Artist Bio

The residency extends my ongoing inquiry into climatic zones, opening new material and conceptual directions through an immersion in the cool-temperate ecologies of Stanthorpe. The region’s granitic soils, distinctive flora and fauna, and the sculptural rock formations of Girraween National Park offer a rich site for sensory, ecological, cultural and historical investigation.

Working between studio and landscape, I will undertake walking practices, sensory mapping, ecological observation, field recording through sound, video and drawing, and conversations with local knowledge holders, artists and community members. I will invite local and regional interdisciplinary participants into dialogue and experimentation, building an evolving vocabulary of voices, textures, materials and rhythms that responds to place.

Drawing on my practice across textiles, contemporary art, sonic field composition, ecology, expanded cinema and place-based theatre design, the residency will support the development of conceptual and material prototypes for a new body of work across woven, sonic, video, sculptural and material studies. Investigating how ecological interdependence can be translated into embodied experiences.

The project seeks to reframe narratives of the Anthropocene through multispecies storytelling: a process of “re-worlding” that considers how practices of care, adaptation and coexistence emerge across diverse climatic zones.

I will engage local artists and community members through weekly open studios, conversations, collaborative inquiry and participatory activities. This period of immersion will foster meaningful exchange and contribute to Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery’s commitment to community connection, cultural dialogue and creative practice grounded in place.

Charlotte Haywood

Charlotte Haywood

Charlotte Haywood is an interdisciplinary artist (Bundjalung Country) cultivating collaboration and participation.  Her practice sits at the intersection of art, craft, theatre, film, sound, community, food and ecology; translating environmental phenomena into sensory experiences. Through research-led, process-driven projects, she explores coexistence and the self-organising nature of life.  She engages Earth-wise principles through materiality and processes of reciprocity.

Her projects look to spark curiosity, joy and interconnection. Positioning creative practice as a living methodology; witnessing and translating. Fostering understanding, empathy and awe. By mirroring nature’s systems, her practice embodies a tender activism of community and ecological care.

Haywood has exhibited and worked on projects in remote and regional Australia, Vanuatu, Thailand, India, Peru, Mexico and Japan.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including: Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award (2025), Mac Yapang Art Award (2025), ARTSPACE (2024) NSW, The Lock-Up (2024) NSW, Northsite Contemporary Arts (2023) Cairns, Ma’Umi Projects (2023) Japan, Outerspace (2023) QLD, Caloundra Regional Gallery (2022), National Still Life Prize (2021) NSW, Tweed Regional Gallery (2021), Caboolture Regional Gallery (2021), ARTISAN (2021), Lismore Regional Gallery (2024, 2020), Casa Lú (2020) Mexico City, Logan Art Gallery (2019), Wangaratta Regional Gallery  (2019), Australian Design Centre (2017), Ne Na’ Contemporary Art Space (2015) Thailand, Incinerator Art for Social Change Award (2015) VIC, Fishers Ghost Art Prize (2014), Sculpture by the Sea (2008, 2019) NSW, Powerhouse Museum (2008).

Her most recent Dance/Theatre productions include Production and Costume design for the outback Queensland-Winton based Crack-up Sisters DUSTY HOUR (2026), Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) WILDKSIN(2024, 2018), LOVE FOR ONE NIGHT (2022) by Julian Louis, INTO THE FOREST (2021-2022), DJURRA by Kirk Page, THE UNDERLIBRARY OF UNOFFICIAL HISTORIES (2021-22) and JOURNEY TO AN UNNAMED WORLD (2021) by Valley Lipcer.

She has worked within film and television on such productions as Jim Henson’s FARSCAPE (2001-2003), feature films THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE (2002), THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY (2003), LITTLE FISH (2004), SALVATION (2006), AUSTRALIA (2007), PRIME MOVER (2008) and most recently Director Sinem Saban and Rev Dr Gondarra’s documentary LUKU NGÄRRA: The Law of the Land (2022).

She is collected by the Powerhouse Museum, the National Film + Sound Archive of Australia, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Broken Hill Art Gallery and ARTBANK. She was shortlisted for the 2024 CREATE NSW + ARTSPACE Visual Arts Fellowship (VAFE), awarded the 2024 Open Cut Commission at the Broken Hill Art Gallery and Joyce Spencer Textiles Fellowship for her project Same Time/Same Place (COEXISTENCE); a MULTISPECIES community opera of the senses, shortlisted for the 2025 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award and awarded the Regional Arts NSW 2026 Windmill Trust Scholarship.