Residency

D’Puglia Residency

An exchange program invigorating the artistic development of local and international artists, designers, artisans by combining Puglia's inspirational heritage and landscape with the cosmopolitan multicultural international scenes.

Providing a unique and enriching experience for artists, fostering cross-cultural collaboration and artistic growth.

D’Puglia inaugural residency program with Peter Matthews…

“Immersion with the ocean and nature is central to my practice, as is the notion and experience of the journey. I do not work in a studio. My work straddles the performative and the conceptual, the experimental and process and material-based inquiries into how I experience time, place, space, the sublime, the ineffable, the transient, the impermanent, the romantic, the mysterious, and the poetic.”

“I work directly with the mystical elements, dimensions, and truths that shape and inform our experience and understanding of who and where we are in the universe. I work across different ways of image-making and continuously discover that a drawing can take me to places that a painting cannot, while similarly, video may be more susceptible to capturing something that drawing, even after hours and hours drifting in the ocean, may elude.

My process of working in solitude in the ocean is defined and informed by the poetic blending of rituals, dreams, the spirit world, chanting, intuition, superstition, the paranormal, and the diversity of fringe and earth sciences while moving and responding to what is happening in our contemporary world.”

- Peter Matthews