Jennifer Davidson Creative Endowment

Background image: A person holds a red and yellow duck on a table
Credit: Mads Hillam in the Terrapin workshop, 2024. Image: 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 2026

Impact

  • Established to create pathways for emerging Tasmanian creatives at Terrapin
  • Four artists have participated in the program since 2022
Makers Bryony Anderson and Greta Jean in the Terrapin workshop, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew
Makers Bryony Anderson and Greta Jean in the Terrapin workshop, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew
Feathers creative development, 2024. we see over two peoples back towards a giant ferret puppet performing.
Feathers creative development, 2024. Image: 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
two people rugged up in a workshop, one is teaching the other and demonstrating an action
Makers in the Terrapin workshop, 2023. Image: Peter Mathew

Interested in the Endowment?

  • Two people, one a young person the other an adult are showing shadow puppets in front of a screen.
    Storied: Intergenerational Storytelling, Greta Jean with Warrane Primary School student, 2024. Image: 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

Jennifer Davidson Creative Endowment Alumni

  • 2022 creative trainee
  • 2023 creative trainee
  • 2024 creative trainee