Workshop
This workshop has been put together especially for young Indigenous artists and students, covering the ins and outs of making contemporary art: what it means to be an artist; what opportunities are out there for support; and what some of the most interesting young Indigenous artists of today are up to.
The three-part workshop will include:
Lionel Austin and Jirra Lulla Harvey, who will discuss their roles as Indigenous art workers, and the opportunities for funding, support, and artmaking that are out there.
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Artist/s:
Bindi Cole, Lionel Austin and Jirra Lulla Harvey.
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About the artist/s:
Bindi Cole, an award-winning photographer, who will talk about her experience of maintaining a 9 – 5 job as well being an artist and keeping her pratice active. Bindi will also give a guided tour of her Next Wave exhibition, Not Really Aboriginal.
A proud young Gunditjamarra man, Lionel Austin has been involved in the Arts industry since he was 16. He attended Swinburne University of Technology in 2002 and 2003 where he completed a diploma in Indigenous Performing Arts. His current practice is theatre, including production and acting. Lionel has worked as a stage manager for several Ilbijerri productions as well as with the Melbourne Theatre Company’s hit production The Sapphires. He has acted in the Ilbijerri Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Theatre production Natives Getting Restless Funny as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and in the 2006 season of The Dirty Mile – A walking history trail of Indigenous Fitzroy. Lionel was the 2006 Victorian state coordinator for NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee) which, he says, was his biggest challenge to date. Lionel is also currently a Breakfast Announcer on 3KND – Victorian Indigenous Community Radio Station.
As well as providing support for many different projects, Lionel Austin specifically assists in the production of Indigenous projects for Next Wave.
Jirra Lulla Harvey is a fourth year Media and Communications student at the University of Melbourne.
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