Looking Back, Looking Forward – Access Arts’ 10th Anniversary

24/10/2022

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Looking Forward, Looking Back

Artwork: Birds of a Feather (Detail) by Brisbane Outsider Artists

October 24, 2022

An exhibition by Access Arts celebrating the
10-year anniversary of KPMG’s sponsorship of its artists.

24 October — 9 December 2022

Art exhibition

KPMG Brisbane, Riparian Plaza

Access Arts is proud to present Looking Back, Looking Forward – an exhibition which shines a light on talented Queensland artists and starts a conversation about the need for greater recognition of artists with disability. 

Created by artists from Access Arts’ Brisbane Outsider Artists’ studio, Looking Back, Looking Forward is kindly supported by KPMG Brisbane, the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund, Lord Mayor Cr Adrian Schrinner and Cr Vicki Howard - Central Ward, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

This exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of KPMG’s sponsorship of Access Arts artists with disability. The theme, Looking Back, Looking Forward was chosen by the artists to highlight their creative evolution over the past decade and symbolises the development of their creative practice throughout this time.

Exhibiting artist Kerry Beazleigh said the opportunity to speak about her work publicity at the private viewing last year allowed her to overcome her anxiety.

“The KPMG exhibition gave me a feeling as an artist of being very supported and valued,” Kerry said.

Her piece this year, Reflecting on Life’s Journey, encourages the audience to delve into their own reflection of life.

“In this painting, the symbolism of the mountains hides the uncertainty of what is coming next, while the river represents the twists and turns that life take,” Kerry said.

Fellow artist Lisa Blake said she reflects on this year’s theme in her painting The Stars are Aligning, which focuses on coming from the past and heading towards the future.

“I have used the rainbow pathway in an older artwork and more recently I’ve been painting stars, so it is looking at my older and newer styles of painting,” Lisa said.

The exhibition has provided an opportunity for both artists to explore their futures, reflect on their past and see how far they have come.

“The KPMG partnership has been a good opportunity for me to exhibit and sell work in different mediums and meet the person or organisation who has bought my work” said Lisa.

Looking Back, Looking Forward will be exhibiting at KPMG Brisbane, Riparian Plaza from Monday 24 October until Friday 9 December and will feature a catalogue of Access Arts and KPMG Brisbane exhibition history, collaborative components and artworks created specifically for Looking Back, Looking Forward. The exhibition features 23 new artworks by 18 artists.

All artworks are created by Access Arts’ Brisbane Outsider Artists and are available to view and
for sale online via accessarts.org.au/looking-back-looking-forward.

2022 Achievement Award Applications Open

19/09/2022

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All avenues to submit your application for the Access Arts Achievement Award have now been closed. Thank you to all who have applied.

2022 Access Arts Achievement Award applications - now open!

19 September 2022

Apply now for the Access Arts Achievement Award

19 September – 7 November 2022 

Supporting all forms of art, the Access Arts Achievement Award provides up to $10,000 funding for Queensland artists to create, develop, present, produce, exhibit, and tour their work. The award is a fantastic opportunity to extend the life of an existing piece or create a new one!

Read about last year’s award winner, Karen Lee Roberts.

2021 ACCESS ARTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER

Karen Lee Roberts

Accomplished Brisbane-based cabaret artist Karen Lee Roberts was awarded the Access Arts Achievement Award for 2021. Karen used the $10,000 grant to produce a collaborative work; Sex and Other philosophies

Important Dates

Applications open for submission:

Applications close for submission:

Award winner advised:

Projects may take place between:

Monday 19 September 2022

Monday 7 November 2022

December 2022

1 January – 31 December 2023

Applications will be assessed by a professional panel who will be looking out for innovative, viable project’s with artistic and/or cultural merit, which will provide opportunity for professional development.

The Access Arts Achievement Award is proudly sponsored by CPL – Choice, Passion, Life.

Apply now: Disability Leadership Scholarship Program 2022

29/06/2022

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Apply now: Disability Leadership Scholarship Program 2022

Applications close Sunday 24 July 2022 11:59 pm | Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), in partnership with the Australian Network on Disability

June 29, 2022

Inclusion, diversity and equity require leaders with disability to be part of decision making across organisations.

Without Board and Executive representation, businesses are not making informed decisions with true market representation.

The Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Network on Disability are partnering to support leaders with disability by providing an opportunity to uplift their governance knowledge. In the first round of the national Disability Leadership Program (DLP), 85 full-fee scholarships are being funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.

The application process will be managed by the Australian Scholarships Foundation as the facilitating partner.

Scholarship recipients will undertake the Company Directors Course or the Foundations of Directorship course at AICD. Successful applicants will be provided with a number of course dates between November 2022 and June 2023 from which to choose.

In addition to the course, scholarship holders will receive a complimentary one-year:

> AICD Membership
> Directorship Opportunities subscription, Australia’s foremost listing platform which provides the widest choices for directorship positions

To help maximise board career opportunities, the program will also work with existing directors to build disability confidence through Leader-to-Leader Conversations facilitated by Australian Network on Disability.

More info

For further information on the scholarship contact Australian Scholarships Foundation via applications@scholarships.org.au or call 1300 248 675.

For further information on AICD courses and membership please contact 1300 739 119, visit the AICD website or email the AICD Scholarships and Grants Team on scholarships@aicd.com.au.

For further information on the services the Australian Network on Disability provide, please visit the Australian Network on Disability website.

Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services. Go to www.dss.gov.au for more information.

Applications for the 2022 Disability Leadership Program scholarship close at 11.59pm AEST on Sunday 24 July 2022.

A welcome return to St Andrew’s for Access Arts

28/06/2022

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St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital | Dancing Colours Exhibition

15 June – 16 September 2022 | Art Exhibition | St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, 457 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill Qld | Turrbal and Jagera Country

Created by artists with disability from Access Arts’ Brisbane Outsider Artists workshops

June 28, 2022

It was a wonderful night at the official launch of the Dancing Colours Exhibition at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital on Tuesday 14 June 2022.

The theme, Dancing Colours, has been chosen by the artists as a pathway to explore uplifting and playful imagery with a vibrant colour palette. Artists have drawn on a broad range of subject matter and experiences such as exotic sea creatures, dancing under a disco ball with family, enjoying a festival of flowers and bushwalking in Toohey Forest surrounded by bird life.

Dancing Colours will exhibit at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital from 14 June – 16 September 2022.

All artworks are available for sale, created by artists who attend Access Arts‘ Brisbane Outsider Artists’ Studio and Digital Media workshops.

Visit accessarts.org.au/dancing-colours to view and purchase artworks.

Artwork credit: Ghostly Buildings Protruding, by Dion Halse

About Access Arts

Access Arts is Queensland’s acknowledged leader for arts and disability. We create career pathways to paid work, and advocate at every opportunity for our artists to chase their artistic dream. Through art, Access Arts transforms lives.

Free First Nations Art Workshop this July

16/06/2022

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Free First Nations Art Workshop this July

23 July – 10 September 2022 | First Nations Art Workshop | Fortitude Valley, Turrbal and Jagera Country

June 16, 2022

A new First Nations only Visual Arts Workshop program, supported by Access Arts, will be running for eight weeks from Saturday 23 July.

Led by Goreng Kiba man Uncle Gerard Bargo, facilitator of the Green Square Amazing Arts Group, the workshop will guide you through First Nations art and cultural traditions to create two new artworks. The artworks will be exhibited at the Heartlands of Brisbane Exhibition and Art Market in November during Social Inclusion Week 2022.

Paints, brushes and canvases will be supplied, but organisers recommend that you bring a sketch pad and drawing material to develop designs.

There is no cost to attend these workshops for First Nations people, but all participants must be over 18 years of age.

The expression of interest closes Sunday 3 July, applicants will be notified in the following week.

Green Square Community Arts Group – First Nations Art Workshops

Workshop dates: 23 July – 10 September (8 weeks)

Time: Saturdays 12.30pm – 3.30pm

Venue: 1/5 Green Square Close, Fortitude Valley

Group size: 10 people per workshop

Facilitator: Gerard Bargo (First Nations Artist)

Assistant: Jana Daniels (Graphic designer)

Cost: FREE

Questions or media enquiries? Contact: heartlandsofbrisbane@gmail.com

Access Arts & CPL Group rolling out Traditional Place Names

27/05/2022

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Access Arts & CPL Group rolling out Traditional Place Names

National Reconciliation Week 2022

May 27, 2022

National Reconciliation Week kicks off today, running from 27 May to 3 June, and is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to reconciliation in Australia.

Last year we announced our Reconciliation Action Plan, with some key deliverables that CPL Group aims to implement across the business.

The second bora in our Reconciliation artwork represents the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the CPL Group’s geographies. Each smaller bora is the chosen colour of these local communities, which span from Ballina in Northern New South Wales up to the Cape in North Queensland.

As part of our commitment to promoting reconciliation and increase understanding, value and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories, knowledge and rights, we’re rolling out the inclusion of Traditional Place Names to all our service locations, starting with our digital platforms.

For example, our Yeronga Art Studio is located on Jagera Country.

The National Reconciliation Week 2022 theme, “Be Brave. Make Change.” is a challenge to all Australians— individuals, families, communities, organisations and government—to Be Brave and tackle the unfinished business of reconciliation so we can Make Change for the benefit of all Australians.

We’re looking forward to sharing more of our reconciliation work with you when we reach our 12 month milestone during NAIDOC week later this year!

‘Want to learn more about acknowledging country? Visit: https://aiatsis.gov.au/whose-country

MERRY-GO-ROUND – Circus & Dance Workshop

09/05/2022

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Monday 27 June – Friday 1 July 2022 | Kirwan, QLD | Nyawaygi Country

Access Arts is proud to be partnering with Cootharinga to present MERRY-GO-ROUND.

May 9, 2022

Led by world class Queensland artists from Casus Creations and Dancenorth, and Townsville’s very own Circus Pandemonium, MERRY-GO-ROUND has been developed with funding from Arts Queensland. The program is a four-day dance and circus workshop open to people with a disability aged 18 and over.

Over the four days participants will explore dance and circus skills, ending with a showing at The May Wirth as part of the North Australian Festival of Arts (NAFA).

Workshop dates and times

When: Monday 27 June – Thursday 30 June
10:00AM – 4:00PM daily
Where: Northreach Baptist Centre, 38 Canterbury Road, Kirwan, QLD
What to bring: A water bottle, comfortable clothing, lunch/snacks

Final showing dates and times

When: Friday 1 July
3.30 pm practice run
5.30 pm show starts
Where: The May Wirth, Jezzine Barracks, 19 Isley Street, North Ward, QLD
What to bring: A black shirt for the showing

Accessibility: Fully accessible venue. Accessible parking on Mitchell St. Accessible drop-off and pick-up point for participants is on Mitchell Street near Entrance #2

If you require an accessible seat or assistance for the Friday 1 July Showing, please ensure you email the team at tickets@nafa-tsv.com.au after you have purchased your tickets.

Eligibility

To be eligible you must be:

18 years or older
Identify as experiencing disability and/or someone who is d/Deaf
Have an NDIS plan

How to apply

Click the button below to apply online by Friday 10 June or download and complete one of the downloadable application forms and return to enquiries@cootharinga.org.au with ‘Merry-Go-Round’ in the subject by Friday 10 June
We will be in contact with you shortly after we receive your application to discuss a spot within the workshop along with any support or requirements to participate

APPLICATION FORMS

Acknowledgement

MERRY-GO-ROUND is presented by Cootharinga in partnership with Access Arts. Led by world class Queensland artists from Casus Creations and Dancenorth, and Townsville’s very own Circus Pandemonium.

This program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

The Big Reach

31/03/2022

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The Big Reach 2022

Thursday 26 May – Friday 27 May 2022 | QUT Gardens Theatre – 2 George Street, Brisbane City, QLD 4000

Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/the-big-reach

March 31, 2022

The Big Reach is two days of creative engagements, in-depth conversations, sideshows and workshops, reimagining the future of mental health and emotional wellbeing through a creative lens. The Big Reach is designed for anyone interested in arts, mental health, trauma, suicide prevention and general wellbeing from a lived experience, creative or professional point of view.

This experience-focused event is intended to be inspiring, stimulating, uplifting, deep, challenging, practical and, at the same time, enjoyable. The format offers participants the chance to engage with ground-breaking arts practice, to share expertise and insights through curated conversations, and to establish new connections and collaborations.

The Big Reach is Brisbane’s live, intensive two-day feature as part of The Big Anxiety 2022, welcoming anyone who would like to be part of the conversation. For further information visit https://www.thebiganxiety.org/events/the-big-reach/.

Access Arts is a proud Community Partner of The Big Reach and The Big Anxiety for 2022.

Access Arts Achievement Award Winner

02/12/2021

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KAREN LEE ROBERTS

ACCESS ARTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER 2021

December 2, 2021

Accomplished Brisbane-based cabaret artist Karen Lee Roberts has been awarded the Access Arts Achievement Award for 2021.

As an international performer, Karen’s credits include the musical HAIR at the Old Vic Theatre in London and her own original works at the Wataboshi Festival in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Performing her original cabaret Chameleon at various festivals around Australia, including Access Arts’ Undercover Artist Festival, she has been gracing Australian festival stages for nearly a decade.

Karen will use the $10,000 grant to produce a new collaborative work Sex and Other Philosophies, in collaboration with performing artists Lucinda Shaw and James Halloran.

Mental wellbeing will be explored, and Karen hopes the audience will come away being enriched by the experience of looking into the souls of characters portrayed in a series of vignettes that are interwoven and entwined by music and text.

“Sex and Other Philosophies is all about deconstructing and interrogating ideas surrounding the concept of what relationships and mindset are all about, and what the values, attitudes and beliefs encompassing them behold.

“The show poses existential questions about life and explores the meaning of the sensual and sensory aspects of life, through poetry, word play, playful dialogue, and original songs,” Karen said.

Karen is aiming to premiere Sex and Other Philosophies in the second half of 2022.

The Access Arts Achievement Award is sponsored by CPL – Choice, Passion, Life, one of Queensland’s leading disability service providers.

Visitors – An exhibition by Access Arts

30/11/2021

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KPMG Visitors Exhibition

Available for purchase online until 30 January

Created by artists with disability from Access Arts’ Brisbane Outsider Artists workshops

November 30, 2021

Access Arts is proud to present, Visitors. An exhibition that shines a light on talented Queensland artists and starts a conversation about the need for more recognition for artists with disability.

The theme has been chosen by the artists as a way to come to terms with hopes, fears and desired personal freedoms.

Visitors to the home, visitors to the wide outdoors and visitors that inspire our imagination. Each artist has taken a unique perspective on their own freedoms – to move, shapeshift and reimagine the future.

Access Arts’ exhibition themes are consciously inclusive to allow for the diversity of expression and process. Artists are assisted to actualise their personal visions, acknowledging the value of their individual conceptualisations.

Visitors exhibition is available to view online until 31 January 2022. All artworks are available for sale.

Visitors was exhibited in-person at the Underground Foyer at Brisbane Powerhouse 1 – 12 December 2021.

About Access Arts

Visitors will exhibit at the Underground Theatre Foyer from 1 – 12 December 2021.
All artworks are available for sale, created by artists who attend Access Arts‘ Brisbane Outsider Artists’ Studio and Digital Media workshops.

Visit accessarts.org.au/visitors to view and purchase artworks.

Visitors is kindly supported by the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund Central Ward and KPMG Brisbane.

Artwork credit: The Visitors by Andrea Carroll

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Looking Forward, Looking Back

Artwork: Birds of a Feather (Detail) by Brisbane Outsider Artists

An exhibition by Access Arts celebrating the 10-year anniversary of KPMG’s sponsorship of its artists.

2022 Access Arts Achievement Award applications - now open!

2021 ACCESS ARTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER

Karen Lee Roberts

Important Dates

Apply now: Disability Leadership Scholarship Program 2022

More info

St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital | Dancing Colours Exhibition

Free First Nations Art Workshop this July

Access Arts & CPL Group rolling out Traditional Place Names

Workshop dates and times

Final showing dates and times

Eligibility

How to apply

APPLICATION FORMS

The Big Reach 2022

KAREN LEE ROBERTS ACCESS ARTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER 2021

KPMG Visitors Exhibition

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An exhibition by Access Arts celebrating the
10-year anniversary of KPMG’s sponsorship of its artists.

KAREN LEE ROBERTS

ACCESS ARTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER 2021