Julia Adzuki

Julia Adzuki is an artist fascinated by the temporal, ephemeral and
natural decay. She began her Fine Arts education at Victorian Collage of the Arts, Melbourne and contin-ued with studies at the University of Tasmania, School of Art Hobart.

Her first ice installation ‘Melt’ of cast ice dolls arms and embedded
hair was shown at Tasmania’s Side Space Gallery, 2000. In 2002, her tatted lace work ‘secrets of my great aunt May’ won the Zonta best textiles award.

In 2002 Julia began working with ICEHOTEL and has returned each winter since; creating suites, sculptures for ICEBAR International and teaching ice sculpting. She has also worked with ice in Greenland, Québec and Norway. Her dedication is to the development of snow and ice as contemporary art materials. She now calls the Torne River home.

Tara Badcock
Tara Badcock gained her Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours at the University of Tasmania in 1997. Since this time Tara has exhibited widely at local and international events and venues, also teaching workshops, undertaking Artists’ Residencies and self-initiated mentor-ships.

Tara was recently the first recipient of the Arts Tasmania Printmaking Workshop Residency grant, where she undertook a position at Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, in Montmatre, Paris. In October 2005 she undertook a residency and exhibition at the Troia Culture Centre, Cannakale University in Turkey.

Currently living and working between Tasmania and France, Tara Badcock seeks ways of creating an environment of "Portable Homeliness" by creating a series of fantastical tea cosies which form part of her "Tea cosy Revolution Manifesto", to be launched later in 2006.