Jenuarrie has recently been engaged by Arts Nexus as the Far North Queensland Regional Art Service Network (RASN) Officer to work across FNQ and to support the RASN position in the Cape and across the Torres Strait.
Jenuarrie is well known in Australia and throughout Far North Queensland for her active involvement and leadership in community capacity building, promoting and developing arts business, art production, presentation and the promotions of creative merchandise in urban, regional & remote Queensland communities for our First Nations People.
Will saying something about Arts Nexus give the impression that my engagement has been previously planned.
2015-2020 Chairperson, Arts Nexus, an organisation whose aims are to enable and maintain a vibrant arts, culture and creative sector across Far North Queensland.
Talk about how this advantages the future work of the RASN and how embedded in ANx has huge advantages etc…
Jenuarrie is a ‘Koinjmal’ woman from the Eastern coastal plains of Central Queensland (see Indigenous Language Map; Guwinmal). Koinmerburra Aboriginal Corporation (Native Title Clan Group (Koinjmal) has its working base in Mackay and our TO country is between Cape Palmerstone and to St Lawrence She has been a valuable contributing Member in peer assessment and policy development in Federal, State and Local Government Arts Funding Programs;
She has represented Australia’s First Nations Artists on behalf of the Australia Council, in New Zealand, Indonesia, Canada, Germany, Denmark, England, Scotland, New Caledonia, Samoa, and in India.
My working career in the local, national and international arts and cultural industries is extensive and covers as wide range of experiences at all levels of management over a continuous span of many years.
Conversations across the continents: A series of panels discussing cultural linkages between Australian and Indian artists hosted by Arts Nexus (Far North Qld).