Lead Artists
Lead Artists
employed by Arts Access Victoria facilitate and lead the day to day running of
SRS Studio workshops as well as long-term creative journey of professional
development for participating artists. Lead Artists are professional, practising
artists with industry experience as well as experience in facilitating
workshops for people who experience disability and or mental health issues.
Leonie Van Eyck
Lead Artist at
Ballarat SRS Studios.
Leonie Van Eyk is a longstanding employee of Arts
Access. Over a fifteen year span Leonie has worked as a lead artist, filmmaker,
performer, puppeteer, stage manager and supporting artist. She is currently
based in Castlemaine, and has been busying herself with all kinds of local
engagements, documenting artistic processes, animating, visual projections,
directing puppetry and presenting works in unusual displays, one being a
projection on a block of apartments as part of a collaboration between Splash
Arts and Housing Choices. She recently completed two diplomas in Advanced
visual arts, specialising in Photography and the other in Interactive Digital
Media. Her Passion for collaboration fulfils a need to be around creative
people as much as it to impress upon people the notion of starting with nothing
and discovering something beyond imagination. Leonie has worked alongside some of Melbourne's
greater known companies such as Black Hole Theatre, Weave Movement Theatre,
Arts Project Australia, Polyglot, Snuff Puppets and Ignition Theatre.
Linda Studena
Lead Artist
at Artstop SRS Open Studio and Queens Lodge SRS Studio.
Linda is an internationally renowned artist, independent curator and community arts facilitator, with numerous solo and group exhibition both nationally and overseas, including Divus/Creative Spaces and AM180, Prague ČR and Chronology at Synergy Art Space, Melbourne. Linda has completed a Masters in Drawing at RMIT University and Master by Research at the Academy of Art, Prague, Czech Republic. Linda is the recipient of the 2003 RMIT Exhibitionist Art Prize and the NAVA Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholarship 2002. In addition Linda has worked as a graphic designer, set designer, Gallery Coordinator and as an interpreter.
Linda is an internationally renowned artist, independent curator and community arts facilitator, with numerous solo and group exhibition both nationally and overseas, including Divus/Creative Spaces and AM180, Prague ČR and Chronology at Synergy Art Space, Melbourne. Linda has completed a Masters in Drawing at RMIT University and Master by Research at the Academy of Art, Prague, Czech Republic. Linda is the recipient of the 2003 RMIT Exhibitionist Art Prize and the NAVA Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholarship 2002. In addition Linda has worked as a graphic designer, set designer, Gallery Coordinator and as an interpreter.
Tanya Arman
Lead Artist for
Fusion Arts Studio, Greenhaven SRS Studio and Footscray House SRS Studio.
Tanya has exhibited works in Thailand and two
Australian cities and studied various modalities, most formally
documentary filmmaking, journalism and fashion. Her interest in community
development principles and activism has seen her lock herself inside radio
booths across Brisbane and Melbourne, hosting shows on the arts and politics.
Tanya is a passionate proponent for greater gender
equality which has seen her form a social learning hub for women, present
a national show on women's current affairs and found an annual small film
festival highlighting works of local female directors. An enthusiasm for
working with young people has called her to collaborate on projects making
digital stories and teach ESL to junior and high school.
A hobby painter, Tanya currently runs her own
business hosting art parties for kids and works as Lead Artist with Diversity
and Disability at the Migrant Resource Centre North West. Her favourite medium
is nonfictional storytelling.
Lawrence Finn
Lead Artist for
Melton Willows SRS and Meadowbrook SRS Studio in Melton.
I was 16
when I began my studies in art
(printmaking)
at the East Sydney Technical College, School of Fine Arts (1986-1989). I
followed this at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts
1991-92 as a printmaking technician shortly after I pursued a Post Graduate
Diploma from Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney – 1993). In 2007,
I completed a Master of Fine Art in Printmaking at the National Art School,
East Sydney and in between I went to Europe and the US, where I studied artists
printmakers. There’s a clear pattern. I love art and art-schools.
My
Masters thesis was about that love, exploring the social and individual
benefits of art while asking awkward questions about why we have so many
artists and art schools in a country which (fiscally speaking) does not love
art. Art; has wonderful benefits for individuals and society.
For a few
it makes money, for many it gives them life. Art is important, it helps people.
Melody Henderson
Melody is Lead
Artist for Sydenham Grace and Royal Avenue SRS Studios.
Melody
Henderson is an artist from the Footscray area who has studied both social work
and art. Melody has been involved in the Melbourne music and art scene for over
15 years and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and played music in
various venues. Melody endeavours to introduce art group participants to
creative tools across different media that enable play, expression and a sense
of purpose and belonging.
Support Artists
Support Artists
employed by Arts Access Victoria work alongside the Lead Artist to deliver the
workshops. This includes providing individual support, as required, to
participating artists under the direction of the Lead Artist as well as support
the lead artist in the development and implementation of art practices and
outcomes.
Kim Anderson
Support Artist at Ballarat
SRS Studios.
Kim
Anderson is an artist, curator, and writer based in Ballarat. Traditional drawing techniques
form the basis of her practice, however she also incorporates more ephemeral
methods such as projection, site specific drawing, and the use of alternative
surfaces and spaces to produce and present work.
Kim completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the
University of Ballarat Arts Academy, and a Master of Fine Art at the University
of Dundee in Scotland. Since then she
has been selected for residencies in Rome, Japan and Scotland as well as around
Australia. Kim has exhibited all around
Australia and internationally, and been a finalist in a number of prestigious
awards including the Rick Amor Drawing Prize and the Hazelhurst Works on Paper
Award. In 2010 she was the recipient of
an Australia Council ArtStart award, and she has created and curated projects
funded by the Moreland City Council, Regional Arts Victoria, Creative Victoria
and the City of Melbourne.
In 2014 Kim was curator of the Skin Gallery
in Melbourne, an initiative between Arts Access Victoria and the Skin &
Cancer Foundation Inc.
Alesh Macak
Support Artist at
Melton Willows SRS and Meadowbrook SRS in Melton.
Alesh Macak is a Melbourne
based Video Artist, Animator and Arts worker at Arts Access Victoria. Macak
recently started Mirador Productions a Video Production and Animation business.
He is Co-founder and Arts Facilitator at Inkling workshop, a printmaking and
multi arts studio in Docklands, established in 2014. Macak graduated with
Distinction in Masters of Creative Media in Animation and Interactive Media at
RMIT University and has completed a Bachelor of Fine art at the Victorian
College of the Arts. Macak uses stop motion animation, photography, illustration,
video and music to create short films, immersive video installations and live
projections for bands, contemporary dance and theatre. Macak has created music
video clips, worked as an animator on documentaries and had his work shown at
film festivals and galleries in Melbourne and abroad.
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