Grant Application Supporting Documents
Production & Creative Direction
Alex Stevenson & Gabrielle Flood
Alex Stevenson & Gabrielle Flood
Management
Bernie Fingleton
Bernie Fingleton
Marketing
Chloe Hayman
Chloe Hayman
Soft Stir is a publication for reflection, experimentation and creative expression.
It is an inclusive space for emerging artists and writers to share their work, stories and explore pressing topics through their own practice, as well as through the lens of the issue theme.
Team
Production
& Creative Direction Gab Flood
& Alex Stevenson
Management Bernie Fingleton
Marketing
Chloe Hayman
Video Hannah Walsh
& Jamie Grey
Copywriting
Adriana Beach
Partners PACT Theatre
Stories of Home
From bushfires raging across the Australian landscape, and smokey hazes enveloping our cities and lungs, to coronavirus threatening our health and safety. The past year has produced the most major collective upheavals to our homes that any of us have ever experienced. We only had a quick sigh of relief as bushfires finally dissipated, before being thrown into a worldwide pandemic.
The resulting loss of jobs and a lack of support for creative industries was swift and devastating. Many of us have had little opportunity to make sense of the deep residual effects of these events before having to adapt to the ‘new normal’.
Now, as we spend our days primarily in our homes, creativity, artmaking and mindfulness is thriving. It seems like an apt time to process and reassess what our homes mean to us, how we can cultivate safe and healthy environments for the future and a resiliant, enduring creative industry.
Soft Stir’s first issue, Stories of Home, acts as a reflective journal, with twenty-seven emerging creatives dissecting the relevance of home in their lives and communities.
Artists
Johanna Aneman, Hannah Barrett-Duckett, Isabella Battersby, Nicole Beck, Emily Brennan, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, Nirrimi Firebrace, Anna Free, Genevieve French, Nastia Gladushchenko, Bronte Godden, Jonny Hawkins, Chloe Hayman, Juliane Lehmayer, Bre MacPherson, Ryan A McShane, Neil Morris, Florentina Pergoleto, Tyrone Pynor, Morus Quin, Cailin Ruff, Anthony Toohey, Phoebe Veldhuizen, Joey Watson, Matthew Wilson, Elizabeth Whitehead & more.
