The Heritage Collective announces inaugural Artist in Residence: Angela Rossen

Angela Rossen is both an artist and a biodiversity educator. As well as her studio practice, she has worked with marine biologists in the School of the Biological Sciences at UWA for fifteen years as a science communicator. She also holds the position of Adjunct Artist with the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Whilst working alongside her scientific colleagues Angela has created an opus of artworks on near shore marine biodiversity. Her work can be seen on her website www.angelarossen.com

Angela designs and delivers biodiversity festivals and events with schools and communities throughout metropolitan, regional and remote Western Australia.

Her projects bring children, their families and their wider communities out into nature to discover, observe and record the living things in their own environment. Using the tools of both art and science she finds exciting ways to grow curiosity and a greater understanding of our shared environment.

As Artist in Residence with The Heritage Collective, Angela will be inviting with people from all walks of life throughout the community, local schools, disability support organisations and the resident community at Curtin Heritage Living to take part in a program of exciting events over the coming months.

Throughout the events participants will undertake a biodiversity survey of the plants and animals of the coast and near shore marine environment. This will include field days with naturalist and conservation organisations, nature studies painting and photography workshops, incursions and excursions with schools, presentations by specialists on the complexity and beauty of the marine and coastal environment, family discovery mornings on the beach and community biodiversity survey field events. The residency will conclude with a survey exhibition of nature studies created by the participants documenting all the living things of the coastal environment.

Follow Angela’s journey with the local community via our Artist in Residence page.

Workshop series information:

Angela will be conducting painting workshops on the last Sunday of each month (June, July, August 2024), for participants 16 years and older.

The first will be held in the Heritage Collective’s Makerspace on Sunday 30 June between 1 – 4pm.

Angela will also offer children’s (8-12 yrs) art workshops during the July school holidays on Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 July between 9am – 12noon.

Artist in Residence Series – Education talk will be held in The Heritage Theatre on Sunday 11August and Sunday 18 August between 4pm and 6pm.

Angela will also offer a Painting morning for Non-Painters in The Heritage Marker Space on Wednesday 14 August between 9am and 12pm.

Registrations are available on the Heritage Collective’s Events webpage.