Escape from Cloud 9 - Sydney exhibition

Jen Lyons-Reid Australia Council CACD Fellowship - exploring narratives and digital workflows

Jen collaborated with Francesca Da Rimini and Carl Kuddell on this cartoon work, as a contribution to the Affliated Text's exhibition 'Selfie: Image Narrative Opiate', curated by Bronia Iwanczak and Lynne Barwick.

Together we developed the concept and text work, and Jennifer produced the graphic art and lettering.

The Selfie exhibition took place between Sep 9th 2015 and Oct 16th 2015, at Cross Art Books, at 33 Rosluyn Street, Kings Cross, Sydney.

Contribution to Hexen zine

2015 April - SA

Jen and Carl were invited by artist Francesca Da Rimini to contribute to her collaborative zine 'Hexen', presented at Copenhagen, Denmark and London. This collaboration was part of the first stage artistic exploration for Jen's 2-year Australia Council Fellowship.

The invitation was to respond to a series of challenges and to a selection of medieval art works, referenced in the final magazine art work.

Jen's graphic art Hex, This Is Not A Trap:

Carl's poetic Hex, Nine Reflections:

Nation to Nation - Aboriginal Authorities

Aboriginal Regional Authorities Initiative SA 2015 February - SA

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.

In collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, we produced Nation to Nation, a 25min documentary about the new South Australian Government Aboriginal Regional Authorities (ARA) initiative. The video showcases the benefits and opportunities of Aboriginal Regional Authorities in the context of colonization and new approaches for respectful governance and support for Indigenous representation in SA.

It features the four selected trial groups at their different stages of development and implementation:

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority - Murraylands, Lower Lakes, Coorong and South Coast

Narungga Regional Authority - Yorke Penisula and surrounding islands

Kaurna Heritage Board - wider Adelaide area

Aboriginal Community Engagement Group Port Augusta and surrounding areas

The documentary features the views of Indigenous key leaders, detailing the process, development, and envisaged and current best practice and future outlook for each participating Aboriginal Authority, in Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Point Pierce and Port Adelaide. Each trial group cover aspects of the five key issues and activities, ranging from Indigenous governance and leadership initiatives, Working on Country programs, to cultural engagement and Indigenous authority and self determination.

The project started development in October 2014, shooting across regional SA in 5 locations between November 2014 and January 2015.

Thanks for all the amazing community support
Kaurna Nation Heritage Association Inc
Living Kaurna Culture Centre
ART Employment
Peachey Place Community Centre
Kauwi Interpretive Centre SA Water
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Narungga Aboriginal Corporation Regional Authority
Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation
Point Pearce Aboriginal Health Service - SA Health
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority
Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting
Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
The Rural City of Murray Bridge
Aboriginal Community Engagement Group ACEG Port Augusta
Port Augusta Aboriginal Family Violence Legal Services
Port Augusta Youth Centre
Bungala Aboriginal Corporation
Davenport Community
Port Augusta City Council
Pricewaterhousecooper Indigenous Consulting Pty Ltd

Thanks to our funders:
The South Australian Government
Department of State Development - Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Change Media

Developed with support from Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

© 2015 South Australian Government
Department of State Development - Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Change Media and Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

Australia Council Fellowship

2-year Australia Council Fellowship for Jen Lyons-Reid 2015 February - SA

Interrogate stories, values and best practice in CACD to identify new narrative and media strategies:

Informed, egalitarian societies rely on individual critical literacy – our ability to understand and meaningfully engage in the ethical, aesthetic and political stories that shape our collective lives. Valuing and exchanging stories is at the heart of CACD practice and I am interested in how we collectively script powerful stories for social change within a rapidly changing media landscape.

 This Fellowship will enable me to interrogate critical literacy strategies across the CACD sector. I will explore the values behind the thinking that drives our sector, via a robust collaborative and creative peer-exchange. It will result in an exploratory, transmedia CACD model, published on The Platform, as an open source Critical Literacy Forum. Currently there is no accessible exchange on how we use narrative in CACD – this Fellowship will break new ground.

From the Australia Council for the Arts website:

Friday 5 December 2014

Australia Council invests in leading artists

Some of Australia’s most accomplished artists working in various art forms have been recognized with prestigious Australia Council Fellowships. The highly sought after fellowships, worth $100,000 over two years, are awarded to outstanding, established artists for creative activity and professional development.  

This year they have been awarded to 12 artists in seven art form areas. Find full list and bios of selected artists here.

Australia Council Chief Executive Officer Tony Grybowski congratulated the recipients of this year’s fellowships and paid tribute to the outstanding body of work each had already produced in their respective art forms.

“Fellowships have always been central to the Council’s grants program and for many artists they are life-changing to their career,” Mr Grybowski said.

“Fellowships are only granted once in an artists’ lifetime to those who can demonstrate outstanding achievement on the national and international stage, so the calibre of these recipients is very impressive. 

“One of the goals in the Council’s new Strategic Plan - Australia is known for its great art and artists - aims to build the capacity of artists to make excellent work and foster experimentation and risk-taking in all art forms.

“Fellowships realise this goal by supporting artists to develop their arts practice, experiment, research and create new ways to present their works and further their artistic ambitions and career.

“They play an important role in providing artists with the time and financial security needed to focus on their work and the freedom to reflect, innovate, experiment and collaborate.”

Fellowship applications are assessed and awarded by peers in the relevant art form areas.

Under the Australia Council’s new grants model, which begins in January, Fellowships will be offered once a year with a June closing date.

Past Fellowship recipients include Gary Lang, Alana Valentine, Archie Roach, Tim Daly, Judith Wright and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.

Jennifer's Fellowship will focus on interrogation of stories, values and best practice in CACD, to identify new narrative and media strategies.