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It's been described as one of the world's most remote artist-in-residence programs. For the past four decades, the Antarctic Art Fellowship has given dozens of artists the opportunity to spend time on the icy continent to develop new works. The ABC's Antarctic Reporter Jano Gibson and camera operator Owain Stia-James met two of the recipients during a trip supported by the Australian Antarctic Program.

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00:00In a vast frozen landscape, Casey's station is the only human settlement as far as the eye can see.
00:10Multimedia artist Polly Stanton has been capturing its rhythms through sound and vision.
00:16I'm really interested in environments sort of on the edge of the world.
00:21The filmmaker focuses on contested spaces where human impacts intersect with the natural world.
00:29I think what's really struck me being here is just how immense it is and almost how it is so incredibly dreamlike.
00:39Joining this year's Antarctic Adventure is Leela Jeffries, a photographer who specialises in bird portraits.
00:47You can't help but just love them to bits and want to do the right things for them.
00:52She usually photographs her feathered subject in an inner city studio but in Antarctica she's expanded her focus.
01:00Here it's almost flipping it. It's like imagine if I step that lens back and you see the backdrop but then you see what is behind the backdrop.
01:09The Antarctic Arts Fellowship has been running since 1984 allowing creators to be inspired by this extraordinary place and share their works back home in Australia and overseas.
01:22Art I think plays an important role in building connection because it both intellectually and emotionally connects us to something that we may not directly have experienced.
01:33Applications for next year's Antarctic Art Fellowship are open until the end of January.
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