Creative Producer

Devised and developed this new festival as a partnership between Gidarjil Development Corporation, Bundaberg Regional Council and Bundaberg Tourism. The Milbi Festival was a new arts and cultural festival designed to celebrate the beginning of Bundaberg’s famous loggerhead turtle breeding season. The project included commissioning a First Nations designer to work with the community to develop the brand and working with Traditional Owners, the CQ Language Centre and First Nations artists as well as engaging a First Nations producer and other feature artists in commissioning new work to launch in November 2019. 

Produced and directed seven short documentaries about arts projects for Regional Arts Australia in seven states/territories. I was subcontracted to Natalie Fisher (NSF Consulting) on this project. 

Commissioned by Opera Queensland as part of Arts Northern Rivers’ “If These Halls Could Talk” project. 12 month collaboration with Lindy Hume (Artistic Director) and Jason Barry-Smith (Co-Creative Producer).

Queensland tour (17 venues) of verbatim theatre work about domestic and family violence. The tour was evaluated by Dr Wendy Madsen of CQUniversity. 

Documentary about returning service personnel in Australia mad in Far North Queensland.

Produced this video documentary about creative recovery work in Wide Bay Burnett and Central Queensland following flooding events of 2011 and 2013.

(Arts Queensland’s biennial regional arts conference in Rockhampton). Creating the arts and cultural program for this major state-wide conference. 

Based on feedback from 30 music teachers and their professional development needs, I worked with CQUniversity to secure funding to bring Richard Gill to work with teachers and community musicians. (CQUniversity, Creative Regions) 

By Contemporary Regional Indigenous Artists (exhibition). I engaged a curator to work with a range of artists from the Sunshine Coast to Rockhampton to develop an exhibition which reflected positively on the plight of the dingo following bad press about the animals on Fraser Island. This exhibition was a feature of the Articulate Conference and the artists nearly sold all of their work at higher than expected prices through a silent auction that I managed. 

Commissioning three pieces of public art along Toonooba/Fitzroy River in Rockhampton as a disaster recovery project following two major flooding events.

This project involved working with a group of First Nations women, all with mental health conditions, who had formed a group mainly for therapeutic purposes. They were being mentored by a local artist and were experimenting with interesting textile techniques. I secured funding to source a curator who the group would work well with then steered the project towards a major exhibition at the Rockhampton Art Gallery. 

12 month project working with Flipside Circus and CQUniversity’s Wider Participation unit to work with schools with large numbers of high risk young people to create circus performances in three communities in western Queensland communities (Woorabinda, Eidsvold, Baralaba). (CQUniversity, Flipside Circus)