Our 2024–25 Kickstart cohort are taking over Next Wave’s home at Brunswick Mechanics Institute to showcase the projects they have developed over the past 18 months.
Kickstart is Next Wave’s flagship program for early-career artists whose practices are shaped by community, experimentation and non-conventional knowledge.
Over 18 months, our Kickstart artists have been offered what’s so often missing: time, relationships, mentoring and the freedom to test, fail, play and dream in place, with and from their own contexts and communities.
These showings are not polished endings but rather vital moments to see artworks mid-flight: where ideas are stretched, tested and reshaped, where audiences play an active role in the exchange.
Friday 5 September, 12pm–7pm
Saturday 6 September, 10am–1.30pm
RSVPs recommended
Ellamay Khongroj Fitzgerald, Outdoor Kitchen
12pm in the Studio
Jayda Wilson, [Un]Silenced
2pm in the Studio
Georgia Lucy, Gough and Margaret’s Bull Clip
3pm in the Theatre
Jen Datu and Colin Smith, THE MACHINE NEEDS A HEART [multiple sessions]
4pm–6.30pm in the Studio
An.Other Collective, Fieldnotes on Being, Together
All day in the Studio.
Full work will be on display at Dukkana on Saturday 13 and 20 September
Jen Datu and Colin Smith, THE MACHINE NEEDS A HEART [multiple sessions]
10am–11am in the Studio
Rachel Morley, Art is not going to help this town [working title]
11am in the Theatre
Ellamay Khongroj Fitzgerald, Outdoor Kitchen
12pm in the Studio
Our 2024-25 Kickstart cohort and Lead Program Producer Frances Robinson, photo by Mae Hartirck.