Further Information
Disability and the Arts Symposium is the major companion event to the exhibition HERE&NOW13
Gallery opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm.
Enquiries
For more information contact the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery:
- Telephone: +(618) 6488 3707
- Email: [email protected]
The HERE&NOW13 Disability and the Arts Symposium present an excellent line-up of speakers from a range of backgrounds.
Carrie McGee
Associate Educator for Community and Access Programs in the Department of Education at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Carrie is responsible for developing programming for visitors with disabilities, and works in collaboration with community-based organisations, as well as the recruitment and training of museum educators.
Carrie also teaches gallery and studio-based programs, including a seminar at the Museum for medical students from Columbia University.
In 2009, Carrie co-authored ‘Meet Me: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia’. Carrie serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Arts and Health.
Catherine Peattie
Manager, DADAA
Catherine Peattie is the manager for DADAA where the focus is on Community Arts and Cultural Development.
Previously Catherine has worked in a number of diverse arts and humanitarian positions including the Arts Co-ordinator for Mwerre Anthurre Artists, a Field Officer for Papunya Tula Artists, an Editioner for Northern Editions and a Youth Refuge Worker.
In her art practice Catherine loves the mediums of printmaking and painting and her subjects mainly involve figures in landscapes or the natural environment.
David Doyle
Executive Director, DADAA
DADAA, based in Western Australia is a key Australian arts organisation dedicated to arts for social change that has been at the forefront of the Australian arts and disability movement over the past 18 years.
David has served as a board and committee member with the Australia Council for the Arts - Community Partnerships, Healthway, ARTS ACCESS Australia, TURA New Music and the Fremantle Foundation and is a current board member of Arts and Health Australia.
Currently David is working closely on the development of the Alliance, the peak Australian organisation for Community Arts and Community Cultural Development (CACCD).
David Guhl
Artist, exhibited at HERE&NOW13
David Guhl is an award-winning Perth-based artist who is best known for his vibrant Western Australian landscapes.
His paintings have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions including ‘Downright Art Exhibition’, World Down Syndrome Day, United Nations, New York, 2012; ‘The 3 Daves’, Perth Town Hall, Perth, 2009 and his first solo exhibition ‘Truly, Madly, Delightful’, Perth Town Hall, Perth, 2008.
Guhl was invited by the Disability Services Commission to join a small group of high profile Western Australians as a Count Me In Ambassador, in recognition of his contribution to the arts.
Fiona Stanley
Founding Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Professor Fiona Stanley is the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She is renowned for her research into the causes of major childhood illnesses such as birth defects and maintains a strong advocacy role for children and families.
Gordon Trewern
Chief Executive Officer, Nulsen
Gordon Trewern is widely involved with disability sector issues, sitting on state and national committees in the government and the non-government arenas.
Gordon joined Nulsen in 1982 as a support worker. He was appointed Coordinator of Accommodation Services in 1989 and CEO in 1994.
Helen Leonard
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Principal Investigator, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Professor Helen Leonard is based at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research where she leads a team of researchers in the area of childhood disability.
She has a clinical background in the area of developmental disability medicine but has now become a leading authority in the epidemiology of autism, intellectual disability and specific associated syndromes, in particular Rett syndrome and Down syndrome.
Professor Leonard has also established a population-based intellectual disability database in Western Australia which is internationally unique and, with its linkage to other WA population-based databases, is providing extremely valuable and ongoing research output.
Jane Ryan
Artist, exhibited at HERE&NOW13
Jane Ryan is an artist based in Fremantle, WA, whose practice incorporates a plethora of mediums and forms. For HERE&NOW13 Ryan has incorporated a newfound interest in photography to the composition process of her abstract paintings, and developed a collection of textile and mixed media sculptures.
Ryan’s arrangement of shapes and forms and use of colour is the driving force in her works. Her works have been displayed in numerous group exhibitions including ‘As We Are’, Nulsen, Perth, 2012; ‘Bugs, Birds and Beasts’, Midland Junction Arts Centre, WA, 2012; and ‘Open Minds Open Doors’, Alma Street Centre, WA, 2011, 2012 and in her first solo exhibition, ‘JANE’, DADAA Freight Gallery, Fremantle, 2012.
Jenny Downs
Associate Principal Investigator, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Dr Jenny Downs is an Associate Principal Investigator at the Telethon Institute whose current research program focuses on Rett syndrome.
She is interested in comprehensive outcomes research for children and their families, the translation of research findings into clinical practice, and in working with consumers to develop meaningful research programs. Jenny has a clinical background in paediatric physiotherapy.
Julian Poon
Artist, exhibited at HERE&NOW13
Perth-based artist Julian Poon is the youngest HERE&NOW13 exhibitor at 16 years of age. In the last six years Poon has held three solo exhibitions and his works have been the subject of a documentary on BBC television entitled ‘The One Show’.
In 2010 Poon became the youngest artist to have his works selected as a part of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London. In 2012 Poon was awarded the Mandorla Youth Art Award, Australia’s most significant thematic Christian Prize.
Kim Collard
Cultural Ambassador, Representative of the Noongar people
Mr Collard is a Balladong Nyoongar man and has worked with a number of different sectors to raise critical issues impacting Aboriginal people. He is a strong advocate and director and principal consultant of Kooya Consultancy. The consultancy delivers Aboriginal education and training to a wide range of sectors in the community and plays an important role in raising awareness of historical and current issues facing Aboriginal people.
Kitty-Rose Foley
Paediatric Ocupational Therapist and PhD Candidate, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Kitty-Rose Foley is studying for a PhD at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research where she is investigating the transition from school to post-school for young adults with Down syndrome.
Kitty is also a paediatric occupational therapist working with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Patrick Carter
Artist, exhibited at HERE&NOW13
Patrick Carter first worked with DADAA's ‘The Lost Generation Project’ in 2007 and 2008, demonstrating adeptness to a multitude of art forms including painting, dance, performance and musical composition.
Carter’s works strongly references his memories and experiences of family. His works have been included in group exhibitions at the Darlington Arts Festival, WA, 2008 and Midland Junction Arts Centre, WA, 2009.
For HERE&NOW13 Carter, through DADAA’s stARTSPEAK project, won an Arts Access Cultivate Grant to collaborate with digital media artist Sohan Ariel Hayes in the disciplines of performance, projection, video and animation.
Simone Flavelle
Manager, Ageing and Disability Projects, DADAA
Simone Flavelle is the Manager of Ageing and Disability Projects for DADAA in Western Australia. She is also Executive Producer of 198 digital works created as part of The Lost Generation Project and other projects in partnership with the WA Disability Services Commission over the last 10 years.
Since 2003 Simone has worked on 16 partnership projects with the Disability Services Commission with dance, performance, visual, sound and digital outcomes for core participants and their communities.
Susie Waller
Coordinator, As We Are
Susie is a sustainability and community cultural development practitioner with a passion for community arts, creativity and sustainability.
In April 2011, Susie commenced as Coordinator for ‘As We Are’, a community initiative in Western Australia that aims to bring joy and wellbeing to the lives of artists who have an intellectual disability.
Ted Snell
Winthrop Professor and Director, Cultural Precinct at the University of Western Australia
Over the past two decades Ted Snell has contributed to the national arts agenda through his role as Chair of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Chair of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools, Chair of Artbank and Chair of the Asialink Visual Arts Advisory Committee.
Ted has published several books and has curated numerous exhibitions, many of which document the visual culture of Western Australia.
Wanda Ariano
Program Officer, Art Partners
Wanda Ariano is originally from Canada. She worked primarily in her home country and in several parts of Africa before coming to Bunbury with her husband in 2007.
Wanda has spent most of her career working with performing arts organisations and on Canadian Government Commissions of Inquiry. She has focused exclusively on ‘Art Partners’ since its launch in 2011.
‘Art Partners’ is a mentorship program that matches protégés (people with disability) with mentors, and together they participate in mainstream art classes and activities in Bunbury.
List of speakers - print format
The list of speakers is available for download as a printable Word Document and PDF file. Whilst efforts have been made to ensure the documents have been tagged for accessibility, some screen readers will be more effective than others.
University information
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