Anaheke Metua

Born in New Zealand, Anaheke Metua moved to Australia in 1986. As a young contemporary Maori woman her life experiences and connection to Maori culture has given her a strong sense of community, which is a continual source of strength in her artistic explorations.   As an Arts and Permaculture Educator, Anaheke draws from her wide tapestry of experience in fibre art, yoga and permaculture to promote the use of permaculture principles for sustainability. Through this work she aims to inspire a positive move toward the healing of culture and land. Over the last 5 years, Anaheke has vibrantly supported Northey St City Farm in Brisbane through various roles and currently runs ongoing skill workshops in the artistry of fibre weaving. Anaheke’s joy in sharing her creativity and love of nature is absolutely contagious and she offers her lifework as an artist and teacher with a positive attitude, grateful heart and open mind.

Workshops: Fibre Art Workshop Series (Textiles), From Food to Fibre (Textiles), Artful Weaving and Natural Fibres (Textiles)

Anneke Silver

Dr Anneke Silver is an adjunct Associate Professor in Visual Arts at James Cook University. Her teaching areas are painting, drawing and art history. As a practising artist, Anneke’s interests are multi-faceted and she works across all media. She has had more than 20 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 40 group and invitation exhibitions. Recently she was artist in residence in Hill End, New South Wales and in the south of France.

Workshops:  Watercolour for Beginners (Painting), Colour Explored (Arts Theory), Picasso's Foot: Encounters with Art (Arts Theory)

Brian Doyle

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Carolyn McKenzie-Craig

Carolyn is a Brisbane based artist whospecializes in print media and photography.Her work examines Contemporary Australiansociety through the metonyms of languageas a branding device and institutions as ameans of controlling identity and freedom.Carolyn teaches workshops for ImpressPrintmakers, Hands on Art and works asa technical assistant at Griffith Universityin the Printmaking Department. She hasexhibited in Hong Kong, Byron Bay, Sydney,Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and GreatBritain. In 2009 she has been selected as afinalist in the Bangkok Triennalle Print Prizeand the Burnie Print Prize.

Workshops: Stencil and Screen Printing (Printmaking), Making a Mark (Printmaking), Chip Away - Relief Printing with Linocuts (Printmaking)

Catherine Parker

Catherine Parker is a painter – mixed media artist, a finalist in the prestigious 2008 Blake Prize and has exhibited in Canada, India and the UK. In 2005 Catherine travelled to New Delhi, India as an Artist in Residence and this experience continues to influence her work with ongoing travels providing further inspiration. Catherine is a well respected workshop facilitator with extensive teaching experience. She has a B.Ed in Visual Arts from the University of Melbourne and has conducted workshops at the Queensland Art Gallery, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, McGregor Summer Schools at the University of Southern Qld, Flying Arts Inc., Murrays Art Supplies, Toowoomba and in Broken Hill, NSW.

Workshops: Travels with my Paintbrush: Painting and Mixed Media (Painting)

Cezary Stulgis

Born in Poland and based in Queensland, Cezary spread his studies between the two countries to achieve a skilled balance of classical craftsmanship and contemporary education.  After completing his Certificate of Art and Design at Gateway TAFE in Brisbane, receiving a High Achievement Award, Cezary achieved his Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology.  Moving to Krakow, he completed his Masters with Distinction at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Sculpture before returning to Brisbane.

Chris Bennie

Chris Bennie is an artist and curator living in Peregian Beach, Queensland. He has had solo exhibitions at Artist Run Initiative’s and University spaces, including Our Communication Recorded, Blindside, Melbourne (2006); New Video: made in China, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane (2006); and Slower, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2003). His work has been included in many group exhibitions, including the Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – Forms That Turn online venue (2008); Contemporary Australia: optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008); New Work 3, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2007); and Plus Factors, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2006). He developed and directs Moreton Street Spare Room (MSSR), a project space operating in a Queenslander home in New Farm, and has received funding from Arts Queensland and Brisbane City. Bennie currently lectures in Digital Art and New Media at Griffith University Queensland College of Art.

Clark Crystal

Clark Crystal is an artistic theatre director, playwright, performer and theatre educator, with over 26 years of professional experience, 19 internationally. Presently he is the artistic director of Blue Roo Theatre Company that provides performing opportunities for people who experience a disability based in Brisbane. Clark is also a clown doctor, creatively empowering sick kids throughout hospitals in Queensland.

Workshops: Improvisation (Performing Arts), Ways In - Speaking without Words (Performing Arts),  Being Silly - The Art of Clowning (Performing Arts)

Claudia Williams

Claudia Williams is based in Ayr and has been a professional mosaicist for seven years. She attended the Mosaic Art School Ravenna in Italy where she studied both modern and ancient mosaics. Claudia has been an artist in residence in several schools, developed exhibition works for galleries, undertaken workshops as well as been commissioned to deliver a number of public art projects, the most recent was in partnership with Queensland Rail. 

Workshops: Recycled Mosaic Masks (Mosaics)

 Corinne Colbert

Corinne has been engaged in artistic endeavors since age three, sewing and experimenting with textiles in art. Her solo exhibitions include a showcase of frocks 'Romancing the Frock' at the Logan Art gallery. Corinne has been designing dresses for 30 years and a public artist for 10 years; her group exhibitions include 'Swell' festival and Mildura 'Palimpsest' 2009 Fringe Festival. She celebrated 2003 International Women’s Day with a huge pink frock titled 'Espirit' that sailed on the gold coast broad water. Corinne is interested in the use of salvaged materials for humorous interpretation of fashion stereotypes. Her work is informed by investigation of humor in women’s art and exploration of alternative non-traditional materials. Her workshops have been successfully developed for all ages and levels through interactive learning.  

Workshops: Romancing Fashion soft sculpture (Textiles), 'Frock- n- roll' mixed media textile 3d (Textiles), Frock-a-Thon, soft/hard sculptures (Textiles)

Corrie Wright

Corrie Wright is a Queensland artist working in a diversity of forms and processes that reflect a strong relational role for

art for visual communication. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally, the processes she uses aim to foster a vital

interrelationship between the artist, the viewer and the work. Working collaboratively on many occasions, her collaborative

performances include, street performance walking together performance, Korea Experimental Arts Festival, sponsored by

Australian Embassy, Floating Land Project amongst others. Corrie’s art practice has been supported by a number of grants and awards including the Siganto Scholarship and Flying Arts’ Regional Art Awards.

Damien Kamholtz

Damien Kamholtz is a practising visual artist and is currently lecturing in Expressive Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. He and his wife, environmentalist Rachel Price offer innovative creative activities and events designed to nurture, celebrate and support childrens’ creativity and promote the importance of creativity in the lives of children.

David Lovegrove

David has been a professional fine artist/illustrator and teacher since 1987. He has a Diploma from the Julian Ashton Art School and a Masters Degree from Queensland College of Art. David works freelance as an illustrator for the publishing and film industry and is currently writing and drawing a full-length graphic novel/manga. He has run hundreds of popular workshops all over Australia for adults and children in drawing, manga and digital art.

Workshops: Dynamic Constructional Figure Drawing (Drawing), Concept Art for Film (Drawing), Television and Games (Drawing), Manga Magic (Drawing)

Donna Robinson

Donna Robinson is a digital artist and painter based on the coast of Central Queensland south of Mackay. With the use of digital imaging Donna’s recent work explores the beach that she lives near concentrating on ideas associated with place and our human existence within the environment. Donna has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and is a graduate from the University of Tasmania with a Master of Contemporary Arts Degree.  

Workshops: Computer Imaging Level One

Harry Laing

Harry Laing is a published poet, comic performer and creative writing teacher. He’s been writing for twenty years and taking workshops for fifteen. He’s taught many creative writing workshops in primary and secondary schools in SA, NSW and ACT. He also teaches PoetryAlive workshops for adults (day/ weekend/ week). He’s written and performed six one-man comedy shows, the latest of which ‘Away With The Birds’ he’s currently touring for STARTS. He’s also written two series of ten quirky country tales for radio which were commissioned by the Regional Production Fund and broadcast on ABC RN’s Bush Telegraph in 2005/6. In the last two years he’s been teaching PD workshops for English teachers aimed at boosting their skills in teaching creative writing. He’s run his ‘Confident Voice’ workshops for the ACT, NSW and South Coast Writers Centres and also the Australian Poetry Centre. He’s currently chairman of the Australian Poetry Centre’s National Education Committee. He lives beside Monga National Park (NSW) and the natural world is a major inspiration in his own work.

 Workshops: Write for Delight, Inspiring Students to Write, Get Writing, A Confident Voice

Ishta Wilson

Ishta Wilson is a ceramic artist from Lismore in Northern NSW. Since finishing her visual arts degree Ishta has run several children’s art classes and adults’ ceramic tile making workshops. She also spent a two month residency at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre in Skaelskoer, Denmark. Ishta has exhibited her works in numerous galleries in Qld and NSW as well as in Singapore and Denmark.  

Jean-Jaques Vaschalde

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Jill Chism

Jill Chism is a prolific North Queensland artist with an extensive CV. Working between various art forms including environmental art, installation, sculpture, digital art and public art, her work spans diverse materials and processes. Chism’s work is deeply spiritual with questions about who we are and how we interact with each other, the natural environment and the cosmos at the centre of her thematic enquiry. In 2007 she was granted a Creative Fellowship from Arts Queensland for her Queensland based, environmental art project ‘Waters’ edge – creating environments’, which is focused on our interaction with the waters edge. 

Workshops: Waters Edge Environmental Art

Jo Cruickshanks

Originally from England, Jo Cruickshanks is now based in Brisbane’s West End. She has studied art at an undergraduate and postgraduate level in both England and Australia. Her eclectic skills include drawing, printmaking and sculpture and her works focus on environmental issues, regeneration and awareness. Currently working as a freelance artworker, Jo has spent the last 25 years teaching and practicing arts in rural, remote and metropolitan regions.

Workshops:  Drawing - Mixed Media Foundation , Mould Making and Casting ,  Drawing - Beginners

Joachim Froese

Joachim Froese is an art photographer who lives and works in Brisbane. He has taught photography on a number of levels for many years and is currently a casual lecturer at the Queensland College of Art Over the last 10 years his work has concentrated on the photographic still life and he has developed a unique way to create photographic tableaux. Froese has exhibited widely in solo and group shows across Australia, Europe, Asia and North America. He is represented in numerous private and public including the National Gallery of Australia. To see more of his work visit www.joachimfroese.com.

Workshops:  Introduction to Darkroom Techniques (Photography), Introduction to Digital Photography: the secrets of taking a great photo (Photography), Introduction to Pinhole Photography (Photography), Introduction to Photoshop (Photography)

Judith Bohm-Parr

Judith Bohm-Parr is a practising glass artist with 30 years experience who works primarily with kiln formed glass. Judith has exhibited and taught both nationally and internationally, and has been running her own glass studio and gallery – Studio Glass 8 – in the Cairns area for 15 years.

Workshops: Glass Slumping, Glass Fusing, Glass Casting

Judy Parrot

Judy Parrot is a Brisbane-based artist, working with communities to build the story of their place through the mediums of photography, text, sound and sensory items. Recent international communities include Rothesay – A Place on an Island, A Place in Bolivia and Antarctica – A Place in the Wilderness, the product of an arts fellowship with the Australian Antarctic Division. Antarctica – A Place in the Wilderness is touring Australia in 2008 and 2009.

Workshops: Telling your story of place through photography, Antarctica Artist Residency slide show presentation and photography workshop

Julie McEnerny

After running a successful commercial art business in Cairns for almost 20 years, Julie now concentrates on painting and illustrating. Moving constantly from drawing table to easel, from pen to palette knife, realism to abstract, her work usually exhibits a connection to the natural world and is used both commercially and for her own exhibitions.

Workshops:  Botanical Drawing with Watercolour Pencils, Palette Knife Painting

Madeleine Brown

Madeleine Brown is a Paddington-based jeweller who creates contemporary silver and gold pieces. She studied Fine Art (gold and silversmithing) at the Queensland College of Art and has acted as a design consultant for the likes of Hardy Brothers Jewellers. Her designs can be found at the Museum of Brisbane Store in City Hall.

Workshops: Wax Carving Beginner, Jewellery Beginners

Margot Douglas

Margot’s practice has encompasses working with precious metals, enamels and found objects. As a maker, her ongoing motivation is engaging creative expression through combining contextual content with innovative design, fusing these contemporary processes in individually made pieces. She seeks to explore the balance of handcrafted items in an increasingly technologically driven age. Margot is an award and grant recipient and has exhibited regularly since 1994, including representation by Craft Australia at the Munich International Craft Fair in March 2000, and JamFactory touring exhibition Wild Nature 2002-05. An engaging interest in travel exploring cultures and landscapes inform her work. An "Artist in Residence" at Alice Springs in 1996/97 culminated in her first solo exhibition. An annual trip to "Artist in Residence" in Port Douglas from 1999-2003 was pivotal to her exploration of her family history resulting research grant for new work. Her exhibition rewind/FORWARD toured regional galleries throughout Queensland, (including Thursday Island) in 2004-05 and Art Gallery NSW in 2006. 

Workshops: Jewellery Decoration, Soldering and Jewellery Making

Marguerite de Fondaumiere

Marguerite de Fondaumiere was born in country NSW and lives in Sydney. She is a contemporary artist working in the areas of painting, sculpture and printmaking. Marguerite works across all media, specializing in the use of rice and mulberry papers from China and Japan. Her research covers the fragility of the relationship between humans and the Earth. She has studied at the National Art School, Sydney, The Craft Academy of Mauritius and Warringah Printmakers Studio. Marguerite has lived and worked in Mauritius and exhibited internationally. She has work in numerous private collections in Australia, Mauritius, England, South Africa, Seychelles, France, America, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia. She has also curated exhibitions for artists and the Australian High Commission in Mauritius. 

Workshops: Investigating Monotype, Waterless Lithography

Mauri Maunsell

Mauri Maunsell graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he majored in sculpture before undertaking further studies to develop his passion for jewellery making and metalwork. He works in a variety of media including wood, bronze, stainless steel, gold and silver and semi and precious stones. Mauri taught at the Queensland College of Art, and has been engaged as tutor in the Summer and Winter schools at McGregor College.

Workshops: Introductory Silversmithing, Stone Setting

Mieke den Otter

From Ipswich, Mieke den Otter uses felt to create such pieces as shoes, hats, scarves, bags and other small trinkets. With experience in illustration, painting and weaving she has worked and exhibited in Australia and Holland. Mieke studied art and is now a teacher at Bremer TAFE as well as undertaking feltmaking workshops in Ipswich and for students at the Woodford Folk Festival.

Workshops: Felt Snakes and Creepy Crawly Creatures (Textiles), Great Group Project in Felt (Textiles), Felt Hats, Pouches and Vessels (Textiles)

Nerida Matthaei

Nerida Matthaei is an award-winning dance artist and choreographer. Nerida completed an Honours year in 2006 researching choreographic practice after completing a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Dance), with distinction at the Queensland University of Technology. Over the past ten years she has worked nationally as an educator, performer, choreographer, tour manager, rehearsal director and arts marketer. Nerida has tutored for Queensland University of Technology's Dance and Creative Industries department teaching choreographic studies and approaching interdisciplinarity. Nerida co-founded the award winning Phluxus Dance Collective with Skye Sewell and Chafia Brooks. Their work has won Critics Choice Award for Best Choreography at the 2007 Short Sweet and Dance Festival, runners up for Best Performance in the Dance/Movement category at The Age 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival and Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance at the 2009 Australian Dance Awards. Their work has toured Australia, New York and Ireland. Nerida has worked for companies such as Expressions Dance Company, Buzz Dance Theatre, Queensland Arts Council, QL2/The Australian Choreographic Centre, Steps Youth Dance Company, Urban Ignition Youth Dance Company and Marshall Arts. 

Workshops: Introduction to Dance Technique and Choreography 

Pamela Denise

Pamela Denise works fulltime in Northern NSW as a visual artist and Community Cultural Development worker. With over 25 years’ of professional practice, Pamela has led numerous community art projects and public art installations, including murals, sculptures, and mosaics.

Workshops: Mosaic - Individual Treasures, Mosaic Major Installation

Petena Moesker

Patena is an artist, designer and art educator who works under the name “Twin Fig Designs”. She has nearly 20 years experience as an art teacher working at a Secondary and TAFE level. Patena has obtained a Diploma of Teaching, Bachelor of Education and a Certificate in Art/Design. She has had a number of solo and group exhibitions as well as displays in private collections. Patena has also undertaken courses in Batik with Mary Edna Fraser (USA), Tony Dyer (AUS) and Jeff Service (AUS). Currently researching to travel to Indonesia to gain more experience at a studio in Jogjakarta (Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo).

Workshops: Contemporary Batik - Functional and Decorative Fabric (Textiles)

Rebecca Berrett

Rebecca Berrett is a children’s picture book author and illustrator, with 21 books published. She also works in the affiliated arts of bookbinding, calligraphy and artist books. Rebecca exhibits her art and illustrations in commercial galleries on the Sunshine Coast, and is represented in private collections throughout Australia, and internationally. Rebecca works full-time as an illustrator, freelancing from her Bundaberg studio. She has been tutoring in many art subjects across all age groups for approximately twenty years. Rebecca is currently working on a new picture book.

Renee Treml

Renee Treml trained in scientific illustration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (North Carolina Botanical Gardens) where she completed a Professional Certificate in Botanical Illustration. Renee is also an experienced studio artist with a specialization in drawing, painting and scratchboard, and has qualification sin environmental studies and biology.

Workshops: An introduction to scratch art  

Ronita Neal

Ronita has been involved with the arts since childhood as an artist, performer, event organizer and teacher. For the past 15 years photography has been her primary art medium. She has held exhibitions, won awards, worked as a free lance photographer, and run photography workshops. She enjoys helping others to realize their vision through photography. Her approach is to combine artistic and technical skills to produce exceptional images. 

Workshops:  Introduction to Photography, Taking Your Photography Further: Refining your photography techniques through a creative project.

Sandra Ross

Sandra Ross has been facilitating workshops and teaching art for over 20 years to a wide variety of people of diverse backgrounds, abilities and ages. She has studied art at both Undergraduate and Post Graduate level in Sydney and Brisbane. Based on the Sunshine Coast, she currently tutors Expressive Drawing at the Brisbane Institute of Art and has been doing so for over 4 years. For the past 2 ½ years she has been working part time at the Gympie Regional Gallery in Public Programs and Gallery Administration. Primarily focusing on painting, drawing and mixed media, Sandra is committed to her personal practice through regular exhibitions and entering competitions, often winning prizes. In 2007 she was selected and hung in the Tattersalls Landscape Award.  

Workshops: Expressive Drawing Strategies (Drawing)

Shelalagh McGovern

Shelalagh McGovern has a passion for circus arts. She founded Aerialize - Sydney Aerial Theatre in 1998 and was the Director and head trainer for the past ten years. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Languages from the University of NSW, and her advanced rigger’s ticket. With a background in theatre and gymnastics, Shelalagh has trained in aerial and circus skills with trainers from Circus Oz, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Legs on the Wall and Circus Space, London. 
Shelalagh performed in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, on the Sydney Opera House forecourt with Les Comediennes and in Singapore with the Flying Lotahs. Shelalagh directed aerial segments for the 2006 School Spectacular and 2007 Sydney Youth Olympics opening Ceremony. Over the past ten years, Shelalagh has taught aerials for Aerialize, Australian Theatre for Young People, the Wiggles, Hi 5 and many schools and TAFEs.

Workshops:  Circus Arts

Stephen Clark

Stephen began working in the arts scene in Queensland in 1985 and since that time has worked extensively around the state in arts touring, event production, cultural development and tourism marketing. He comes to Flying Arts from a successful consulting business where his clients have included Queensland Arts Council, Arts Queensland, Tourism Queensland, Local Government, Queensland Music Festival and the Australian Business Arts Foundation. In recent years Stephen has spent a great deal of time on the ground in regional Queensland working with local government and local communities to enhance sense of place, community pride and identity and promoting professional development in the arts sector. 

Workshops:  How to - Arts business workshop series (Arts Management)

Tony Walker

Tony Walker is an avid painter of remote and urban landscape and figurative subjects, in Australia and overseas. Tony Walker travels widely to paint. He has traversed the remote Kimberley from the harshly beautiful jagged limestone ridges of the Ningbing Bush on cattle stations north of Kununurra, to CapeDomitt, the Cockburn Ranges near Home Valley and across to Dilli Gorge in the west Kimberley and around King Edward River and the remote Drysdale River National Park near Kalumburu. In his words – ‘I can’t help continuing to go back to the Kimberley. The unique light, the vast scale, the silence, the astonishing colours and remarkable landforms are always a source of wonder and excitement to me. Also there is that extra dimension – the ancient rock art, some (the ‘Bradshaw’ or ‘Gwion’ rock art) being highly sophisticated and dating back to artists of more than 20,000 years ago.’ He has made a number of painting trips elsewhere in remote Australia and to the exotic landscapes of north India and Oman and has also painted in parts of Europe. His work is in selected galleries including AGRA Gallery (Melbourne), Al Madina Gallery (Muscat), Majlis Gallery (Dubai), Design Arts Centre (Dubai), Lovell Diversions Gallery (Kununurra West Aust). He also shows work with the Royal Qld Art Society, the Watercolour Society of Qld, the Half Dozen Group (Brisbane) and selected art shows. He is represented in private collections in Dubai, Muscat, England, Spain and Australia. He has won various awards in Australia and recently was represented in the GCC International Exhibition in Muscat.

Tracey Brown

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Workshops: Glass Bead Making Masterclass, Glass Bead Making Intermediate, Introduction to Glass Bead Making

Tricia Smout

Tricia Smout is a practicing multi-media artist and registered teacher based in Brisbane. She works with all types of textiles and fibres. Tricia’s other passion is calligraphy, and indeed lettering of any type, she uses letters, words and symbols as the inspiration to create innovative hangings, artist books, sculptures and wearable art in paper, fibre and fabric, using a wide range of techniques (including collage, felting, paper folding, embroidery, appliqué, patchwork, quilting, knitting, crochet, tapestry, beading and papermaking). Tricia’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries in Australia and overseas, and purchased by corporate and private collectors, as well as being published in various internationally renowned journals. Tricia has been teaching both children and adults for over 30 years, and she has studied with many internationally recognised artists.  

Wanda Bennett

Wanda Bennett is a textile artist specialising in contemporary fibre weaving and wearable art. Her work varies from small functional objects to large-scale sculptures, installations and processional puppets. Wanda has studied, exhibited, and worked on large-scale sculpture commissions in both Australia and Europe and is currently based in the Mackay hinterland. With ten years’ teaching experience, Wanda is also experienced in street performance and has worked  on and coordinated projects combining visual art, drama, music and film.

Workshops:  Felting for the Tropics (Textiles) , Contemporary Weaving with Natural Plant Fibres (ESI)