connecting through creativity
our philosophy is simple…. we believe creativity has an extraordinary capacity for individuals and communities to make rich and life enhancing connections for, and with, themselves and their communities
What do we do?
All That We Are offers:
Creative residencies - we host over 25 artists every year in our home and adjacent self-contained studio
Advice and expertise to individuals and organisations on co-creative arts programs with children, young people and communities.
Creative coaching and professional development to individual professional artists and arts organisations.
Specialist workshops to foster team building, leadership and co-creative strategies
All That We Are is part of a new international movement of research – live environments fostering creativity, creative solutions and exploring methods of living. Founders Simon Spain and Victoria Ryle have opened their home, property and lives to artists, researchers and organisations to engage in big ideas, reflect, be immersed in the extraordinary natural landscape and take time to refocus on the things that matter.
Hosts Simon Spain and Victoria Ryle share 60 years experience in the arts, education and community-driven projects. All That We Are is a nationally recognised not-for-profit that seeks to integrate, respond to and share the sum of their experiences so far. All That We Are expresses in four simple words that life is not easily compartmentalised. It is a response to a world that often reduces our human complexity to jargon-laden slogans. All That We Are builds on Simon and Victoria’s collective experience in the field of arts and education and combines this with new approaches of learning and the pressing issues of environmental sustainability. It suggests our important individual contributions to the world and the power of collaboration and partnerships.
“How can we embed a creative life – a life of making and doing – into our everyday practice and how do we value that creative practice both for us as individuals and also for society as a whole?”
We established our residency program in 2016 and have had over one hundred creatives of all disciplines visit us during the last 7 years. In 2022 we relaunched our residency program with new spaces including a self-contained residency space specifically for visual artists.
We are excited at the new spaces which include a library and shared studio space within the main house and a completely new space - The Shaper Studio. This is a 72sq m independent live/work space with a funky vibe, great natural light and an outdoor shower where you can watch the sea as you shower to start the day!
Maybe you have been wanting time to spend with a colleague or friend away from everyday life. In the main residence we provide a two bedroom space with shared work/live space, large library, kitchen and bathroom with access to the surrounding 5 acres. Each bedroom has your own desk, there is fast NBN throughout the space, programmed opportunities to meet Tasmanian artists and plenty of time to get to know Tasmania.
You can add a discounted professional development coaching package to your residency to really interrogate your practice while you are in residence.
A freshly cooked muffin from our kitchen
Our muffin manifesto
You are invited to enjoy Victoria’s home-made muffins and a welcome coffee each Monday of our residency seasons. Every time those muffins are different. They may vary in flavour or sweetness, but they always contain healthy ingredients. Victoria may reference a recipe but usually relies on her practice to create a gift that is home-made, healthy and improvisational. So why are we talking about muffins? Well, we think that those muffins embody everything that all that we are is about, it’s our manifesto - that the whole reflects the multiple parts. The final taste combines a practice of making, improvisation and creativity wrapped around values of natural, healthy but life enriching that we then eat together to build new relationships.
Our work is similar to the muffin manifesto in that: everything we do should contain all the values of everything else - there is a wholistic nature to our work - did you know that if you break up a holographic image of something then each shattered piece of glass contains a complete image of that thing… that’s us everything is in everything..