A+B STUDHOLME

COLLABORATIVE VIDEOS/PHOTOGRAPHY

Alma Studholme and Brett Studholme are collaborative life partners working in an interdisciplinary art context which includes video, animation, sound, performance and installation. Their projects are informed by their joint experiences of living and working on different continents with diverse bio-cultural environments, This is reflected in their ongoing exploration of the embodied relationship between memory, identity-formation, and various environments. As a collaborative duo they regularly exhibit in Australia and Europe. An integral part of their practice also includes visual documentation of their art processes (Brett Studholme) and writing about their work (Alma Studholme). This in turn presents a continuation of Alma Studholme’s established research practice in the areas of cognitive sciences, contemplative traditions and art practice.

EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS /AWARDS

_{Roots and Entanglements, 2025, HD single channel video, 4:53 minutes (loop), Selected, Group Exhibition HOME GROWN; Bound by Place, 2025, Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby, Chatswood, Australia.}

_{Three Waters: Tears Tea, Sea, 2024, 2nd edition, 5 minutes, HD single channel video with sound. 2025 Highly Commended, Onirica Film Festival, Carrara, Italy; Selected, Moving Waters Artist Moving Image Programme, curated by A Sometimes Project, Plymouth Arts Cinema, UK,}

_{North Sydney Vignettes, 2024, HD single channel video with sound, 37:56 minutes. Recipient of the 2023/2024 North Sydney Creative Grant, Arts & Culture North Sydney, Australia; 2024 Exhibition North Sydney Vignettes, Ridge Street Window Gallery, North Sydney, Australia. Acquisition of the North Sydney Council and North Sydney Heritage Centre.}

_{Tree of Life, 2023, HD single channel video with sound, 3:41 minutes. Partially produced at 2023 Bundanon Artist Residency (Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven NSW, Australia). The film was selected: Finalist, 2025 Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia; 2024 Video Art Screening Opposite Flow, 2nd edition, IFOD, Izmir, Turkiye; 2023 Opposite Flow Programme, International Short Film, Video and Photography Symposium, Kadiköy Manco Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkiye.}

_{Why does God allow these things happen to us? by Pamela Leung, 2023, HD single channel video with sound, 5:52 minutes, 2nd edition, Editor: Alma Studholme; Videography: Veronica Habbib and Pamela Leung; Performance: Pamela Leung. Group Exhibition Entwined Within, Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby, Australia.}

_{Red Line Story by Pamela Leung, 2022, HD single channel video with sound, 5:46 minutes. Videographer: Brett Studholme, Editor: Alma Studholme, Performer: Natalie Quan Yau Tso, Music: Adrian Leung. Screening: 2023 Pamela Leung’s Solo Exhibition, Longing for Home II, Cloc Projects, Sheffield, UK; 2022 Group Exhibition, Parallel Wanderings, Chatswood Year of the Tiger Festival, Willoughby City Council, The Concourse Urban Screen + Art Space on The Concourse, Chatswood, Australia. Article: Alma Studholme (photographs by Brett Studholme), “Pamela Leung’s Red Line Story,” Garland Magazine, Loop, 1 February 2022.}

_{Self-Portrait as an Owl, 2021, Digital Collage by Alma Studholme. Selected, 2021 Group Exhibition, Contrasts, Millepiani, Rome, Italy.}

_{Chasing Fibonacci, 2020, HD single channel video with sound, 5:14 minutes. Finalist, 2024 Burwood Art Prize, Burwood; Invited, 2020 Group Exhibition, Retracing, Art Space on The Concourse, Chatswood, Australia.}

_{Red Cube, 2020, HD single channel video with sound, 5:46 minutes. Selected, Onirica Film Festival, La Spezia, Italy.}

_{Three Waters: Tears, Tea, Sea, 2019, 1st edition, HD single channel video with sound, 15:32 minutes. The film documents a tea ceremony by a mother and daughter performed on two distant shorelines – the Mediterranean Sea and Pacific Ocean. While facing the seas that separate them, they are cradling warm teacups cast from each other’s hands. This evokes the warmth of each other’s touch and the ritual becomes a way of both confronting and overcoming their physical distance. The film was screened: Finalist, 2023 Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia; 2020 Joint Exhibition (A+B Studholme with Terhi Hakola), Tears of Things, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, Australia; Selected, Group Exhibition, The Sensation of Home, FaB Festival, Bath, UK; Selected, Group Exhibition, BEAUTY/?, K.L.8 Exhibition Space, Brussels, Belgium; Finalist, Artists of Mosman: 2088, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, Australia. Article: Alma Studholme (with photographs by Brett Studholme), “Oceans in a tea cup,” Garland Magazine, Issue G26, Objecthood: Why we still need things, 1 March 2022.}

_{Treespotting, 2019, HD single channel video, 6:42 minutes. Finalist, 2019 The Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial: The Tenacious Realm, Group Exhibition Home Grown, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, Australia.}

_{Salt Mandala Performance No. 1, Photograph by Brett Studholme of Alma Studholme’s 2017 Salt Mandala Performance. Selected, 2020 Group Exhibition, The Performer, Photography Rome Fest – WEFO20, Millepiani, Rome, Italy.}

_{Salt Mandala Performance by Alma Studholme, 2016 video by Brett Studholme. Alma Studholme’s 2016 Solo Exhibition Accreation II: Ontological Transmutations, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia.}

_{Mandala Brainwaves, video by Youngdong Kim and Alma Studholme, EEG – Alma’s brainwaves during meditation. 1st edition: Alma Studholme’s 2016 solo exhibition Accreation II: Ontological Transmutations, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia. 2nd edition: Alma Studholme’s 2022 solo exhibition (DFA thesis) Lunar Landscapes of a Poetic Mind, Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School, Sydney, Australia .}

_{Enso Performance by Alma Studholme, 2012 video by Belinda Simone. 2015 Group Exhibition, Accreation: Un-becoming and the Surface as Sight, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia; 2012 Group Exhibition, All Fired Up, Space Gallery, Lismore, Australia.}