ACCELERATE 2012
This year’s awardees of British Council Australia’s Indigenous Creative Leadership Award, ACCELERATE, were celebrated at an intimate breakfast event, hosted at the Australia Council for the Arts in Sydney on Friday 19 October.
The cohort of six – Nicole Monks, Jane Harrison, Lily Shearer, Gina Williams, Rita Pryce and Alison Page – are now in the UK, where they will each undertake a three-week, tailored professional development programme.
The awardees and their plans for the UK are:
Nicole Monks (Nee Boeree) – a senior interior designer and artist from NSW, who will meet with staff at the studio of leading UK industrial designer Tom Dixon
• Alison Page – a designer and arts manager from NSW, who will second with CultureLabel and 100%, two progressive UK arts marketing companies
• Gina Williams – a multi-lingual singer/songwriter from WA, who will visit intercultural, multimedia theatre company Border Crossings and world music company Serious Productions
• Jane Harrison – an award-winning playwright and essayist from Vic, Jane will second at the National Theatre Scotland and National Theatre Wales.
• Lily Shearer – a practitioner of interdisciplinary arts from NSW, who will spend time with international student-run initiative Room 13 in Fort William, Scotland and at the Eden Project environmental park in Cornwall
• Rita Pryce – the founder and Artistic Director of Baiwa Dance Company from Qld, who will spend time with Greenwich Dance and the English National Ballet School
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