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My name’s Adele. I’m a graphic designer with a strong interest in branding and design for the arts and culture sector, who is passionate about promoting community, not commodity.

I’ve collaborated with clients ranging from small businesses to fashion brands to major arts organisations.

My design embraces bright colours and eccentric type to create bold and edgy, yet accessible and fun outcomes.

Go ahead, check me out.

Alice’s art practice is predominantly oil & permanent marker on canvas. She practices in Albury, the town of her childhood, situated in the southeastern corner of country New South Wales, Australia. Alice’s studio is tucked away in an old art deco building behind the town’s main street. Here, she considers the ‘push and pull’ of vivid imagery, expressive mark making, & subtle textures. Alice’s inimitable combinations of bright colour, tone, and light offer her and her audience a moments’ reprieve from the everyday. For Alice, painting is uplifting and therapeutic; a purposeful and overt rejection of doubts & worries.

I am a freelance musician and composer with over 20 years’ experience working professionally in the arts both nationally and across the globe. I have performed my original work across five continents, and been the Musical Director for Circus Oz, Yothu Yindi And The Treaty Project and the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, in addition to numerous collaborations with companies including Extraordinary Bodies (UK), Cirkus Cirkor (Sweden) Polyglot, Arena Theatre, NICA and Force Majeure (Australia). I am passionate about writing original music, and creating art and performances that are free and accessible to everyone. I perform as electronic artist Synthotronica (all original upbeat electronic music with live baritone saxophone and triangle), with recent local performances including Riverside Vibes Albury 2023, Two Fingers Bar Albury and Boogie At The Brewery at Tumut River Brewing Co. With Synthotronica I perform as a street performer at many community events and festivals, including international events The Buskers’ World Games (Gwangju, South Korea 2022), Honk! Festival Rio de Janeiro (2019) and Tollwood Winter Festival Germany (2018). I also perform as a solo pianist, including with projection concert My Shadow Is My Only Follower (CoCreate Wodonga 2022), and my Allegro Non Oppo project, which is a series of solo piano concerts taking places in local op shops. My audiovisual practice involves gathering field recordings and video footage from specific locations, which I then warp and manipulate to create kaleidoscopic psychedelic audiovisual portraits of place that are made up entirely of sounds and sights gathered on location.
I have scored over fifty Australian circus, theatre, dance and moving image works.

Art Starts Here is a creative workshop and facilitation business run by artist, Kylie Biltris.
With a focus on creating tailor-made experiences, Art Starts Here offers a range of mediums including mosaic, sculpture, resin, alcohol ink, polymer clay, macrame, and silk scarf marbling.
Kylie’s expertise in working with diverse groups of people and her ability to communicate and inspire make her a great teacher and enabler.
She has worked on projects for councils, funded initiatives, schools, aged care, women’s groups, and more.
Whether it’s a private group, function, or staff development day, Art Starts Here provides a unique and engaging experience, requiring no previous skill or natural talent.
Some of the organisations Kylie has collaborated with include:
Regional Art Victoria, Shire of Towong, City of Albury, Wagga Wagga & Wodonga, Tallangatta Health Services, Gateway Health, local Neighbourhood Houses, and the Country Women’s Association.
These partnerships have provided opportunities to create inspiring art projects in various settings and have proven effective in promoting creativity and fostering a sense of connection and wellbeing.
Contact Kylie to have a conversation about how we can help you to realise an arts project for your group, school or community.

BNG Learning is a collaborative organisation that cultivates community and social cohesion through broad creative arts projects, educational opportunities, ethical partnerships and events.
Community + Connection + Education + Arts
Education
Arts driven workshops, programs and experiences.
Community
Connection and wellbeing through creative arts projects and events.
Collaboration
Creative mentoring, partnerships and inspiration.
Breaking New Ground (BNG) can lead you or your organisation to identify and reflect on situations related to learning, mentoring, community engagement and arts-based practice. Research and evaluation are an integral part of the BNG philosophy. We engage people by providing bespoke, sustainable and creative professional learning, from early years through to adult, large corporates as well as small enterprises. BNG works alongside educators, schools and community groups to match experts with specific requirements.
By engaging in the creative process, people develop an enduring love of learning. As individuals and groups discover their ability for creative thinking and problem-posing and solving, they can blossom, become self-motivated, gain knowledge, confidence and stretch themselves.
Why not get in contact with us and see what can be created

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Donna’s practice is based in mixed media with a focus on textiles, collage and assemblage.
Donna exhibits regularly with Gateway Gallery and in both joint and solo exhibitions.
Donna enjoys sharing her skills in both collage and stitch in workshops and with her peers and the community. She has run collage workshops in conjunction with exhibitions at the Albury Library Museum, Write Around the Murray Festival and at Gateway Gallery and facilitates contemporary play mixed media stitch groups. Her collaged works were part of the City of Wodonga Ephemeral Art Public display in 2022. Two of her stitched works form part of the Southern Midlands Council (Tas) Art Collection.
Donna’s work is thematic and influenced by an idea, material at hand and surroundings. Donna’s work can be found on her website. She welcomes commission and workshop enquiries.

Helen Newman, creator of Nomad Films, is a multi-award winning Australian filmmaker and video artist whose work over the last 20 years has taken her around the globe gathering stories from the inspiring to the heartbreaking.

FILMMAKER: As both producer and director on film projects from short form to feature length documentaries Helen has a broad knowledge of both the creative and practical qualities needed to bring a film project to life.

Helen’s documentaries have screened on ABC TV, ABC iView, NITV and at a range of national and international film festivals.

VIDEO ARTIST: Helen has collaborated with a variety of performance, visual, animation and sound artists to create a varied collection of multi-platform, site specific and performance-based works.

Her projection works have played at festivals and exhibitions in Albury, Wodonga, Wagga, Chiltern, Beechworth and Bago state forest. Her 360 immersive work, Pygmy 360, was short-listed for Vivid, Sydney, 2020.

PROJECT MANAGER: Helen also has experience as project manager for arts based projects and was Creative Director for the hugely successful Limelight: Art, Science, Light event in 2022.

Established in 2017, In the Groove is inspired by the power of music to educate, engage, heal and connect. Our programs and classes are largely inspired by West African rhythm and song, as traditionally this music is entwined with community, society and culture. We believe that music can act as a powerful vehicle in facilitating learning, building relationships and generating positive change.

In The Groove offers community drumming classes and workshops, school programs, interactive festival jams, performances, team builders, wellbeing sessions and professional development.

Kirrily Anderson is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Chiltern. The primary focus of her creative practice is a blend of bold murals and delicate ink and watercolour works on paper, with the common them of nature running through these two different art forms.

With a background in graphic design and street art, Kirrily’s current practice has been heavily informed by her surrounds in North East Victoria after moving from Melbourne in 2017. She has received a number of art awards and completed over 20 murals in the region in this time.

Past projects include working with community, schools, government organisations, small businesses and private collectors. Clients include Wodonga Council, Albury City Council, DWELP, Ritz-Carlton Melbourne, Caulfield Grammar, Yackandandah Primary School, Falls Creek Child Care, James & Co Rutherglen and Bridge Road Brewers.

Kirrily has a passion for art as a means of connection and conversation and to promote a slower pace. She continues to explore these themes in her work following a number of projects in bushfire recovery zones since 2020. For more details visit her website or social pages.

Project management:
• Coordination of Albury’s annual 5-day Write Around the Murray Festival, 12 years
• Coordination of art projects with homeless men as Community Development coordinator for 3 years at Ozanam House, North Melbourne

Dance:
• Long term practitioner of Contact Improvisation and Dance Improvisation
• Ran monthly performance events for 7 years as part of The Little Con dance improvisation collective in Melbourne
• Taught Dance Improvisation and Body Awareness at Deakin University for 3 years and freelance in theatre schools and community settings
• Movement coach in Kerryn Beatty’s 2023 HotHouse production of Her
• 45 min ensemble performance for Everybody Dance Now at City of Wodonga, 2013

Workshops/Facilitation:
• I have a Grad Dip in Creative Art Therapy, a Diploma of Yoga Teaching and am a certified meditation teacher. In addition to dance and movement teaching I can tailor creative explorations aligned to wellbeing and personal inquiry aims using various mediums