In February and March, Tarsh Bates, UmArts Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Design and Molecular Biology is travelling back to Beverley, Western Australia to join collaborator Susan Hauri-Downing at Beverley Station Arts for the second part of their SPACED residency. This residency is part of Circular Economies, a joint partnership by SPACED and PICA – Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, where invited artists are hosted by regional communities throughout Western Australia for extended residencies.
Tarsh and Susan explore smell as a more-than-human sensory experience and as a form of ecological memory. We ask how the smells around us change and how creating new smellscapes can foster agency and connection. During the first six-week research residency in October/November 2025, Tarsh and Susan foraged and archived the scents of Beverley. Their second residency will build on this research to produce artworks for exhibition at Beverley Station Arts and in the Circular Economies exhibition at PICA in October 2026.
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