Creative Equity Toolkit

Connecting with Wounded Spaces

Genevieve Grieves discusses the complexities of working on creative projects with First Nations people who have experienced colonial trauma in a culturally safe way.

Cracking the Codes: Power Analysis

An analysis of systemic inequality, putting bias in the context of wider history, identities, structures and institutions.

'The current conversation is not only shallow, but actually harmful. We continue to primarily focus on individuals, when institutional and structural inequities are the bigger problem.'

Creating Worlds - Building 'Public Space'

Utilising his extensive experience in Singapore, Ong Keng Sen talks about the importance of building ownership in audiences in several ways. These include respectfully preparing an "emotional scaffolding" process for the audience, and building up cultural contexts with local partners.

Cultural Safety – An Indigenous methodology: Dr Lilly Brown

For over a decade Gumbaynggirr woman Dr Lilly Brown has supported individuals and organisations to strengthen their capacity to value, see clearly, engage with, and respond to the diverse needs of First Peoples.

'for someone to feel culturally unsafe means that they’ve likely experienced a space which is underpinned by racism. So in the absence of cultural safety, there is a presence of racism. And that’s a really important point.'

Curator/Confidant

Hannah Presley speaks to the curatorial approach that has guided her through working with individual artists, community groups, not-for-profit galleries, international art Biennales and national institutions. Hannah shares her belief in the central role of transparency, vulnerability and humour in forming valuable relationships with artists, and examines the deeper values of knowledge-sharing and exchanging ideas that inform her practice.