That's a wrap! The Visual Field: Art Industry Insights for Teens

Artist Holly Anderson being interviews by a student as part of The Visual Field: Art Industry Insights for Teens. Photograph by Cian Sanders.

Thank you so much to our young artists, arts workers and content creators who participated in The Visual Field: Art Industry Insights for Teens in the school holidays! Flying Arts delivered this program in partnership with the Institute of Modern Art at the Judith Wright Arts Centre in Brisbane. 
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Over two days, 9 and 10 April 2022, ten very enthusiastic year 11 and 12 students from Brisbane and regional areas of Bundaberg, Warwick and Ipswich met with artists, curators, and industry professionals to explore the arts industry and diverse arts career pathways. 

 

Day 1, Saturday: Students were treated to a guided tour of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) with Director Liz Nowell as well as visiting the POP Gallery (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University). Students were given the opportunity to plan, interview, record and edit each other. They explored the IMA, talked about the artworks and artists and created content on iPads with the app INSHOT.

 

Day 2, Sunday: Students visited the Outer Space artist studios in Fortitude Valley and heard first hand from artists Dhana Merritt, David Spooner, Sebastian Moody, Emmalyn Hawthorn and Holly Anderson. A panel discussion followed where students heard from a selection of art industry professionals. The weekend concluded with the students presenting their digital interviews, showing their creativity and learnings to invited parents and caregivers.

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Flying Arts is grateful to our partner organisation IMA for hosting this event as well as our friends at Outer Space, who welcomed us into their Fortitude Valley studio spaces.

Pictured are the participants chatting to Outer Space artist studio residents Dhana Merritt, Holly Anderson, Sebastian Moody, Emmalyn Hawthorne and David Spooner. Photographs by Cian Sanders.

2022 Annual General Meeting Announcements

On 21 April, Flying Arts Annual General Meeting officially reflected on another challenging, but overall successful year for the organisation and heralded changes to the Board, including a welcome, congratulations to returning members and a heartfelt farewell and thank you to long-standing members.

The Hon.  Anthe Philippides in front of artwork Bush Plum by Polly Ngale, Senior custodian Bush Plum Dreaming story, Anmatyerre tribe, Ahalpere Country, Utopia. Photograph courtesy of The Hon. Anthe Philippides.

We are excited to announce that the Honourable Justice Anthe Philippides has been elected to the role of Chair of the Board of Flying Arts Alliance. Recently retired, Justice Philippides was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland in December 2000 and a Judge of the Court of Appeal in December 2014. We are thrilled to welcome Anthe who brings with her a wealth of experience and respect, coupled with a passion for the arts, particularly in regional and remote Queensland. We look forward to embarking on this new chapter with her guidance and support.

Sarah Barron.

Photograph by The Social Impact.

Notably, we would like to acknowledge and thank Sarah Barron who has stepped down after 9 years on the Board with the recent 2 years as Co-Chair, adeptly navigating the challenges faced by Flying Arts during the pandemic – no small feat! Sarah has had a longstanding association with Flying Arts, firstly, as a high school participant at Flying Arts youth residency programs, then as a member of staff for 4 and a half years, before joining the board in 2013. Flying Arts is greatly appreciative of Sarah’s passion and knowledge of the arts sector, and her expertise in galleries, education and public programming and accessibility, which she keenly shared and cultivated through her leadership role. Significantly, during her time on the board, Sarah curated Colour: Mervyn Moriarty, A Retrospective Exhibition for Flying Arts 45th Anniversary.  Sarah’s integrity, dedication to and deep understanding of Flying Arts will be missed.

In other news we acknowledge our Co-Chair Kasia Kondas has stepped down from this executive role, also having steered Flying Arts through the challenges of the previous two years. We are grateful Kasia continues as a director with the board, generously sharing her extensive knowledge and expertise in People and Change management.

 

We would also like to recognise the outstanding contribution of Damien Bourke who has stepped down from the board though will continue his relationship with Flying Arts through Holding Redlich, whose support is most valued.

 

Flying Arts is delighted to welcome back returning board members Ben Turnbull (Secretary), Louise Guy (Treasurer), Elverina Johnson, Bruce Heiser, Josephine Wise, Lorraine Dinsey, Michelle Tuahine, Mary-Clare Power and Steve Munnings.

 

We are very fortunate to benefit from their individual and collective leadership and support, making an invaluable contribution as we continue the Flying Arts 50th year celebrations with the next 50 years in mind.

2021 Annual Report is here!

Our recent 2021 Annual General Meeting also gave our members the opportunity to approve the 2021 Flying Arts Annual Report.

 

Flying Arts would like to acknowledge our valued artists, arts workers, arts educators, program participants, colleagues, partners, donors and sponsors. Once again faced with ongoing challenges, Flying Arts was able to adapt, collaborate and promote innovation and resilience across our widespread arts community.

Our results and achievements are outlined in the Annual Report, however, here are some notable highlights:

• 216 activities were delivered to
• 6,551 participants and 38,122 attendees
• across 56 unique regional locations with
• 180 regional engagement activities outside of Brisbane

In our 50th year Flying Arts continues to be inspired and thankful of all that has been achieved together across our creative community.

 

View the 2021 Annual Report here!

Upcoming Program Highlights

Discuss your career or art practice one-on-one with Liz Nowell in our popular Creative Consultations series.
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This year we are thrilled to be joined by Liz Nowell, an arts leader and curator with over ten years’ experience working in Australian and international contemporary art. Currently Liz is Director of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
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Don't miss this great opportunity as an artist or arts workers to obtain career advice in engaging with contemporary art or work in not-for-profit arts sectors. These individualised consultations will provide 45-minute online sessions to discuss matters most relevant to you! Register here.

Latest online news

In late March,  Flying Arts Alliance celebrated all things landscape with the launch of the inaugural Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award exhibition at Consolidated Properties Group (CPG), Brisbane. 

 

Generously hosted by award partner Consolidated Properties Group and set against a spectacular backdrop of the Story Bridge, the evening recognised and celebrated Mervyn Moriarty’s legacy with the finalists and winner of the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Awards followed by tours of the exhibition in the CPG offices.   

 

Read all about the opening night in our latest online Flying Arts news update. Read more

Holoscribe Experience 3: Schools

 Virtual town artwork by Easton Dunne, thanks to a donation by Philip Bacon AO

Get ready to take a virtual stroll in the soon to be released Experience 3: Schools. Join us as we continue to “open” more places in our virtual town and view the stories from Flying Arts out and about delivering programs in regional schools throughout Queensland. This project, as with all of our initiatives, is about and for our community so please we encourage you to take the time to explore through the virtual town as it "comes alive"!

 

With our past, present and future in mind, Flying Arts: Paint the Town platform is one of our main 50th Anniversary project.  

 

So look out for the release of Experience 3: Schools arriving in your inbox in the coming weeks!

*Holoscribe screenshot displayed is courtesy of Bobbi-Lea Dionysius

Professional Development Programs (view all)

For Artists and Artsworkers

Understanding Art Awards

19 May,  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm, Your computer

The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is back for 2022! In this Webinar, Madeline Brewer, Flying Arts’ Program Team Lead and coordinator of the 2022 QRAA, will discuss the broader context of visual art awards in Australia, the history of QRAA and tips for a stand out entry. Throughout the session you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the T&Cs and advice for responding to a ‘theme-less’ award.

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Creative Consultations with Liz Nowell

20 May, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Your computer 

Discuss your career or practice one-on-one with a respected arts industry professional. Liz Nowell is an arts leader and curator with over ten years’ experience working in Australian and international contemporary art. Currently she is Director of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

 

Use these 45 minute sessions to discuss matters most relevant to you.

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For Teachers and Educators

Art as Code: Symbols for Storytelling

22 May, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Your computer 

With a focus on exploring identity and place, First Nations artist Dylan Sarra uses a range of disciplines such as print, digital works and sculpture to gently persuade an audience into humanising the Indigenous experience prior to colonisation.

 

This workshop is relevant to arts educators, artists and arts workers. It also includes direct links to the Visual Arts Senior Syllabus, providing teachers with ideas and scaffolding for delivering Unit 2, Art as Code.

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Technology & Country with Robert Andrew

28 Jul 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm, Your computer

As a proud descendant of the Yawuru people, Robert Andrew’s art practice investigates histories that have been denied or forgotten. His work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary relationship to his Country.

 

In this webinar Robert Andrew will speak to his practice which mines historical, cultural and personal events buried by the dominant paradigms of western culture

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Regional Arts Fund

RAF Quick Response Grants

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 May Quick Response Grant Round is now open for applications and closes 11.59pm 31 May 2022. All applicants will be notified of decisions by 7 June 2022.  Read more

Project Grants

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. Read more

2022 Round 1 of RAF Project Grants is now closed. 2022 Round 2 details will be announced shortly.

 

Do you want to keep up to date with Regional Arts Fund news and announcements? Sign up to our mailing list to receive our eNews. Here 

Cultural Tourism Grants Announced for Queensland

58 regional Queensland arts and cultural organisations and local councils are sharing a total of 65 Cultural Tourism Accelerator grants for activity between April and October 2022 worth almost $600,000, funded by the Australian Government. 

 

The successfully funded projects include:

• profile raising for Cooper, Australia’s largest discovered dinosaur, in Eromanga, the town further from the sea than any other settlement in the country;
• multi-disciplinary creative Scott Maxwell to be the Artist-In-Residence for the Desert Daze Festival at Lake Dunn, Barcaldine;
• Delta Yarns, a dynamic two-part arts project that comprises creative storytelling workshops, a vintage shop window spectacle and an intimate performance by Kate Miller-Heidke in the world-renowned Mt Alma wetlands in the Burdekin;
• All Fired Up, a time-travelling rock cabaret featuring numerous hits from the 1980's sung by Cairns local music legend Roz Pappalardo, in Mareeba; and
• development of Mugul Mountain Retreat as a cultural tourism hotspot for the Gladstone region through a partnership with the Traditional Owners, the Gooreng Gooreng people. 

The Cultural Tourism Accelerator Fund is aimed at increasing visitation to existing arts and cultural venues, events and programs through four complementary grant streams, and full details here.

Exhibitions

Paint the Town: The Touring Exhibition of the 2021 QRAA

24 May - 9 Jul 2022.

Tablelands Art Gallery, Atherton

Paint the Town is coming to Atherton!

 

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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The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award

9:00am - 5:00 pm Monday to Friday, 25 Feb, 2022 - 2023

Consolidated Properties Group, Level 8/ 175 Eagle Street Brisbane City.

Consolidated Property Group supported the inaugural Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award as a category of the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA).  The prize awards a landscape artwork in any medium, in homage to Flying Arts' founder Mervyn Moriarty and his penchant for ‘en plein air’ landscape painting. The exhibition features the 2021 winner, Cynthia Copley alongside the Award finalists and is open to the public during the week.

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Join us - Flying Arts Membership! 

With so many exciting initiatives underway at Flying Arts – if you haven’t already it is the perfect time to join the Flying Arts family.  It is a chance to connect to a network of like minded people who celebrate creative community while receiving additional benefits.

 

Standard Membership benefits including discounts from our retail partners and vouchers that can be used towards Flying Arts workshops or programs.

 

Accredited Membership for creatives who need professional practice insurance protection to get you on your way.

 

To find out more reach out to our team at members@flyingarts.org.au!

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.

 

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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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