PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
NEGOTIATING SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS
THURS 24 NOV, 1.00PM-3.00PM
ONLINE ATTENDANCE $10 (+ BF)
FOR ACCESSIBILITY ENQUIRIES PLEASE DIRECTLY CONTACT HELLO@PLATFORMARTS.ORG.AU
Learn how to negotiate successful presentations, drawing on the perspectives of an artist, producer and presenter. This session will be co-presented by Madeleine Flynn, Collette Brennan & Freya Waterson.
Presented as part of the Platform LAB program, our Professional Development series delivers monthly, online lectures led by guest practitioners working across Australia and internationally. Curated by Bureau of Works, these seminars are designed to build artists' professional capacity in curatorial practice, arts project management, community engagement and marketing. Professional Development is open to artists of all career stages, and particularly well-suited to early and mid-career artists.
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Madeleine Flynn is an Australian artist who creates unexpected situations for listening. Her work is driven by a curiosity about sound in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. Her practice intertwines local, national and international relationships. In 2017 her practice was awarded the prestigious national Australia Council Award for Emerging and Experimental Artforms. Her current areas of interest are existential risk, sound and artificial intelligence in public space, and long form socially engaged public art interventions. She has a long-term collaborative practice with Tim Humphrey.
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Collette Brennan is the CEO of Abbotsford Covent in Melbourne, Australia’s largest multi-arts precinct. She is also a Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee of the International Society for the Performing Arts and was the founding Chair of the Sunshine Coast Arts Advisory Board. Previously she was: Director of International Development, Acting Executive Director of Arts Development, and Director of Market Development at the Australia Council for the Arts; Executive Director of Brisbane’s internationally acclaimed contemporary circus Circa; the founding Creative Director of The Edge, State Library of Queensland’s program for children and young people; General Manager of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s Out of the Box Festival for 3 to 8 year olds, and; Executive Officer of Youth Arts Queensland, the state’s peak body for youth arts and cultural development.
Collette has also worked in schools as a drama and history teacher, as a lecturer with QUT and Griffith University, and as a youth arts worker in a range of school and community contexts with children and young people.
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Freya Waterson is an Independent Producer based between Naarm/Melbourne and Meanjin/Brisbane. She has held roles with presenting and producing organisations in the UK and Australia, working in music, performance, film and cross-media contexts, most recently as Senior Producer for Chunky Move, where she co-led the company from 2019-21.
In 2015, Freya established her own practice, which focuses on supporting ambitious contemporary performance makers to create and present their works. She also provides strategic consultancy to companies and colleagues across Australia. International engagement has been a key focus of Freya’s practice and she has facilitated the presentation of over 85 performance seasons across 22 countries. This experience working across place, scale, context and form has provided a platform to initiate research and collaborations, and advocate for distinctive expressions of independent practice.
Freya is a peer assessor for the Australia Council, Arts Queensland and the City of Melbourne; a planning team member of the Asian Producers Platform and sits on Chamber Made’s Artistic Advisory.
The LAB Professional Development program is curated by Bureau of Works; all seminars are held online over Zoom.