Storytelling by practising artists: the imagination @ work
... "let things grow" ... Adrian Caesar, Artists Talk, March 2005
Artists Talk is a regular lunchtime "conversation" series focusing on the creative practice for students, staff and interested visitors hosted by the School of Creative Communication.
Conversations are led by invited creative practitioners currently working in a range of creative endeavours. As opportunities arise, guests will include choreographers, scriptwriters, theatre practitioners, dancers, dramaturgs, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, new media artists, creative writers and editors.
Wednesday 7 March 2007
Nigel Featherstone: novelist and short story writer; author of the collections Homelife (1999) and Joy (2000) and the novel Remnants (Pandanus, 2005). As well as writing for the first three hours of every weekday, Nigel is a tutor of creative writing at the University of Canberra, and is currently an arts development worker at artsACT where he’s responsible for the ACT Government’s funding and support of artists and arts organisations.
Wednesday 21 March 2007
Felicity Packard: freelance writer and editor with a particular focus on scriptwriting. Felicity has written for many television dramas including GP, Trackers, Home and Away and MDA. An episode of MDA that she wrote was a finalist in the 2003 International Emmys. Currently she is writing about the Melbourne underworld for Screentime and Channel 9.
Wednesday 4 April 2007
Paull McKee: textile artist. Paull is interested in memory; the ways in which it persists and the influence that memories have on individual identity. He uses textiles for their capacity to evoke sensory memory and to reference the vernacular or ‘make do’.
Wednesday 2 May 2007
Nathalie Latham: photographer and video artist; born in Brisbane, based in Paris. Nathalie travels extensively and bases her work on people she encounters through her journeys using text and photography or video. This year (in May 2007) will mark her first solo show in Australia at the National Portrait Gallery exhibiting her documentary photography and video of Australian artists working abroad. The show is titled Creative Diaspora.
Wednesday 16 May 2007
David Pope: editorial cartoonist for The Sun-Herald in Sydney. David has been drawing cartoons for the labour movement and alternative press in Australia since the mid-1980s. His work appears in The Diplomat, The New Doctor, Overland and Arena, and various trade union newspapers, including Common Cause, Hard Hat and The AEU News. David has received five ‘Stanley’ Awards for Media Art from his peers in the Australian Cartoonists Association.
Wednesday 30 May 2007
Greg Battye: photographer and writer; Head of the School of Creative Communication. In September 2006 Greg visited Canada for a two-week residency at the Banff Centre where he worked on a book that explores the relationships between narrative modes and structures in photography and writing. He found Canada to offer far richer sources than expected for this project; not just in contemporary theory, but in the work of fiction writers and photographers who consciously reach out from one medium to the other in their work.
All inquiries and for more information
Contact: Francesca Rendle-Short
Course Convener, Creative Writing Program, School of Creative Communication
Telephone: (02) 6201 2060
Facsimilie: (02) 6201 5300
Email: Francesca.Rendle-Short@canberra.edu.au