14 & 15 SEPTEMBER

14 & 15 SEPTEMBER

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2025

2025

NEW NOW

Keynote Speakers: Shelley Ware and Rodolfo Ocampo

This years theme: New Now is a vibrant exploration of contemporary artmaking that expands traditional media, engages audiences in new ways, and embraces the creative potential of technology and AI.

Day 1. Jonathan Jones

Join one of Australia’s leading First Nations artists to explore how visual storytelling fosters connection, respect, and cultural understanding in today’s diverse classrooms.

Jonathan Jones

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Day 2. Rodolfo Ocampo

Explore how human-AI co-creativity is reshaping the future of art and design, highlighting emerging tools and interactions that expand our creative intelligence and empower new forms of expression in the classroom and beyond. 

Rodolfo Ocampo

AI Researcher, a Creative Technologist and ape of the hominid family

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Plasticine Mould Making

This workshop directs you to take simple objects or toys to make impression moulds from plasticine. These single part moulds will be used to transform these 3D objects into 2D plaster casts.

Nathan Beard

ARTIST

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SKAM/MASK/KASM

In this workshop, we will be creating a cardboard polyhedral mask. We will also be decorating these masks using the materials provided plus a mystery medium.

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro

ARTISTS

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Future visions in collage

This hands-on session encourages play and reflection, inviting educators to explore how emerging technologies like AI can enhance, not replace, creative practice.

Holly-Anne Buck

ARTIST

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A Shrine to the Self

In this workshop you will create your own handmade textures and patterns from which to make collaged, diorama-inspired elements and motifs for your shrine that represent you and your creativity.

Kitiya Palaskas

ARTIST

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From Gesture to Growth

This session explores how presence, play, and process can unlock flow states and foster creative risk-taking.

Tania Di Berardino

ARTIST & EDUCATOR

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Re Thinking Ink

This workshop delves into contemporary ink drawing and expressive mark-making. Explore washes, layering, scale and unconventional tools while embracing ink’s unruly nature.

Fiona McMonagle

ARTIST

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AI as an Artist's Assistant

Experience how AI can reduce planning time, differentiate instruction, and generate engaging visual resources—all while maintaining artistic integrity.

Chris Bush

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Junk Journaling meets AI

In this session, participants will explore how traditional collage, storytelling, and mark-making can sit comfortably alongside digital inspiration.

Francesca Spillane

ARTIST & EDUCATOR

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Remote Action Drawing

This workshop harnesses experimental mark-making, recycled tools and collective action to explore line, movement, space and tonal variation on an epic scale.

Cameron Robbins

ARTIST

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Day 1. Jessie Hughes

Close your conference day with a burst of future-focused creativity led by internationally acclaimed new-media artist and technologist Jessie Hughes.

Jessie Hughes

New media artist, technologist and screenwriter

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Day 2. Empowering Voices with Tai Snaith

Join celebrated artist, author, and podcast host Tai Snaith in this engaging panel discussion with a selection of Australia's most inspiring visual artists, educators and cultural leaders. 

A rare opportunity to hear unique insights into their creative processes and the transformative power of art in society. 

Tai Snaith

ARTIST, AUTHOR & PODCAST HOST

Vernon Ah Kee

ARTIST

Chris Bush

Jessie Hughes

New media artist, technologist and screenwriter

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