Pulse 2023 Youth Workshops

Gladys Heu A camouflaged soul 2022 (detail).
Gladys Heu A camouflaged soul 2022 (detail).
Gladys Heu A camouflaged soul 2022.

Gladys Heu A camouflaged soul 2022. Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 101.6 x 2 cm. Melville Senior High School. Photo: Rebecca Mansell.

Pulse 2023 Youth Workshops

Real World Skills for Emerging and Young Artists.

Hosted in collaboration with The West Australian, young creatives, established and emerging artists, industry changemakers and educators will join AGWA for a series of youth forums and workshops designed to provide real-world skills and agitate conversations around creative career paths for our young people.

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WORKSHOP 1
11am-12pm Saturday 10 June
FREE, bookings required | AGWA Theatrette

WRITING YOUR WAY TO GRANT SUCCESS
In this hands-on workshop, Arts Leader Kim Jameson takes young creatives through the ins and outs of successful grant writing, including what to consider, what funding bodies are looking for, balancing creative output with funding/investor needs, common errors to avoid, and where to go for more information and advice.

Learn the skills to submit a successful grant.

Facilitator:
Kim Jameson – Arts Leader

Topics covered:
• Engaging the grant officer/investor
• The role of passion and objectivity in the process of application
• Language use and positioning an application
• Standardising budgets
• Managing art for art’s sake versus outcome needs of funders/investors
• Connecting the project to the whole-of-ecology outcomes
• Project management and evaluation
• Riding the wave of a trend
• Common errors
• Acquittals - a bore or opportunity

Kim Jameson
Kim Jameson

 

Grant Writing Facilitator

Kim Jameson – Arts Leader

Kim Jameson has over 25 years experience in arts and culture development from community through to strategy and policy. She is passionate about cultivating curiosity, enjoyment and understanding of culture and its connection to life, history and personal experience. Holding an intrinsic belief in the transformational role of culture as a vehicle for change, critical discourse, empowerment, giving voice to the silent and contributing to identity of self, community and place. Kim is particularly keen for the next generation of leaders to be equipped with and given opportunities to develop their skills, experience and knowledge for personal and professional growth.

WORKSHOP 2
1-2pm Saturday 10 June 
FREE, bookings required | AGWA Theatrette

MAKING YOUR OWN WAY – ARTIST RUN INITIATIVES (ARIS)
Hear from key people in Perth’s ARI community. How they approached it, what you need to consider and where to from here for artist-led projects in Perth.

This workshop will provide valuable information on exploring exhibition opportunities and developing social and creative networks that benefit artists and local communities.

Facilitators:
Dan Bourke – Gallery Manager, Cool Change
Luisa Hansal – Founder and Co-Director, Pig Melon

Dan Bourke
Dan Bourke

ARI Facilitator

Dan Bourke – Gallery Manager, Cool Change

Dan Bourke is an artist based in Boorloo/Perth, WA. Working between studio, curatorial, and publishing practices, he appropriates and subverts existing models to explore themes such as the nature, ethics, and business of creative labour; economies within the contemporary art world; forms of representation; and systems of taste and value.

Bourke currently runs Benchpress, a small Risograph-based printing press, and Adult Contemporary, an artist-run initiative and bookshop. He was previously involved in the formation of other artist-run initiatives: Poetry Club (2010), Galleria (2011–12), and Pet Projects (2016–17).

In 2009, he graduated with a BA (Art) (Honours) from Curtin University. Locally and nationally, he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, curated and organised projects, and undertaken residencies. Bourke’s most recent projects have appeared at sweet pea (WA), Cool Change (WA), Fremantle Arts Centre (WA), YIRI ARTS (Taiwan), Adult Contemporary (WA), Pet Projects (WA), and Campbelltown Arts Centre (NSW).

He is represented by sweet pea, and is the current Gallery Manager at Cool Change.

Luisa Hansal
Luisa Hansal

ARI Facilitator

Luisa Hansal – Founder and Co-Director, Pig Melon

Luisa Hansal (b.1990) completed a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University and was awarded the Lowensteins Arts Management Graduate prize (2017). She graduated from ECU with a Bachelor Degree in Contemporary Arts -Visual Arts (2012).

Subsequent to graduating she was awarded a placement in HATCHED at the PICA and received a 6 week residency at the ECU Printmaking studio. Luisa underwent a 3 month residency in Berlin (2014), and a 6 week residency at PICA (2016). She has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Berlin.

Luisa's most recent achievements include: 'always holding something', a solo exhibition at Goolugatup Heathcote, 'Gotham Gets Picked', a group exhibition at Janet Holmes a Court Gallery, ‘Fluffy’, a solo exhibition at sweet pea, ‘Ariel's Song’, a group exhibition curated by Gemma Weston and presented by Perth Festival at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, ‘Salon Vernissage’ an invitational group exhibition at PICA, and ‘City of Joondalup Invitation Art Prize', a selected finalist.

Luisa is also keenly interested in contributing to her local arts community. She is the co-founder/co-director of Pig Melon, a volunteer-run studio, gallery, and project space in Boorloo, Perth.

She is represented by sweet pea.

On Saturday 27 August, the Gallery is open 10am-3pm only as we prepare for the AGWA Foundation Gala supporting women in the arts. Some exhibition access will be disrupted with two Tracks We Share ground floor galleries closed. AGWA Rooftop bar will be closed, reopening at 2pm Sunday. Details