ERIKA GOFTON
Erika is the founder and Co-Director of The Art Room. Along with studio focused teaching, Erika offers support in a professional context having experience in all manners of exhibiting from Artist Run Spaces to commercial representation in three states. She can assist with writing CV’s, exhibition proposals, artist statements, and preparing for an exhibition. Erika empowers the artist to take charge of their own career and practice, and offers the support for those who leave art school and are not sure what to do next.
Available Wednesday mornings
YVETTE GRANT
Yvette is a teacher and a writer. She has worked with artists at the Victorian College of the Arts for the last six years guiding them in thinking through and writing up their ideas about their practice and their work. Yvette can assist with your artist statement or a similar document, and in order to make the most of the session it’s recommended to brainstorm some questions and forward to us with a draft of the document prior to the session. The time in the session will be spent talking through and digging into your ideas and the words and structures that may best communicate them to the public.
Available Saturday afternoons
MARIEKE DENCH
Marieke Dench has a Fine Arts Degree from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (R.M.I.T) and a Diploma in Education from the University of Melbourne (receiving the award for Practical Teacher of the Year).
The breadth of her practice is vast and includes painting, encaustic painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture and architectural installation. Her work is held in numerous Australian public and private collections and has undertaken major commissions in both of these sectors. She also has strong experience working with dealers, designers, collectors and architects on individual and large-scale commissioned works.
SARAH TOMASETTI
Sarah graduated from RMIT University and La Trobe University, Melbourne with a graduate diploma in Fine Art and Italian Studies in 1994. After graduating, Sarah undertook an internship in fresco painting at the Laboratorio per Affresco di Vainella in Italy and, on returning to Australia, completed a Masters in Fine Art at RMIT University. Sarah is a lecturer in Fine Art at RMIT University and is currently undertaking doctoral research into the way the mountain imaginary co-creates the way remote regions are depicted and traversed.
Available Saturday afternoons
