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An artwork by Andrea Carroll. It is a painting of a dark coloured bird

Visitors – An exhibition by Access Arts

Artwork is The Visitors by Andrea Carroll

KPMG Visitors Exhibition

Available for purchase online until 30 January

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

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

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.

 

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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Eight orange circles is a line with headshots of Sync participants in each

The next generation of Arts leaders are…

Eight orange circles is a line with headshots of Sync participants in each

The next generation of Arts leaders are...

Sync Leadership and Access Arts are excited to announce the 2021 cohort for the Sync Australia Leadership program.

 

Sync Australia welcomes the following arts leaders:

  • Jeremy Hawkes – QLD
  • Riona Tindall – QLD
  • Rebecca Hogan – NSW
  • Eugenie Lee – NSW
  • Liz Cooper – NSW
  • Richard Bell – NSW
  • Bedelia Lowrencev – NSW
  • Alison Paradoxx – SA

 

Founded over 10 years ago by Sarah Pickthall and Jo Verrent, two disabled leaders in the UK, the Sync Australia program is a new online leadership and coaching program exploring Deaf and disabled leadership in arts, culture, heritage and media.

 

The disability-led program combines leadership theory with one-on-one coaching and support for participants to reflect and progress their leadership potential.

“Never has there been a more important time to capitalise and invest in the natural skills and ingenuity of Deaf and disabled leadership than now. Working with this fantastic new cohort of ambitious empathic leaders in Australia, we aim to do just that”.

For more information about the 2021 Sync Australia participants, please visit https://syncleadership.com/programmes/sync-australia/

 

Sync Australia is presented by Sync Leadership (UK) and Access Arts, supported by Australia Council for the Arts and the British Council UK/Australia Season 2021-22. 

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2021 Achievement Award Applications Open

Applications open for $10k Access Arts Achievement Award

Calling all artists, arts workers, and producers with a disability in Queensland. It’s that time of year again! Applications are now open for the 2021 Access Arts Achievement Award.

 

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, Alexandra Ellen.

 

2019’s Access Arts Achievement Award recipient, Lauren Watson used her funding to successfully debut her aerial theatre show, Nerve, at this years Undercover Artist Festival.

A professional panel will assess all applications. They are seeking innovative, exciting, viable projects with artistic and/or cultural merit. For more information and to apply, please download the Application Form and Application Guidelines.

 

Need help with your application? Join our free online Grants Writing Workshop on 5 October. Bookings are essential.

Important dates:

Applications Open for Submission:      Now – Friday 5 November 2021

Grants Writing Workshop:                     Tuesday 12 October 2021

Applications Close for Submission:    Friday 5 November 2021

Award Winner advised:                          Thursday 2 December 2021

Projects may take place between:        1 January and 31 December 2021

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

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Andi Snelling performing in Happy-Go-Wrong

Undercover Artist Festival is coming!

Andi Snelling performing in Happy-Go-Wrong

UNDERCOVER ARTIST FESTIVAL IS COMING!

Promising bold, daring, and iconic shows from national and local artists, Undercover Artist Festival is the trailblazing performing arts festival Queensland has been waiting for!

Taking place at Queensland Theatre across three incredible days, the festival headlines our boldest and brightest artists with disability from 16–18 September.

We are excited to announce that our own Access Arts performing arts ensemble and CPL‘s Screech Arts has been selected to feature as part of the Undercover Artist Festival program for 2021!

 

Access Arts

Want to see what an Access Arts workshop is like? Come along and experience the delight and intrigue of 3 Worlds. Observe the exploration of creativity as participants from the Theatre & Dance Ensemble play with movement and sound, the Rhythm Circle participants journey into diverse cultural soundscapes, and the Access Arts Singers celebrate much loved classic songs.

 

Screech Arts

In their first public performance since COVID lockdowns, three CPL Screech Arts groups have come together in collaboration to present Unapologetically You. This self-devised performance explores the idea that connection and communication is the key in building a community where we all feel comfortable to truly be ourselves.

 

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased via a link on each program’s event page.

 

For wheelchair, companion card and Auslan tickets please contact the Queensland Theatre Box Office, 9.30AM to 5:00PM weekdays on 1800 355 528 or email sales@queenslandtheatre.com.au

 

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Artwork of melted ice cream in the shape of Planet earth

Exhibition: Earth Footprint

Created by artists from Access Arts’ Brisbane Outsider Artists, Digital Media and Professional Artists’ Workshop, Earth Footprint is the third exhibition within the walls of St Andrew’s War Memorial…

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