Flying Arts Alliance

Art for Life

FREE - Life Skills for Creative Humans with Melania Jack

16mar10:00 am2:00 pmFREE - Life Skills for Creative Humans with Melania JackArtists Workshop

Time

16th March 2025 10:00 am - 2:00 pm(GMT+10:00)

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Location

Cairns Court House Gallery

38 Abbott Street, Cairns City

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Event Details

16th March 2025

10am – 2pm

Cairns Court House Gallery

This free workshop aims to challenge and expand your creativity. Explore new ideas around creative thinking. Experience fun methods to shake yourself out of your comfort zone. Define your why, nurture the conditions for your work to evolve. Learn strategies to bring your creative ideas into the world.

This workshop is perfect for artists who are looking to expand their creative skillset, who might be at the beginning of a new project or would like to refresh their energy for a current project. Also for anyone who would love to spend some time being creative within a small group of like-minded people.

What to bring:

  • Pens, paper for writing/drawing/notes
  • An item of clothing you no longer use but think of as ‘creative’
  • An item that you no longer use but think of as ‘something for the future’

Venue

Cairns Court House Gallery – 38 Abbott Street, Cairns City

Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. The Court House Gallery has free parking on Sundays.

Additional Information

Melania Jack is a multimedia artist working in projection art, mapping, sound, digital collage, and performance. Based in Gimuy (Cairns) for the past seven years, their work has exhibited at NorthSite Contemporary Arts Cairns, Umbrella Studio Townsville, and in group exhibitions at Bundaberg Regional Gallery, Outerspace Gallery (Judith Wright Arts Centre), and the Victoria Society of Arts in Canada for IWD.

Over two decades, Jack’s practice has evolved from live performance and music to digital art, projection, and sound installations in gallery environments. As a queer and non-binary artist, their work frequently explores themes of gender, labour, and technology, employing frameworks like glitch feminism in projects such as Pressing Topics, Mother Controller, and the video-sound performance series Not Performing (My Gender).

 

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