Thursday - Day 1
Wake up music featuring Rhys, Ruby, Bill and Thoko
Raymond Wholohan from Wagga City Art Gallery
Raymond Wholohan
is an emerging curator based in Wagga Wagga who
studied at both The Riverina Institute of TAFE and Charles Sturt
University an is now working at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. Ray is
fascinated by the apparent rift between so-called 'new media art' such
as image projection, and 'traditional media art' such as drawing and the
general interaction between the constructed authority of public
galleries and the artist they were founded to serve.
Ray had been apart
of both the 2006 and 2008 Next Wave Festival as both artist and
curator. Between the 3rd and the 17th of August the exhibition Ray
curated titled Curandum: That which should be cared about will be on
exhibition at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery's E3 artsapce. Curandum involves
emerging and established electronic artists who are based or have
practiced in Wagga Wagga in a thigly curated format.
At symposium 08 Ray
wishes to express his experiences and extend and opportunity to emerging
artist and designs within the Riverina region and introduce Tamara
Mardwood Next Waves Regional Producer. Has also been apart of the 2006
and 2007 This is Not Art Festival the 2006 Drowning Man Festival and
Unsound festival and is a member of 2009 Regional Kick-start Curatorial
Advisory Committee.
Tamara Marwood from Next Wave FESTIVAL
Tamara Marwood is an artist, curator and producer in Eaglehawk, Victoria. She draws and at the moment does loads of stitching. She is currently the Associate Producer for Regional Projects with Next Wave Festival working with young artists (30 and under) to produce new art works in regional communities. She has recently stepped down as the founding coordinator of Allan's Walk Artist Run Space, Bendigo. Her next solo show is at Craft Victoria in November of this year and has been selected for the 2008 National Works on Paper Prize at the Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery.
More about
the Next Wave Festival
Craig Bremner from The University of Canberra
Craig Bremner is Professor in the Faculty of Design and Creative Practice at the University of Canberra. Over the past twenty years he has worked at several Australian Universities, and consulted to industry groups and public authorities. He has researched and developed numerous international collaborative projects involving artists, designers, and architects working with Australian industries developing products as diverse as furniture and caravans. As a consultant he wrote the Australian Furniture Industry Plan in response to cuts to tariff protection. In 2005 he initiated the Canberra Biennial, a project to make Canberra an international festival city of architecture and design. The 2007 Canberra Biennial was held over three months with the participation of the cities of Barcelona, Beijing, Sydney, and Athens (see www.canberrabiennial.com).
His research investigates methods to illustrate the experience of using the now artificial world. He has applied his research methods to trace the experience of living in Glasgow, which has contributed to the design of new housing types in Scotland. He has used similar methods to research the experience of using banks and driving motorcars. In his private practice, he has worked as a designer in Italy, Scotland and Australia. Some of his products can still be found in schools, and domestic and retail environments, and he has written extensively on design, architecture, urbanism.
Jeremy Wortsman from The Jacky Winter Group
Jeremy Wortsman has been been active in the graphic arts for over eleven years in both New York and Melbourne. His work has taken him across most sectors of the industry, including editorial art direction, boutique studio design, lecturing and education, FMCG finished artwork, and high end photo retouching for ad agencies.
Jeremy’s work has been awarded by the Society of Publication Designers (US), and recognized in a wide range of international publications such as Creative Review, Tokion, Computer Arts, and more. Along with design partner Stuart Geddes, he was awarded the 2006 Premier’s Design Award, for his self-initiated project, Is Not Magazine.
Currently, Jeremy is the founder and acting principal of The Jacky Winter Group, a boutique illustration agency representing Australian artists, and is also one half of the multi-disciplinary design practice, Chase & Galley.
More about The Jacky Winter Group
Designer Eddy Herringson
Eddy Herringson has worked in the motion design / broadcast / visualeffects industry for close to 10 years. After finishing his BA inGraphic Design he commenced working for a post production and 3Danimation studio in Canberra. Later, Eddy took up a position as SeniorDesigner at Ambience in Sydney, where he worked on a range of openingtitles, music videos and television commercials for over 3 years. Fortwo years Eddy worked in the UK and was involved in projects includingthe award winning 'Honda: Grrr' commercial. Heis currently freelancing as a Design Director in Sydney.
Andrew Ashton from Studio Pip & Co
Andrew Ashton was born in Sydney Australia in 1969, and grew up with the best and worst of contrasting worlds – urban and rural, hectic and still, built up and natural, city and country. He graduated from Randwick Graphic Design School in 1998. Upon graduation Ashton worked at Sydney graphic design companies Lam-po-tang & Co and Gallaher + Associates.
In 1994 Ashton formed a design partnership Nelmes Smith Ashton (NSA). In the ten years that proceeded NSA was renamed Precinct Design. In 1999 Ashton relocated to Melbourne. In 2003 Ashton founded Studio Pip and Co. Ashton's clients include Australian Paper, Chamber Music Australia, Computershare, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Moonlight Cinema and Spicers Paper. Along with commercial projects, Ashton produces an array of studio publications and products.
Ashton’s approach to graphic communication is a varied and unique journey incorporating inspiration from wayward sources found in contemporary culture, community and the media. Ashton employs conceptual themes, bespoke image making, writing, and unique product finishing in the hope of achieve an enduring outcomes rather a throw-a-way graphic. All the studio’s work is a process that investigates cultural themes and trends, invites assessment, change, and reinvention. Ashton enjoys producing rigorous, diverse, unexpected, engaging and successful outcomes.
Ashton volunteers time and work for a range of cultural and industry organisations and is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Australian Graphic Design Association. Ashton periodically teaches design, writes often, maintains a comprehensive internet based web log – www.peoplethings.com/andblog, takes photographs and chases after his young family.