REGIONAL STAFF
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jane Fuller
jane@artsnorthernrivers.com.au
PROJECT MANAGER
Grace Dewar
Email grace@artsnorthernrivers.com.au
Phone 0456 770 632
INDIGENOUS ARTS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Kylie Caldwell
Email kylie@artsnorthernrivers.com.au
Phone 0456 770 632
FIRST NATIONS SUPPORT OFFICER
Paris Mordecai
Email FNsupport@artsnorthernrivers.com.au
- MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
- Ingrid Wilson
- Email ingrid@artsnorthernrivers.com.au
- Phone 0456 770 632
- ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS COORDINATOR
- Sean Campbell
- Email info@artsnorthernrivers.com.au
- Phone 0456 770 632
REGIONAL DIRECTORS
- CHAIR: Elly Bird, Lismore Representative
- DEPUTY CHAIR: Ruth Tsitimbinis, Kyogle Representative
- TREASURER: Wayne Halcrow, Co-opted Member
- DIRECTOR: Jan Hackett, Byron Shire Representative
- DIRECTOR: Jeanette Martin, Byron Shire Alternative Representative
- DIRECTOR: Debrah Novak, Clarence Valley Representative
- DIRECTOR: Chris White, Kyogle Alternative Representative
- DIRECTOR: Hayley Hancock, Richmond Valley Representative
- DIRECTOR: Jill Lyons, Richmond Valley Alternative Representative
CONTRIBUTING COUNCILS
Byron Shire
Clarence Valley Shire
Richmond Valley
Kyogle
Lismore City
Tweed Shire
ABORIGINAL ARTS & CULTURE
Aboriginal Population and Language Groups
- Over 10,000 Aboriginal people live in the region (4% of the general area population)
- Highest concentration of Aboriginal people live in the Clarence Valley and Tweed Shires
- Region is populated by the Bundjalung, Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr people
Arts Northern Rivers Aboriginal Arts Development
- In 2005, Bundjalung artist Albert Digby Moran convened a regional forum of approximately 30 Indigenous artists which led to the establishment of a regional Indigenous Artists Advisory Group (IAAG). The group worked with ANR to establish a sustainable Aboriginal visual arts industry in the region.
- In 2008 ANR employed an Indigenous Arts Development Officer (IADO) through funding from the Department of Communications Information and Technology (DCITA, then Department of Environment Water Heritage and the Arts, DEHWA) and the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). This position assisted artists to develop their professional art practice and provide outreach support for artists in remote communities and continues to be supported by the Australian Government through the Office for the Arts.
- In April 2010, the IAAG became incorporated under the Aboriginal Corporation Act as the Rivers of Art Corporation (RoAAC) with continued support from ANR and the 3 Rivers Aboriginal Arts Space as the Indigenous Business Arts Centre with exhibition, studio and workshop space. This Centre no longer operates and the Indigenous Arts Development Officer has adopted an outreach role across the region, working in partnership with local Indigenous artists and organisations to build capacity and become artistically and commercially more competitive.
- Recent highlights of the ANR Indigenous arts development program include the production of four Artists’ books by four Indigenous artists in the Northern Rivers region, each unique and featuring a different artistic medium and the Bundjalang project tracing traditional mark-making in the region.
Festivals
- Boomerang Festival, Byron Bay
Aboriginal Arts Organisations
- Bonalbo Aboriginal Corporation and Community Centre, Bonalbo
- Gunnawannabe, Lismore
- Jambama Arts Centre, Casino
- Minjungbal Cultural Centre, Tweed Heads
- NORPA , Lismore
- Planet Corroborree, Byron Bay
- Saltwater Women, Wardell and Ballina
- Wake Up Time Weavers Group, Casino