PREVIOUS PROJECTS:
From intimate independent arts events to sprawling international arts festivals, Maverick Arts has worked on an array of creative programmes spanning all genres and mediums.
Photographs by Michael Fischer
NGUBITJ, SAMGOOAN, WATER - SONGS, STORIES & CONNECTIOn
Photographs by Brian Francis (L) & Matt Bonner (R)
A multi-disciplinary project in collaboration with members of the Wadawurrung Community; wider First Nations Victorian Community; the Mi’gmag Community; and settler Australian and Canadian artists. Incorporating music, spoken word, visual arts, film & installation; and culminating in an audio-visual installation on a major public building in Djilang/Geelong (AUS), this project explored the centrality of water, song and language across cultures, and the importance of the arts in cross-cultural education.
A research and script development project with Mx. Barry Solomon / Mrs. Barb Wire which explored the silenced histories of LGBTQIA+ communities, regional communities, and the working class across so-called Australia.
camping with
mrs barb wire
PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL
Maverick Arts led the creative directorship of one of Australia’s premier music festivals from 2016 - 2020. Programming artists of emerging and established stature from across the world, and integrating visual arts and spoken word into the vast program, Maverick Arts built on the continual legacy of a festival which has it roots on the back of a trailer in the 1970s.
Photographs by Patrick Callow
ART CAN CHANGE THE CLIMATE
A multi-disciplinary group art exhibition which explored the power and necessity of young people in catalysing change in our socio-environmental landscape. With a central focus being on Climate Justice, this project engaged with, and exhibited the work of over 100 young artists aged between 5 and 25.
Photograph by Neil O’Connor (L)
apollo bay music festival
Set on the picturesque coastal Gadubanud Country, Apollo Bay Music Festival was programmed by Maverick Arts from 2007 - 2011.
Photographs by Michael Fischer
Over three years (1997 - 1999), Maverick Arts produced week long events which took over unused venues in Narrm (Melbourne) with music, theatre, comedy, visual arts and literature, working with artists of established and emerging reputations to challenge and entertain audiences through the city’s icy winters.
The concept for Maverick Arts Week was birthed out of the need to fill a niche “between the sprawling umbrella festivals like the Fringe and the Comedy … and the more high-brow, curated events like Melbourne International”, and provide the support and backing artists deserved.
Maverick Arts provided the venue, technical back-up, artist fees and publicity to all artists, allowing them to do what they do best - create and challenge. It was this framework which made the organisation Maverick by name, and Maverick by nature.