GENEVIEVE THACKWELL- JAMES
Artist participant in the upcoming exhibition "I See You: Joan Miro"
BIA (Brisbane Institute of Art)
41 Grafton St, Windsor. Brisbane
July 19th - 31st , 2024
Opening Night July 20th from 6pm
Genevieve Thackwell-James
CV
Email: gthackwelljames@gmail.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/gthackwelljames
Working in ceramic. Hand-building techniques.
Teacher: Clairy Laurence
Previous ceramic work as shown by my mother.
Jewellery work as shown by my mother
Theatre:
La Boite
Queensland theatre company
Shoestring
Tn company
Rock and roll circus
Festivals
Woodford folk festival
World expo 88
World expo Osaka
Gateshead garden festival
Tokyo dome
Glasgow eec city of culture
Brisbane festival
Willie smith’s huon mid-winter festival
Established women’s performance project art aches, pacemakers in action
Short films
Night shift
Bridesmade
Cosy fan tutte
making waves
Professional experience
International Homestay Coordinator 2017- Current
Performer 2016
In July 2016 I performed at the Mid-Winter Festival at Huonville, Tasmania. This required improvisational performance as a part of a team of actors “in a tent”. This up close and personal style of performance requires strong observational ability and quick thought processes. This type of festival improvisation on demand has a constant stream of the general public walking through the performance spaces. The audience included individuals and families with small children who are sometimes unsupervised. It requires a high level of emotional intelligence to be able to ‘read’ the audience and tailor a performance to suit various audiences and their emotions. I am highly skilled at this type of performance work. Director - Annie Lee (Kransky Sisters)
Create Foundation 1999
The A Team. Consultant
Developing a national leadership project (The A Team) which included
devising a performance work with young people in care
directing and supporting performers to achieve their best work
all production aspects of performance program including seeking funding from Queens Trust, tour management, overseeing set design and construction, prop and costuming, team liaison and venue negotiations preparation & touring of performance to Melbourne & Sydney evaluation with participants and stakeholders. Compile a report and recommendations to the funding body. Completed Successfully and funded by the Queen's Trust.
Performances by Young People in Care - at the 1999 International Foster Carers Conference Melbourne University and Fundraising event for the Create Foundation Randwick Sydney.
At this time, I was undertaking post-graduate media study at QUT. I used this opportunity to investigate how “orphans’ were portrayed in film and literature including Annie, Oliver, Moses, Snow White, Cinderella, and Anastasia. I drafted this research into a paper “Teletubbies to Truman, the panopticonism of Orphans in the Media”. In the document, I identified common themes and symbols used in storytelling about orphans, both traditionally and in contemporary media. This document was the framework that informed the development of the A Team production for the International Foster Care Conference and at a major fundraising event for the organization in Sydney.
The premise of the performance was reforming our ‘baggage’ into a staircase and working together to reach higher places. We used old suitcases as the steps on a staircase to symbolize how using what we have, we can get to where we choose to go.
Project Achievement Awards
• TMR Excellence Award (Green Taxi initiative – finalist) 2011
• Late-night travel options for Brisbane UTIP Golden Angel 2006, Bronze.
• Premieres Awards 2005 Redlands Shire Communities, finalist
• Cairns LOMAPUTIP Golden Angel Award, 2005 (highly commended)
• Townsville TravelSmart Program UTIP Golden Angel Award, 2004 (highly commended)
• Maritime Safety Queensland Achievement Award, 2003
Genevieve's Artwork
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