Patrick Hockey “Kakadu Jabiru” (detail) c.1990 | Private Collection, Sydney
Our Projects
The projects that Double R Arts Foundation supports aim to provide artists, arts professionals and art workers with opportunities that inspire, encourage and celebrate new approaches to the way we create, experience and engage with art.
2024|2025
Maljah
Cathy Snow
Maljah Cathy Snow was born in 1954 in Normanton and her Clan and Language group is Gkuthaarn. Through her paintings and works on paper Cathy shares traditional stories and information about the plants, fruits, flowers, and marine life that abound on and around her Country in Far North Queensland.
With the financial support of the Double R Arts Foundation Cathy will work with professional curator and textile designer Bobbie Rueben, learning techniques to translate her works on paper for digital printing on textile lengths.
This is an exciting new direction for the artist, providing unprecedented opportunities for new approaches to the use of composition and colour in her work.
Maljah Cathy Snow “Bush Turkey and Wild Bananas” (detail) 2020
Christopher Bassi “Meeting the Mangrove” (detail) 2024 | AGSA 18th Biennial of Australian Art : Inner Sanctum | Studio Portrait Credit : Joe Ruckli
Christopher Bassi
Christopher Bassi was born in 1990 in Brisbane. He lives and works on Yuggera and Turrbal Country (Meanjin, Brisbane).
With the financial support of the Double R Arts Foundation, Christopher will undertake travel to Cairns and the Torres Strait, specifically to Mer, Hammond, Erub and Thursday Island, to research historical and ongoing interactions between the Church and local communities during the early stages of colonisation and its legacies. Areas of particular interest to the artist are missionary and traditional architecture and iconography. This research will inform new works that will be exhibited at the Cairns Art Gallery in 2025.
Christopher Bassi
Christopher Bassi was born in 1990 in Brisbane. He lives and works on Yuggera and Turrbal Country (Meanjin, Brisbane).
With the financial support of the Double R Arts Foundation, Christopher will undertake travel to Cairns and the Torres Strait, specifically to Mer, Hammond, Erub and Thursday Island, to research historical and ongoing interactions between the Church and local communities during the early stages of colonisation and its legacies. Areas of particular interest to the artist are missionary and traditional architecture and iconography. This research will inform new works that will be exhibited at the Cairns Art Gallery in 2025.
Christopher Bassi “Meeting the Mangrove” 2024 | AGSA 18th Biennial of Australian Art : Inner Sanctum | Studio Portrait Credit : Joe Ruckli
2023|2024
Heather
Koowootha
Heather Koowootha was born in Yarrabah, Queensland, in 1966, and lives and works in Cairns. Her works are inspired by teachings passed onto her from her mother’s culture, from the Yidinji people of Yarrabah, Queensland, and from her father’s culture, from the Wik Mungkan people of Aurukun, Queensland.
As a young boy, Heather’s father was taken from his mother in Aurukun to the Normanton Mission, and her mother was taken from her mother and placed in a dormitory in Yarrabah, south of Cairns.
Heather’s works tell complex narratives about traditional cultural practices, as well as stories about separation, trauma and dispossession.
Jason
Wegger
Jason Wegger was born in Cairns where he continues to live and work. He is an emerging artist who works in digital media and graphite drawings on paper.
Jason’s works explore the tensions and struggles of contemporary life and culture and presents complex narratives of isolation and dystopia.
In 2023 Jason received Cairns Art Gallery Fellowship Award funded by the Cairns RSL Club. This award supports the creation of a new body of work for exhibition at the Gallery.
Jason
Wegger
Jason Wegger was born in Cairns where he continues to live and work. He is an emerging artist who works in digital media and graphite drawings on paper.
Jason’s works explore the tensions and struggles of contemporary life and culture and presents complex narratives of isolation and dystopia.
In 2023 Jason received Cairns Art Gallery Fellowship Award funded by the Cairns RSL Club. This award supports the creation of a new body of work for exhibition at the Gallery.