What an amazing line-up of presenters: Ellen Appleby, Stephanie Haslam, Nicole Voevodin-Cash, Linsey Pollak, Christina Kargillis, Richard Newport, Leah Barclay, Kay Palot & Jan Brown and Judy Barrass aka Juanita Deharo. We would like to sincerely thank our Pecha Kucha Vol 2 presenters and share a little information about them, with links to their websites. Also thank you to our event sponsors, see details on the end of this posting. See the Press Release for more details.
Presenters:
Ellen Appleby is a ceramic artist based in Noosa. She was one of the artists from Quixotica Artspace in Cooroy who created and implemented the first Firings on the Lake event during Floating Land 2007. Ellen will talk about the Paper Kilns of Lake Cootharaba, how they developed and the performance art work.
Stephanie Haslam is a keen photographer and author of the local field guide, Noosa’s Native Plants, and co-author of Grasses of the Noosa Biosphere. Her column, Noosa’s Native Plants, appears fortnightly in the Noosa News. She is Secretary of the Noosa Integrated Catchment Assn. and co-ordinates programmes that raise awareness about our local native plants. It is on NICA’s programmes that this evening’s presentation is focussed.
Nicole Voevodin-Cash is a Queensland artist who works across a wide range of disciplines producing ‘Living’ works, Landart, facade art works and large temporary public sculptures as well as exhibitions of investigations into landscapes and inflatable installations.Nicole has undertaken residencies and produced work in France and Milan. She is currently working on a ‘bio’ wall sculpture for a building in Maroocyhdore, a ‘Living’ Arbour for the Eumundi Markets and an inflatable landscape space for a solo exhibition titled ‘Rue Du Temple’. Nicole is represented by Arc1 Gallery in Melbourne. Nicole will be talking about art that isn’t always seen as art, using living materials and making more sustainable.
Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has toured his solo shows extensively in Europe and Asia since 1996.He established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA and has co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States. He has also performed at most major Festivals around Australia and recorded 27 albums with various groups. He is going to talk about one specific project The Wishing Well. This is a collaborative Arts project - an interactive installation which sets out to record our dreams and deepest desires for the wellbeing of the world and each other.
Christina Kargillis is a Peregian local and a Doctoral student with the University of Technology, Sydney and she is undertaking a study based in the Noosa area on lifestyle migration. The research explores the way people reinvent themselves through following a call to recreate their lives by leaving the city for a ‘lifestyle destination’, such as the Sunshine Coast, and how they make their move sustainable.
Richard Newport is a Community artist, and designer / maker. He works on community art commissions that are site specific one off designs that are new fresh and interesting and if possible with a sense of humor. He installs this work in public places. It is important to Richard to link his designs to the place. Richard will talk about "Creating sustainable memories" and the creation of permanant public art work that is site specific, reflecting on history, culture or the fauna of the place to create a connection to a memory.
Leah Barclay is a multi award winning Australian interdisciplinary artist and has been recognized as a distinctive voice in the international experimental music scene. Since graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium, she has performed, published and produced commissioned works across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, India and Korea with wide acclaim. Barclay has completed international residencies with leading arts centers such as Vijnana Kala Vedi (Aranmula, South India), Orford Arts Centre (Montreal, Quebec), Art Center Nabi (Seoul, South Korea) and the first IRCAM Academy outside of Paris in 2008 (Glasgow, Scotland). Leah's presentation will revolve around showcasing two recent intercultural projects in India and providing the first preview of “Cypress Trilogy”, a new work commissioned for Treeline in 2010.
Jan Brown is an underwater photographer who has recently shared her work through the NICA River to Sea Initiative (RSI). This initiative aims to reach out to and engage all stakeholders of the Noosa River, coastal and marine ecosystems. It aims to inform, connect and motivate the community to initiate actions for protecting Noosa's precious natural resources and behavioural change towards responsible and sustainable practices. This presentation will share photographs by Jan Brown who is a photographer who specialises in underwater photography and be discussed by Kay Palot who is the NICA project officer for the River to Sea Initiative. Kay will share Jan's photos, raising awarenss about Noosa's amazing marine life and the importance of sustaining it.
Judy Barrass aka Juanita Deharo is an artist and virtual world entrepreneur. She is one of the lead artists in the Sunshine Coast Region's ‘Treeline’ project. Judy works in virtual worlds, making and selling virtual goods to a worldwide market. It’s not services she sells - it’s things like houses, artifacts, waterfalls, rocks and whole environments, but none of it actually exists in the accepted sense of reality. As an artist who cares about the natural environment Judy is using virtual reality as a tool to make art that speaks about our relationships with the environment and our possible futures.
Thank you to:
Mel Bennett from Diverse Design for doing a terrific job designing the graphics for Pecha Kucha Night #2
Noosa Biosphere for co-hosting this event and Callister & Lawrence for the Press Release
Sunshine Coast Regional Council who also have provided support for this event
Gail Hewton - Event Coordination
The Creative Alliance Management Committee!
