Published 16 September 2024, updated 21 October 2024
This year's annual professional development program for visual arts educators will feature presentations by your peers, a curator tour of Noongar Country 2024: Our Elders are Our Pathfinders, and a hands-on workshop with artist Fiona Rafferty.
Cost: $25pp including lunch and afternoon tea
Places are limited.
KATELYN WHITEHURST is a Wardandi, Menang Noongar woman through her Father’s Mother and is a part of this year’s Noongar Country Curatorium. Katelyn has a passion for supporting the Southwest Noongar community and an even larger passion for the arts. Her art practice sees all mediums and forms, and is inspired by her culture and Country, she is a storyteller. Noongar Country 2024:Our Elders, Our Pathfinders brings together Elders, who are Aboriginal artists, living and practicing on Noongar Boodja, to showcase their stories, cultural knowledge, and artistic skill. It is curated by a curatorium consisting of Katelyn Whitehurst, Amanda Bell, and Zali Morgan.
FIONA RAFFERTY works from her studio in the Swan Vallery, WA and is inspired by being immersed in the landscape, both geographically and culturally. Rafferty grew up in Geelong, Victoria, in a vibrant, multi-cultural, migrant community and was greatly influenced by her family. Rafferty holds a Master of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Arts (Art) from Curtin University and has served as a teacher in Victoria. She has spent a decade in the UK, where her four children were born, and is now located in Perth, Western Australia. Rafferty has created work in Snowdonia National Park, Wales; the London Underground; cattle stations in Western Australia and the rainforest of Tamborine Mountain, Queensland.
Learn more about Fiona Rafferty here
The Visual Arts Educator Professional Development Day is made possible thanks to Iluka Resources, the City of Bunbury, and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
