Who we are
Anne Walton
Anne is an independent video/performance artist, educator and occasional writer with prior careers as a chef and welfare rights lawyer. She graduated with Honours in Visual Art from the University of SA in 1997 and then went on to do a Master of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art (1999/2000) with the support of an Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship.
Overseas, Anne has presented video, performance and installation works in Glasgow (Scotland), Helsinki (Finland) Vienna (Austria), Nagoya (Japan), Tallinn (Estonia) and Turku (Finland). Nationally, her works have been presented in Festivals and galleries in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Alice Springs and Newcastle. She has undertaken a number of artist residencies in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, regional and remote Western Australia (Geraldton, Greenough, Coolgardie, Yandayarra).
In her work with remote and indigenous communities, her focus has been on expressing a sense of place through unique local voices, visions and histories. In her solo practice, Anne usually works site-specifically with human-scale video projection and live presence to create a dialogue between past and present. It's a dialogue firmly anchored to the materiality of the space or place that presents itself but one that suggests an almost palpable in-between place.
She is currently looking for a PhD program to support her research on the relationship between language, cognition and perception with reference - and reverence - to braille.
- 1998 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships
- City of Swan National Review of Live Art
- Arte.fi
Bruce Maguire
Bruce has been involved in the field of information access for people with a print disability for almost thirty years. He has been President of the Round table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities Inc., and he is currently Chair of the Australian Braille Authority. He also operates Brailleways, a small business that produces material in braille, large print and other formats for use by people with a print disability.
Bruce has also been an active participant in the development of national standards and guidelines for the production of braille, large print and e-text. He has been active in the international arena, and at present represents Australia on a number of committees of the International Council on English Braille (ICEB). Beyond braille and other accessible formats, he has been a promininent advocate on disability-related issues.
Bruce has always had a keen interest in the arts, and has promoted the application of the principles of equity and inclusiveness in all aspects of creative endeavour and cultural heritage. In 1995 he prepared a submission in response to the then Commonwealth government's Creative Nation policy initiatives, and he has been a campaigner for reform of Copyright legislation and archival preservation practices with the aim of making literary works and cultural heritage available equally to people with disabilities.
Bruce pioneered the use of auto-focussing and SLR cameras by blind people in Australia, and a number of his photographs have been shown in national mainstream photographic exhibitions. he is also student of ceramics and the shakuhachi flute.
Bruce has a Masters Degree in Policy and Applied Social Research, and is currently completing a Master of Analytical Psychology Degree programme.
