Flying Arts Event Calendar: Artists and Artsworkers

Image credit: Joe Ruckli 2023.

Spend 45 minutes online with Troy Casey, the Managing Director of Blaklash (Kamilaroi). This online consultation is an opportunity to discuss and receive professional feedback on your artworks and arts practice.

Troy is passionate about harnessing economic opportunities to create positive social change for First Nations Australians. He combines his extensive community engagement experience spanning the government, not-for-profit and higher education sectors, with his curatorial practice, working collaboratively with communities to ensure First Nations voices are embedded across projects within public art, placemaking, and urban design.

Please bring questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of your session.

Cover image: Troy Casey photographed by Josef Ruckli. Courtesy of Blaklash.

5th of October 2024

10am – 4pm

Participants will create an art zine that reflects the theme of “Resolution,” aligning with this year’s Queensland Regional Art Award guidelines. The zine will explore personal, societal, or abstracted interpretations of resolution, using the creative process to navigate and express these concepts in a meaningful way. This workshop is facilitated by previous QRAA winner, Anna Guthrie. 

Workshop Outline:

1. Introduction to Zine-Making
2. Hands-On Zine-Making Session
3. Sharing and Discussion
4. Zine Collection for Queensland State Library

What to bring:

Please bring along old magazines, newspapers, and other collage materials!

Venue:

Mulga Lands Gallery, Charleville. 96 Alfred Street, Charleville, QLD, 4470.

Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.

Your facilitator: Anna Guthrie is a contemporary visual artist based in Meanjin whose practice is focused on the exploration of experience and abstract self-representation in her ceramic practice.

Anna’s artistic practice has been distinguished by numerous accolades, including being Highly Commended in the Emerging Artist category of the Flying Arts Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) 2023, and as a finalist over multiple years in the Moreton Bay Regional Art Prize, in addition to being recognised for Ceramic Excellence in 2023 as a finalist in the Ceramic Arts Queensland Siliceous Award.

Anna is a Doctor of Visual Arts candidate at the Queensland College of Art, with a focus on the intersection of exploratory art practices in her work as a ceramic artist.

Anna’s workshops are known for their inclusive and participatory ethos, fostering environments where creativity and personal narratives can flourish. Her upcoming workshop in Charleville as part of the Multicultural Festival, will guide participants through the process of producing an art-zine to explore ideas around the theme of “Resolution,” which is the theme for the 2024 Flying Arts Regional Art Prize.

Further underscoring her commitment to regional voices, Anna’s collaboration with the Queensland State Library to include regional zines in their collection provides workshop participants with the unique opportunity to have their creations archived, ensuring their stories reach a broader audience.

Join Anna in this engaging workshop to explore the art of zine-making, connect with fellow creatives, and delve into innovative and expressive techniques focused on the theme of “Resolution.”

Cover image: Courtesy of the artist, Anna Guthrie.

Image credit: Joe Ruckli 2023.

Image credit: Joe Ruckli 2023.

Image credit: Joe Ruckli 2023.

Spend 45 minutes online with Jonathan McBurnie, the Director of leading Queensland art gallery: Rockhampton Museum of Art. This online consultation is an opportunity to discuss and receive professional feedback on your artworks and arts practice.

Jonathan McBurnie is the Director of Rockhampton Museum of Art. McBurnie completed a PhD at the University of Sydney in 2014, charting the shifting role of drawing in the digital age, emphasizing the discipline’s ongoing tenacity through tactility and, adaptability.

McBurnie is regularly involved in a variety of artistic, academic and curatorial projects. Currently he is working on his 23^rd solo exhibition, a greaphic novel, and a follow up to 2023’s Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel (co-written with Adam Geczy).

Please bring questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of your session.

Image credit: Joe Ruckli 2023.

Image credit: Joe Ruckli 2023.

Spend 45 minutes online with Peta Rake, the Director and Senior Curator at University of Queensland Art Gallery. This online consultation is an opportunity to discuss and receive professional feedback on your artworks and arts practice.

Peta is the Director and Senior Curator at University of Queensland Art Museum. Her creative practice is currently attentive to transdisciplinary conversations focussed on blue research, working closely with artists and scientists to understand the psycho-social, political and gendered dimensions of coastal wetlands, sea country, intertidal zones, and the regeneration and articulation of these sites. Her work has always involved a large network of long-term collaborators and thinkers, with a keen interest in distributed curatorial work towards activism.

Rake’s previous roles at UQ Art Museum include Acting Director and Senior Curator. Before this she was located on Minhrpa (Banff), Treaty 7 Territory of the Îyârhe Nakoda, Tsuut’ina First Nation, and Blackfoot Confederacy where she was Co-Director of Creative Residencies, Visual + Digital Art Department and Curator of Walter Phillips Gallery/Banff International Curatorial Institute (BICI) (both at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada). She has also held roles at CCA (Ohlone/San Francisco) and Institute of Modern Art. She has developed projects at ISCP (Lenape/New York), Oakland Museum of California (Huichin/Oakland), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (Ohlone/San Francisco), Art Gallery of Alberta (Amiskwaciy Waskahikan/Edmonton), Luggage Store Gallery (Ohlone/San Francisco), and Esker Foundation (Mohkinstsis/Calgary).

Please bring questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of your session.

Image credit: Joe Ruckli 2023.