Residencies

Bush Retreats for Eco Writers (BREW)

Major changes are underway so BREW residencies at Plumwood have been temporarily placed on hold. In the meantime, please feel free to apply to another BREW site.

If you are working on a project that directly involves Val Plumwood or Plumwood mountain, please send Plumwood Inc. an email at plumwoodmountaincommittee@gmail.com

Past Residents

Connor Tomas O’Brien: 16 - 21 July, 2024
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Connor Tomas O’Brien: 16 - 21 July, 2024

Connor Tomas O’Brien is a nature writer, graphic designer and educator who lives on Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne. During his residency at Plumwood Mountain, Connor was researching a speculative fiction novella, exploring how differing ecological philosophies affect how human beings treat the world and each other.

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Tilly Glascodine: 25 - 30 November, 2023
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Tilly Glascodine: 25 - 30 November, 2023

Tilly is an artist living and working in Naarm. Her practice revolves around creative approaches to community learning, imagination, and experimentation through librarianship, research, workshops, publishing, and art making. During her BREW residency, Tilly made a short poetic video essay on the western view of nature, drawing on ecofeminists and environmental philosophers such as Val Plumwood.

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Laura Lethean: 6 – 11 November, 2023
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Laura Lethean: 6 – 11 November, 2023

Laura Lethlean is a published playwright and theatre maker living and working on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Woi Wurrung and Bunnurong people. Lethlean used her residency to work on a play she is developing, based on Val's life and work.

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Rebecca Ryall: 30 August - 8 September, 2023
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Rebecca Ryall: 30 August - 8 September, 2023

Rebecca Ryall is a PhD student with Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. She lives off-grid in the forest in northern New South Wales on unceded Widjabul/Waiabul lands. Ryall used her residency to work on a journal article drawing on Val's work.

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Frances Grimshaw & Sarah Moore: 20 - 29 January, 2023
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Frances Grimshaw & Sarah Moore: 20 - 29 January, 2023

Sarah Moore is an artist and community worker living in Mparntwe on Central Arrernte land. Frances Grimshaw is a geographer and poet living on Wurundjeri Country. Sarah and Frances used their residency to make an mixtape, using Val's work to think through the idea of romancing nature.

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Abi Andrews: 12 - 22 December, 2021
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Abi Andrews: 12 - 22 December, 2021

Abi Andrews is a writer from the Midlands. Her debut novel The Word for Woman is Wilderness was published by Serpent's Tail in February 2018. Andrews used her residency to develop work for the National Museum of Australia and a PhD project at the New School of the Anthropocene.

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Rory King: 19 - 30 July, 2021
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Rory King: 19 - 30 July, 2021

Rory King is a photographer whose work sits in the hybrid space between documentary practice and personal narrative. He published his debut monograph, ‘Plumwood’ (partially based on residency stay at Plumwood Mountain in 2021) with Tall Poppy Press in 2022.

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