SEMINAR 1 JULY 21

JOOST BAKKER

Greenhouse

Joost Bakker emigrated from Holland at the age of nine. With no formal study – unless you call socialising study – Joost started off as a self taught horticultural artist (he inherited his artistic talents from his Mum). This led to installations, marquees at the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, fitouts of restaurants and his prolific installation ‘Dry’ at the republic Tower’s Queen Street corner in which 45 tubs framed dried willow branches sourced from the family farm in Monbulk. Joost is a discipline-crossing creative and visionary. Highly regarded for his distinctive aesthetic and design ingenuity. Joost has been commissioned to create large scale public installations, vertical gardens, event spaces and hospitality interiors throughout Australia. Joost is driven by a genuine passion for simply doing things better – and opening a public dialogue about sustainable design practises in the process.
www.joost.com.au

STEPHEN CAMERON

Hassell Architects

Stephen has been an architect for nearly as long as he wanted to be an architect. Growing up from the age of two in what may have been the only Modernist house in Toowoomba, then going direct to QUT before moving into private practice, Stephen’s ideas of what an architect might be have been subject to constant change. From an initial enthusiasm for the lone, bespectacled prototype Stephen has developed an approach to architecture that is unconstrained by conventional notions of singularity and authorship. Stephen founded his practice Ark in 2004, and over the following six years produced a wide range of works including the aesthetic dental clinic “Aesthetic Excellence” (AIA Qld Awards commendation 2006), and the events venue / shared creative studio Lightspace (IDEA commercial projects and sustainable projects shortlist 2010, AIA Brisbane Awards commendation 2011). In 2010 he took up an “irresistible” offer to move to HASSELL, where he is putting his collaborative experience to good use on design projects ranging in scale from a pro-bono youth support centre to a 30-storey office building, with his first built work at HASSELL being the brand new Esquire restaurant in the city.
www.hassell.com.au

SEMINAR 2 AUGUST 11

THOMAS BAILEY

Room 11

Thomas Bailey studied architecture in Tasmania and Sweden. He is a founding member of Hobart/Melbourne based Room11 Architects; an energetic practice that indulges in collaboration with artists and other interesting people while also consuming and producing more recognizable architectural fodder.He, with his collaborators have won a number of prestigious international and national architectural design competitions. His built architecture is regularly published in international and local journals and other wholesome architectural literature.Currently he is lead Architect for GASP! The Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park which forms a larger public addendum to the recently opened MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art.
www.room11.com.au

ROY SCHACK

Schack Fine Furniture

‘Its hard not to be influenced in some way when growing up surrounded by Danish design. It took many years of doing a job I knew I didn’t want to do, before taking a bit of responsibility for my life and asking myself the tough question. What now?’ Roy Schack began his adult working life in the merchant banking industry, and after 10 years decided to take a side step into the creative life that is wood work and furniture design. Trained at the Sturt School for Wood in the Southern Highland of New South Wales, Roy made the move to Queensland in 1995 where he established a workshop in Woolloongabba showcasing his hand crafted pieces, as well as operating The Brisbane School of Fine Woodwork. Roy’s practice revolves around a healthy balance of teaching woodwork to adult students as well as producing commissioned pieces for private clients. He has exhibited widely over the last 16 years with the most recent exhibition being with the Danish Cabinet Makers Association in Copenhagen. He is passionate about quality work, and worries about taking himself too seriously. Roy now operates from a purpose built studio in beautiful Samford Valley.
www.royschack.com

SEMINAR 3 SEPTEMBER 15/16

PANDAROSA

Ariel A & Andrea B

Pandarosa, or the PANDAS as they are often referred to, are the brainchild behind artist / designer team, Ariel A. & Andrea B. As a studio they specialise in the installation of large scale mural works, but also apply their skills across a wide range of applications including illustration, branding, design, illustrative interiors and decorative patterns, while at once conducting their own exhibiting art practice, locally & abroad. This diverse approach allows them to apply their imaginative creations across a range of outcomes such as adorning the walls of Hotel Fox in Copenhagen, illustrating the pages of publications like Frame & (Inside) Design Review, developing the branding for Julia Deville’s Disce Mori jewellery range & contributing to many independent cultural projects. Clients such as Volkswagon, Domestic, Hecker Guthier, Nike, & the Environmental Protection Authority have commissioned the pair for their diversified work & their method has been well documented across publications & blogs such as Design 360, Grafik, Artichoke, The Design Files, We Heart, Frame – The Great Indoors & many others. Pandarosa have a commitment towards developing their own perspectives of thinking, feeling & researching through their work & aim to not only describe but also stimulate the imagination, thus showing the possibility of a tight coexistence between design & art. We are Pandarosa.
www.pandarosa.net

KT DOYLE

Artist and Designer

KT Doyle is a project-based artist and designer specialising in sustainable solutions for wallpaper and textiles, surface design, limited edition original artworks and artwork for the built environment. Working in the visual arts, craft and design sector for over twenty years, KT has maintained a solid commitment to her exhibiting profile, attending and speaking at industry conferences and writing for industry-recognised publications. She has spent the past few years working on a successful move from the white box to product development to captivate the commercial market with her unique designs and well-crafted products. In 2008, KT was awarded a Brisbane City Council Creative Sparks Grant, launching her first wallpaper and textiles collection. In 2009, she received a SignatureBrisbane Seed Grant, was a finalist in Queensland Design on Show (QDOS), and in 2010 was granted a Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant, and named a finalist in the Desktop Create Awards (DC10). As resident designer for Sydney-based wallpaper company, Moore & Moore, 2011 launches their inaugural collection and finds KT named as one of Design Quarterly’s Top Ten Forces and Faces of Design.
www.ktdoyle.com

SEMINAR 4 OCTOBER 20

SONNY VANDERVELDE

Sonny Photos

Sonny Vandevelde is a Belgian/Australian fashion photographer. As a child he became intrigued with the mechanics of an old Kodak Box Brownie, and the images it produced, and has been snapping photos ever since. His professional career evolved from leisure – on the Australian ski slopes, shooting free-style skiers. Before long, magazines and ski companies were taking notice of Sonny’s high energy, dynamic action photos. From here, Sonny transitioned, through companies like Quicksilver, into what he refers to as “lifestyle fashion” photography. A blend of natural poses and energy as opposed to the static posing of models in studios at the time, this piqued the interest of magazines such as Dolly and Cosmo, and steered him more towards fashion photography. After building a solid client base in Australia, Sonny returned to his country of birth and began to expand into the lucrative European market with editorial and advertising work. Dividing his time now between the continents, Sonny’s backstage photography has become his calling card. Distinctively quirky, vibrant and colourful, he shoots all the major fashion shows around the globe, & regularly appear in titles such New York Times, V magazine, Grazia, Vogue, and Harpers. It’s a fast-paced lifestyle, but Sonny’s doing what he loves – making beautiful pictures.
www.sonnyphotos.typepad.com

CANDY BOWERS

Who’s That Chik?

Candy designs hip hop workshops for young people and currently works at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland as a creative catalyst. Hailing from Campbelltown in Western Sydney and born of South African parents, Candy Bowers is an award winning rapper, writer, speaker, educator, performer and comedian. A NIDA trained actor, Candy has worked across Australia and in the UK as a solo artist and with her notorious hip hop comedy act SISTA SHE. In 2010 she was nominated for the Phillip Parsons Young Playwright Award and won the Best Performance Award at the Melbourne Fringe Festival for her autobiographical solo work WHO’S THAT CHIK? In 2008 she won the British Council Realise Your Dream Award and featured on the Top 100 List: Creative Catalysts at the inaugural Creative Sydney Festival. Her current artistic projects include developing a play about South African/Australian culture entitled Cook Sisters, touring her acclaimed solo work WHO’S THAT CHIK? and creating a brand new stand up comedy show entitled Australian Booty.
www.artshub.com.au


	SEMINAR 1 JULY 21 JOOST BAKKER Greenhouse Joost Bakker emigrated from Holland at the age of nine. With no formal study – unless you call socialising study – Joost started off as a self taught horticultural artist (he inherited his artistic talents from his Mum). This led to installations, marquees at the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, fitouts of restaurants and his prolific installation ‘Dry’ at the republic Tower’s Queen Street corner in which 45 tubs framed dried willow branches sourced from the family farm in Monbulk. Joost is a discipline-crossing creative and visionary. Highly regarded for his distinctive aesthetic and design ingenuity. Joost has been commissioned to create large scale public installations, vertical gardens, event spaces and hospitality interiors throughout Australia. Joost is driven by a genuine passion for simply doing things better – and opening a public dialogue about sustainable design practises in the process. www.joost.com.au STEPHEN CAMERON Hassell Architects Stephen has been an architect for nearly as long as he wanted to be an architect. Growing up from the age of two in what may have been the only Modernist house in Toowoomba, then going direct to QUT before moving into private practice, Stephen’s ideas of what an architect might be have been subject to constant change. From an initial enthusiasm for the lone, bespectacled prototype Stephen has developed an approach to architecture that is unconstrained by conventional notions of singularity and authorship. Stephen founded his practice Ark in 2004, and over the following six years produced a wide range of works including the aesthetic dental clinic “Aesthetic Excellence” (AIA Qld Awards commendation 2006), and the events venue / shared creative studio Lightspace (IDEA commercial projects and sustainable projects shortlist 2010, AIA Brisbane Awards commendation 2011). In 2010 he took up an “irresistible” offer to move to HASSELL, where he is putting his collaborative experience to good use on design projects ranging in scale from a pro-bono youth support centre to a 30-storey office building, with his first built work at HASSELL being the brand new Esquire restaurant in the city. www.hassell.com.au SEMINAR 2 AUGUST 11 THOMAS BAILEY Room 11 Thomas Bailey studied architecture in Tasmania and Sweden. He is a founding member of Hobart/Melbourne based Room11 Architects; an energetic practice that indulges in collaboration with artists and other interesting people while also consuming and producing more recognizable architectural fodder.He, with his collaborators have won a number of prestigious international and national architectural design competitions. His built architecture is regularly published in international and local journals and other wholesome architectural literature.Currently he is lead Architect for GASP! The Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park which forms a larger public addendum to the recently opened MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art. www.room11.com.au ROY SCHACK Schack Fine Furniture ‘Its hard not to be influenced in some way when growing up surrounded by Danish design. It took many years of doing a job I knew I didn’t want to do, before taking a bit of responsibility for my life and asking myself the tough question. What now?’ Roy Schack began his adult working life in the merchant banking industry, and after 10 years decided to take a side step into the creative life that is wood work and furniture design. Trained at the Sturt School for Wood in the Southern Highland of New South Wales, Roy made the move to Queensland in 1995 where he established a workshop in Woolloongabba showcasing his hand crafted pieces, as well as operating The Brisbane School of Fine Woodwork. Roy’s practice revolves around a healthy balance of teaching woodwork to adult students as well as producing commissioned pieces for private clients. He has exhibited widely over the last 16 years with the most recent exhibition being with the Danish Cabinet Makers Association in Copenhagen. He is passionate about quality work, and worries about taking himself too seriously. Roy now operates from a purpose built studio in beautiful Samford Valley. www.royschack.com SEMINAR 3 SEPTEMBER 15/16 PANDAROSA Ariel A & Andrea B Pandarosa, or the PANDAS as they are often referred to, are the brainchild behind artist / designer team, Ariel A. & Andrea B. As a studio they specialise in the installation of large scale mural works, but also apply their skills across a wide range of applications including illustration, branding, design, illustrative interiors and decorative patterns, while at once conducting their own exhibiting art practice, locally & abroad. This diverse approach allows them to apply their imaginative creations across a range of outcomes such as adorning the walls of Hotel Fox in Copenhagen, illustrating the pages of publications like Frame & (Inside) Design Review, developing the branding for Julia Deville’s Disce Mori jewellery range & contributing to many independent cultural projects. Clients such as Volkswagon, Domestic, Hecker Guthier, Nike, & the Environmental Protection Authority have commissioned the pair for their diversified work & their method has been well documented across publications & blogs such as Design 360, Grafik, Artichoke, The Design Files, We Heart, Frame – The Great Indoors & many others. Pandarosa have a commitment towards developing their own perspectives of thinking, feeling & researching through their work & aim to not only describe but also stimulate the imagination, thus showing the possibility of a tight coexistence between design & art. We are Pandarosa. www.pandarosa.net KT DOYLE Artist and Designer KT Doyle is a project-based artist and designer specialising in sustainable solutions for wallpaper and textiles, surface design, limited edition original artworks and artwork for the built environment. Working in the visual arts, craft and design sector for over twenty years, KT has maintained a solid commitment to her exhibiting profile, attending and speaking at industry conferences and writing for industry-recognised publications. She has spent the past few years working on a successful move from the white box to product development to captivate the commercial market with her unique designs and well-crafted products. In 2008, KT was awarded a Brisbane City Council Creative Sparks Grant, launching her first wallpaper and textiles collection. In 2009, she received a SignatureBrisbane Seed Grant, was a finalist in Queensland Design on Show (QDOS), and in 2010 was granted a Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant, and named a finalist in the Desktop Create Awards (DC10). As resident designer for Sydney-based wallpaper company, Moore & Moore, 2011 launches their inaugural collection and finds KT named as one of Design Quarterly’s Top Ten Forces and Faces of Design. www.ktdoyle.com SEMINAR 4 OCTOBER 20 SONNY VANDERVELDE Sonny Photos Sonny Vandevelde is a Belgian/Australian fashion photographer. As a child he became intrigued with the mechanics of an old Kodak Box Brownie, and the images it produced, and has been snapping photos ever since. His professional career evolved from leisure – on the Australian ski slopes, shooting free-style skiers. Before long, magazines and ski companies were taking notice of Sonny’s high energy, dynamic action photos. From here, Sonny transitioned, through companies like Quicksilver, into what he refers to as “lifestyle fashion” photography. A blend of natural poses and energy as opposed to the static posing of models in studios at the time, this piqued the interest of magazines such as Dolly and Cosmo, and steered him more towards fashion photography. After building a solid client base in Australia, Sonny returned to his country of birth and began to expand into the lucrative European market with editorial and advertising work. Dividing his time now between the continents, Sonny’s backstage photography has become his calling card. Distinctively quirky, vibrant and colourful, he shoots all the major fashion shows around the globe, & regularly appear in titles such New York Times, V magazine, Grazia, Vogue, and Harpers. It’s a fast-paced lifestyle, but Sonny’s doing what he loves – making beautiful pictures. www.sonnyphotos.typepad.com CANDY BOWERS Who’s That Chik? Candy designs hip hop workshops for young people and currently works at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland as a creative catalyst. Hailing from Campbelltown in Western Sydney and born of South African parents, Candy Bowers is an award winning rapper, writer, speaker, educator, performer and comedian. A NIDA trained actor, Candy has worked across Australia and in the UK as a solo artist and with her notorious hip hop comedy act SISTA SHE. In 2010 she was nominated for the Phillip Parsons Young Playwright Award and won the Best Performance Award at the Melbourne Fringe Festival for her autobiographical solo work WHO’S THAT CHIK? In 2008 she won the British Council Realise Your Dream Award and featured on the Top 100 List: Creative Catalysts at the inaugural Creative Sydney Festival. Her current artistic projects include developing a play about South African/Australian culture entitled Cook Sisters, touring her acclaimed solo work WHO’S THAT CHIK? and creating a brand new stand up comedy show entitled Australian Booty. www.artshub.com.au

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