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The Access Arts Team

Tim Brown

Arts Manager

After graduating from the Australian Ballet School, Tim continued a dance and choreographic career at Queensland Ballet and Expressions Dance Company. He has created a work for The Australian Ballet and continues to work as part of Queensland Ballet’s education team. He has a Master of Business from QUT.

 

Tim has received professional development opportunities to travel to Asia and throughout Europe to continue to foster his creative practice. After producing and directing a successful season of the multi-arts cabaret ‘Salon’, Tim now focuses on working as an advocate for marginalised artists and members of the community.

 

Tim enjoys attending dance, theatre and community events as well as spending time at the beach.

Rachel Gaffney-Dawson

Visual Arts Program Manager

Rachel Gaffney-Dawson, a Visual Arts Program Manager with Access Arts, facilitates the Brisbane Outsider Artists’ Studio and curates a range of exhibitions for the organisation.

 

She has worked with drawing, abstract drip painting, woodblock carving/printing, digital collage, video and sound art, and is currently working with oil paints to explore the relationship between self and nature.

 

Rachel has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) from Queensland University of Technology, and also has a background in singing, flute, piano and guitar, and writes original music in the genre of alternative/folk. Her music has been described as minimalist, ethereal, meditative and reflective.

Jasmin Coleman

Visual Arts Coordinator

Jasmin is an emerging visual artist from Brisbane, Queensland. Since undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Art at Griffith University, she has participated in many local and interstate exhibitions, both group and solo. Of particular note was her site-responsive installation Stabilisers, which opened in Brisbane before going on to tour nationally.

 

This talented artist has received funding through the Arts Queensland’s Career Development and Regional Arts Development Grants programs, and was a recipient of an Australian Council for the Arts New Work Grant (Early Career).

 

Jasmin has extensive professional experience working within the visual arts and disability intersection. This work continues to have a significant impact on the conceptual drive of her artworks.

Carla Sanzone

Administrator

Carla Sanzone joined Access Arts in late 2017 as an Administrator supporting the Business Manager and the Arts Co-ordinators. She has an extensive professional background in the creative industries and the Queensland public sector. Through these roles, Carla developed her administrative and business practice in professional opportunities in Australia, Indonesia and Europe. She has also supported the Brisbane community through volunteering for the multicultural sector and for children’s support services.

 

Through Access Arts, she now works as a proud supporter of artists who experience disability and disadvantage in the Brisbane community. Carla has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland.

Mary Schneider

Administrator

Since joining Access Arts in 2016, Mary Schneider has been responsible for the smooth running of the office and overseeing all aspects of social media. Previously, she was a communications consultant for CGIAR, a global research partnership that is dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services.

 

Mary also writes a weekly column for The Star, Malaysia’s largest English-language newspaper. She began writing for The Star more than twenty years ago and is one of the newspaper’s longest running columnists.

 

This former journalist speaks four languages, has acted in more than twenty plays, appeared in a movie with Glenn Close, and recently published her first book, ‘Not Tonight, Dear, I’m Defrosting’. Mary is also an accomplished speaker and an avid backgammon player.

Madeleine Little

Undercover Artist Festival Director

Madeleine (Maddie) Little (she/her) is a performer, theatre maker and access consultant for the performing arts based in Brisbane. She is a proud disabled artist who enjoys working in both disability-led and safe ally-led creative environments. She believes that disabled and d/Deaf artists should be able to tell their stories on their terms, without shame, fear, or censorship.

 

As a leader in the disability arts sector, Madeleine currently sits on the board of Arts Access Australia and has received multiple awards: Early Career Artist Award – Australia Council’s National Arts and Disability Awards (2022), National Leadership Award – Arts Access Australia (2019), Stella Young Award – Arts Access Victoria (2018).

 

As an actor, Madeleine has been recognised for her performance as Dr Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart (Ad Astra Theatre) with a Matilda Award for Best Supporting Actor in an Independent Production.

 

Maddie is a published writer, having written for online sites like Mamamia and contributing to academia. Her published contributions to disability arts theory include ‘Hold On: Australian innovations in access aesthetics’ – Australasian Drama Studies Journal (with Dr Eddie Paterson and Dr Sarah Austin, Vol. 76, 2020), ‘Quick Trust and Slow Time: Relational Innovations in Disability Performing Arts Practice’ – The International Journal of Disability and Social Justice (Dr Bree Hadley, et. Al. vol. 2, 2022) and ‘How Disability Performance Travels in Australia’ by Dr Bree Hadley with Dr Eddie Paterson, and Kath Duncan in How Does Disability Performance Travel? Access, Art, and Internationalization (Routledge 2024).

Rebekkah Law

Undercover Artist Festival Producer

Rebekkah Law (Bek) is a white, queer, producer, director and performer who lives, works and plays on the lands of the Yuggera, Yugambeh and Turrbal peoples.

 

They have a strong curiosity for playful creative processes and a wealth of experience connecting with diverse and varied communities on creative arts projects and festivals.

 

Recent credits include a sold out season of Betty Sweetlove’s new play, The Nestmakers at DesertFestival (2022); Director/ Performer/Producer in Squirt Production’s Starter Boyfriend (2021); Director/Performer in Bazil Grumble’s youth program of Active School Travel, Waste Smart Kindies and The Bazil Grumble Christmas Show (2022-23) and; Anywhere Award Winning show, Dream a House, facilitated by Sarah Winter.

Kane Cross

Undercover Artist Festival Administrator

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Kane Cross was born and bred in Brisbane. He is known to have a quick wit, a curious mind and a big heart. Kane is very excited to join the team at Undercover Artist Festival and using his skills to help bring the team’s vision to fruition.

 

With a background in Construction and Retail, Kane has just finished upskilling through the wonderful SQW program run by Vision Australia and is now ready to try something new. Kane has his sights set on comedy, as making people laugh has always been a full-time hobby, so now he is ready to make it a full-time career.

Mags Doherty

Undercover Artist Festival Trainee Producer: Events

Mags Doherty’s has been captivating audiences with her dynamic talent since the age of seven. A versatile dancer, Mags has explored a range of styles including hip hop, ballet, tap jazz and contemporary dance.

 

Currently Mags is honing her skills with both Screech Arts and the esteemed Zen Zen Zo physical theatre company.  This collaboration introduced Mags to an exciting new style of physical theatre, leading her to continue her work with Zen Zen Zo.

 

Mags’s impressive repertoire includes numerous spellbinding performances in Screech Arts productions. She has also graced the stages of the acclaimed Anywhere Theatre Festival in 2019 and 2023 and in 2021 was centre stage at Undercover Artist Festival. Mags is now taking on the dual role of producer and performer in 2023.

Alexandra Ellen

Undercover Artist Festival Trainee Producer: Events

Alexandra Ellen is a Brisbane based theatre maker and visual artist.  She aims to educate, challenge, expose, encourage and delight.

 

Alexandra Ellen is the Artistic Associate at indelabilityarts and has been a member of the professional ensemble since 2017. She is part of the creative team and cast of award winning show, Wilbur The Optical Whale. Alexandra presented her own work, Betsy and I, at Undercover Artist Festival 2023 as the writer and creative lead.

 

Alexandra is also a visual artist and a member of Access Arts visual arts programs. Her visual arts practice can be described as expressive and intuitive, leaning towards mixed media and experimenting with materials and technique. She curated her first solo exhibition Outside Inside in 2019 and was the 2020 Access Arts Achievement Award recipient.