Marrickville’s creative spaces are changing fast.

Not for the first time, creatives find themselves under pressure to adapt, to do more, to seek new income streams, to move out of town, to find somewhere cheaper.

But if a creative life isn’t always easy, it is also chosen as a life of passion and purpose.

We worked with Inner West Council to celebrate the creative but precarious spaces of Marrickville and Sydenham, to draw attention to the importance of these inner west precincts to Sydney's creative industries. The projections were a key project supported through the EDGE Festival program, 2019.

As the poet Mary Oliver once said:

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

As part of the program a series of curated interviews with local creatives were conducted and documented to learn more about their work and the kinds of spaces they used to support their practice. The interviews reflected an ongoing advocacy program by the Inner West Council to promote the importance of recognising the region as one of the significant 'engine rooms' of Australia's creative economy.

The program featured the following artists at work: Steve Tierney, Emma Maye Gibson / Betty Grumble, Ran Stanton and Rachel Lafferty, Brad Robson, Stephanie Phillips, Getzabel Nambo, Jimmi Prilis and Merinda Funnell.