Public Art, Public Space and Collective Identity

Join the final panel event of Art Practice in 3 Bites, hosting an in-person conversation and presentation focusing on how public art contributes to a vibrant community, challenges audiences, and shapes the identity of place.

Deborah McCormick founder and former Executive Director of SCAPE Public Art, New Zealand, who was instrumental in the cultural rebuild of Otautahi Christchurch and Ineke Dane, an award-winning curator working as Associate Curator, International Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art QAGOMA, will discuss their journeys with public art and debate the provocative and sometimes challenging nature of art in public spaces.

Facilitated by Jane Fuller, Executive Director of Arts Northern Rivers, this bite will be an engaging insight into how public art is an innovative and experimental platform for artists of all practices to consider and its wide-ranging cultural influence on the wider public.

About the panellists 

Deborah McCormick believes that public art is the keystone to a vibrant, thriving city. With 25 years’ experience bringing art into public spaces, Deborah is an industry leader and visionary, well-known for her work creating and moulding SCAPE Public Art into a respected and recognisable organisation on the international stage.

Ineke Dane is an award-winning curator specialising in cross-disciplinary commissions with artists and architects and is Associate Curator, International Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art QAGOMA. Ineke previously worked with renowned arts philanthropist John Kaldor AO under Kaldor Public Art Projects, and independent public art curator Barbara Flynn.

About the project 

Art Practice in 3 Bites is a series of three arts focused panel sessions that will discuss, dissect and dispel the myths, challenges, opportunities and advantages for artists working in the Northern Rivers and beyond.

A collaboration between Southern Cross University, Lismore Regional Gallery and Arts Northern Rivers. Each ‘Bite’ engages in critical discourse around creative practice across the many disciplines that contribute to our culturally rich and diverse arts community.

Art Practice in 3 Bites is an opportunity for all artists in varying stages of their careers to come together, connect and learn from a respected and eclectic mix of local and national industry professionals.

To learn more about this project visit artsnorthernrivers.com.au. 

This event will be Auslan interpreted. 

This project is delivered in collaboration with Southern Cross University and Lismore Regional Gallery and made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.