Being a homeless bougie backpacker has it’s perks – one of which is meeting cool people, and getting to spend artist residency time getting to know amazing international makers.

Two Adelaide natives staying in New Zealand Pacific Studios in February are Danny Jarratt (queer artist extraordinaire) and Alex Beckinsale (the best dressed lady at the tea party), and not only is their work incredible, but so is their company.

We had an open studio on Saturday, but in way, way, way more important news we built a fort in NZPS on Sunday and watched vampire anime movies and ate Jalapeño popcorn. I’m gonna get documentation of both of those crucial life-events, but in the meantime, you should check out their work in the links above and the pictures below.

S x

Alex Beckinsale

Open Studio – Danny Jarratt

Open Studio – Danny Jarratt

Open Studio – Alex Beckinsale

Open Studio – Alex Beckinsale

Me, Danny Jarratt, Alex Beckinsale and Jana Hylmarová (the Gottfried Lindauer Fellow from Woodsville) at the Open Studio, looking progressively less happy from left to right