Meet Our Residents
Meet Our Residents
2024
Trinity Clements-Clark
American Writer
When not working on her writing practice, Trinity Clements-Clark is a stay-at-home mother of two children under the age of five, so quiet time alone with her creative work is especially precious! During her residency, she continued to work on her fantasy manuscript, honing down character arc/development, leaning into specificity in world-building, and drawing
inspiration from the Studio Faire environment.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Kimberlea Bass
American Artist
We welcomed back Kimberlea Bass for her second residency this year. Kimberlea is a mixed-media Artist & Photographer based in Texas, who creates textural pieces, recalling personal histories for inspiration. As well as creating new personal works, she also started the process of working on a collaboration with Writer Berna Mason, whom she met in 2022 at Studio Faire. Coordinating their residencies to coincide once again enabled them to put their heads together and get the ball rolling on a new joint project.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Berna Mason
American Writer
Berna Mason had two different aims for her second residency at Studio Faire, one being to continue to work on her memoir, which tells very personal tales from her past life as a midwife and her ongoing fight for sexual and reproductive healthcare. Secondly, she wanted to start the process of a collaborative project with visual artist Kimberlea Bass, who was her fellow resident both back in 2022, when bonds were forged, and again this year, in 2024.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Carla Rokes
American Artist
Carla Rokes is a multidisciplinary artist, blending several practices together including collage, drawing, painting, digital, and film. She took a break from her employment teaching studio art at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where she currently serves as Director of the Art program, to make the time for a short residency, during which she produced a series of small-scale abstractions under the theme of “eco-anxiety”.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Molly Larkey
American Artist & Writer
Based in Los Angeles, Molly Larkey has exhibited their works of art in museums and galleries internationally, including exhibitions at MoMA PS1 (New York), Saatchi Gallery (London) and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art (Bentonville, Arkansas). Their writing has been published with Los Angeles Review of Books, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), and Haunt Journal of Art. Their residency was spent writing for an ongoing multi-media project called “Autobiography of No Place”, which is loosely based on Molly’s autobiography.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Molly Prather
American Creative Leader, Scriptwriter and Actress
For the most part, Molly Prather works as a script ‘doctor/fixer’ who is hired to assist writers and artists articulate their vision, with a particular passion for collaborating on meaningful forms of storytelling to create opportunity and representation for queer, BIPOC and femme identifying people. During her residency she took time out to write her own script inspired by W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) an off shoot of the Radical Feminist movement of 1968.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Jillian Schultz
American Producer, Community Organizer & Consultant
With twenty years experience of working at the intersection of art and activism, Jillian Schultz’s career is firmly rooted in using art as a catalyst for social change and building communities. During her residency, she worked on research, planning and writing for the documentary film she is currently producing, in preparation for a production trip and interview shoot at the Venice Biennale. The documentary focuses on the life and work of Artist, educator, and nun, Sister Corita Kent, who captivated mid-century America with her vibrant pop art and radical ideas.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Austin Sanchez-Moran
American Poet
Austin Sanchez-Moran is a teacher and Pushcart Prize nominated writer who received his MFA in Poetry from George Mason University. His first poetry collection is Suburban Sutras (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and his first chapbook, Rhinocerotica (Backbone Press, 2022), was selected by Tyree Daye as winner of the 4th Annual Backbone Press Chapbook Competition. His residency offered him the space to read, write, and edit his new collection.
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Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Katie Mawson
English Artist
Returning for a second residency, Katie Mawson arrived with a case full of vintage book covers, spanning all the colours of the rainbow. She works with these cloths on boards, cutting, arranging and rearranging colour and shape combinations until she feels a balance has been found. Having the space to lay out all of her covers and see the full array of colours at once gave Katie an ‘epiphany’ and the inspiration for new and original colour combinations.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Hilary Brougher
American Writer & Director
Hilary Brougher is a screenwriter and director of feature films, best known for ‘Stephanie Daley’ (starring Tilda Swinton). This film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where it won The Waldo Salt Award for Screenwriting, and Best Director at the Milan International Film Festival. Her My most recent feature, ‘South Mountain’ premiered at SXSW and won a Grand Jury Award from the Nantucket Film Festival in 2019. She came to Studio Faire to complete an original feature screenplay for a psychological horror.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Raymond Yeager
American Artist
Raymond Yeager took a break from his work as a Professor of Foundation Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design to travel to France with two of his pinhole cameras. This gave him the opportunity to respond to the property and the environment in a unique way. He also worked on some sketches in the grounds and the town and captured more ephemeral and abstract images through digital photography (reflections, shadows, patterns,..). He left with a fresh portfolio of images that began their life at Studio Faire, but will continue to develop long after his residency.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Linda Kaye
American Poet & Filmmaker
Former psychologist and social worker, Linda Kaye now writes personal, experiential poetry, creates documentary films, curates a monthly poetry column titled ‘Poets Place’ for the online publication laartnews.com and regularly produces spoken word and art events throughout the Los Angeles area. Whilst in residence, she continued to write and publish her poetry column, but also reserved valuable time and space to work on her memoir.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Maria Williams
American Writer
The author of ‘White Doe’ (Winner of the Verse Daily Prize and nominated Editors Pick for Publisher’s Weekly), ‘A Love Letter to Say There Is No Love’ (FutureCycle Press), and a Pushcart Prize nominee, Maria Williams has long been a writer who toggles between genres, writing poems, essays, and fiction, often dealing with issues of home, family relationships and our connection to the natural world. At Studio Faire, Maria’s main focus was on a short story collection, centring around the theme of disappearance.
Janet Fennell
British/NZ/Australian Writer
Having spent the past 15 years teaching others to write, Janet Fennell felt that now was the time to return to nurturing her own talent as a writer, something she had had much success with many years ago, so sought a residency that would support her back into that creative world. Her ambitious project was a trilogy of novels concerning the life, loves, and legacy of a painter and plantswoman, and her home in the Blue Mountains of NSW.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Rob Kitsos
American Dance Artist
Rob Kitsos is an acclaimed dancer, dance instructor, performing artist and choreographer, living and working in Vancouver, Canada. His residency enabled him to develop his current line of research Moving Matter, a choreographic project that explores specific materials and spaces in-depth to inspire short film, installation and live performance. His focus was our Garage Studio and you can see some of the results of his residency here (including a collaboration with poet and fellow resident, Winston Lê). He also spent time developing a complementary website for this project.
Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.
Winston Lê
Vietnamese-Chinese Poet
Travelling to France from Langley, Canada, Winston Lê’s residency gave him quiet time to focus on developing experimental poems inspired by the creative works of botanical artist, Katrina Vera Wong, who makes Frankenflora: imagined flower hybrids made from disparate parts of dried or pressed plants, creating new specimens that do not exist in nature. Through this collaboration, they aim to create a chapbook which combines his words and her constructions into Frankenflora Morphologues. He also spent time on a short collaboration with dancer and fellow resident Rob Kitsos (see above).
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Photo by Colin Usher at Studio Faire.