Barry James Gilson is a Wathaurung man.
A singer, poet and actor.
Barry specialises in bringing back the ancient words and language of his people the “Wathaurung".
Barry has been a lead singer in the Tanderrum ( Melbourne festival ) for the last five years ongoing.
Emma Anna is a graduate of RMIT University’s Masters’ of Art (Art in Public Space) program. She works primarily for local councils across Australia and internationally, creating public projects with an emphasis on text, colour, modes of communication and the idea of ‘the mass’. She uses tools of language, popular culture, humour, universal symbolism and everyday technologies to help define both place and community.
Through the framework of a sculptural practice I work with and respond to sites. A continuing focus of my practice has been developing an expanded understanding of site, where context is crucial and site is positioned as a shifting environment of multiple relations.
Fiona has been teaching and educating for 25 years. She has taught in Early childhood settings, Primary settings as both Generalist and Performing Arts / Music Specialist. Fiona has held positions in both the Government and Private sector and has for the last 15 years has taught and mentored at the tertiary level at Deakin University where she is currently completing her doctorate.
Anamaria Gomez Correal is an industrial designer establishing her art practice in between installation and performance, space, body and movement. She is a Colombian woman immigrant to Australia and a current art in the public space’s student.
EPA is committed to deepening audiences’ experiences of place through site-responsive,
participatory, ecological performance.
Jonathon has lead some of Australia ’s finest community choirs including the award-winning Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir to win the Australasian Choral Championships at the City of Sydney Eisteddfod; recording and conducting Mythologia for the Olympic Cultural Festival with Graeme Murphy’s Sydney Dance Company; and recording and performing with k d lang and Jimmy Sommerville to name a few amongst dozens of memorable performances.
Corrina is a proud Wadawurrung Woman with a deadly, strong and beautiful spirit. Her story is an amazing one of survival and strength, of which she is more then happy to share to teach and empower other young women across our community. Corrina is a mother of 2 wonderful young Aboriginal people, communities and the broader Geelong region.
Tammy Gilson is a traditional owner from Wadawurrung country, the land in which her great grandmother walked.
Leslie Pearson is an award-winning multimedia artist, community arts advocate, and educator. In 1998, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Southeast Missouri State University and was heavily involved in community arts programming as the Assistant Director of the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri and co-curator of Gallery 100 and the Lorimer Gallery in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In 2000, she earned an MA in Museum Studies at Newcastle University in England and completed an internship at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, England.
Kerrie Bedson worked has worked in a variety of jobs. The skills and values that she brings to each is that of creativity and wellbeing. As an artist she has explored photography, sculpture, ceramics, bookmaking, weaving, printmaking and mixed media.
Trained as a teacher with a major in Visual Art, (BA in Ed., Deakin University) she has worked as an educator for many years within Victorian schools. Further studies with a Masters in Creative Arts Therapy (RMIT) incorporated her two passions, Arts and Wellbeing.
In 2007, Meme was engaged as Artistic Director of Connecting Identities to envisage the concept for a three year arts project that could address the issue of identity in a rapidly changing post-industrial Geelong. In consultation with traditional owners and Arts & Culture Department, Meme proposed Mountain to Mouth as an extreme arts walk creating a contemporary songline across Geelong. Meme directed the pilot, Mouth to Mountain, in 2009, and subsequently the multi-award winning M~M2014 and M~M2016.
Mahony has worked in Australia and around the world over the past 25 years in various roles including: artistic and event director, choreographer, creative producer, performer and facilitator of community process.
Esther Konings-Oakes completed her Masters of Art in Public Spaces at RMIT University. She has been an M~M District Co-ordinator since 2014 and was the Walking Circle Artist for Station 4 Moorpanyal Park that year.
Jacinta Leitch found her passion for the arts very early and it outweighed other career choices, her only true ambition to become an artist.
Ingrid Petterson weaves together the natural world with experiences of humanity to create transformative art, inviting the viewer to be both muse and artist by her side. She is a seer of connection. Her extensive work in community has enabled many a quiet voice to be heard and many a hidden story to be told.
We, Ingrid and Lance, work collaboratively, creating experiential, interactive participatory art. We are informed by psychogeography. We believe in 2018 to be extreme is to be anti-spectacular, is to be intimate and personal in real time and face to face.
Dan Goronszy creates unusual arts experiences that provoke big conversations about humanity and the world. She is a multi-disciplinary artist drawing on participatory installation, puppetry and physical theatre to connect with audiences who may not seek out arts experiences.
M~M2009 Bird image by Liz Talbot
Photo by Bindi Cole
Lizz Lethlean has a 20+ year background in the performing arts, specialising in theatre and puppetry. As a member of Handspan Theatre, international touring formed the backbone of her performance work. Her freelance career includes working as a performer, singer, puppeteer and image maker. Lizz continues to fuse her performance and teaching skills to create theatrical experiences for and with people of all ages. For Connecting Identities, Lizz has contributed the bird puppet imagery for Mouth to Mountain.
