Current resident

Katie Breckon, the Caselbery Creative Connections Resident 2024. Whilst on her 3-month Caselberg Trust Creative Connections residency, Katie will be working on a project provisionally titled Taieri Wetlands - Loss and Repair, which will see her focus on using incised drawing and photographic processes to question the decline of wetlands in the Taieri Plain southwest of Dunedin.

Biography

Biography - Katie Breckon 

Katie Breckon is an artist, educator, and remote community arts worker originally from Pōneke Wellington. She has actively supported arts and cultural heritage projects in northwest Australia for over a decade, collaborating with remote communities.

Her artistic practice explores the complex and poetic connections between people and their surroundings, mainly focusing on the concept of place attachment. Place attachment refers to the strong emotional connection individuals form with specific objects and locations, often based on their experiences, memories, and interactions with the environment.

Katie's artistic expression primarily involves drawing, printmaking, and photography. Drawing serves as a foundation for her creative thinking, guiding the materiality and outcome of her artmaking. Her drawings vary from ethereal thread installations in space to expressive incised marks into pigment.

Printmaking offers a means to delve deeper into challenging community stories, where she utilises techniques such as etching and monoprint to create meaningful and thought-provoking works of art. In her photographic practice, Katie embraces both digital and analogue processes. She experiments with cameraless and wet plate photography, showcasing her versatility and innovative approach to capturing images.

Katie Breckon's educational background includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New Zealand and a Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.

Throughout her artistic journey, Katie has received recognition for her work, being a recipient of various awards, such as the CCP Salon, Deakin University Photographic Award, and American Aperture Awards Best Still Life Award. Additionally, she has been a finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize.

Her artwork has found a place in private and public collections, including the University of Western Australia, Janet Holmes a Court Collection, Artbank, Shire of Broome, and the Shire of Derby West Kimberley.

Overall, Katie Breckon's art practice offers poetic insight into human connection with their environment, and she uses her diverse artistic skills to create compelling and meaningful works of art that resonate with communities and viewers alike.

Links to further information about Katie and her work

Website -                           www.breckon.co

Instagram -                        @katie.breckon