Jennifer Davidson Creative Endowment

Background image: A person holds a red and yellow duck on a table
Credit: Hannah Todd
Supported by Andrew and Neil Davidson

When and What

  • Now
  • Incursion

Summary

  • An annual, year-long placement program for a Tasmanian artist
  • Next opportunity available in early 2025

Impact

  • Established to create pathways for emerging Tasmanian creatives at Terrapin
  • Three artists have participated in the program since 2022
A person stands in a workshop, this workshop has black and white tiles, they stand over a table wearing a face mask.
Peter Mathew
two people rugged up in a workshop, one is teaching the other and demonstrating an action
Peter Mathew

Description

Founded by Andrew and Neil Davidson, the Jennifer Davidson Creative Endowment supports an emerging creative to join the Terrapin team for 12 months, gaining hands-on experience and training.

Designed to benefit both Terrapin and the artist, the Endowment is a long-term project for building capacity in the Tasmanian performing arts sector.

Pullout quote

For me, [puppet-making] is really this meeting of storytelling with sculpture, and I still get the same reaction watching puppets moving now as I did watching them move for the first time.
– Mads Hillam
A person holds a red and yellow duck on a table
Hannah Todd

Interested in the Endowment?

  • A person in a black and white woollen jumper stands at a work bench, they're working on what looks to be a colourful tentacle our of multicoloured paper. We know it's a tentacle because we see the body of the colourful octopus in the background
    Peter Mathew
  • Puppet maker Mads is standing next to a work in progress whale puppet, feeding pieces of black foam through netting to make the skin of the whale
    Puppet maker Mads weaving the whale for Whale Tale in Junction Arts Festival 2024. Image: Hannah Todd

Partners

Founding donors

Andrew Davidson

Neil Davidson