OPEN STUDIO / ALYCIA BENNETT & TARA PATTENDEN

A charged, live showing of new works-in-progress by Alycia Bennett and Tara Pattenden. Collaboration between Metro Arts and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE).

Metro Arts invites you into the studio for a charged, live showing of new works-in-progress by Alycia Bennett and Tara Pattenden.

Working across DIY strategies, interactive media, instrument-making, sound and performance, Bennett and Pattenden meet here for the first time – not to present finished work, but to test, provoke and unsettle their own processes in real time.

This open studio is a chance for the artists to share the very first steps of a new collaboration following a shared week of experimentation. Together, we invite audiences to encounter works-in-progress, sonic fragments and emerging systems, and to hear directly from the artists as they navigate this initial phase of collaboration.

Expect something raw, responsive and still taking shape.

Dates & Times
Thursday, 9 April at 6:30pm AEST.

Price
This is a FREE event, no tickets required, but RSVP preferred.

Location
The open studio will take place in the Metro Arts Gallery One located at 97 Boundary Street, West Village, West End, QLD 4101.

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Alycia Bennett_FELT live at queen’s theatre by Christopher Arblaster

This residency is the first of our 2026 SEED FUND residencies; a new framework designed to give artists time and space to develop new ideas through process-led experimentation. It also marks the beginning of an ongoing collaboration between Metro Arts (Brisbane) and ACE (Adelaide), building a shared platform for artists to develop ambitious, experimental work across contexts, with the project continuing in Adelaide later in 2026.

Artist Bio

Alycia Bennett

Alycia Bennett (Anoname) is a multi-displinary artist based on Kaurna Land. Bennett is a graduate of Adelaide Central School of Art with Honours 2017. Their works spans across social practice, relational performance, tapestries, installation, sculpture, video and sound. Bennett’s practice investigates ideas surrounding commodification of bodies, surveillance, public and private space, and re-distribution of class and power. Their practice is informed by ideas of autonomy, self-sustaining communities and non-institutional learning. Bennett has exhibited locally/internationally; Guildhouse ARTWORKS, Art Informal (Philippines), ACE, Sister Gallery, Holy Rollers, FELTSpace, Format, Floating Goose, Incinerator Gallery, Watch This Space, and co-facilitated a number of activities in non-traditional spaces, and is Co-director of Adelaide ARI Sharehouse.

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Artist Bio

Tara Pattenden

Tara Pattenden is an artist and creative technologist working with tactile electronic instruments, programming, time based media and performance. She is the founder of Cyber Palace, a studio for creative technology workshops and Cyber Bunker, a project space for experimental practice in Meanjin. Tara is a PhD candidate at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, her project combines wearables with participatory practices to discover how costume-based, audience-worn instruments – with visually impactful and intuitive electronic interfaces – can enhance engagement and expression for coauthored audience engagement during participatory sound works.

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Acknowledgements

Alycia Bennett & Tara Pattenden’s SEEDFUND Residency is a collaboration between Metro Arts and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE).

Images Credits:

Image1: Input Output, ACE. Photo by Morgan Sette.

Image 2: Alycia Bennett,FELT live at queen’s theatre. Photob by Christopher Arblaster.

Image 3: Courtesy of the Artist.
Image 4: Courest of the Artist.

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