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Forest Keegel lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria and listens deeply to the stories of the Traditional Owners who continue to share their rich cultural heritage with a generosity which astounds her. As a settler she can trace back roots to her Sri Lankan Father and white settlers in the 1860’s. A practising artist since 1992 and graduate of Honours in Sculpture Performance and Installation from Sydney College of the Arts. Her work has a strong environmental research focus and sharing her findings by highlighting conditions endangered species need to thrive is paramount to her practice. With more than a decade creating artworks that evoke a sense of the landscape of Victoria prior to colonisation and the gold rush. Keegel often uses Indigenous plants and waste paper to create ephemeral sculpture in public space. Creating a visual interpretation of scientific, historic and environmental research and illuminating those themes through engaging in conversation is crucial to her practice. In 2014 she was awarded the Lorne Biennale Sculpturescape Prize.

She has twenty years experience as a visual artist in Community Cultural Development and is passionate about creating participatory artworks that engage people of all ages and backgrounds to generate work that expresses their voice and identity. For 11 years Keegel was a Community Cultural Development Artist at the Artful Dodgers Studios, Jesuit Social Services working collaboratively with young people 15-28. She was a member of the Art Central team of artists in the Central Goldfields Shire, generating projects and creating art with school students and the community for public exhibition. Keegel currently works for Multicultural Arts Victoria as Creative Producer of the Bendigo Emerge Cultural Hub. This role entails capacity building for artists and cultural leaders from First Nations, refugee and culturally diverse backgrounds within a Community Cultural Development framework. She is also a casual academic at Deakin tutoring in Inclusive Education.

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Cultural Gardeners

The Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action

Growing a nation of stewards caring for environment, arts & culture. First Nations first on every Country.

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The Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action

Growing a nation of stewards caring for environment, arts & culture. First Nations first on every Country.

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Duniya Behter

Over 3 years MAV will facilitate Out of the Box, a new intercultural arts network to develop and connect cultural workers and artists of colour in Shepparton, Bendigo and online.

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Over 3 years MAV will facilitate Out of the Box, a new intercultural arts network to develop and connect cultural workers and artists of colour in Shepparton, Bendigo and online.

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Environment

The Arts Front Environment Group is leading arts sector's response to the environmental and climate change emergency. 

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The Arts Front Environment Group is leading arts sector's response to the environmental and climate change emergency. 

Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action

Sydney
Dec 21 2023 To Dec 31 2024

Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.

Adelaide, Kaurna Yerta
Nov 11 2021 To Nov 12 2021

Field Trip is an international research symposium investigating creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment. 

Sunshine Coast
Sep 25 2021

An opportunity to reconnect to support each other, share updates and discuss the practical solutions the Arts Front platform can provide artists and organisations in responding to COVID challenges.

Sunshine Coast
Jul 29 2021 To Jul 29 2021

Unpacking the Canada Council's $85m Digital Strategy Fund. What worked and what can the arts sector in Australia learn from it? 

Whitehorse - Yukon Canada
Feb 18 2021 To Feb 18 2021

The Australian arts sector's first 100% online conference + festival.

* PLEASE NOTE: No inflight meals will be harmed in the development and delivery of this event.  

Nov 01 2020 To Nov 30 2020

Field Trip - Arts, Science, Tech and Environment Symposium

Sunshine Coast
Aug 08 2020

An online symposium exploring ideas of basic income and the need for an approach to economy that puts creativity and care at its centre. Led by a panel of artists, researchers, economists, scientists and philosophers, the symposium responds to current and ongoing planetary crises, and positions creativity and social ecology as integral to shaping policy and systems of value.

The Symposium is a joint initiative of Arts Front, BLINDSIDE and Next Wave and was supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.

Melbourne
May 28 2020 To May 28 2020

Little Lunch Online (LLOL) was a daily online meetup and creative exchange to support the Australian arts sector during the Corona Virus pandemic in 2020.

Mar 23 2020 To Sep 30 2020