Combining creative expression with business ambition can be an intricate balance.
Join panellists Simone Thomson, Aboriginal artist and Traditional Owner of Woi-Wurrung Wurundjeri and Yorta Yorta language groups, Lisa Radford, artist, writer and Board Member for The National Association for the Visual Arts, and Tess Edwards Baldessin, founder and owner of Baldessin Studio, to navigate the ins and outs of good art and good business at our Creative Industries Networking Event.
Artwork by Artist Simone Thomson will be officially unveiled.
The panel discussion will explore the different arts ecosystems that creatives can participate in to earn money and build their profile, whether that is in the arts market, in corporate or government commissions, or in arts teaching and education. Taking creative work into the marketplace can be a challenging experience for many practitioners, and this talk will unpack how to manage the tricky relationship between good art and good business.
It will also explore how artists can protect their cultural integrity while interacting with the market. Attendees will have access to a range of examples and words of advice from industry experts on how to make art and make a successful business from it.
Nillumbik Mayor Ben Ramcharan said that Council hopes this event will provide information and inspiration for locals to develop a commercial approach to a creative business.
“At Nillumbik we want local creative people to feel supported in their business goals, to be informed about the resources available to assist with their business development and inspired with ideas to commercially enhance their creativity,” Cr Ramcharan said.
The event will be held on Tuesday 16 May from 5.45pm at Valley Library, Greensborough.
Panelists:
Simone Thomson is a Melbourne based Aboriginal artist and Traditional Owner of Woi-Wurrung Wurundjeri and Yorta Yorta language groups. She draws inspiration from her art through her ancestral bonds with the Birrarung (Yarra River) and Dhungala (Murray River). Simone was the first graduating student of Victoria’s first Aboriginal school, Worawa Aboriginal College. She has been an artist since the age of 15, and now runs her own creative business focused on corporate and government commissions and online art sales.
Lisa Radford is an artist, writer and Board Member for The National Association for the Visual Arts. More often than not she works with others, most recently with Sam George and Yhonnie Scarce but previously with TCB art inc. and as a member of the collective DAMP. Currently working in the Painting Department at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, she shares thoughts publicly and intermittently in The Saturday Paper.
Tess Edwards Baldessin, printmaker, founder and owner of Baldessin Press Studio, Tess has had a rich artistic career dealing with metaphysical themes, notably through appropriated and reworked antique documents and books. Upon returning to Australia after twenty years in France, she opened her late husband George Baldessin’s etching studio to artists, and established an open access printmaking program which has supported hundreds of artists over more than twenty years.
