Catherine Croll
Coming Home
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The Sydney Olympic Park Authority is proud to present ‘Coming Home’ the largest exhibition of Chinese Australian contemporary art ever to be held in the People’s Republic of China.
Following on from 2008’s successful ‘From Mao to Now’ exhibition, this project is part of a broader program of cultural exchange between host cities of the Olympic Games initiated by Sydney Olympic Park. Managed and curated by Catherine Croll, Coming Home opens at the new Linda Gallery, 798 Beijing from 9-24 May.
Coming Home will feature the work of 35 Chinese Australians
还乡 Coming Home
35 Chinese Australian Contemporary Artists
Linda Gallery, 798 Dashenzi, Beijing
Opens May 9th – until May 24th 20
还乡 ‘Coming Home’
35 位澳籍华人当代艺术家联展
Linda 画廊 – ７９８ – 大山子 – 北京
２００９年５月９日 星期六 -５月２４日 星期日
Downloads (Pdf) and (Doc)
* Chinese-Australian artists donate for Bushfire Appeal (doc)
* 澳大利亚华裔艺术家向维多利亚森林大火救助基金捐助价值达二十五万澳元的艺术品 – 并将在北京举办拍卖活动！ (doc)
* Sydney Olympic Park Travelling Exhibition (doc)
* Coming Home Exhibition Auction Flyer (pdf)
* Coming Home Exhibtion Catalogue – English (pdf)
* Coming Home Exhibtion Catalogue – Chinese (pdf)
ABC TV News feature
A feature about the exhibition was shown on ABC TV in Australia on Friday, May 8. Here are some still images from the feature…
Background
For over 20 years Kate Croll has been a respected practitioner in the areas of Community Cultural Development (CCD) and Cultural Planning, sharing her practical knowledge with others through her positions as a facilitator, trainer and lecturer.
She has had an extensive career in the areas of community capacity building, brokering partnerships between local government, arts workers, volunteers, non profit organisations and business sponsors.
Catherine is currently employed as the Manager/Curator of the Sydney Olympic Park Traveling Exhibition – Coming Home – to be held in Beijing during May 2009. Catherine is also manager of the Randwick City Council – Mayors Public Art Project, designed to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Randwick being declared a city in 1859.
In 2008 Catherine was employed as Manager/Curator of the Sydney Olympic Park Authority From Mao to Now exhibition which featured the work of 80 Chinese Australian artists and other contemporary Australian artists who had studied or worked in the People’s Republic of China.
In 2007, Catherine spent 3 months traveling ’solo’ through remote areas of China’s Yun’nan, Sichuan and Fujian provinces, prior to taking up a 6 week residency at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing.
In 2006 Catherine received a professional development grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to: Research and document traditional Chinese cultural practices and the ways in which those practices are being interpreted in contemporary arts. She traveled ‘solo’ overland through China for 3 months, culminating in an exhibition of her work titled Catherines Great Adventure, at John Paynter Gallery – Newcastle.
In 2004/5 Kate traveled to the Northern Territory to interview representatives from the key arts organisations and indigenous arts cooperatives from Katherine to the Tiwi Islands. Using the data gathered she developed and delivered an intensive training course for Top End artists called ‘Working with Communities’.
In 2001, Kate was responsible for the artistic design and construction of the Hunter Region Float for Centenary of Federation Parade. She was then seconded as Parade Coordinator for Zone 1 (Botanical Gardens to Oxford Street) which involved the recruitment and training of hundreds of volunteer marshals to assist in the coordination of thousands of performers and oversee the event which saw 500,000 people line the streets of Sydney.
In 2000, she was seconded from Arts Hunter by SOCOG (Sydney Olympic Games Organising Committee) to assist with the management of volunteers at the Sydney Olympic Games 2000. In this capacity she was responsible for over 2,000 volunteer performers in the Awakenings and Fire Sections of the Opening Ceremony and 8,000 performers in the Closing Ceremony.
As Principle Trainer for CCD NSW (Community Cultural Development NSW) from 2000 until 2008, she conducted ‘Assessment and Workplace Training’ Certificate IV for facilitators from across NSW, Tasmania and the NT and facilitated the ‘Creative Volunteering – No Limits’ training course offered by Regional Arts Australia to community organisations, volunteers and local government staff.
She is also the author of Australia’s first online Diploma in Community Cultural Development , and facilitator of the course which was offered annually through CCDNSW from 2003 to 2008.
Catherine Croll can be contacted via mobile +61 419 427 002 or China mobile +86 151 0157 5037 email
