TILT disrupts.

TILT is a reverberation.

TILT transforms.

The NAS mentorship program invites artists to connect, exchange and engage. To support and progress and to meet collegially to foster arts side by side. When ideas bounce and ricochet between two individuals, what new direction might transpire?

We encourage all artists in this program to make an atomic shift rather than a seismic one. TILT celebrates the artists of our region, emerging and established, and encourages new collaborations and different directions.

32 artists and 2 curators over 9 months culminating in 1 exhibition, publication and launch party; whilst this is the didactics of the Mentorship program to quantify it is far more elusive than that: it has been a dialogue with a dynamic creative, an opportunity for experimentation and immeasurably expansive. 

With this opportunity, Newcastle Art Space positions itself as a centre for emerging artists in the Hunter Region, a place where risks, experimentation and collaboration are actively encouraged. 

We congratulate our amazing cohort of mentees for the current year program and thank our expert independent 'matchmakers' Gillean Shaw and Peter Lankas. 

Curatorial

Madeleine Kelman Snow (Mentor) & Kar Mun Phoon (Mentee)

Ceramics

Jacquie Garcia (Mentor) & Kulka Fahey (Mentee)

Ali Sobel-Read (Mentor) & Elisa Krey (Mentee)

Installation/sculpture

Tom Ireland (Mentor) & Jake Watts (Mentee)

Louisa Magrics (Mentor) & Skye Fordham (Mentee)

Peter Tilley (Mentor) & Laura Bishop (Mentee)

Illustration

Nicola Bolton (Mentor) & Aksara Harriram (Mentee)

Jewellery

Barb Nanshe (Mentor) & Jana Flint (Mentee)

Painting

Michelle Brodie (Mentor) & Bianca Vern-Barnett (Mentee)

James Drinkwater (Mentor) & Jessica Gilbert (Mentee)

Peter Gardiner (Mentor) & Bronte Naylor (Mentee)

Rachel Milne (Mentor) & Kimberly Swan (Mentee)

Nigel Milsom (Mentor) & Robert Carter (Mentee)

Graham Wilson (Mentor) & Elizabeth McDonald (Mentee)

Photography

Joerg Lehmann (Mentor) & Bernadette Heald (Mentee)

Printmaking

Chris Clifton (Mentor) & Aidan Gageler (Mentee)

Amanda Donohue (Mentor) & Donna Jorna (Mentee)