Applications for the Creative Practice 2024 workshops series are open!

About the Creative Practice workshops

Do you want to create a body of work for an exhibition? Submit work to an art award? More confidently speak or write about your work? Do you want to restart your art making? Have you been working solo and would appreciate some critical feedback? Do you have questions on exhibiting or selling your work? Would you like to connect with other artists?

Creative Practice Workshops are for you!

Designed to support artists and recent arts graduates with developing their independent creative practices, culminating in the opportunity to exhibit in a group exhibition in Whangārei. The goal of the workshops is to equip artists to engage confidently and professionally with their communities, via supportive connections between practitioners, a deep dive into their studio practice to understand their processes and provide a supportive space to test ideas and present their work.

These workshops are funded, so there is no cost to participants, only a commitment to attend and give time to your work and the rest of the group while we work together. Artists and creatives must be based in tai Tokerau Northland.

Summer workshop series ~ for artists and creatives
 

Key Dates:

Saturdays 10:30am - 12pm 

Apply here; Saturdays 

Fortnightly at Creative Northland Offices Whangārei and on zoom from Saturday 2nd March - Saturday 8th June 10:30am - 12pm.
 

maximum ten places, hosted at Creative Northland and online; 

Creative Northland meetings will be 2nd March, 16th March, 13th April, 11th May, 8th June June 2024. Zoom meetings, 30th March, 27th April, 25th May.

Wednesdays 5:30pm - 7pm

Apply here; Wednesdays 

Fortnightly at Creative Northland Offices Whangārei and on zoom from Wednesday 28th Feb - Wednesday 5th June 5:30pm - 7pm.
 

maximum ten places, hosted at Creative Northland and online; 

Creative Northland meetings will be 28th Feb, 13 March, 10 April, 8 May, 5 June 2024. Zoom meetings, 27th March, 24th April, 22nd May.

Artists are required to attend both IRL and online meetings as far as possible (except sickness or emergencies!).

registrations close Friday 19th January 2024

places will be confirmed Friday 2nd February 2024

Application process:

This process provides insight into your work, your ideas and any challenges you have. It enables us to tailor the workshops to meet the needs of the participants and make the best use of our time together.

Please complete the form below, if you have any questions, find online forms challenging or are unsure if this is for you, please reach out!

Contact Angela at:

creativementoring.northland@gmail.com

To apply:

The workshops are designed for a maximum of ten participants. Interested artists are asked to provide:

4 - 6 images of your work, completed work or in process studio work

An artist CV or exhibition experience

Goals or challenges you wish to work on

Creative Practice is supported by

Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Regeneration Fund

About Angela

Angela has been working in the arts for over 20 years. Her experience includes maintaining a creative practice, studio research, project writing, project management and delivery, exhibition curation, writing and planning. Angela brings a collaborative approach to her work and understands the reality of working in the arts in Aotearoa.

Angela’s creative practice includes curation and storytelling across performance, installation, photography, drawing, and textile works. Angela is particularly interested in the future of arts in Aotearoa and how to create a more equitable and sustainable arts industry. Angela studied through Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, completing her MFA in 2020.

Angela’s work has been exhibited in Auckland, Whangārei, Dunedin, Nelson, Whakatāne, Morrinsville, Waiheke, Oamaru and Wellington. Recently, her work has made finals or won art awards across Aotearoa, including The Wallace Awards 2020, Changing Threads 2021 and 2022, The Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards 2022, and the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award for Painting and Drawing in 2019 and 2023.

Angela has had successful funding applications to Creative New Zealand, Manatu Taonga, Creative Communities and Lotteries Community grants scheme. She is on the committee of the Shutter Room Gallery Collective, serving as Gallery Curator and has delivered exhibition or performance projects in Auckland, Whangārei and Dunedin.

Please make sure you sign up to my Creative Practice Substack.

You can find Creative Practice on Instagram.

Ngā mihi,

Angela

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Creative Practice

creativementoring.northland@gmail.com

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