Creative Cohort HOW TO: Put on an Exhibition

Presented by the City of Fremantle - as part of the Creative Cohort series

PROMOTION BONUS - to celebrate the launch of Creative Cohort - those who purchased tickets, and attend*, will receive a $15 GIFT VOUCHER to the FOUND Gift shop at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre. 

THURSDAY 6.30pm - 8.30pm 

Please arrive for 6.15pm; Doors open at 6.00pm

Event runs 6.30pm - 8.30pm

PANEL SUBJECT

Get key insights, tools and advice on how to set up your own exhibition with this panel and feedback session.
The session includes a 90 minute panel of experienced artists, curators and gallery managers - sharing their advice and insights, followed by an optional workshop session; where you can workshop your exhibition idea and get feedback from the panel (anonymous options available).

Panel chaired by Annika Kristensen; featuring Andrew Varano, JC and Brent Harrison.

More about the panel below.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Anyone interested in putting on an independent or group art exhibition.

WHEN IS IT

Arrive 6.15pm 

Starting 6.30pm

Finishing 8.30pm

WHERE IS IT 
Fremantle Arts Centre - Inner Courtyard

WHO IS PUTTING THIS ON?
This is part of the Creative Cohort program of events. The Creative Cohort is a City of Fremantle initiative that aims to connect and strengthen the creative community in Walyalup Fremantle, and beyond.

You can join the Creative Cohort here for updates.

This is directed at Fremantle working, living and visiting artists although all are welcome.

MORE ABOUT THE PANEL

ANNIKA KRISTENSEN  - Chair
Annika Kristensen is an experienced curator with a particular interest in commissioning new work by contemporary artists, art in the public domain, and broadening audiences for the arts. Most recently in the position of Visual Arts Curator at Perth Festival (2023 and 2024), Annika was previously Senior Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne, where she worked with major international and Australian artists to commission new work and curate significant solo and group exhibitions. 
Annika was Exhibition and Project Coordinator for the 19^th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012). She has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. 

ANDREW VARANO
Andrew Varano is an arts worker from Boorloo (Perth) on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar and is the founder and director of AVA. Previously, Andrew worked as a curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and delivered numerous touring, group and solo exhibitions, including Remedial Works, a major group exhibition he curated in 2017. He also enjoys collaborating with others in the founding and running of independent gallery spaces and was a codirector of OK Gallery (2011 - 2013), a co-conspiracist with Pet Projects (2016 - 2017) and a board member and eventual treasurer of Cool Change Contemporary (2019 - 2020). He is currently a board member at Art on the Move.

BRENT HARRISON
Brent Harrison is the Assistant Curator of The University of Western Australia Art Collection at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. He has worked in curatorial positions at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Kerry Stokes Collection and Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery. Recent curatorial projects include de-centre re-centre (co-curated with Theo Costantino, Lee Kinsella and Christine Tomas, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 2025), Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024 (PICA), Looking Up (co-curated with Abigail Moncrieff, Perth Cultural Centre and State Library of Western Australia facade, 2023). He has participated in the Ballarat International Foto Biennales In Focus Curator Forum and the Australia Councils Venice Biennale Professional Development Program.

JC
JC completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University in 2008, followed by Honours in Contemporary Arts in 2010.
JCs practice embraces a range of practices and forms, including drawing, sculpture, performance, new media and installations. Since their involvement the Proximity Festival in 2012, they have been focused on creating collaborative, non-gallery based, transient participatory works that are concerned with building resilience in an increasingly precarious world. Over the last 4 years, they have been developing a large body of work around their evolving identity as a queer elder, working intergenerationally with their queer kin of all ages to consider how we create and sustain relationships of care and responsibility for one another when we are not connected by normative familial ties.
In 2018, they were a participant in ArtsHouses (Melbourne) Time_Place_Space: Nomad. They participated in Performance Spaces Queer Development Program in 2019, and was subsequently invited by them to join their Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art as Artist in Residence, to develop the performance work Transmission, shown in January 2020 at PICA. In addition to Transmission, they have created and shown work from their queer intergenerational project as part of Here & Now 20, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallerys annual showcase of contemporary West Australian artists (Drawn From Life), and for the Bunbury Biennale (We/Us/Ours). In 2022, they were commissioned to create an addition to the WA AIDS Memorial, for the Memorials 30^th anniversary. That work, Remembrance, can be experienced at the WA AIDS Memorial. It was also shown at The Australian Museum during WorldPride 2023. They have recently completed a 6 month Hyperlocal residency at PICA, developing their Queer Monuments augmented reality project.
 

PROMOTION BONUS - TERMS AND CONDITIONS

* to receive your $15 FOUND voucher you must attend the session you have booked for in person on the day to collect. Uncollected vouchers will not be available at another time.