“Professionalising Practice & The Cultural Landscape”

Professionalising Practice & The Cultural Landscape is a series of workshops, discussions and presentations for artists and arts workers looking to open up dialogues and develop skills.

Over four days, West Space hosted discussions ranging from the micro to the macro; from grant writing, admin and install, collectivity, curatorial methodologies, cultural competency and parenthood in the arts. A selection of the programs were recorded, scroll down to listen.

Collaborative Practice and Collective Spaces

Panel discussion featuring James Nguyen, Ciaran Begley, Phuong Ngo and Nikki Lam.

Working curatorially: institutions, duty of care, curatorial methods, and artists as curators.

Curators Andy Butler and Pip Wallis in discussion.

Artist tools: the fundamentals of grants; basic finance; and install problem-solving.

Workshop with West Space staff.

Online and institutional publishing, arts writing and criticism.

Writers Amelia Winata and Sarah Gory in discussion.

Art and Parenthood

Claudia Pharès, Camilla Hannan, Nina Ross, Jessie Scott, and Aseel Tayah in discussion.