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The
year is now in full swing for Flying Arts, however in light of recent
extreme weather events we acknowledge the devastation and widespread
impacts caused by the current flood disaster across our great State’s
regional communities as well as our neighbours in New South Wales.
We
know there is so much loss and suffering right now but Flying Arts is
here to support artists, artworkers and creative communities in good
times and in bad, in locations near and far.
Flying
Arts has created a list of useful links and resources to assist with
relevant support and services 2022 Flood: resources and links, if we
can assist further please contact us at info@flyingarts.org.au
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Take care and stay safe!
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Paint the Town opens in Cairns
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In
other recent news, on 25 February, the Governor of Queensland, Her
Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeanette Young PSM, officially opened Paint The Town: The Touring Exhibition of the 2021 Queensland
Regional Art Awards at The Court
House Gallery in Cairns.
Flying
Arts is honoured to welcome the patronage of Her Excellency as Flying
Arts celebrates our 50th Anniversary Year and embarks on a capacity-building
fundraising campaign, ‘Here for 50 Years, Here for 50 More’,
to ensure our future sustainability as a charitable non-profit. Through
this initiative our organisation will be able to continue and provide
more transformative arts experiences that sustain lives, lifestyles,
and livelihoods, and help individuals and communities to overcome the
impacts of regional isolation and remote living.
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Image: Her
Excellency, the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM, Governor of
Queensland presents Certificate of Patronage to Sarah Barron, Co-Chair
of the Board of Flying Arts Alliance at Paint
the Town Exhibition
Launch, The Court House Gallery, Cairns. Photographed by The
Social Impact.
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Paint
the Town Exhibition Launch, The Court House Gallery,
Cairns. Photographed by The Social Impact
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Across
the launch weekend, Saturday and Sunday, young artists aged 12 – 18
(and a few, slightly older, but equally enthusiastic
participants) tried their hand at a range of visual arts techniques
during workshops run by exhibiting Paint the Town artists. These
workshops were delivered as part of Flying Arts' initiative, Our Perfect New World
project, thanks to the support of the Queensland Government's Playing
Queensland fund. Aspiring artists learnt stamp making, collage and
watercolour under the expert guidance of artists Darren Blackman,
Bianca Tainsh and Libby Derham.
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L-R Artists
Darren Blackman, Bianca Tainsh and Libby Derham present workshops to
participants as part of our Perfect New World project,
at The Court House Gallery, Cairns. Photographed by The Social
Impact
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Paint the Town, touring exhibition of the 2021
Queensland Regional Art Awards, is an initiative of Flying Arts
Alliance in partnership with Museums & Galleries Queensland. This
project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts
Queensland; and proudly sponsored by Holding Redlich.
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The Visual Field,
our young artists program is coming up this school holidays!
In
this exciting opportunity, students keen on exploring a career in the
arts after school will have the opportunity to meet leading artists,
curators and creators! Held in partnership with the Institute of Modern
Art (IMA) at the Judith Wright Arts Centre in Brisbane, young creatives
will learn about the industry and connect with like-minded
arty-teens, immersing in the exciting world of contemporary art.
If
you are a regional, rural or remote student, you are eligible for a
bursary to cover the cost of your participation in the program. To
apply, please email ProgramLead@Flyingarts.org.au telling
us a bit about yourself!
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2022 Annual Program launch
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In
case you missed it last week, Flying Arts launched our vibrant 2022 Annual Program
Each
year our Program Team listens deeply to the feedback and requests of
our creative Queensland communities and structure meaningful programs
which respond to the needs of an ever changing arts sector - this year
is no different!
Start planning your creative goals for 2022! View here
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Our Globalised World Exploring Diaspora Through
Art Practice
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17
Mar, 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm, Your computer
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Hear
from Eugenia Lim, leading contemporary artist on her art practice and
recent projects on globalisation, diaspora and identity. This webinar
is designed to engage with the Australian Curriculum cross-curricular
priority of ‘Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia’. This webinar
counts towards educator Professional Development and a certificate of
participation can be supplied upon request.
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Connecting Art with Communities
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31
Mar, 3:30 am - 4:45 pm, Your computer
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The
classroom is an increasingly digital space, with students absorbed in
online worlds and connected daily to an array of creative imagery. In
this webinar, artist and curator, Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, will
discuss his work investigating the digital conditions of contemporary
life, including strategies for embracing this in the real-life
classroom. This webinar counts towards educator Professional
Development and a certificate of participation can be supplied upon
request.
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Guidelines for Working Collaboratively with First
Nations Creatives
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7
Apr, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Your computer
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Nicole
Williams is a determined educator and Imagineer with over 30 years'
experience. In this webinar Nicole Williams will discuss strategies for
collaborating with First Nations creatives, organisations and
businesses. This discussion-based webinar will empower you to build
meaningful and long-lasting connections with your local Traditional
Custodians, to embrace First Nations peoples’ sophisticated knowledge
systems, understandings and practices.
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Connecting Art with LGBTQI+ safe Spaces
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28
Apr, 3:30 am - 4:45 pm, Your Computer
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Celebrated
artist Shannon Novak aims to use his socially engaged and collaborative
practice to build spaces that acknowledge, celebrate, and support
diversity and inclusion.
In
this webinar, Shannon Novak will discuss the importance of LGBTQI+
friendly spaces in schools and what tools visual art can offer to
create a welcoming environment for all.
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RAF Quick Response Grants
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Tropical
Steampunk 2020 Creations and Freakshow Cairns | Scene of the Tank |
Image by Karen Van Harskamp | 2021 RAF Recovery Recipient Rebecca Scott
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Quick Response Grants are intended to assist regional artists, arts
organisations, and communities to take up professional or skills
development or small project opportunities and aim to support small
arts or cultural projects that cannot be funded by other means because
of their nature or timing.
The
second round of Quick Response Grants for
2022 are now open for applications! The March round closes midnight 31
March 2022. All applicants will be notified of decisions by 7
April 2022.
Learn More
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Whale's
Tale by Christine Holden | Image by Wezzy Cruze | Round 1 2021 Project
Grant - Wrapt in Mugal - Moogal Enterprises
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The
Project Grants stream supports applications which benefit the
community, increase access and participation, and/or provide direct
benefits to artists/arts workers. Project Grants provide major funding
for high-quality arts projects benefiting regional or remote artists,
arts workers, audiences, and communities.
2022 Round 1 of RAF Project Grants are open now and close at midnight on 16 March
2022.
Learn More
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The Regional Arts Fund (RAF) is an Australian
Government program designed to benefit regional and remote arts
practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities. The fund is
provided through Regional Arts Australia and is administered in
Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance.
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Bianca
Tainsh, winner of the 2021 QRAA New Media Award, undertook her prize of
a week-long residency at the State Library of Queensland’s innovation
centre, The Edge, in February. Bianca was accommodated for the week at
the beautiful Art Series hotel, The Johnson, in Spring Hill.
“Through the residency I'll be exploring techniques to
create multidimensional and multi-media sculptures, and unusual
embellishments for a series of 2D works. Lake Weyba is the platform
I've chosen for an exploration into how contemporary humans shape a
landscape and its wild inhabitants, both physically and perceptually”
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Image:
Bianca Tainsh at the State Library of Queensland. Photo by Patricia
Miller.
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Flying
Arts is excited to be launching our first opening of the QRAA ‘The
Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Exhibition this month at Consolidated
Properties Group.
Consolidated
Properties Group will host a series of Open Houses, facilitated by a
guest speaker:
26 March 3 - 5pm
Open
House: Artist talk with Cynthia Copley
Register now
14 May 6 - 8pm
Open
House: Talking Landscapes with Bruce Heiser
Register now
Image
(detail): Cynthia Copley, White Rock - Elemental, 2021,
oil on canvas. Photo by Cynthia Copley.
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Paint the Town: The Touring Exhibition of the
2021 QRAA
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25
Feb - 23 April
The
Court House, 38 Abbott Street, Cairns
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Paint the Town is on the road and first destination is Cairns!
Paint the Town
is the exhibition outcome of the 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards. The
2021 QRAA coincides with Flying Arts’ 50th year anniversary, half a
century of connecting artists, educators and communities.
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Last chance to see Decadence: The Touring Exhibition of the 2020
QRAA
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09
Mar - 01 May
Rosalie
Gallery 89 Mocatta Street, Goombungee
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Decadence
may invite notions of luxury and self-indulgence. It may evoke ideas of
wanton excess or wastefulness, perhaps with a casual or deliberate
disregard of consequence.
On show with artworks created as part of Our Perfect New
World Project, supported through Arts Queensland thanks to the Playing
Queensland Fund.
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Great chance to join the crew!
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The
Standard Membership
new year is upon us from 1st April so now is a
great time to join. Flying Arts members are a valued part of our
community. Members not only connect to a network keenly interested in
celebrating arts and culture, but also receive a range of benefits like
workshop discount vouchers – perfect for taking advantage of the Annual
Program now open for bookings! We also offer Accredited Membership
including general liability insurance for artists and artworkers engaged
in professional practice. Visit the website or contact our team at members@flyingarts.org.au
to find out more!
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Flying
Arts Alliance is listed in the Registration of Cultural Organisations,
and has Deductible Gift Recipient and Tax Charity Concession status.
All
donations above two dollars are tax deductible and will directly
support programs and activities in schools and communities in regional
and remote areas.
Donate Now
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Flying
Arts Alliance Inc acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands
and seas on which we work, live and create. We pay our respects to
Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge the unending
connection of First Nations peoples to this country. We support the
aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Voice,
Treaty and Truth. We value the contributions of First Nations artists,
creatives, artisans, practitioners and communities to the work we do.
Flying
Arts Alliance is honoured to acknowledge the Governor of Queensland,
Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM as our Patron. We
also acknowledge Mr Tim Fairfax AC and Mrs Gina Fairfax as our Cultural
Patrons.
Flying
Arts is a not-for-profit organisation inspiring the appreciation,
practice and professional development of the visual and media arts as a
lifetime interest or career throughout regional and remote Queensland,
supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and
corporate partners and benefactors.
Flying
Arts is the administrator in Queensland of the Regional Arts Fund
(RAF), an Australian Government program provided through Regional Arts
Australia.
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