NAVA and Utp present ‘Area Coded’, an online knowledge sharing program spanning lessons and learnings from Pre-Emerging, Emerging, Mid-Career and Established Western Sydney artists, using the Code of Practice as a key reference.
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.
These sessions will be Auslan interpreted and live captioned. If you require any additional access requirements, please contact emma@visualarts.net.au
Area Coded: Pre-Emerging Artist
1-2:30 pm, AEDT online, Friday 21st February 2025
In this session, Utp Rising student and artist Grace Almansour will discuss the factors that led her to pursue a career in the arts. This session is recommended for pre-emerging artists considering or recently deciding to enter the arts, providing valuable introductory information on the landscape of the art world and identifying support available to artists.
Area Coded: Emerging Artist
1-2:30 pm, AEDT online, Friday 21st March 2025
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.
Area Coded: Mid-Career Artist
1-2:30 pm, AEST online, Friday 25th April 2025
Marikit Santiago is a full-time practising artist who will be bringing to the session complete candour 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.
Area Coded: Established Artist
1-2:30 pm, AEST online, Friday 23rd May 2025
If you had the ear of an established artist born and raised in Western Sydney with decades of experience and international acclaim, what would you ask? In the fourth and final session of Area Coded, Jason Wing will join us to explore surviving the mid-career graveyard, sustaining your practice even when you’ve “made it” and lessons from the journey to this stage in his career. Recommended for artists of all career stages.
Graphic by Huy Nguyen 2024
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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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