Artists-in-Residence at Go Troppo Arts Festival, Port Douglas.This year's artists-in-residence, Adele Outteridge and Wim de Vos, are very comfortable in Port Douglas, having been involved in residencies through Port Douglas Gallery of Fine Art in past years. They have established a network of friends in the area and are delighted to be returning once again. As business partners, Adele and Wim share a teaching studio in Brisbane as well as exhibiting and travelling widely. Their breadth of experience across artforms and with students equips them well for their ten days of exhibiting, demonstrating and teaching as artists-in-residence in Port Douglas. Adele Outteridge
Adele Outteridge, book artist, printmaker and sculptor, gained her BSc from the University of Melbourne in 1967 after which she worked as an Experimental Scientist with CSIRO. She studied with the School of Colour and Design in Sydney between 1984 and 1988, and has attended workshops with many Australian and international tutors. She taught at the School of Colour and Design from 1987 to 1989 and at the Ku-Ring-Gai Art Centre from 1983 to 1989.
She served a four year term as president of the Australian Forum for Textile Arts and has participated in several artist-in-residence projects in schools and elsewhere, including resorts in Port Douglas and one at the Ramingining Community Education Centre, Arnhem Land, N.T. 
Adele Outteridge, book artist, printmaker and sculptor, gained her BSc from the University of Melbourne in 1967 after which she worked as an Experimental Scientist with CSIRO. She studied with the School of Colour and Design in Sydney between 1984 and 1988, and has attended workshops with many Australian and international tutors. She taught at the School of Colour and Design from 1987 to 1989 and at the Ku-Ring-Gai Art Centre from 1983 to 1989.
She served a four year term as president of the Australian Forum for Textile Arts and has participated in several artist-in-residence projects in schools and elsewhere, including resorts in Port Douglas and one at the Ramingining Community Education Centre, Arnhem Land, N.T. In 2003 Adele was invited to teach at the prestigious Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, Tennessee and at the Women’s Studio Workshop, New York. Her work in artists' books, printmaking, sculpture and drawing has been exhibited widely. It is held in private and public collections nationally and internationally, including the James Hardie Collection, State Library of Qld, and Artspace Mackay. Her work has appeared in books (including Keith Smith's Non-Adhesive Binding series) and publications in Australia and overseas. What's a book?Adele says "The Oxford Dictionary defines a book as: 'A collection of sheets of paper or other substance, blank, written or printed, fastened together so as to form a material whole …………… protected by covers’.This definition gives the book artist considerable scope as to what constitutes a book as far as materials and structure are concerned. I started making books in 1989, everything from carefully bound journals and drawing books to ‘feral’ ones using materials such as teabags, old envelopes, junk mail, newspaper, metal and perspex. The beauty of making books with transparent media such as perspex, acetate or tracing paper is that all the pages are visible and the whole book can be read at once, even when it is closed. The image or text appears to be suspended in space.
My current sculptures have taken the structure of the book beyond what most people would call a book. However all the structures adhere to the above definition of a book. Paper and threads are two-dimensional media with little volume, however by creating spaces between, they can enclose relatively large volumes. Most of the sculpture is air." Wim de Vos is on a journey
Wim de Vos was born in the Netherlands and completed his art studies there after first graduating as an artist and teacher in Brisbane, Australia. He has many years experience as an exhibiting artist, lecturer and workshop instructor and will impart some of his knowledge of printmaking and oil painting to students during the artosts-in-residence programme in Port Douglas 2 - 11 October 2009.
Wim goes on to say "Being an artist is about a journey not a destination. The production of visual images is not something static, but like making music (which I also practised in rock bands for some 15 years). Artists should move in different directions in response to their environment and according to their observations. My work reflects these different directions whether I am working with abstract or realistic images. I enjoy moving between different styles of work. 
I have come to understand the act of painting and seeing, and to understand painting sound from listening. To put both together has been a daunting task for some time.The results are achieved through both disciplines of sound and painting, with reference to the Australian landscape for some time. I am at one with sound and visuals. The struggle, however is to communicate these actions to the viewer. I have used Perspex as a medium for the construction of artist books and sculptures over a period of twenty years, also incorporating paper, metal, wood and light into mixed media works. The Perspex is often engraved and may be printed too. Printmaking is, in fact, the catalyst for my art making - a love of drawing and then transposing this into prints, paintings and beyond. The book forms are mainly sculptural, often serving as maquettes for larger works. Enjoy as you travel on my journey!"
This artists-in-residence programme has been assisted by the Regional Arts Fund (Arts Queensland), Queensland Events Regional Development Programme and by Port Douglas B&B Four Mile Beach . The arts community is very very grateful for their support and encouragement as the programme brings expertise from elsewhere to enrich our lives and gives the opportunity for local professional and amateur artists to develop new skills. To top of artists-in-residence
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