Mirjana Margetic
Mirjana Margetic explores in her artwork, the concept of human impact on the environment by redefining Australian landscape through assembling found objects to create sculptures. The notions and transformation of identity are intrinsically linked to Mirjana’s work through drawings, paintings and mixed media.
Glenn Smith
Visual Artist
Glen Smith is a contemporary artist working inside and outside the gallery system, often producing artworks under the nofrillsart nomenclature. Glen’s practice is influenced by street art and zine aesthetics and his work often references social and political issues.
Follow him at nofrillsart.net.
Tanja Beer
Visual Artists
Tanja Beer is a leader in ecological design practice and the originator of The Living Stage - an eco-scenographic concept that combines stage design, permaculture and community engagement to create a recyclable, biodegradable and edible performance space. She has more than 12 years professional experience, including creating over 50 designs for a variety of theatre companies and festivals in Australia(Sydney Opera House, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Queensland Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company).
Lucy Jones
Choirmistress & Singer
Lucy Jones studied music theatre at WAAPA and has worked in theatre, on television and in community settings as a performer, writer, composer and director. She has also worked extensively in primary schools as a teaching artist for The Song Room, facilitating performing arts projects for students, and developing and delivering workshops for teachers. She is currently involved in singing for literacy programs, and is composing a suite of songs inspired by the indigenous plants and animals of the Bellarine Peninsula.
Victoria Edgar
Jeweller
Victoria Edgar is an award winning Australian artist and prolific maker of superbly crafted sterling silver and gold jewellery. Victoria specialises in bespoke, one off commissioned sculpture, jewellery and body sculpture (Bodiware) for weddings, formal occasions, films, theatre, haute couture, fashion parades and everyday wear - her designs are dramatic and show her distinctive flair for creating strong yet sensuous works of Art that come alive on the wearer.
Victoria Edgar was Story Vessel Artist for Brownbill Ward for M~M2009.
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphries
Sound Artists
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphries' practice is concerned with the human experience of sound in space.Their work is commissioned and presented nationally and internationally, and in 2012 they were awarded the AMC-APRA National Award for Excellence in Experimental Music.
Laine Hogarty
Visual Artist
Laine Hogarty operates a cross-disciplinary visual art practice using installation, sculpture, drawing and digital design to create real and imagined spaces that examine pre-conceived assumptions. She maintains a passion for sustainability and the repurposing of consumer waste into ephemeral artworks that reflect upon the impermanency and unpredictability of human experience. Laine’s works often take the form of unexpected interventions to challenge the way we approach, experience and imagine space in the built environment and landscape.
www.origindesign.com.au
Natale Lewington
Choirmistress
Natale Lewington 'retired' to Barwon Heads following twelve years working as a professional opera singer throughout Europe and the US. In her spare time she runs the Barwon Heads Chorale, a community choir with a membership of approximately 75 people. She is passionate about the many benefits of community singing and music-making.
Danny Krivan
Composer
Danny Krivan came to Australia from New Zealand in 1990 and as a multi-instrumentalist has worked with numerous bands, as well as composing, recording and producing music of all types. He was first introduced to the connecting Identities project in 2009 as one of the contributing musicians and has gradually increased involvement writing and producing the music for both the Steam-Packet and Barwon Head events for Mountain to Mouth in 2016.
Tiffany Eckhart and Dave Steel
Singer/Songwriters
Tiffany Eckhardt, award winning singer/songwriter, has written and recorded seven successful independent releases. She has been adopted by the folk/roots, festival scene in Australia as a firm favourite, receiving rave reviews and radio airplay across the country.
Dave Steel, Blues man, songwriter/producer and instrumentalist, has been writing songs and making albums for the past 20 years. He has also been an instrumentalist for many of Australia's best known artists including Weddings Parties Anything , Archie Roach, Kasey Chambers, and Kavisha Mazzella to name a few. He has earned himself a reputation of being one of our finest musicians.
2014 Album release: 'Big Big Sky'
Dynamic Trio of the Folk/blues/roots Australian music scene, this husband and wife team along with their bass player Sandy Brady, have recently released their brand new album 'Big Big Sky'. .... songs about life's journey, sometimes soulful and sentimental, sometimes just plain fun, along with their recently released ‘Best Of’ album, ‘Think About You’, featuring favourite songs and previously unreleased live tracks. For further information call Tiffany on 0409 896 877 or Dave on 0417 548 027.
Stephen Oakes
Story Collector
Stephen is a media artist based in the Geelong region whose film-making, soundscapes and musical compositions focus on young, marginalised and people with a disability. Stephen most recently was commissioned by the City Of Geelong to produce two new suites of stories for 'Memory Bank', exploring memories and place via audio stories and short films.
Kaz McGlynn
Visual Artist
Kaz McGlynn is a prolific artist and art educator in a variety of quirky sculptural and visual art methods. She has a passion for working collaboratively with community groups to produce Iconic Public Art that reflects their environment and stories.
Jacob Boehme
Jacob Boehme is a Melbourne born and based artist of Aboriginal heritage, from the Narangga (Yorke Peninsula) and Kaurna (Adelaide Plains) nations of South Australia. Jacob is an independent artist and Artistic Director of IDJA, Victoria's first professional Indigenous dance theatre, established in 2011.
