Are you a young, emerging artist looking for ways to push your practice? We've got just the thing!
With less than five months until 2024 40 Under 40 Exhibition entries officially open in September, we put together a little professional development series to prepare your application, push your creative practice and experiment with concepts and new methods of making.
This series consists of 5 workshops facilitated by Sunshine Coast and Brisbane artists:
Photographing your Practice with Louis Lim
Concept Development with Libby Harward
Collective Experiment with IN Ari
Demystifying Art Prize applications with Georgia Hayward
Crit Club with Amanda Bennetts and Jordan Neal
You can book one workshop for $30, or all five for $120 using the discount code APPLICATIONREADY at checkout. Booking into all five workshops will also get you FREE APPLICATION ENTRY into 40 Under 40, so keep your receipt!
With less than five months until 2024 40 Under 40 Exhibition entries officially open in September, we put together a little professional development series to prepare your application, push your creative practice and experiment with concepts and new methods of making.
This series consists of 5 workshops facilitated by Sunshine Coast and Brisbane artists:
Photographing your Practice with Louis Lim
Concept Development with Libby Harward
Collective Experiment with IN Ari
Demystifying Art Prize applications with Georgia Hayward
Crit Club with Amanda Bennetts and Jordan Neal
You can book one workshop for $30, or all five for $120 using the discount code APPLICATIONREADY at checkout. Booking into all five workshops will also get you FREE APPLICATION ENTRY into 40 Under 40, so keep your receipt!
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This project was made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia, administered in Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance.
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Photographing your Practice
with Louis Lim
DATE: Saturday April 22
TIME: 10am - 1pm
COST: $30
A quality photo representation of your artwork is essential for communicating and showcasing your work online or in print. In this workshop, artist and freelance photographer, Louis Lim, will cover the basics of artwork photography. This includes lighting, composition, and camera settings, as well as editing and post-processing techniques. With real-life demonstrations, you’ll learn how to create a set-up that works for various types of artworks, and how to enhance your images using software tools such as Photoshop and Lightroom. You’ll leave understanding the necessary measures to document your work in the best possible light.
Participants have the options to bring along your own camera, tripod, speedlight, smart phones and some artworks that can be use during the demonstration session.
BOOK HERE
with Louis Lim
DATE: Saturday April 22
TIME: 10am - 1pm
COST: $30
A quality photo representation of your artwork is essential for communicating and showcasing your work online or in print. In this workshop, artist and freelance photographer, Louis Lim, will cover the basics of artwork photography. This includes lighting, composition, and camera settings, as well as editing and post-processing techniques. With real-life demonstrations, you’ll learn how to create a set-up that works for various types of artworks, and how to enhance your images using software tools such as Photoshop and Lightroom. You’ll leave understanding the necessary measures to document your work in the best possible light.
Participants have the options to bring along your own camera, tripod, speedlight, smart phones and some artworks that can be use during the demonstration session.
BOOK HERE
ABOUT LOUIS
Louis Lim is a Brisbane (Meanjin) based photographer and visual artist whose work explores the diversity in human conditions, specifically those that are under-represented in mainstream media. His practice focuses on non-fictional visual storytelling and conceptual photographic portraits with a collaborative methodology. His work has been exhibited in several Australia galleries and presented internationally. Some of Louis’s accolades include being a finalist in 2019 Bowness Photography Prize and 2017 Churchie National Emerging Art Award, completion of a year-long artist residency at the Queensland Children’s Hospital School and most recently published a handmade artist book … there is no end in collaboration with Beth Jackson. Within his freelance photography work, Louis has worked closely with various artists, museums and galleries in documenting artworks, exhibitions, and art events.
Louis Lim is a Brisbane (Meanjin) based photographer and visual artist whose work explores the diversity in human conditions, specifically those that are under-represented in mainstream media. His practice focuses on non-fictional visual storytelling and conceptual photographic portraits with a collaborative methodology. His work has been exhibited in several Australia galleries and presented internationally. Some of Louis’s accolades include being a finalist in 2019 Bowness Photography Prize and 2017 Churchie National Emerging Art Award, completion of a year-long artist residency at the Queensland Children’s Hospital School and most recently published a handmade artist book … there is no end in collaboration with Beth Jackson. Within his freelance photography work, Louis has worked closely with various artists, museums and galleries in documenting artworks, exhibitions, and art events.
Demystifying Art Prize Applications
with Georgia Hayward
DATE: Saturday May 6
TIME: 10am - 1pm
COST: $30
Want to learn how to write a killer artist bio? Struggling to find the words to describe your practice? Join Georgia Hayward as she guides you through the process of applying for exhibitions and art prizes.
Throughout the session, Georgia will give you tips on how to write about your artwork and share some insight into what assessors are looking for in applications. As General Manager of Outer Space Brisbane, Georgia has seen her fair share of them!
You will also have the opportunity to practice and receive feedback from Georgia.
Participants to bring:
Notebook/laptop
Drafted artist statement
BOOK HERE
with Georgia Hayward
DATE: Saturday May 6
TIME: 10am - 1pm
COST: $30
Want to learn how to write a killer artist bio? Struggling to find the words to describe your practice? Join Georgia Hayward as she guides you through the process of applying for exhibitions and art prizes.
Throughout the session, Georgia will give you tips on how to write about your artwork and share some insight into what assessors are looking for in applications. As General Manager of Outer Space Brisbane, Georgia has seen her fair share of them!
You will also have the opportunity to practice and receive feedback from Georgia.
Participants to bring:
Notebook/laptop
Drafted artist statement
BOOK HERE
ABOUT GEORGIA
Georgia Hayward [she/her] is an early-career artist, curator and artsworker of Maranganji and Scottish descent. Her practice explores the influence of public space on contemporary social dynamics and community development. Utilising the urban environment as both subject and substrate, she analyses the construction of colonisation and capitalism.
Georgia investigates these ideas through social, spatial and digital practices to engage with polyphonic and polycentric readings of public space - cultivating a collaborative approach to artmaking, expanding community capacity and cohesion.
Based in Meanjin [Brisbane], Georgia works as the General Manager at Outer Space, a non-for-profit contemporary arts organisation. In this role, she is currently delivering the SUPERCUT program alongside her team, showcasing new works from more than forty Queensland practitioners across regional billboards, window gallery exhibitions and online exhibitions. Additionally, she also manages the Outer Space on-site gallery program, external exhibitions and public programs.
Outside of her role with Outer Space, Georgia is an Editor and Board Member for Runway Journal, an experimental digital art platform. Through knowledge-sharing and collaboration, Runway commissions and publishes critical and artistic works that respond to thematic callouts and engage with current threads of Australian and international contemporary art.
Collective Experiment
with IN ARI
DATE: Saturday May 6
TIME: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
COST: $30
Join IN | artist run initiative directors June Sartracom, Ruby Donohoe, and Sharna Barker who will lead a studio-framed experiment based on ideas of exchange and extension. Combining forms of drawing, creative writing, sculpture, and somatic embodied practice, Collective Experiment will expand and destabilise enclosed methods of making in a mixture of relationships with bodies, materials, and space. This workshop merges aspects of the individual and the collective, exploring how to trace acts of reciprocity to blur boundaries of interior–exterior, and self–other. Artists of all disciplines and levels of experience welcome.
Materials are supplied, but feel free to bring along more paper and drawing materials.
Ruby Donohoe | Aloud: Words Carve Themselves From Flesh
Sharna Barker | Giving Form to Feeling: Methods of Repetition and Extension
June Sartracom | Self to Surface: Volume & Contours
BOOK HERE
with IN ARI
DATE: Saturday May 6
TIME: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
COST: $30
Join IN | artist run initiative directors June Sartracom, Ruby Donohoe, and Sharna Barker who will lead a studio-framed experiment based on ideas of exchange and extension. Combining forms of drawing, creative writing, sculpture, and somatic embodied practice, Collective Experiment will expand and destabilise enclosed methods of making in a mixture of relationships with bodies, materials, and space. This workshop merges aspects of the individual and the collective, exploring how to trace acts of reciprocity to blur boundaries of interior–exterior, and self–other. Artists of all disciplines and levels of experience welcome.
Materials are supplied, but feel free to bring along more paper and drawing materials.
Ruby Donohoe | Aloud: Words Carve Themselves From Flesh
Sharna Barker | Giving Form to Feeling: Methods of Repetition and Extension
June Sartracom | Self to Surface: Volume & Contours
BOOK HERE
ABOUT IN ARI
IN | artist run initiative is a multi-disciplinary arts platform that supports the development and presentation of emerging + mid career art practices, providing space for artists to explore experimental, collaborative, diverse approaches to making art, sharing art, and talking about art. We're about new ideas, new conversations, new forms. IN offers project space x time for collaborations, mentoring, feedback, peer-critique, and a place to ‘talk shop’. IN is a collective with more questions than answers- premise pushing through curiosity and driven by the Sunshine Coast’s increasing appetite for rigorous, agile and critical contemporary arts dialogue.
IN | artist run initiative is run by Amanda Bennetts, June Sartracom, Ruby Donohoe, and Sharna Barker.
Developing Concepts
with Libby Harward
DATE: Sunday May 7
TIME: 10am - 1pm
COST: $30
As creatives, we have a lot of great ideas, but it can be hard to refine them. That’s why we’ve asked Libby Harward to share some insight into developing concepts from a seed of an idea to a fully realised work!
In this workshop, Libby will provide you with some key questions to ask yourself when developing an idea, giving you one-on-one feedback as you go.
Participants are asked to bring:
Notebook/laptop for notetaking
BOOK HERE
with Libby Harward
DATE: Sunday May 7
TIME: 10am - 1pm
COST: $30
As creatives, we have a lot of great ideas, but it can be hard to refine them. That’s why we’ve asked Libby Harward to share some insight into developing concepts from a seed of an idea to a fully realised work!
In this workshop, Libby will provide you with some key questions to ask yourself when developing an idea, giving you one-on-one feedback as you go.
Participants are asked to bring:
Notebook/laptop for notetaking
BOOK HERE
ABOUT LIBBY
A descendant of the Ngugi people of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) in the Quandamooka, Libby Harward creates artworks that break through the colonial overlay to connect with the cultural landscape, which always was, and always will be here. Her political practice, in a range of genres, continues this decolonising process. Libby describes her practice as a process of simultaneously listening, calling out to, knowing and understanding Country.
Libby’s arts practice spans over twenty years, initially as a community, street and graffiti artist. During the past 7 years her focus has been on developing a conceptual arts practice, resulting in regular invitations to exhibit works both nationally and internationally. Major recent works include the ALREADY OCCUPIED series on Yugambeh Country (Gold Coast), and DABIL BUNG (Broken Water) with First Nations along the Bidgee and Barka (Murray-Darling River system).
These works engage a continual process of re-calling – re-hearing – re-mapping – re-contextualising – to de-colonise, cultural landscapes, utilising low and high-tech media with elements of sound, image, installation and performance, engaging directly with politically charged ideas of national and international significance.
A descendant of the Ngugi people of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) in the Quandamooka, Libby Harward creates artworks that break through the colonial overlay to connect with the cultural landscape, which always was, and always will be here. Her political practice, in a range of genres, continues this decolonising process. Libby describes her practice as a process of simultaneously listening, calling out to, knowing and understanding Country.
Libby’s arts practice spans over twenty years, initially as a community, street and graffiti artist. During the past 7 years her focus has been on developing a conceptual arts practice, resulting in regular invitations to exhibit works both nationally and internationally. Major recent works include the ALREADY OCCUPIED series on Yugambeh Country (Gold Coast), and DABIL BUNG (Broken Water) with First Nations along the Bidgee and Barka (Murray-Darling River system).
These works engage a continual process of re-calling – re-hearing – re-mapping – re-contextualising – to de-colonise, cultural landscapes, utilising low and high-tech media with elements of sound, image, installation and performance, engaging directly with politically charged ideas of national and international significance.
Crit Club
with Amanda Bennetts & Jordan Neal
DATE: Saturday September 24
TIME: 2-4pm
COST: $10 for refreshments
At times, we find ourselves becoming stuck when creating a new work; we need a fresh set of eyes to offer new ideas.
Join Amanda Bennetts and Jordan Neal in a 2 hour Crit Club session, giving you the opportunity to receive constructive feedback from your peers! Each artist will present an artwork, finished or unfinished, and the group will be asked to come up with a series of questions for the artist regarding the formal qualities, concepts and the process of making.
It is important to remember that critiques are a tool for further developing your practice.
Listen. Absorb. Learn.
participants to bring:
A small artwork (2D, 3D or digital)
BOOK HERE
with Amanda Bennetts & Jordan Neal
DATE: Saturday September 24
TIME: 2-4pm
COST: $10 for refreshments
At times, we find ourselves becoming stuck when creating a new work; we need a fresh set of eyes to offer new ideas.
Join Amanda Bennetts and Jordan Neal in a 2 hour Crit Club session, giving you the opportunity to receive constructive feedback from your peers! Each artist will present an artwork, finished or unfinished, and the group will be asked to come up with a series of questions for the artist regarding the formal qualities, concepts and the process of making.
It is important to remember that critiques are a tool for further developing your practice.
Listen. Absorb. Learn.
participants to bring:
A small artwork (2D, 3D or digital)
BOOK HERE
