Artful solutions for building creative sector, communities and places .
Founder Megan Rowland has worked with and for a diverse range of organisations and enterprises for over 20 years.
FutureNOW.
Concept. Program Design. Oversight.
Sector development program investigating current intersections of art x new technology designed and delivered in collaboration with the creative sector. Exploring new modes of arts practice, engagement, and presentation through an iterative and evolving program of research, residencies, critical conversations, skills, development opportunities and public outcomes. A Sunshine Coast Council project informed by partners including Experimenta, UniSC and REMIX Inc.
Dance. Here. Now.
Concept. Program Design. Implementation.
A dance development initiative delivered in partnership with dance sector professionals aimed at creating more opportunities to experience dance and get more people dancing across the Sunshine Coast - with a focus on increasing participation, professional practice, programming, networks and spaces for dance through partnerships, collaboration and new approaches. A Sunshine Coast Council project funded by Arts Queensland through the Regional Arts Development Fund.
Performers Bridgette Fiske & Joseph Lau from Project Auske Photo Habitus
Tenancy.
Collaborator. Video & Design.
In collaboration with performer, Mia Hollingworth TENANCY is a grotesque celebration of the body we occupy. Presented as part of OUTBOUND contemporary dance and live art festival.
Performer Mia Hollingworth Photo Habitus
Imposter. #2
Creative Director.
IMPOSTER is an ongoing enquiry into the constructed self. IMPOSTER seeks radical beauty in the ordinary. This presentation of imposter considers; States of overwhelm and startle. Moments when the simplest things seem hard and it feels like life is unravelling. When stuff is thrown at you metaphorically and sometimes literally. When what seems sweet turns sour. In the form of a multi-channel video installation, poster prints and one-off intimate performance event. Supported by Noosa Regional Arts Development Fund and Phluxus2 through indepenDANCE.
Exhibition & Performance - Upper Foyer Gallery, The J Noosa
Collaborator : Warwick Gow Performers : Olivia Rooney & Video by Habitus
Imposter. #1
Creative Director.
An ongoing inter-disciplinary enquiry into the constructed self, anonymity and the super ordinary. Involving the body, performance, moving image and object. The experiment employs ideas of assemblage, absurdity, unnatural narratologies and radical beauty to propose moments of poetic nonsense designed to make you feel something. Supported by Butter Factory Arts Centre, Noosa Regional Arts Development Fund, and Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance.
Performers Megan Rowland and Courtney Scheu Photo Warwick Gow Photography
Performers Megan Rowland, Courtney Scheu and Chuco Bruno. Visuals Warwick Gow Photography. Video capture Tim Birch.
New North Contemporary.
Founder.
New North is a movement that supports contemporary arts practice and experiences in south east QLD’s northern tip, Noosa. It brings together artists, communities of change, culture activists and audiences through provocative and poetic live arts and cultural experiences. Launching Soon.
The Keeper Project.
Concept Collaborator. Project Manager.
The Keeper Project is a live public art project where artists work in a temporary role as observer, collector, maker and storyteller within the community.
The Keepers are archaeologists of stories. Check it out.
A Sunshine Coast Council project developed in collaboration with Field Theory and delivered in partnership with Red Chair.
Artist Alison Mooney Photo Cooper Brady Photography
Place2.
Concept. Project Design. Implementation.
A creative placemaking project designed to enliven the streets and laneways of Caloundra through artful interventions. This Sunshine Coast Council project included Place2Play - a series of seven participatory artist led public activations, Place2Paint - bringing vertical surfaces to life through contemporary murals including the regions first AR mural and Place2Connect - the transformation of an old bus interchange into a creative space - Sub Tropic Studio.
Place2Artists Photo Tim Birch
Spaces for Creatives.
Concept. Program Design. Implementation.
A region wide initiative making spaces for artists to practice, connect and present. Transforming under-utilised spaces and developing new models for access to existing spaces. This ongoing Sunshine Coast Council project includes the establishment of Old Lock Up & IN ARI, Sub Tropic Studio, and 2ND Space and the Project24 Residency program.
2ND Space Photo Cooper Brady
The Refinery.
Concept. Program Design. Implementation.
A creative incubator, designed transform creative practice and ideas into sustainable businesses. The Refinery was an initiative of Sunshine Coast Council in partnership with SunCentral Maroochydore and the Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance.
Photo The Human Story Film
Styling and Production.
Production, styling, location, talent and client management with some of Melbourne’s leading advertising, fashion and editorial photographers and agencies. Working with brands including Seed Heritage, Hard Yakka, Yellow Glen, T2, Channel 9, Just Jeans, Wolf Blass and many more…
T2 Campaign Photo Andrew Richey Photography Styling Megan Rowland
Creative Direction.
Independent creative consultation for events and content creation for festivals, brands and organisations including St Kilda Festival, AMPR Group, Alida Milani Marketing & Events, Nike, Melbourne Fashion Festival and Tiffany and Co.
Photo Andrew Richey Photography Styling Megan Rowland
Fashion & Special Events.
Creative consultant and choreographer.
Over 15 years working independently with Melbourne’s leading fashion events venues, brands, designers and event companies including Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, AMME, David Jones, Myer, Chadstone Fashion Capital and Melbourne’s Racing Clubs.
Opening St Collins Lane, Melbourne Choreography Megan Rowland
Independent Arts.
Performer, choreographer, director, producer.
Many collaborations and much experimentation across 20 years of independent inter-disciplinary performances and exhibitions including projects supported by Australia Council, Creative Victoria, Australian Choreographic Centre and Regional Arts Development Fund performed at venues and festivals including Theatreworks, Dance House Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and Butter Factory Arts Centre.
Performers Megan Rowland Courtney Scheu Photo Warwick Gow Photography
Navigator.
Assistant director and production manager.
With Australia’s leading contemporary music company, Elision Ensemble we built a team of creatives to develop a new work in residence at Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art, Brisbane. Navigator was presented at Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Festival and Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Moscow. Composer Liza Lim, Director Barrie Kosky
Moon Spirit Feasting.
Production Manager and Rehearsal Director
Devised in Melbourne, Elision Ensemble’s Chinese ritual street opera was supported by Australia Councils Major Festivals Initiative and performed at Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane Festival’s, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Züricher Theater Spektakel, Zurich and Saitama Arts Theatre, Tokyo. Composer Liza Lim, Director Michael Kantor.
YOU&I.
Concept, project design and delivery.
A Yarra Ranges Council project bringing together local community health and youth welfare organisations, education, local young people and artists to define what respectful relationships meant to them through public art, photography, digital media and health promotion campaign with artist Yandell Walton.
Paste up by Upper Yarra Secondary Students Photo Yandell Walton
Dance Here.
Concept, project design and delivery.
A three year dance sector development project engaging multiple cultural venues, artists, educators, dance schools and community to build audiences, capacity, participation and networks. Working with Yarra Ranges Council, this project included a month-long program of unexpected people dancing in unexpected places across the region.
Dancer Gulsen Ozer