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Puppeteer, Performer & Teacher

I love working with people on creative projects, helping them find their characters & story while investigating their hopes & dreams. I use puppets, drama, movement, songs & dance all together. I start with ideas and making puppets then there is exploration resulting in short unique performances. Playfulness, courage, and curiosity are the elements in my workshops with young people, I’ve seen how it can enrich young people’s identity & confidence.

My background includes being: a professional dancer, Head of the Dance Department at University of Western Sydney, Choreographer for small and large scale events. I am currently a performer with the Arts Health Insitute. My current creative challenge is writing, I am writing poetry and really enjoying it!

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“Tug Dumbly is a phenomenon. He is a masterful performer and an excellent communicator with a vigour for spoken word that electrifies the room.” The Scotsman (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

Tug Dumbly is one of Australia’s most highly recognised and broadcast spoken-word artists, and has an extensive performance history, both on stage and radio, including long-term regular guest spots on ABC radio stations Triple-J and the ABC’s National Local Radio Network. For a number of years he performed weekly poems as a guest on both the James Valentine and Richard Glover programs on ABC Sydney 702.

As well as organising and hosting one of Australia’s longest standing and most successful spoken word night, Bardflys, at the Friend in Hand Hotel, Sydney, Tug has performed at numerous festivals, nationally and abroad, including London, Montreal, Edinburgh and New York, where he competed with an Australian Slam team at the legendary Nyuorican Poets' Café. He also performs extensively in schools and other venues around Australia.

Tug is foremost a ‘spoken word’ poet and his work has been written primarily with a view to live performance, and not publishing. However, he has had his work featured, in both print and audio versions, in 'SHORT FUSE: A Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry' (Rattapallax, New York, 2002). In 2015 he came runner up in the prestigious Josephine Ulrick Poetry prize (through Griffith University), and has had his work published in a number of Australian literary journals, including, in 2016, Verandah, Offset and 4W. He was also longlisted for the 2016 Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize, through Canberra University.

Tug has released two spoken-word CD’s through the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - Junk Culture Lullabies and Idiom Savant, and his 8000-word epic ode to meat Barbeque Bill and the Roadkill Café won the 1997 Banjo Paterson Prize for comic verse, which he has won twice. He has also twice won the Nimbin World Performance Poetry Cup, and the Spirit of Woodford Story Telling Competition at the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland. Dumbly’s “one-man musical-tragedy” Deadstar has enjoyed acclaimed seasons in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide, and he is currently writing a new one-man show, Dumbly Does the Bible, in which he will attempt to perform the entire Bible in one hour.

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I am a professional practising artist who exhibits regularly. My illustrative work featured in the Fairfax Press for 28 years and I have also contributed to magazines like Rolling Stone Magazine.

In the last five years I have been experimenting with drawing on digital devices as well as creating short form video animations. My videos have appeared on the Fairfax Media network, news.com.au and for the ABC.

I have been shortlisted in the Mosman art prize several times, The Muswellbrook art prize (of which I am currently finalist) and I have been a past winner of the Waverley art prize.

My work features in collections such as the Macquarie Group Art Collection, Muswellbrook Regional Art centre, Waverley Council and numerous private collections.

I am represented by Maunsell Wickes Gallery.

phone 0414 316 588
email rfazzari1@gmail.com
website maunsellwickes.com

Q & A with Rocco Fazzari

1. What do you know about the Workshop Arts Centre and what brought you to do a workshop here?
I learnt of the centre via my friend Gria Shead who explained to me the way it worked and of the enthusiasm of the students. I have in recent years been experimenting with digital mediums/devices as tools for creating fine art supplanting my “traditional” mediums and have wanted to share my experience with willing participants.

2. What can people expect when they attend your workshop?
People can expect to experience my joy and passion for creativity and curiosity for exploring new ways of expressing themselves via the visual mediums. My desire is to pass on my passion and experiences.

3. What currently inspires your work?
I am currently inspired by the beauty of Sydney, whether it’s her beaches or suburban streets and the wonderful light that baths her. The Art Gallery of NSW is always a source of inspiration as are my circle of artist friends. While the other side of me is inspired by the way new technology has allowed for creativity to be taken to a new level via the digital age.

4. Have you any mentors or teachers that have influenced your practice?
My drawing teacher George Tetlow at the South Australian School of Art was always a great mentor, as well as the late Ann Newmarch a printmaker and innovator in her field. My friend the art collector the late Ann Lewis also provided much guidance.

5. Are there any events or exhibitions at the moment or coming up that you would encourage people to attend and why?
I would encourage anyone to visit the Vincent Van Gogh exhibition in the NGV in Melbourne. To feel the full impact of a passionate creative spirit and his mastery of colour and composition not to mention his craft as a master draftsman.

6. What is the one tool/supply that you can’t leave home without?
I never leave home without my smartphone which has become my sketchbook. I can fill it with endless drawings and studies while on buses, trains, cafes etc.

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After 28 years in Sydney Mary has relocated to Waiheke Island NZ, where she follows her studio practice, and visits Sydney to run vacation workshops. In Auckland she runs several workshops and classes teaching adults and children at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts and Selwyn Community College. "I recognise young children as artists, teaching them the basics of fine arts while giving them the confidence to make their own decisions."

email marysmail@xtra.co.nz
website maryferguson.co.nz

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Angus Fisher is a practising printmaker who is skilled in using intricate, traditional techniques to represent the natural world. Angus is a graduate of the National Art School and is currently represented by Australian Galleries, where he exhibits regularly. He has worked as an artist and teacher around Australia and as an archaeological illustrator in Greece.

email angusfisher24@hotmail.com
website angusfisherarts.com
Instagram @angusfisherart

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Barbara studied Fine Arts at the Sorbonne University, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Where she also attended drawing classes at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and graphics at Ecole Superior des Arts Modernes. She obtained a Certificate in Advanced Art and Craft in Jewellery and Lapidary at O’Halloran Hill College, Adelaide.

In 1980 Barbara migrated to Australia from South Africa. She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in painting both in South Africa and Australia. Her work is found in private and corporate collections here and overseas.

Barbara has been teaching painting, drawing and ceramics at various art centres and botanical illustration at the Workshop Arts Centre since 1997.

phone 9417 6757
email goldinb@bigpond.com
website www.barbaragoldinartist.com

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Mike qualified with a BA Design, Sheffield UK. Originally from the UK, Mike has taught in various Australian Colleges including Sydney College of Arts, NSW University and now teaches at the Design Centre Enmore TAFE.

He works as a freelance illustrator in Sydney, and previous freelance work has seen him in London, Amsterdam and Adelaide. He has won awards in the UK, USA, Netherlands and Australia, has been published in these countries and held exhibitions there. He has also exhibited in Paris, Vienna and Singapore. Major clients include Shell, Phillips, British Airways, Coca Cola, Kodak, Unilever and Levis.

phone 0413 747 719 or 9999 3717
email mike.golding42@gmail.com
website mikegoldingillustration.com

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