JPE
Artist in Residence
The JPE Artist in Residence program in partnership with JPE Design Studio is a residency opportunity that will see two artists a year in a creative exchange within the JPE studios, culminating in a work or installation presented during SALA and Fringe.
JPE has been a place where emerging artists can exhibit, engage with studio culture and have an impact on design thinking since 2013. The JPE Artist in Residence Program marks a new chapter of creative exchange in collaboration with Guildhouse.
2024 – 2026
SALA 2024
Shane Cook
30 August – 15 November 2024
JPE Design Studio
Shane Cook is a proud Wulli Wulli and Koa (Guwa) man with many family connections throughout Queensland, born on Kaurna Yerta (Kaurna Country/Adelaide). His practice is inspired by both street and country environments, nature and urban landscapes, his people and his lived experience.
Fringe 2025
Zhuzhu (Guiyong Zhu)
Fringe 2025
JPE Design Studio
During her residency, Zhuzhu has led a hands-on workshop with the JPE team, fostering creative collaboration that will become an integral part of her final artworks. She has also participated in design charettes with the team that has encouraged out-of-the-box thinking & collaboration – further enriching the creative dialogue within the studio.
SALA 2025
Will Cheesman
26 September – 30 October 2025
JPE Design Studio
Will is an artist based in Tarntanya Adelaide on unceded Kaurna Yerta. His practice interweaves inclusivity, care and collaboration. His shifting and responsive methodology of practice emerges from a background in collective actions.
Fringe 2026
Monika Morgenstern
Monika Morgenstern is known for her investigation into colour as a mystical material, incorporating material experimentation and colour-based meditations in her work. The residency will culminate in a presentation at the studios during Adelaide Fringe 2026.
Biography
Monika Morgenstern, a contemporary visual artist born in Germany and currently residing on Ngarrindjeri Country in Strathalbyn, South Australia, is known for her investigation into colour as a mystical material.
Morgenstern’s gained a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours in 2014 at the Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide. In 2021 she received an independent makers Arts SA grant, where she acquired expertise in using glass as a medium, and the Guildhouse Catapult mentorship, where she collaborated with Sasha Grbich, an artist, writer, and lecturer known for her responsive work with places and communities. And in 2022 she received an Arts South Australia fellowship in which she explored colour as a mystical substance, pushing the boundaries of her practice.
In 2023 she received the Eran Svigos award for the exhibition titled “I Dwell in Possibility.” Additionally, she earned the Fringe Best Visual Art & Design weekly award for the same exhibition. In 2023 she exhibited “Wordless Silence” at the Barossa Regional Gallery and created an immersive and contemplative visual experience over two rooms.
Monika Morgenstern has been consistently shortlisted, including the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize in 2022 and 2023, the Heysen Prize for Landscape in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and the Tatiara Contemporary Art Prize in 2021 and 2023.
Earlier in her career, her work was shortlisted for the 2018 SALA Latent Photography Prize. In 2018 her video work “Visitors of the Night” was featured at the Adelaide Festival Centre, and “I am the Wind,” was shown at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery and Praxis Artspace in 2022.
More recently, in 2023/24, her work featured at Lake Macquarie’s Museum of Art and Culture “Shifter” exhibition.
2022 – 2024
SALA 2022
Matthew Fortrose
Safety Measures
19 August – 30 September 2022
JPE Design Studio
Exploring concepts of safety and structures Matthew Fortrose combines concrete and EPDM rubber into soft and hard surfaces which examine the limitations they present and the archival qualities, both outdoor and as indoor artworks, to question the perceived safety, reliance and trust put in the materials.
Fringe 2023
Craig Glasson
Form before function
24 February – 28 April 2023
JPE Design Studio
Continuing a research-led investigation into notions of multi-dimensional space and the investment of time, emerging South Australian artist, Craig Glasson, provides a creative response to his experience as Artist in Residence at leading Adelaide architecture firm, JPE Design Studio.
SALA 2023
Michelle Kelly
Dark Taxa
18 August – 31 October 2023
JPE Design Studio
“My work is about the hidden, the unknown, still to be discovered and yet one of the most important life forms on this planet….Fungi. Through my work I aim to inspire, intrigue and inform my audience of this large but unassuming part of nature.” – Michelle Kelly
Fringe 2024
Henry Wolff
Weōd
23 February – 30 April 2024
JPE Design Studio
Exploring the sites JPE have been involved with has led Henry to collect and archive weeds, acknowledging them as markers for “spaces that are in a state of becoming and unbecoming, evolving and devolving.” Their works identify where care ends and pauses, using lumen prints/solar photograms to consider weeds for their formal qualities instead of their negative connotations.
Images (L-R): Zhuzhu (Guiyong Zhu) delivering a collaborative workshop with JPE Design Studio, photograph Adrienne Nicholls; Shane Cook exhibition, photograph Lana Adams; Will Cheesman, Excaliberacket, with Wes Maseli, City of Prospect, image courtesy the artist; Monika Morgenstern, I Dwell in Possibility, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery 2023, photograph Sam Roberts; Matthew Fortrose, image courtesy the artist; Craig Glasson, Form before function installation view, photograph Lana Adams; Michelle Kelly, Dark Taxa, installation view, photograph Lana Adams; Henry Wolff, from the series ‘Weod’, 2024, image courtesy the artist
News
JPE Artist in Residence: Will Cheesman
Image: Will Cheesmanm in process. Photograph Adrienne Nicholls.Finissage Event: Will Cheesman - JPE Artist in Residence Exhibition launch:Friday 26 September, 6 – 8pmJPE Design Studio4/19 Gilles Street, Adelaide 5000RSVP here Exhibition dates:26 September - 30 October...
JPE Artist in Residence: Zhuzhu (Guiyong Zhu)
Image: Zhuzhu (Guiyong Zhu) delivering a collaborative workshop with JPE Design Studio, 2025, photograph Adrienne Nicholls. Zhuzhu (Guiyong Zhu): Between Earth and Ether Exhibition:14 March – 16 May 2025 Exhibition launch:Friday 14 March, 6 – 8pmJPE Design Studio4/19...
JPE Artist in Residence: Shane Cook
Image: Shane Cook in the studio, photograph Jack Fenby, courtesy InReview.Shane Cook Exhibition launch:Friday 30 August, 6 – 8pmJPE Design Studio4/19 Gilles Street, Adelaide 5000RSVP here Exhibition dates:30 August - 15 November 2024You’re invited to celebrate the...