Flying Arts Event Calendar Artists and Artsworkers
october
30sep01octBuild Your Arts Business with Alex StallingArtist Intensive

Time
September 30 (Saturday) 10:00 am - October 1 (Sunday) 4:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
TAFE Southbank Campus
Building E, Room 3:20
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 30th September and Sunday 1st October 2023 Join visual artist, designer, and business entrepreneur, Alex Stalling for a two-day artist intensive that will provide the essentials to
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 30th September and Sunday 1st October 2023
Join visual artist, designer, and business entrepreneur, Alex Stalling for a two-day artist intensive that will provide the essentials to get your art business up and running. The intensive will give insight into the arts industry, to help you identify appropriate contexts for your business, to set long-term goals and objectives and develop operational and promotional strategies.
You will learn practical skills to streamline and develop your business, including:
- Developing a business plan
- Marketing and promotional tips
- Product and service development
- Budgets and pricing
- Finding your audience and network
- Balancing art practice with business essentials
Please Bring
Flying arts recommends having note taking materials on hand. Any resources will be shared online prior to the workshop. Please bring questions that you may have for Alex Stalling.
Venue
TAFE Southbank Campus, Building E, Room 3.20.
Building E can be access via the Educational Pathway, between Ernest Street and Tribune Street.
This intensive will be held at TAFE Southbank Campus. The campus is a 15-minute walk from the Brisbane CBD and is adjacent to the Queensland Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, the State Library, the Queensland Museum, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.
Additional Information
Your facilitator: Alex Stalling is an Australian visual artist & cultural practitioner currently based in Toowoomba Queensland. Exploring representational self-portraits through automatic painting, motifs and linework.
Her career includes a professional arts practice, exhibitions, public art, committees, community activations, professional development & mentoring, gallery services, digital content creation, maker & product designer, event coordinator and business entrepreneur.
She is the founder of Tinker (2018-present), Co-founder of Made Creative Space Toowoomba (2011-2013), founder Attic Art Space (2009-2010) and has managed and facilitate numerous community art & cultural events across the Darling Downs.
Born in Mount Isa Queensland Alex has a strong connection to land, community, flora, fauna and connection. Through her practice Alex loves to find ways to include people in the creative process often working with community projects, tactile object production or items of play and creation.
Event Partner/s
19oct12:00 pm1:00 pmFood as Sustainable Creative Medium with Elizabeth WillingEducator Webinar

Time
(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
12pm – 1pm Thursday 19th October 2023 For the past 14 years Elizabeth has worked with edible materials in her practice. Her artworks range from sculpture, installation, video, collage, and performances where she
Event Details
12pm – 1pm Thursday 19th October 2023
For the past 14 years Elizabeth has worked with edible materials in her practice. Her artworks
range from sculpture, installation, video, collage, and performances where she enacts ‘hospitality’.
In this webinar the artist will discuss:
- ephemeral materials through the lens of sustainability
- the ethics of food waste
- the use of recycled materials across the various branches of her practice.
In this webinar Elizabeth will draw on examples from her own art practice to explore the complexity of issues around sustainability.
This workshop is suitable for teachers, artists and anyone interested in learning about sustainability in the arts.
Please Bring
Flying arts recommends having note taking materials on hand. Any resources will be shared online prior to the workshop. Please bring questions that you may have for Elizabeth.
Additional Information
This online session will be held via ClickMeeting a webinar broadcasting room. The webinar will be recorded and uploaded to Flying Arts’ YouTube after the program concludes.
To discuss specific access needs, please contact program@flyingarts.org.au.
Image: (Detail) Moviprep. Sherbet straws. 2020. 400x400cm. Image courtesy Elizabeth Willing and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne. Photograph by Andrew Curtis
Additional Information
About your facilitator:
Elizabeth Willing is a Brisbane based visual artist whose works are performative and often participatory explorations of food and hosting. Primarily working in sculpture, installation, and performance, Elizabeth’s work additionally takes the form of performance meals.
Elizabeth has undertaken professional development mentorships in New York with Janine Antoni (2011), with the Experimental Food Society in London (2012) and then with Thomas Rentmeister in Berlin (2014). In 2019 she completed a Masters of Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology.
Elizabeth has undertaken residencies at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (2014), Helsinki International Art Program HIAP (2015), New England Regional Art Museum Armidale (2018), The Australian Wine Research Institute in Adelaide (2019), Museum of Brisbane (2020), Urban Art Projects (2022) and Metro Arts (2023).
Exhibitions of Elizabeth’s work have been held in Australia and overseas at The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Trapholt Museum of Art and Design Denmark, Tinguely Museum Basel, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Musee Beaux Arts Angers France, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Elizabeth is represented by Tolarno Galleries Melbourne
20oct9:00 am4:00 pmCreative Consultations with Kellie O'DempseyArtist & Arts worker Consultation

Time
(Friday) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
Discuss your career or practice one-on-one with a respected arts industry professional. As a Queensland based interdisciplinary artist and educator Kellie O’Dempsey works across the
Event Details
Discuss your career or practice one-on-one with a respected arts industry professional.
As a Queensland based interdisciplinary artist and educator Kellie O’Dempsey works across the arts and cultural sector as an independent practitioner, educator and project developer. Delivering projects and programs in both regional and metropolitan areas from The National Gallery in Canberra to NorthSite Contemporary Arts in Far North Queensland Kellie’s approach is diverse and engaging. Playing with light, line and the live act, Kellie investigates notions of transformation and the absurd. Creating in both solo and collaborative formats with sound artists and contemporary performance practitioners using projection, collage and drawing as installation she hybridises elements generating artworks that are experiential and emergent.
Kellie O’Dempsey can provide career advice for artists, arts workers, writers, producers. In particular, Kellie can provide specific advice on:
- artwork, exhibition and project concept development
- creative project management and collaborative approaches
- site-generated installations and performances
- advice on projection, video, collage, architectural space, gestural line, performance and digital drawing practices
Use these 45 minute sessions to discuss matters most relevant to you.
Please bring questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of your session.
Image credit: Installation view, Kellie O’Dempsey, Wish You Were Here | Northsite Contemporary Art Space, Cairns, Queensland, 2022.
Additional Information
Your facilitator: As a Queensland based interdisciplinary artist and educator Kellie O’Dempsey works across the arts and cultural sector as an independent practitioner, educator and project developer. Delivering projects and programs in both regional and metropolitan areas from The National Gallery in Canberra to NorthSite Contemporary Arts in Far North Queensland Kellie’s approach is diverse and engaging. Playing with light, line and the live act, Kellie investigates notions of transformation and the absurd. Creating in both solo and collaborative formats with sound artists and contemporary performance practitioners using projection, collage and drawing as installation she hybridises elements generating artworks that are experiential and emergent.
26oct12:00 pm1:00 pmAccessible Arts Practices with Access ArtsOnline webinar

Time
(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
Having an arts practice that prioritises access is essential. In this online session, learn how to improve how you connect with people with disability or who are d/Deaf through your
Event Details
Having an arts practice that prioritises access is essential. In this online session, learn how to improve how you connect with people with disability or who are d/Deaf through your online and in-person arts projects.
Madeleine Little, Festival Director of Undercover Artist Festival, Access Arts will introduce best practice access considerations for people with disability in context to arts and culture. Madeleine will cover key topics:
- An overview of the Social Model of Disability
- Common barriers to access in the arts
- Best practice ways to navigate access barriers
- Overview of terms and recommended language
Madeleine will also provide resources for further information and support.
What to expect
This webinar is best suited to artists and arts workers wanting to practice Allyship. Attendees can expect to:
- Reflect on their arts practice to consider changes that remove barriers of access.
- Gain knowledge and confidence using inclusive language and preferred terms.
What to bring
Please bring questions to discuss with Madeleine. If you would like to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of the webinar, please email program@flyingarts.org.au. Flying Arts also recommend having note taking materials on hand.
Additional Information
This online session will be held via ClickMeeting a webinar broadcasting room. The webinar will be recorded and uploaded to Flying Arts’ YouTube with Closed Captions (English) after the program concludes.
An AusLan interpreter will be present during the online session.
To discuss specific access needs, please contact program@flyingarts.org.au.
Event Partner/s
About your facilitator: Madeleine Little (she/her) is a performer, theatre maker and access consultant for the performing arts based in Brisbane. Her acting credits include her recent work as Dr Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart (2022, Ad Astra Theatre) and as the lead in Hold (2019), which she also wrote, directed and produced for her Master of Arts (Creative Arts) research testing accessible theatre practice conventions in a new work. As an actor, Madeleine has been recognised for her performance as Dr Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart (Ad Astra Theatre) with a Matilda Award for Best Supporting Actor in an Independent Production. As a leader in the disability arts sector, Madeleine currently sits on the board of Arts Access Australia and has received multiple awards: Early Career Artist Award – Australia Council’s National Arts and Disability Awards (2022), National Leadership Award – Arts Access Australia (2019), Stella Young Award – Arts Access Victoria (2018). Madeleine holds Master of Arts (Creative Arts – UniSQ) and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama – QUT). For more, visit her website: madeleinelittle.com.
Undercover Artist (@undercoverartist_au) • Instagram photos and videos
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28oct10:00 am4:00 pmAnalytic Thinking and Concept DevelopmentEducator Workshop

Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
TAFE Southbank Campus
Building E, Room 3:20
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 28th October 2023 Join renowned artist and educator, Joachim Froese, for a workshop designed to develop strategies for analytic thinking and concept development. The workshop will combine
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 28th October 2023
Join renowned artist and educator, Joachim Froese, for a workshop designed to develop strategies for analytic thinking and concept development. The workshop will combine theoretical and practical exercises that will provide you with new, structured, hands-on tools and strategies in the classroom when communicating ideas about visual imagery.
In this workshop you will
- learn and practice techniques for analysing visual images;
- develop and apply strategies for giving and receiving critical feedback;
- expand your understanding of composition as a visual language.
The workshop presents an opportunity to develop skills in group exercises with the emphasis on creative inquiry and discussion. It connects to the Queensland Visual Arts Syllabus via its focus on creative inquiry and developing creative and expressive communication skills.
What to bring
Flying Arts Alliance recommends having note taking materials on hand. Any resources will be shared online prior to the workshop. Please bring questions that you may have for Joachim.
Venue
TAFE Southbank Campus, Building E, Room 3.20.
Building E can be access via the Educational Pathway, between Ernest Street and Tribune Street.
This intensive will be held at TAFE Southbank Campus. The campus is a 15-minute walk from the Brisbane CBD and is adjacent to the Queensland Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, the State Library, the Queensland Museum, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.
Additional Information
Your facilitator: Joachim Froese was born in Montreal, Canada, grew up in Germany and migrated to Australia in 1991. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art in Launceston in 1995, a Master of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art (QCA) in Brisbane in 2001, and a PhD (Art) at RMIT in Melbourne in 2017.
Combining exceptional technical expertise with a conceptual approach he works across a wide range of digital and analogue processes in photography, including historic printing techniques.
Since 1996 he has exhibited widely across Australia, Europe, Asia and North America and his work is included in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and QAGOMA. His work has featured in numerous national and international art publications and in 2009 the Queensland Centre for Photography published a monograph of his work.
Froese is an Honorary Lecturer at the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland. Since 2001 he has held regular teaching appointments at universities in Australia and Germany. He lives in Brisbane/Meanjin and Berlin.
Event Partner/s
november
02nov12:00 pm1:00 pmApproaching Public Art with Simone EislerOnline webinar

Time
(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
This webinar will help you take your art from the studio to the streets, stepping you through tips and challenges associated with creating large-scale public artworks. Developing public artworks is a
Event Details
This webinar will help you take your art from the studio to the streets, stepping you through tips and challenges associated with creating large-scale public artworks.
Developing public artworks is a significant undertaking and includes many physical and conceptual considerations. In this webinar, Simone Eisler will discuss her approach to public art commissions. Using Simone’s artworks as a starting point, the webinar will explore:
- Different types of public art artworks: temporary and permanent art commissions.
- Different stakeholders: Government, private and commercial.
The webinar will suit artists from all career levels who are interested in expanding their art practice into public art contexts. Attendees will gain insight into:
- Designing a public artwork from concept, plan to outcome.
- Finding opportunities specific to your own creative practice.
What to bring
Please bring questions to discuss with Simone. If you would like to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of the webinar, please email program@flyingarts.org.au. Flying Arts also recommends having note taking materials on hand.
Additional Information
This online session will be held via ClickMeeting a webinar broadcasting room. The webinar will be recorded and uploaded to Flying Arts’ YouTube after the program concludes.
To discuss specific access needs, please contact program@flyingarts.org.au.
Image: Simone Eisler (2023) The Climate Wars.
Event Partner/s
Simone Eisler creates large-scale gallery and public installations, including The Climate Wars, a 7m high Trojan Horse vertical garden at Southbank for the World Science Festival (2023), Museum of Our Lost World, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, for Botanica (2021), and Future Nature for Floating Land, Noosa (2021). Simone also collaborates with private, state and council architectural and landscape clients to develop creative content for public spaces and was a key place making consultant with AECCOM, which won the concept design for the massive Southport Broadwater Playground, (2023). In 2011 she completed a collaborative international public art commission The Berlin Laughter Project for the House of World Cultures, Berlin.
Website: www.simoneeisler.com Instagram: simoneeisler #simoneeisler #queenlandartist #publicart
05nov(nov 5)10:00 am12(nov 12)11:30 amMind Your Creative Practice with Cathryn LloydOnline Intensive

Time
5 (Sunday) 10:00 am - 12 (Sunday) 11:30 am(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Event Details
Day 1: 10am – 2pm Sunday 5 November Day 2: 10am – 11:30 Sunday 12 November Mind your Creative Practice interactive
Event Details
Day 1: 10am – 2pm Sunday 5 November
Day 2: 10am – 11:30 Sunday 12 November
Mind your Creative Practice interactive workshop webinar is an opportunity to pause and reflect on your creative practice and to plan for the new year.
This two-part online workshop with Dr Cathryn Lloyd Founder of Maverick Minds, will provide you with essential practical and mindfulness tools to help you discover your creative focus and help shift your thinking about your creative practice.
The workshop will cover:
- Essential tools to reflect upon your creative practice.
- Strategies for effectively focusing your creative energy.
- Identifying your creative community and building networks.
- Methods for sustaining your creative energy and practice.
Cathryn will assist you to develop a more reflective, innovative and imaginative mindset that can be used to develop and maintain your creative practice.
This workshop webinar is suited to creative practitioners of all art forms and career levels. Come with an open and heart and mind, and willingness to engage with others in a process of reflection and action.
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Please bring:
Flying Arts recommend having note taking materials on hand. Resources will be shared with you prior to the online workshop. Please use a desktop for our virtual engagement if possible.
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Additional Information
Dr Cathryn Lloyd is Founding Director of Maverick Minds, a boutique creative human development service that helps individuals, teams, and groups find ways to work well through coaching and facilitation. She is an educator, author, and creative arts practitioner. With a visual arts and design background she brings a multi-disciplinary approach to her work and draws on experiential, arts-based and action learning methodologies, reflective practice, and a range of facilitation processes to create joyful learning experiences. Cathryn loves working with people who want to create positive change and her client base is diverse. She is the co-author of the Story Cookbook, Seriously Playful Creativity and Facilitating with Stories. She holds a Doctor of Creative -Industries – Research, Global Team Coaching Individual Accreditation, and is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council). In 2022 Cathryn committed to making a daily collage artwork which she titled ‘A Year in Collage mm365’. Recently ‘A Year in Collage’ was exhibited for 5 weeks at Scrumptious Reads Gallery and Bookshop, Red Hill, Brisbane.
25nov10:00 am4:00 pmEmbracing AI for Creativity with Jessie HughesEducator Workshop

Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
TAFE Southbank Campus
Building E, Room 3:20
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 25th November Join us for a big, wild day of AI! In this full-day workshop, we delve into the shifting realm of generative AI and how to
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 25th November
Join us for a big, wild day of AI! In this full-day workshop, we delve into the shifting realm of generative AI and how to bring these new tools into your classroom. Discover how fresh evolutions with AI are intersecting storytelling, production, prototyping and artistic processes, as well as how to leverage this technology within your own workflow. This session provides a balanced exploration of AI’s impact on the industry in 2023, while including live demonstrations of generative AI processes.
By the end of the day, we will have all created a fully-realised creative project, built completely with generative AI (scripted, edited, visualised, with generated music and all!)
The workshop will cover:
- Overview of AI and the Creative Industries 2023
- Positive and Negative Use-Cases
- AI in our everyday lives
- Class Activities:
- ChatGPT
- Google’s AI Experiments
- Mid-journey / Dalle
- Bringing it all together!
- Tools to take back to the Classroom
What to bring
Flying Arts Alliance recommends having note taking materials on hand. Any resources will be shared online prior to the workshop. Please bring questions that you may have for Jessie.
Venue
TAFE Southbank Campus, Building E, Room 3.20.
Building E can be access via the Educational Pathway, between Ernest Street and Tribune Street.
This intensive will be held at TAFE Southbank Campus. The campus is a 15-minute walk from the Brisbane CBD and is adjacent to the Queensland Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, the State Library, the Queensland Museum, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.
Additional Information
Your facilitator: Jessie Hughes is an internationally-recognised Australian new media artist, technologist and screenwriter, her works having exhibited most notably at Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Cannes and the Tate Modern. Hughes has been named one of Australia’s Future Changers for her commitment to using digital innovation for positive social impact, and was awarded Australia’s prestigious 2020 Sir John Monash Scholarship. Hughes has designed and implemented solutions for tech-giants such as Oculus, Facebook, and Adobe, and has been featured in over 120+ media articles across radio, newspaper and TV. She is an American Australian Association Arts Scholar, Winston Churchill Fellow, Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellow and a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador. Professionally, Jessie works as a Creative Technologist, toying at the intersection of design, technology, art, research and strategy for social innovation.
Event Partner/s
30nov12:00 pm1:00 pmStarting an Artist Run Initiative with Petalia HumphreysOnline webinar

Time
(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
12pm – 1pm Thursday 30th November 2023 Artist-Run-Initiatives (ARI) emerge in response to a need within arts communities and embrace a Do-It-Yourself aesthetic. In this webinar, Petalia Humphrey’s will draw upon
Event Details
12pm – 1pm Thursday 30th November 2023
Artist-Run-Initiatives (ARI) emerge in response to a need within arts communities and embrace a Do-It-Yourself aesthetic. In this webinar, Petalia Humphrey’s will draw upon her experience establishing and managing Studio 26, a community-based exhibition and discussion group based on the Sunshine Coast. Using Studio 26 as a case study, she will identify unique aspects of starting an ARI in a regional centre and offer practical tips for managing and promoting artistic outcomes and activities.
This webinar will cover:
- Funding for regional Artist-Run-Initiatives.
- Promoting creative activities and outcomes
- How to build a regional audience.
This webinar is suitable for anyone interested in starting an ARI or knowing more about the work Studio 26 is doing in a regional centre.
What to bring
Please bring questions to discuss with Petalia. If you would like to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of the webinar, please email program@flyingarts.org.au. Flying Arts also recommends having note taking materials on hand.
Additional Information
This online session will be held via ClickMeeting a webinar broadcasting room. The webinar will be recorded and uploaded to Flying Arts’ YouTube after the program concludes.
To discuss specific access needs, please contact program@flyingarts.org.au.
Additional Information
Your Facilitator: Petalia Humphreys lives and works in Peregian Beach, on Gubbi Gubbi country. Humphreys has worked as a teacher of Visual Art and Design in secondary and tertiary education and has exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, Metro Arts, Five Walls and Outer Space. Humphreys has been commissioned for multiple public art projects and has exhibited regionally at Noosa Regional Gallery, Caloundra Regional Gallery and The G Contemporary.
Humphreys is passionate about advocating and promoting the development of rigorous and contemporary arts practices in regional areas. She is founder, producer and curator for Studio 26, a project that curates opportunities for mentoring, critical conversation and exhibitions.
Event Partner/s