I am a Creative Producer living on the Sunshine Coast. I am passionate about collaboration and connecting artists and communities with radical arts experiences which offer potential for future thinking. I currently work as a Senior Producer for Horizon Festival and for PANNZ Arts Market as the International Delegate Liaison. I also work on various independent producing projects that align with my values.
Organisation/Company
Name: PANNZ
My Role: Executive Producer
I am so lucky to work alongside the wahine at PANNZ, they inspire, guide and support me in everyway.
Iwi affiliation
I am Pākehā and a descendant from Little Forgie in North East Scotland and the Cotswolds England.
Rohe
I grew up in Oākura in a bach that perched right on Taranaki's west coast. I spent many hours of my childhood watching the sea. When I was 13 my whānau relocated to Australia and I experienced deep yearning for Aotearoa. I have spent time in both countries throughout my life.
How I got where I am today
People believing in my potenial through job opportunities and industry mentorships. Saying yes to things that are out of my comfort zone,remaining curious and making the most of this one precious life.
Whānau
Whānau is everything to me. I dearly love my husband and two boys who are 20 and 16, and I am incredibly close to my extended family... I love being an Aunty. I also feel blessed to have close friends and work whānau.
What grounds me?
Daily yoga and meditation practice, swimming in the ocean and watching clouds.
The Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action
Growing a nation of stewards caring for environment, arts & culture. First Nations first on every Country.
Field Trip is a collaborative online space for people working at the intersection of arts, science, technology and the environment.
The Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ) Arts Market is New Zealand's premiere event for artists, producers, presenters and industry leaders from across the performing arts sector.
Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action
The Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ) Arts Market is New Zealand's premiere event for artists, producers, presenters and industry leaders from across the performing arts sector.
The Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ) Arts Market is New Zealand's premiere event for artists, producers, presenters and industry leaders from across the performing arts sector.
Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.
Field Trip is an international research symposium investigating creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment.
The Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ) Arts Market is New Zealand's premiere event for artists, producers, presenters and industry leaders from across the performing arts sector.
What is the role of artists in changing our systems? This is a series for artists and arts workers to explore big ideas, how they relate to conditions in our sector, with provocations and opportunities to start imagining what change might look like.
Field Trip - Arts, Science, Tech and Environment Symposium
An online symposium exploring ideas of basic income and the need for an approach to economy that puts creativity and care at its centre. Led by a panel of artists, researchers, economists, scientists and philosophers, the symposium responds to current and ongoing planetary crises, and positions creativity and social ecology as integral to shaping policy and systems of value.
The Symposium is a joint initiative of Arts Front, BLINDSIDE and Next Wave and was supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.