Critical Tools for Arts Practice

Know what you want to say but can't quite find the language to anchor your practice? Fiona Lee from The Rogue Academy will deliver a succinct workshop covering essentials such as writing a professional artist bio, CV, and artist statement.

Identify your Critical Friends during research and development. Locate your practice within local and global contexts. Write well about your art and yourself and learn how to organise your text-based research to best serve your practice.
Critical Tools is part of an artist development program designed by Fiona Lee, delivered as part of the Platform Arts Neighbourhood LAB program, and tailored to local artist needs and interests. Join the LAB artists in an afternoon session of gathering and upskilling.

Presented by Platform Arts and Supported by Making Change.

Dr Fiona Lee is an artist and founder of The Rogue Academy, a dialogical platform for social engagement that links conceptual forms of art with broader world issues. She is currently a sessional lecturer at Deakin Geelong and Burwood teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art, and art education. In 2017, Lee was a curatorial researcher and with the Deakin Public Art Commission, working on the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy. She curated ‘Our Day Will Come,’ an alternative art school by Paul O’Neill (2011) for Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST), and co-curated with Pat Brassington, ‘The Arresting Image’ (2009) and facilitated ‘The Plimsoll Inquiry’ (2013-2015) for the Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania. She completed a PhD that explored a new direction in her practice titled The Rogue Academy: Conversational Art Events as a Means of Institutional Critique in 2016.

Image: Neighbourhood LAB artists with facilitator Dr Fiona Lee. Photo by Leiko Lopez.