Spotlight On: Fairlie Sandilands
Fairlie is an artist, writer, documentary maker, film producer and arts event manager . Having lived in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Eastern Torres Strait Islands she developed a strong interest in cultural expression, in other ways of seeing and in communal life. Following this interest she completed a post graduate degree in material anthropology and museum curatorship.
Her focus is on inclusion and communication, assisting people and organisations to develop their creativity and social engagement through creative projects – this has included making documentaries for not-for-profit organisations, including the award winning The Spine of Creativity; developing a locally based arts project for the Federal Government as part of the Closing the Gap initiative, that engaged an urban indigenous community in Townsville in service uptake – filming, writing and producing a comic book and holding arts events in local parks were all the elements she used to develop and implement the project; and being one of four project co-ordinators for a State and local government initiative in Townsville – Animating Spaces, in 2015. Most recently a play she wrote and produced, about post deployment issues such as PTSD and suicide, that many modern era veterans face, was sponsored for a second run in Townsville and the backers are looking to tour it to Brisbane and Darwin in 2018.
Fairlie is a member of the Golden Bee Dew collective contributing work that is on exhibition at Dandifest as part of the Golden Bee Dew exhibition world tour.
Her focus is on inclusion and communication, assisting people and organisations to develop their creativity and social engagement through creative projects – this has included making documentaries for not-for-profit organisations, including the award winning The Spine of Creativity; developing a locally based arts project for the Federal Government as part of the Closing the Gap initiative, that engaged an urban indigenous community in Townsville in service uptake – filming, writing and producing a comic book and holding arts events in local parks were all the elements she used to develop and implement the project; and being one of four project co-ordinators for a State and local government initiative in Townsville – Animating Spaces, in 2015. Most recently a play she wrote and produced, about post deployment issues such as PTSD and suicide, that many modern era veterans face, was sponsored for a second run in Townsville and the backers are looking to tour it to Brisbane and Darwin in 2018.
Fairlie is a member of the Golden Bee Dew collective contributing work that is on exhibition at Dandifest as part of the Golden Bee Dew exhibition world tour.
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