Join in person or online for our third Access Ideas and Insights panel of 2023.

An expert panel will discuss the many exciting ways we might create and engage with art as we delve into ‘The Future of Art’.

Discover how artists and organisations are innovating access and inclusion with new technology and learn from leading artists and technologists Thea-Mai Baumann, Louise Zhang and Amy Mills as they explore where we are now, and what the future holds for creating truly “accessible” art.

Learn about multi-sensory experiences, thrilling tactile work and entirely virtual exhibitions as we encourage you to ponder essential access requirements as well as the fantastical possibilities of an inclusive future.

Thursday 29 June
11am – 12pm
(45-minute panel conversation, followed by a 15-minute Q&A)

Join in person:
Please join us for morning tea and in person networking from 10.15am
Art Gallery of NSW – New Building
Meers Hall, Lower Level 2

Or join online:
A weblink will be emailed to you upon registration.

Access

This event will be Auslan interpreted, captioned and is wheelchair accessible. The in person event at the Art Gallery of NSW will be open captioned. The online event will be closed captioned.

If you have any access requirements, please advise us when registering. Please note that we may need 72 hours notice to accommodate your requirements. For more information, please contact info@aarts.net.au

About the Speakers

Thea Baumann 

Thea-Mai Baumann is a creative executive, artist, technologist and producer of Vietnamese-Swiss heritage. She joined 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer in February 2023. Between 2019-2022, she was Manager and Senior Manager of International Engagement at the Australia Council for the Arts where she co-designed and led the launch of the International Engagement Strategy 2021-25, and provided oversight of strategic investments in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific. Between 2012-2019, Thea was CEO and Founder of world-first hologram brands Metaverse Makeovers® and 超宇美人® based between Melbourne, Shanghai, and Hong Kong where she led the commercialisation of augmented reality innovation @MetaverseNails. 

Louise Zhang 

Louise Zhang 张露茜 is a Chinese-Australian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture and installation. Zhang explores the dynamics of aesthetics, contrasting the attractive and repulsive in order to navigate the senses of fear, anxiety and a sense of otherness reflecting her identity. Her work is inspired by horror cinema, Chinese mythology and botany, adopting and placing symbols and motifs in compositions of harmonic dissonance. 

 Amy Mills 

Amy is a Sydney-based emerging artist living and working on unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. Her art practice explores identity and self-preservation through immersive installations and performance, by which she becomes both the artist and subject. Her practice critiques and examines the politics surrounding the female disabled body. Using distinctive, colourful and bold mediums her work encourages the observer to challenge their own paradigms and internalised preconceived bias, with the intention of deconstructing ableism. 

Accessible Arts is proudly supported by Create NSW and this Hybrid Event Series has been made possible with support from the City of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW and Pyrus Events.

Image Description: Headshots of the three panelists (from left to right): Thea Baumann, Louise Zhang and Amy Mills.