Gunyah and getting to know the local birds and trees. I'd like to reflect on rigour and compassion within artistic practice. Writing this article with Othy will be at the fore, I also hope to continue a personal making/writing project exploring chronic pain. ..."
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| Othy Willis, photo: Kirsten Chow |
Othy’s practice navigates through relational practices of repair, dissecting, hacking and creating strange or interesting hybrids. They live on Wurundjeri Country, Warrandyte, VIC, transposing practices from other contexts onto their work: gardening, repairing, tending. Othy talks about tenderness a fair bit and they aim to embed it in the way we come to objects - becoming graceful as materials move through our bodies. othy.hotglue.me
"... Whenever I inhabit a place, I’m looking for how things have come together, if they are to come apart, perhaps I work to repair them, but within this is a consent making, holding relationship with place; Gunyah…a tending to, cleaning, yearning, a practice of where the mundane meets the sublime. ..."
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| Othy Willis, photo: Lucy Wylie |
