Gillian Kayrooz, joins NAVA and Utp to co-facilitate Area Coded's Emerging Artist session, exploring how pre-emerging and emerging artists may use the Code of Practice to professionally and practically build up an arts career, 1-2:30pm AEDT, Friday 21 March 2025.
Graphic: Huy Nguyen, 2024
ID: Graphic featuring a vertical pastel pink gradient on a white background, large black text that reads ‘Area Coded’, and smaller black text that reads ‘21st Mar, 1-2:30pm AEDT, Emerging: Gillian Kayrooz’. ‘Area Coded’ is spelled out in grey dots and sits behind the title text.
Join this session with Gillian Kayrooz as she shares knowledge on her path towards becoming a seasoned emerging artist. Delving into the years of work this can require, this session is recommended for pre-emerging and emerging artists who are thinking about ways to practically navigate one’s art practice as a small business, and the transition to mid-career status.
NAVA’s Code of Practice, a critical framework of good practice for artists and arts workers, will be a point of departure for these conversations.
1-2:30pm AEDT online via Zoom webinar
Friday 21st March 2025
These sessions will be Auslan interpreted and live captioned. If you require any additional access requirements, please contact emma@visualarts.net.au
Photo by Jason Sukadana, 2023.
Gillian Kayrooz and her art practice was nurtured on unceded Dharug land, in Guildford, Western Sydney. Kayrooz graduated with First Class Honours from the Sydney College of the Arts in 2018. In the same year, she was awarded the Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship which led her to exhibit internationally in the Asia-Pacific region. Kayrooz held a studio artist tenancy at the Parramatta Artist Studios from 2020-2021 and was appointed Co-Director, and Co-Chair of Firstdraft from 2021-2023.
She is currently participating in Counterflows, a program commissioned by Artshouse (Melbourne) and UTP (Sydney), that enabled her to undertake research and participate in the March Meeting program as part of the 2023 Sharjah Biennale in the UAE. In 2024, Kayrooz was awarded the Create NSW x Artspace Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. She is also the Vitocco Curator at the Powerhouse Museum, focusing on engaging the communities and histories of South-West Sydney for the Parramatta Powerhouse.
NAVA and Utp present ‘Area Coded’, an online knowledge sharing program led by Western Sydney artists for Western Sydney artists. The series spotlights four artists whose experiences are rooted across different stages of a creative’s journey. Together, they highlight the unique and ever evolving ways an artist’s professional life may manifest, and how this is sustained.
Across February – May 2025, we welcome you to join four online sessions spanning lessons and learnings from Pre-Emerging, Emerging, Mid-Career and Established Western Sydney artists.
Drawing from their personal paths, artist facilitators will share specific obstacles faced as artists from Western Sydney as well as the tools required to nourish an arts practice in the current context. This includes the pursuit of equitable pay, ethical working conditions and relationships, and the importance of being fortified by a supportive arts ecosystem.
NAVA’s Code of Practice, a critical framework of good practice for artists and arts workers, will be a point of departure for these conversations.
Participation is free. Register for each session to join the knowledge share.
Emma Pham
NSW Professional Development Coordinator
emma@visualarts.net.au
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
NAVA acknowledges and pays respects to the rightful custodians of the many First Nations Lands upon which this online event will be streamed and received. We recognise all Custodians of Country throughout all lands, waters and territories, and pay respect to First Nations communities' Ancestors and Elders. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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