Tobias Richardson works with broad media including installation, painting, sculpture and drawing. At Petronas Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Richardson developed new work on themes relating to travel and the built environment, as well as personal and cultural memory.

Kuala Lumpur is the capital and largest city of Malaysia. It is in the state of Selangor, and is the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia. It is a multicultural city, with a mix of Malay, Chinese and Indian people.

Wanda Gillespie works in installation, sculpture, photography, video and sound. Basing herself at Bandung’s Galeri Soemardja, Gillespie created a series of Wandaland artefacts validated by local history, religion and folklore.

Bandung is the capital of West Java, and became a centre for the tea industry during the Dutch colonial era. After independence it developed into a densely-populated city. Bandung is known for its Dutch colonial architecture, and also for its Sundanese culture, derived from the large ethnic group native to Western Java.

Willow Neilson has taken his band to win third place at the Jazz Hoelaart International Competition in Brussels and has also won third place as a soloist in both the Montreux and London jazz festival saxophone competitions. His residency enabled him to deepen his ties to the JZ club and music school in Shanghai through collaboration with artists there, and Neilsen has since returned to Shanghai to live.

Shanghai, China's largest city, situated on the mouth of the Yangtze River, is a busy cosmopolitan centre for finance and trade, as well as an important cultural centre. It is known especially for its contemporary and historical architectural values, with examples of heritage, early 20th Century and modern classical buildings.