"I have been a ceramic artist and educator for decades and can offer access for a mentee to a wide-ranging knowledge of ceramics across most temperatures and techniques. I have worked with clay and exhibited in Australia, USA and the Virgin Islands, also have given workshops, some as part of Artist in Residence programs in Australia and USA."

"I am a self taught artist making paintings, performance, video and sculpture. When working with my mentee I hope to get to know you and why you make the work you make and help you build on your practice. "

"Historically my studio art practice and research have explored the agencies of identity and belonging through an interdisciplinary, abstract lens, located in contemporary drawing and painting materials, history and aesthetic traditions.

“For me painting is healing, nurturing and a potent tool of self-knowledge. Art is a personal language of feelings. Craftsmanship is the grammar which allows you to express those emotions and ideas effectively. Achieving technical mastery with an open heart is my purpose.”

Ellie Hannon works across exhibitions, public art and community engagement projects. These process-led actions fuel Hannon’s visual account presenting personal and political issues in relation to nature. As a mentor Ellie will provide insight into the processes behind forming a visual language that spans multiple mediums, working with art to connect and platform remote community artists and insight into the process of designing, facilitating and undertaking large scale public artworks.

As Curatorial Lead at Newcastle Art Gallery, Peter is in the process of developing an ambitious artistic program and collection strategy with his colleagues in advance of the Gallery's reopening. Previously he has worked at the National Gallery of Australia and Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as artist-run galleries and initiatives.

Jen Denzin has exhibited regularly in Newcastle for the past 15 years. She uses commonplace materials such as plastic buckets, drinking straws, cable ties and tacky mementos to construct gaudy assemblages and vibrant environments. Her work is informed by historical meeting points, linguistic and cultural exchange. Jen’s industry experience includes curatorial projects at Newcastle University, TAFE’s Frontroom Gallery, the M-Arts Precinct in Murwillumbah and The Lock Up; alongside teaching art to children.

"Whether I'm in a mentoring situation or around family or friends it's important to momentarily suspend my own experience and any preconceived ideas I may have and give myself over to the listening experience... personally, mentoring is about sharing a time, a space and a place where the seeds of a mutual conversation can be planted. What develops afterwards is anyone's guess."

"I look for beauty, wonder and humanity in my photography. If there is art in my work it's incidental. The current art practice, thinking and theories in photography are not my concerns. It is not my intention to be an artist in a conceptual or constructed sense. I'm a photographer relying on my instincts, aesthetics and spiritual stance to record moments of personal significance. If the aesthetic sensibility in my work is appreciated as art it's possibly a happy coincidence where the everyday and ordinary become poetry. "

"Most of my sculptural practice over a 35-year exhibiting history has had two simultaneous manifestations.
The first is figurative 3D works that may be small bronzes, larger cast resin, carved timber or cast iron and Corten steel pieces. The other form being framed wall-mounted arrays of unusual found objects, often presented as multiples. Also, for most of my art practice I worked on a part time basis at regional and commercial art galleries, so I guess my experience covers both practice and exhibiting."

Dr. Louisa Magrics is an academic, musician and installation artist with a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has been engaged with collaborative art making practices for over a decade as a drummer, and this background in rhythm and performance has laid the foundation for a fertile exploration into visual art and installation art practices.

 "I have worked an art teacher in the tertiary sector for the past 35 years, teaching painting, drawing, colour and design.  I have also developed my own art  practice working with abstraction, installation and conceptual artworks.  Since the mid 80s I have exhibited in both Australia and overseas, as well as winning many art prizes.  My works have been in publications both in Australia and China.  I would love to work with a serious emerging artist.  I believe I have a lot to offer. "

"Masculinity and painting have been inextricably linked since the beginnings of its conception as a modern artform in the early 15th Century. Themes of power and control are central to this tradition, and are embedded in the social, political, and cultural structures of the Western world to this day. I quote and recontextualize images from both contemporary photographic sources and art historical ones through the practice of oil painting to critically engage with this legacy. I have been practicing as a painter for over 30 years - my work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and other public and private collections."

Clare is a Photomedia Artist known for her distinct interdisciplinary practice and autographic portraits of illness, health, beauty, loss, and order.

Timeless Textiles gallery is the only commercial fibre art gallery in Australia, and showcases the artistry of national and international artists practising fibre/textile art.