Visual Arts
2022 CASP PROJECT SERIES
The importance and challenges of creatively exploring local environments.
Interdisciplinary environmental artist, Kim V. Goldsmith, and Cultural Development Coordinator with Dubbo Regional Council, Jessica Moore, talk about the importance and challenges of creatively exploring and giving voice to local environments and the role of art in creating connections to these places and spaces. In 2022, Kim V. Goldsmith received a CASP grant to undertake a sound-based creative project on a stretch of the Wambuul Macquarie River from Lake Burrendong to Narromine. This collaborative project titled Sonic Territories: Wambuul involved four artists who worked together over several months to create a sound and spoken word composition. The project also involved gathering historical and contemporary community stories about connections to the river, and an immersive sound walk event.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk on Zoom, 5 April 2023
2022 CASP PROJECT SERIES
Successfully engaging local communities in creative projects.
In 2022, Baradine-based fibre textile artist and bookbinder Tina Pech received funding through the Country Arts Support Program (CASP) to undertake a project that was about engaging local communities. It was called 'Vessels of Place and Connection'. She used a handbound book to gather stories in Wellington NSW, representing the community and place. In this edited talk (Quick Byte), Tina is speaking with Orana Arts Executive Director, Alicia Leggett and Chair, Diane McArthur about her project and the practice of Community Arts & Cultural Development (CACD) more broadly—an area of practice that is often not well understood or recognised. The book is being cared for by Wellington Arts.
This was a 2022 CASP series talk, recorded on 24 May 2023.
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STUDIO CO!LAB TALK
The business of street art
Danielle Littlewood is the marketing and events manager with Zest Events International, a projects and events team specialising in large art projects and event management with designers, performers, 3D street artists, mural artists, chalk artists, graphic scribes and sculptors.
Art is at the centre of what they offer, but it’s a business model based on achieving outcomes for clients. Danielle talks about just what the business of street art is. A fascinating conversation for anyone interested in large scale, public art and art making.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk event on Zoom, on 16 March 2022.
STUDIO CO!LAB ROUNDTABLE
The role of artists in documenting nature
In this roundtable conversation, four regionally-based artists from across New South Wales have a conversation about the role of artists in documenting the natural world and extending the ideas of science. They are Jo Roberts (Leeton), Jason Richardson (Leeton), Allison Reynolds (Dandry near Coonabarabran), and Stephan de Wit van der Merwe (Parkes). The conversation is facilitated by Kim V. Goldsmith. The roundtable conversation series was created around the Arts Restart projects funded by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Roundtable on Zoom, 9 February 2022.
STUDIO CO!LAB LOUNGE SERIES ROUNDTABLE
What is the creative process?
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk presented on Zoom, 27 October 2021
This Studio Co!Lab Lounge Series Roundtable presents 5 regionally-based visual artists who received Create NSW Arts Restart funding earlier this year. In this facilitated discussion about the creative process, they share their experiences of their creative processes, the making of new work, and how that process may be refined or taught.
The artists are Gabrielle Bates, Karen Golland, Nicola Mason, Robert Salt, and Tamara Lawry, in conversation with Orana Arts' Kim V. Goldsmith.
LINKS REFERENCED IN GREG’S TALK
Australian Design Centre podcasts with Australian Living Treasures
STUDIO CO!LAB TALK
Greg Daly
The importance of community engagement.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk presented on Zoom, 10 November 2021.
Greg Daly is a ceramic artist who has worked from his base at Cowra for the last 34 years of his 50-year practice. While exhibiting and participating in the arts and crafts sector on a national and international level going back to the late 1970s, he still believes local interaction is an important part of his practice.
In this Studio Co!Lab Talk with Alicia Leggett, Greg Daly looks at those grass roots interactions and explains why they’re important and how there can be two-way benefits from showing your work and supporting the local arts community, as well as looking after your own practice interests.
STUDIO CO!LAB TALK
Tim Winters
What it means to be a project-driven artist.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk presented on Zoom, 18 August 2021.
Visual artist and designer, Tim Winters, explores what it means to be project driven artist with Orana Arts' Alicia Leggett and Amanda Donohue. Tim works across a wide range of art forms and design, nationally and internationally.
He talks about the process of problem solving as applied across artforms, how that’s allowed him to extend his practice, and take up opportunities to collaborate.
LINKS REFERENCED IN TIM’S TALK
Nexus Orange: Where Art Meets Science
‘On the Night Train’ video produced by Kim V. Goldsmith as part of the Stuart Town public art project Tim was commissioned to do can be seen on the Creative Consultancy page
STUDIO CO!LAB TALK
Warwick Behrens
Creative + Business: building a business model to suit your practice.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk presented on Zoom, 2 June 2021.
Warwick Behrens, under the moniker WarBëhr, is a combination of art and philosophy; it is a blue print of his crazy mind. His work endeavours to provoke imagination, liberate soul and celebrate the experience of being human. As well as painting, Warwick runs Mudgee Art House with Toni Behrens, offering fine art supplies, workshops, and professional imaging services including fine art photography, Giclée on rag printing, and archival framing.