Movement of Place will be the subject of this year’s Kevin Taylor Legacy program, with the annual creative grant being awarded to choreographer Amrita Hepi and landscape architect Claire Winsor who will explore how we may better understand the Australian landscape through cultural movement.

Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through theatres and galleries in Australia, Europe and the USA. She trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic Award and was also named one of Forbes Asia’s 30 under 30. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice.

Claire Winsor is an Associate Landscape Architect at OCULUS Melbourne. Her passion for dance and movement is linked to her interest in the personal experience of space and time through design. “We are thrilled to be the recipients of this grant and are looking forward to working collaboratively on an installation that speaks to landscape, physical languages and movement,” said the duo. Movement of Place will culminate in a video installation to be shown at TCL’s Adelaide and Melbourne studios in late 2019. amritahepi.com