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Artist-in-Residence Programme | Summer–Autumn 2025
This summer, Australian interdisciplinary artists Heath Wae and Tais Rose Wae undertook an immersive residency at Kelvedon Hall (Essex), a Grade I listed 18th-century estate layered with political, cultural, and design history.
Living and working on-site, the artists created a new body of work in response to the estate’s heritage, natural surroundings and architectural presence.
Grounded in ritual, ancestry, and material sensitivity, their practices intertwined in a collaboration that meditates on impermanence, memory, and the spiritual dimensions of place.
The body of work that emerged marks an evolution in Heath Wae’s practice, while continuing to hold space for the cyclical: emergence and decay, sensuality and stillness, the remembered and the imagined. In quiet dialogue, the paintings meet the woven forms of Tais Rose Wae, which evoke ancestral memory, intimacy, and spiritual connection. Together, the duo explores themes of inheritance and transience, tracing the porous boundaries between body, land, and time.
The residency culminates in a duo exhibition The Garden Silhouettes the Myth, that reimagines Kelvedon Hall’s layered cultural and physical terrain.