Alternate And Living Archival Practices Fellowship
Fellowship Program
2026 - 2027
This 12-month fellowship, delivered by The Muse multi studios (Sudan Art Archive), Sudan in partnership with Qubit Incubator, Australia supports eight artists from Australia and Sudan to explore alternative, community-driven and living archival practices.
Across the first three months, fellows participate in an eight-session Knowledge Lab that introduces key definitions, methodologies, and case studies in archival practice, with a focus on how artists can work with collections, community memory, and non-traditional archives. Sessions are delivered by experts and leading practitioners in both communities.
Following this foundation period, each artist develops their own project over six months with ongoing guidance from the program partners. At the end of the fellowship, all works will be presented in a public exhibition in the Northern Territory, Australia. The exhibition will also be digitised to form a new alternate and living archive, made accessible online as a lasting resource.
Knowledge Lab Themes and Sessions:
Introduction and Foundations of Archival Practice
An overview of the core definitions, functions, and historical development of archives, including participant introductions.
Presenting artists will share case studies illustrating how archival materials shape and inform contemporary artistic practice.Alternative Archives
An exploration of the forms, significance, and methodologies of alternate archives, supported by a dedicated artist case study presentation.Community Archives
An examination of community-led archival models, oral history practices, and museum-based approaches across Australian, North African, and broader global contexts.
Multiple speakers will present case studies highlighting community-driven archival work.Narrating Through Artistic Practice
A focus on photography, film, and other visual methodologies as tools for storytelling within archival contexts, including ethical considerations around authorship and representation.
Presenting artists will share case studies addressing the question of who tells the story.Living Archives and Digital Repatriation
A study of the concepts, challenges, and emerging practices in the digital return of cultural materials, alongside innovative and experimental artistic approaches that expand ideas of past, present, and future.
Speakers and presenting artists will discuss case studies in this area.Technical Approaches for artistic archives
A focused session on artistic production, technical workflows, and archival processes specific to the Sudan Art Archives, supported by case studies.Translating Research into Creative Production
Approaches for moving from theoretical and archival research into artistic development and practice-led outcomes.
Speakers will present case studies demonstrating how research evolves into creative work.Practical and Reflective Workshop
A concluding session focused on applied learning, collective reflection, and bringing together the ideas explored throughout the Knowledge Lab, with participating artists sharing their stories and the early directions of their developing projects.
The project is funded by Creative Australia.
Resident Artists
Waleed Mohammed
Waleed Mohammed is a Sudanese visual artist based in Nairobi. Working with mixed media, he explores identity, exile, and memory through archives, found imagery, and bureaucratic materials. His work has been exhibited internationally. He is a co-founder of Shilla Art Collective and recipient of the 2025 32° East residency.
Liss Fenwick
Liss Fenwick is an Australian artist working across photography, video, sound, and material processes between Larrakia Country and Melbourne. Their practice explores land, extractivism, colonial inheritance, and more-than-human relations. Fenwick has exhibited internationally and is the recipient of major emerging photography and art awards.
Fatima Wardy
Fatima Wardy is a Sudanese filmmaker based in Baltimore. Her work explores diaspora, motherhood, memory, and cinematic authorship through short film and archival storytelling. Her films have received international recognition, and her practice foregrounds Sudanese histories, oral traditions, and intergenerational cultural transmission.
Caddie Brain
Caddie Brain is a curator and producer based in Darwin, working across sound, site, and digital practice on Larrakia Country. Her collaborative projects engage archives, memory, and community, reclaiming marginalised histories through immersive exhibitions, oral storytelling, public interventions, and experimental media.
Abdalla Eltayeb
Abdalla Eltayeb is a Sudanese cartographer and artist based in Malmö. Combining GIS, printmaking, performance, and storytelling, he explores memory, displacement, and Sudanese histories. His practice challenges the authority of maps and archives, imagining alternative visual languages of home, migration, and belonging.
Joseph Williams Jungarayi
Joseph Williams Jungarayi is a Warumungu multimedia artist, carver, writer, and cultural leader based in Tennant Creek. Blending cultural inheritance with contemporary practice, he explores identity, Country, and ancestral memory through sculpture, painting, poetry, performance, film, and installation.
Amado Elfadni
Amado is an Egyptian-born Sudanese archival artist whose practice emerges from life between Cairo and Sudanese domestic culture. Through archival research, he examines identity, exclusion, memory, and politics, revisiting overlooked histories and state policies to question power, belonging, and the relationship between individuals and authority.
Aarti Jadu
Aarti Jadu is a composer and performer working across electroacoustic music, voice, and installation. Based in Melbourne, her practice explores sound, spirituality, community, and place through live performance, public art, multichannel installations, and collaborative vocal practices.