Marikit Santiago joins NAVA and Utp to co-facilitate Area Coded's Mid-Career Artist session, delving into the realities of sustaining a full-time arts practice and how the Code of Practice remains a guide during this stage, 1-2:30pm AEST, Friday 25 April 2025.
Graphic: Huy Nguyen, 2024
ID: Graphic featuring a vertical pastel yellow/orange gradient on a white background, large black text that reads ‘Area Coded’, and smaller black text that reads ‘25th Apr, 1-2:30pm AEST, Mid-Career: Marikit Santiago’. ‘Area Coded’ is spelled out in small grey dots and sits behind the title text.
Marikit Santiago is a full-time practising artist who will be bringing to the session her honesty about the realities of sustaining an arts practice. This session is recommended for pre-emerging, emerging and mid-career artists interested in or currently moving through this stage of the professional journey.
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 AEST online via Zoom webinar
Friday 25th April 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 Garry Trinh.
Marikit Santiago’s practice signally focuses on overlaying her lived Filipina-Australian experience onto the canon of Western art history. Her work is unquestionably personal (compositions depict her family and are made with her children) and undeniably courageous (self-portraits are neither idealized nor stylized). Santiago’s practice is dedicated to her children — a love letter to both her family, her culture, Australia, and Figuration-writ-large. While the experience of motherhood is individual and unique, Santiago’s work presents motherhood as a universal and inclusive platform, simultaneously unifying the experiences of many and revealing her personal bond with her children.
Marikit Santiago (b. Melbourne, 1985) lives and works in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia. She won the prestigious Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery New South Wales in 2020 and was a three-time finalist for the institution’s Archibald Prize (2016, 2021, 2023). In 2024, she was announced as the recipient of the La Prairie Art Award, in which her work A Seat at the Table (Magulang) and A Seat at the Table (Kapatid) (2023) was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales
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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