UPCOMING PROGRAM 2025

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 recipients of the SITE-SPECIFIC RESIDENCY AND SHOW:EXHIBITION programme at CURRENT, situated in the historic former substation of the Naval Store in Walyalup.

This year, we received an extraordinary range of proposals that deeply impressed our selection committee. After careful consideration, we are delighted to present five exceptional artists who will engage with our unique site during the upcoming year.

The programme for the Site-Specific Residency aims to create a lasting dialogue with the site. CURRENT is housed in the former substation of the Naval Store in Walyalup at the intersection of Canning Hwy and Queen Victoria Street. The site that we are located on is full of historical, pre-colonial and present narratives. We hope that these narratives will create reflection, curiosity and inform your upcoming work on the site.

The programme for SHOW: EXHIBITION OR PROJECT aims to encourage artists and contemporary practitioners to take risks with their practice and engage with local audiences in the presentation of their creative work.  We support applicants to present creative work that is experimental, investigative, extends existing art practices and engages with contemporary artistic discourse.

‘Can you hear me?’ by Saar Amptmeijer
End of Feb - End of March 2025

Saar is an artist and arts worker who makes installations, sound-art, paintings and zines. The complex space of connection, desire and loneliness spark their interest. For CURRENT residency Saar will research CURRENT’s unique position at the intersection of a series of network nodes. The Fremantle Port, intersecting highways, and submarine internet cables penetrating the Indian Ocean mere kilometers away. Saar has recently moved to Boorloo/Perth from Central Australia, Mpartnwe/Alice Springs after moving from the Netherlands in 2012

‘Wishful Thinking’ by Siahne Rogers
April 2025

Siahne Rogers is an Artist from Boorloo in Whadjuk Country (Western Australia) who explores themes within the slippery relationship between humour, tragedy, and meaning-making found throughout narratives about lived experience and the social contexts of everyday life.

Often driven by a desire to encourage openness and play, their practice is defined by sculpture, performance and video, moving between mediums to create socially-engaged works, gestural objects, and interactive installations. From public art to public acts of foolery, Rogers interrogates the dynamic space where sculpture becomes performance and performance becomes sculpture.

Informed by their background in the cabaret and circus industry, and drawing from their parallel role in education, Rogers' practice is committed to an understanding of how we inhabit and interact with our perceptions of time and space, objects, and each other; creating opportunities where embodied learning and physical engagement becomes an important material when making their work.

‘The Last Remaining Stand’ by W. Sze Tsang
August 2025

W. Sze Tsang / samarobryn is an audio-visual artist working across temporalities and histories. Tsang's practice explores how combining sounds, visuals, geospatial information and environmental data can express the multi-layered narratives on history and climate within place.

‘Cruel Flesh’ by Nina Raper
September 2025

Nina Raper (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working across textiles, video, sculpture, print, and performance. Their work explores identity, gender, and self-perception, focusing on the tension between structure and fluidity, particularly within their non-binary experience and ADHD. Drawing on femininity, popular culture, and art history, Nina probes the societal forces shaping their understanding of gender.

‘Must Be Somewhere’ by Sanche Zev Weinstein
October 2025

Sanche Zev (b. 1990, Boorloo | Perth) is a photo-based artist whose work spans photography, print, sound, and artist books. His practice engages the imagination to challenge or rethink contemporary notions of technology and art.

Through designing installations, Sanche takes a multidisciplinary approach to documentary art as an entry point for creating narratives that explore our understanding of human interaction and the landscapes we occupy. Working with experimental sound and listening practices to evoke shared experiences has become a key part of his work, serving to cultivate
conversation and generate new ideas.

Sanche is deeply curious to connect with what is unfamiliar; this sense of wonder has catalyzed his storytelling. His most recent project, “Must Be Somewhere” is a year-long practice of eavesdropping on arid landscapes, which has evolved from his interest in our connection to communication and the so called “Australian” desert.