Presenters

Maree Clarke
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MAREE CLARke
Ancestral Memories: 
Connection to Country, Culture & Place

 Maree Clarke 10:10 AM - 11:00 AM Zoom Link

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Biography

Maree Clarke is a Yorta Yorta/Wamba Wamba/Mutti Mutti/Boonwurrung woman. She is an independent multi-disciplinary artist and curator, with a 30 year history of working in the contemporary and cultural First Nations arts sector.

Maree is a leading possum skin artist, also working with kangaroo teeth, echidna quills, glass, photography and more. Maree is known for her open and collaborative approach to cultural practice. She consistently works in intergenerational collaboration to revive dormant cultural knowledge – and uses technology to bring new audiences to contemporary southeast Aboriginal arts.

Maree’s multimedia installations of photography including lenticular prints, 3D photographs and photographic holograms as well as painting, sculpture and video installation further explore the customary ceremonies, rituals and language of her ancestors. Recently, the METRO Tunnel has commissioned Maree for line-wide artwork which will feature across five new underground stations – Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac in Melbourne, Victoria.

Maree was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship this year which will allow Maree to dedicate herself to research and develop her upcoming major survey, Re imagining Culture - Bloodlines which will be exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria. The project will see her continuing to collaborate with First Nations artists across generations in both Australia and Canada.


Maree Clarke 

Ian Strange


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IAN STRANGE
Art, Home and Suburbia

 Ian Strange  1:40 PM - 2:30 PM Zoom Link

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

biography

Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes multifaceted collaborative community-based projects, architectural interventions and exhibitions resulting in; photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film, documentary works and exhibitions. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects.

Ian is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions, film and photographic works subverting the archetypal domestic home. The work and exhibitions have been created across the globe and his drawings, paintings, publications and sculptures have been exhibited extensively.

Ian has on-going collaborative works and projects including; ‘TRACES’ (2016-2020) with contemporary dance company Chunky Move and their creative director Anouk Van Dijk, On-going collaborative works with designer and artist Virgil Abloh, including major sculpture commissions for Off White Melbourne, Sydney and New York. As well as ‘345 Franklin’ (2016) a collaborative work with Detroit based architect and artist Catie Newell for Artprize, Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2017 ABCTV released ‘Home: The Art of Ian Strange’ a 6-part documentary series looking at his career and work to date. In 2018 Strange was a speaker at TEDxSydney with ‘The Home, Art and Place’.

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Kerrie Poliness | Artist Photo by Polo Jimenez

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Kerrie poliness
Drawing in the world

 Kerrie Poliness  11:15 - 12:05 PM Zoom 

Breakout Session 

biography

Kerrie Poliness is known for her painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of Conceptual Art. Combining everyday materials, geometric abstraction and DIY culture, her wall drawings are installed by groups of participants allowing the processes of interpretation and decision-making to influence the final outcome.

Kerrie’s wall drawings challenge the defining concepts of an artwork as a unique object. They also demonstrate how to generate and practice steering adaptive grids. Fast algorithms paired with meshes are used to compute and collect data, to design and plan our world. Adaptive meshes help refine our interrelationships with the natural world. Each drawing relies on a specific site interpretation from a set of instructions to produce an asymmetrical version of a linear pattern. The interpretation, is contingent upon the particular architectural context, as well as the variables of material execution, hand and eye. Consequently the drawings, from the same set of instructions, are site specific and manifest differently in each location where they appear. Each iteration of a particular drawing activates the space and visually challenges the spatial perceptions and assumptions of the viewer.

Kerrie has been exhibiting since the 1980s and has undertaken many commissions since the 1990s. Poliness’s works are included in important permanent, public collections, including, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and QAGOMA (Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art), Brisbane.

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Zeta Wilson - VCAA
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Zeta Wilson
Aboriginal Perspectives in Visual Arts and Media Arts

 Zeta Wilson 11:15 - 12:05 PM Zoom

Breakout Session

Biography

Zeta Wilson is a Pitjantjatjara and Adnyamathanha woman from South Australia. She works in the Curriculum Division of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) as a Project Manager for Aboriginal Perspectives in the F-10 Unit, Victorian Curriculum.

Zeta has completed her Bachelor of Education in Primary Teaching in Perth and taught in primary and secondary schools in Western Australia.  Zeta has been involved in Aboriginal Education for almost 15 years working in Western Australia, South Australian and Victoria.  

Year 1 student artwork

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Sim Luttin | Curator & Gallery Manager
Sim Luttin | Curator & Gallery Manager


James McDonald | Studio Manager
James McDonald | Studio Manager   

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ARTS PROJECT AUSTRALIA
Inclusivity: Critical & Creative ThinkinG

 James McDonald & Sim Luttin12:35 PM - 1:25 PM Zoom

Breakout Session 

ARTS project australia (APA)

Arts Project Australia is a creative social enterprise that supports artists with intellectual disabilities, promotes their work and advocates for their inclusion in contemporary art practice. We have aimed high since 1974 when we set out to lead and innovate in the arts and disability sectors. Since then, the quality of our exhibitions and artwork created in our studio has flourished, fed by innovative programs and activities. We were the first full-time art studio in Australia for artists with intellectual disability and have built a reputation both in Australia and internationally for our achievements on this front. Proof lies in the consistency and quality of the exhibitions and programs that we produce and deliver, along with the extraordinary opportunities and experiences we have brokered for our artists. We believe in making a mark that matters and we believe in art as it should be. Original. Unapologetic. True. And joyful in the making.

biography | sim luttin

Sim Luttin is the Curator and Gallery Manager at Arts Project Australia. With twelve years’ experience at the organisation, and over 20 years’ experience in the arts, Sim has travelled extensively on behalf of Arts Project Australia, advocating and promoting their artists world-wide. Formerly a member of Australia’s Supported Studio Network, and a current member of Arts Project’s Exhibitions and Collections Committee, she has curated, written and presented extensively at on Outsider Art and Arts Project Australia at national and international conferences. Sim is currently Deputy Chair of Craft Victoria and on the University of Melbourne Advisory Group; Decentring Australian Art. Sim completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT in 2003, and a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management in 2004, and a Master of Fine Art from Indiana University in 2008. Sim has a passion for supporting marginalised artists to be included and connected in the broader national and global contemporary arts sector.

biography | James McDONALD

James McDonald is the Studio Manager at Arts Project Australia. With twelve years’ experience within the organisation, James has amassed a significant depth and breadth of knowledge, represented Arts Project Australia in national and international conferences relating to supported studios and Outsider Art, written catalogue essays, curated major retrospective exhibitions and sits on the Exhibitions and Collections Committee. He is currently on the University of Melbourne Advisory Group, Decentring Australian Art. James completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from RMIT in 2006.

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Dr Stefania Giamminuti
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Dr Stefania Giamminuti
The ATELIER as a guarantee of pedagogical and cultural transformation

 Dr Stefania Giamminuti  12:35 PM - 1:30 PM Zoom Link

Breakout SESSION 

biography

Dr Stefania Giamminuti is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Curtin University, Western Australia. She was awarded her PhD with Distinction at The University of Western Australia in 2010, she is the recipient of the 2010 Early Career Award of the Western Australian Institute for Educational Research, and she is a recipient of the Early Childhood Australia Doctoral Thesis Award for 2010.

Stefania’s background as a bilingual Italian/Australian early childhood teacher informs her stance on research, which uses an aesthetic lens to contest dominant cultural constructs of quality in early childhood education and care, investigate dialogues between the Reggio Emilia educational project and international early years contexts, and engage with the ethical and political debates on professionalism of early childhood educators. Stefania is currently leading a research project, in collaboration with Reggio Children and with the Municipal Infant-toddler Centres and Preschools, Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, investigating the role of the pedagogista and teacher professionalism in the educational project of Reggio Emilia. She has led teacher-initiated research projects on developing children’s ecological identity in urban environments, and on digital ateliers as transformative spaces for teacher collaboration. Stefania is the author of numerous books, book chapters and journal articles and is in high demand as a public speaker internationally.

Stefania enjoys strong and enduring collaborations with educational sector partners. She has been Thinker in Residence with Independent Schools Victoria (ISV) since 2017, a program which also involved a number of Victorian schools collaborating on an acclaimed public exhibition of their research held at Federation Square in Melbourne during the 2019 Arts Learning Festival. She has acted as Research Choreographer for the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia (WA) in 2018 and 2019, working with teachers to refine and extend their skills in pedagogical documentation and educational research with children. Stefania is also a member of the Council for Childhood and the City, Scuola Pablo Neruda, Reggio Emilia (Italy).

Digital Atelier



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