Dee Kaylock
Dee has over 35 years experience in the theatre/film industries and in education. During those years she has performed, directed and produced both locally and overseas. She is a respected artist and practitioner who in recent years has embraced her age and grown up!
She is involved in mentoring consulting and training in arts development and spiritual formation. Dee has studied and interned with some amazing leaders and theatre makers and has a passion to see people personally engage with their Creator in a aspects of life, living it surrendered and fulfilled. In addition she holds Bachelor and Post Grad qualifications from Melbourne University and is undertaking her Masters in 2012.
She is the recipient of several awards, including the recent Victorian Government innovation Award and a not so recent AFI nomination. She is currently employed as a trainer and artists with a Community Development Centre and is partnering with local government, NGO's and the Family Violence Network developing touring words with young people at rist. Dee is also the founder and current Director of the Christian Artists Factory.
Dee brings to her work a passion for people and the capacity to create platforms for their stories to be heard. She laughs loud and often and is prone to a good weep when moved. She enjoys red wine, her family's company and often finds herself likened to her hero the Vicar of Dibley.
Keith Dougall
Keith is one of Tasmania’s premier glass artists and leads Fusion’s Arts Colony in Poatina.
Artist Statement: “My work with glass has always sought to bring a spiritual dimension to light, at first through an attraction to water in which I saw the glass as a wonderfully slow moving kind of water that allowed me to capture a moment or a gesture that might convey something transcendent. I also loved the possibility of using glass to create emotive symbols of pure or mixed colour. As time has moved on I have discovered that both process and community are also important to me, and I have begun to discover why much of my work creates repetitive elements such as canes, threads, seeds or bricks and brings them together to create something greater than the sum of their parts.
My real passion is to create art for actual spaces and communities – in other words commissioned works that allow me to know and work with the audience to a greater extent than in a gallery setting and craft some apt kind of gift that might inspire the better part of them to become more alive.”
Artist Profile: Keith began his training at the Glass Workshop of the Canberra School of Art, ANU, in 1992. He studied under the late Stephen Procter and also worked as an assistant to Klaus Moje, receiving his BA (Visual) with Honours in 1996. Subsequently Keith was awarded a NEIS grant to establish his studio ‘Shadowglass’ in Canberra where he produced a number of major architectural works for Canberra buildings and a range of works for exhibition nationally and overseas. These included his trademark ‘Glass Weavings’ which utilised Maori textile techniques to fabricate hand-pulled and slumped glass canes into innovative hangings with unique optical qualities. Keith also worked with the canes he created in the kiln to produce a range of fused and slumped works.
In 2001 he was awarded a scholarship and Australia Council grant to attend Pilchuck Glass School, USA, where he utilised sand casting techniques for new architectural glass installations exploring themes of spirituality and community. On return to Australia Keith’s studio was destroyed in the Canberra bushfires whereupon he moved his practice to Poatina, Tasmania and completed further study in Youth and Community Work. In 2003-2005 he was engaged to design and create the Poatina Monument, a massive community project of almost 2 tons of kiln-cast recycled glass, with water and landscapes occupying an area of 400 sq/m. Keith continues his practice in Poatina where he directs the Poatina Artist Colony and is currently working to establish a community arts centre and hot glass facility.