Artist Residency - Ingrid Pumayalla

Digital Newsletter - 26/09/23

This week we are delighted to be joined by Peruvian artist Ingrid Pumayalla. Ingrid’s practice spans photography, moving image, installation and ritual performance and she is one of the artists exhibiting her work as part of the current Plant Communitas exhibition at The Rodd. Ingrid is staying and working at the Bleddfa Centre, with which the Sidney Nolan Trust merged earlier this year.

“During the residency, I am exploring these new surroundings and responding through a series of images and video performances informed by local stories and memories. The Bleddfa Centre was founded to connect spirituality and arts, at the moment I am currently creating an Icaro (chanting healing song) to narrate a myth of a creature that has been displaced from the Amazon and is currently seeking a home, narrating the story of where she comes from and the memories of the land that she belongs to. I am using wool, knitting, and rituals to incorporate into the performances on the sites. Bleddfa has become the "cartref" (home) for the creature to have shelter until she continues her journey.”