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When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Artist: tales of sustaining art practice in Sydney
Each year, Performing Artists, Visual Artists, producers and curators graduate from schools and educational institutions around Sydney to discover the sometimes harsh reality of being an artist in this city. As part of Creative Sydney’s fringe program, Queen Street Studio presents When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Artist, an interactive panel event which will discuss and debate the practical reality of surviving (and thriving) as an artist or creative in Sydney.
Join us as dynamic artists and creatives from Sydney tell their stories – what made them become an artist in the first place? Was there ever another option? And most importantly, what keeps them going in this industry day to day?
Get practical advice from emerging and established artists who have been there before… and survived - everything from self-marketing, to finding spaces, to securing funds and heading overseas.
The event will be hosted by James Winter, co-director and co-founder of Queen Street Studio, and a freelance theatre director with almost twenty years of experience in the arts industry.
On the panel are:
• Fran Barrett, member of video and performance collaboration Brown Council, whose works have been shown at galleries, festivals and theatrical settings around the globe including Performance Space, Melbourne Art Fair and Athens International Video Art Festival
• Rosie Dennis, Sydney-based performer, writer and curator who most recently created and performed Driven To New Pastures and curated MINTO: LIVE as part of the 2011 Sydney Festival and is currently employed as the Live Art Curator at Campbelltown Arts Centre
• Sebastian Goldspink, a street based artist whose practise focuses on advertising interventions, using hand cut vinyl lettering and images to employ humour and comment directly on outdoor advertising, subvert meaning and create dialogue with the original advert
• Michelle Kotevski, Executive Producer of Urban Theatre Projects in Bankstown, ex Creative Producer of Big hART Inc, and independent film maker with over five years of experience working at Australia Council for the Arts with the Theatre and Community Cultural Development Boards
• Sian McIntyrefrom The Paper Mill, a volunteer-run, not-for-profit artist-run space committed to facilitating all aspects of paper based art, which opened in September 2010 at Angel Place in Sydney thanks to the City Of Sydney.
Queen Street Studio is the AbaF Award-winning arts organisation behind FraserStudios, in Chippendale, and Heffron Hall, in Darlinghurst.
This event is proudly sponsored by Fox Creek Wines.
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