Genevieve Thackwell-James
Artist participating in the Art Group Exhibition
"The Ambitious Dali"
Exhibition dates:
March 12th to 23rd, 2021
BIA- Brisbane Institute of Art
Grafton St, Windsor
Brisbane- Qld- Australia
Genevieve Thackwell-James
Genevieve Thackwell-James's Art works
Pictures Artist's Copyright
Genevieve Thackwell-James
Genevieve Thackwell-James's Art works
Pictures Artist's Copyright
Email: gthackwelljames@gmail.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/gthackwelljames
Curriculum Vitae
Genevieve
Thackwell-James
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 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 funding body. completed. Successfully funded by the Queens
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
