Wet - Artist Wellbeing Day -

A day designed to connect with your practice and the local creative sector, This is an invite for practicing visual artists to reflect and share. Spend time with dancer and wellbeing practitioner Tanya Vogues, visual artist Laura Wills, and visual artist and Wayapa practitioner Lara Tillbrook. Explore and share your practice and ways of working through three facilitated workshops of wellbeing, art and Wayapa- an earth connection movement practice based on ancient Indigenous Wisdom. Facilitators are dancer and wellbeing practitioner Tanya Vogues, visual artist Laura Wills, and visual artist and Wayapa practitioner Lara Tillbrook.

Lunch provided and limited spots available.

Supported by City of Adelaide and linked to Wet Exhibition at Floating Goose

More about the facilitators

Tanya Voges is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator and creative arts therapist, whose work is based in her history of dance. Through an attempt to constantly capture the ephemerality of dance, Tanya works with mark making and performance drawing, through film and photography, through interviews and spoken word. Tanya engages with community through site specific performance, workshops and choreography for diverse groups from mothers with their babies, youth dance practice, professional performers through to the elderly. As an advocate for the arts Tanya holds memberships with Dancers Australia/MEAA, Arts Industry Council of South Australia (AICSA), is a life member and previous board member of Ausdance and as a professional member of ANZACATA, Tanya is a qualified Creative Art Therapist specialising in Dance/Movement Therapy.

www.tanyavoges.com

Lara Tilbrook’s works on the beautiful ancient lands of the Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Narungga Nations. Her practice is fundamentally grounded in environmentalism with deep listening and change making at its core. Lara works with Community to Care for Country, she leads with love, nurturing connections through collective collaborations to support sustainable systems for health and well-being. An designer and artist with 30 years’ experience working throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan, predominant working in so called Australia. Tilbrook's hand-crafted sculptures, body adornments and installations are composed of materials close at hand, gathered and selected for their evocative potential towards restoring endemic flora and fauna. She is the creator of Bush Organics Kangaroo Island and a Wayapa Wuurrk Practitioner.

www.laratilbrook.com

www.bushorganics.com.au

www.wayapa.com

Laura Wills Tarntanya/ Adelaide based visual arts practice is centered around collaboration, participation and local ecologies. Primarily working across the discipline of drawing, Laura is interested in creating works that are social, inclusive, and connect us to the environment. This approach is site responsive, creating links and relationships to place. Themes Laura explores in her work include investigations of mapping, shelter, waterways, mycelial and symbiotic relationships and food security issues. Laura currently works from Central Studios and is half of Wills Projects with William Cheesman, a contemporary art and design team specialising in working in the public realm.

www.laurawills.com.au

www.plantnotes.com.au

www.willsprojects.net