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2020. Collaboration with Tina Barahanos tinabarahanos.com
This work is part of It’s Our Thing Part 3, a public art project of Blacktown Arts and inspired by the Hip Hop culture of Western Sydney. The design shown here was commissioned for Mackenzie Walkway in Blacktown CBD by Blacktown City Council and installed in December 2020.
2001-2008
Member, Bowraville Arts Council Inc.
At various times volunteering as:
- Member, Bowraville Theatre Restoration Committee of Management; A sub-committee of Nambucca Shire Council [2002-2003]
- Vice-President [2002-2005]
- Volunteer, Bowraville Theatre [2003-2007]
- Secretary, Bowraville Film Society [2003-2004]
2006
Coordinator, Art Exhibition and Prize, Back To Bowra Festival.
2005
Coordinator, Art Exhibition and Prize, 30th Birthday Back To Bowra Festival.
2016-present. Committee Member. Blacktown City Council Arts Advisory Committee.
As an artist and arts industry professional membership on Blacktown City Council’s Arts Advisory Committee has been a worthwhile and rewarding experience because it has
• Provided me with strong insight of the ways that Council supports the Arts and Culture in our community through the work of the Blacktown Arts Centre and other Council teams
• Enhanced my knowledge of the challenges, constraints and joys of Arts programming and administration for large and diverse groups of people.
• Connected me with other artists and creative practitioners in my region and helped to extend my professional network
• Given me an opportunity to support and grow the activities, events and work of local artists by helping Council and the Blacktown Arts team promote this through my own networks.
• Gain a deeper understanding of my own creative practice in the broader context of the creative industries.
Tina Barahanos, Alexandra Byrne and Leanne Watson.
Our new work was selected for the Sydney Metro Northwest Places creative hoarding program, led by Landcom. See a sneak peak on the Collaboration/Coming Soon tab in the dropdown menu above
The Barahanos Byrne collaboration teamed up with Darug artist, educator and cultural consultant, Leanne Watson to create a huge new artwork. The work, titled Casuarinas and Black Cockatoos, is in the final stage of production and will be launched in early 2022.
Stay tuned for more updates closer to the launch.
More of Leanne’s work can be found at www.darugcorporation.com.au
More of Tina’s work can be found at www.tinabarahanos.com
Barahanos Byrne were invited to participate in the Community Neighbourhood Good project led by Westpoint Group.
Joining the UK based Art and Energy Collective’s mass participatory creative climate action, artist Alex Byrne invited the local Sydney community to participate in Moths to a Flame, a global creative response to the climate emergency.
Using 20,000 moths made by participants worldwide, Moths to a Flame became a magnificent art installation made by citizens from around the world displayed at Glasgow’s Kibble Palace botanic gardens during the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November 2021.
Moths to a Flame is continuing to engage thousands of people in creative activity and conversation inspired by our energy systems, relationship with nature, and the climate emergency.
You can follow the project here: www.mothstoaflame.art
2021. Forming an Australian contingent by creating templates for the project of Australian moths of the Sydney region.
2021. Using only recycled plastic milk bottles, scissors and marker pens, the simplicity of this project made it extremely accessible to participants
2021. This creative climate action gave people a voice… especially during COVID-19 lockdowns in Sydney.
2021. The Sydney contingent largely from Blacktown LGA managed (despite lockdowns) to produce a whopping 302 moths to contribute to the installation.
2021. Detail using glow in the dark marker pens under UV light.
Byrne, Alexandra, Jim Ward and Kim Snepvangers. “Makerspaces in a University Art and Design Context. Resourcing the Adult Imagination.” In Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change, edited by Elizabeth Garber, Lisa Hochtritt, and Manisha Sharma, Routledge, New York, 2019. Pp39-42.