Mr Moppet and books.
Photo credit Gwynneth Porter
2025.

Six monthly sessions
Numbers limited to support discussion

Each session is led by experienced writers and practitioners

GUESTS

Jan Bryant (Host/Writer)
Selina Ershadi (Artist/Filmmaker)
Sarah Hopkinson (Gallerist/Writer,
Milli Jannides (Artist/Painter)
Gwynneth Porter (Writer)
Laura Skerjl (Artist/Painter)

AIMS

Offering ways to break habitual modes of thinkingApproaching writing afresh Providing a supportive space to think + write, An opportunity for critical feedback (if desired) An archive of relevant articles and writings will be provided in a dedicated drive.

DATES

Mondays Evenings
13th October, 10th November, 8th December  (2025)
9th February, 9th March, 13thApril, 11th May (2026)

SOME THEMES

Where is the writer in the writing? (subjectivity / the other)
Attention /distraction
Poetry and poesis
Politics
Essays, Aphorisms, Diaristic modes
Writing on film

FEES x 6 Sessions

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Contact Jan Bryant [artprogramme68@gmail.com] f you are facing financial pressures or if you would like to pay in smaller increments.

A NOTE ABOUT PAYMENT
Art Programme operates on a fair remuneration policy for all presenters. We base our rates on those set by NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts Australia). Our aim is to break-even after operating costs are covered.

Art Programme (AP) is a small, arts' organisation based in Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia.

AP was formed in 2021 by artists and writers for artists, writers, thinkers, and filmmakers to come together to critically explore contemporary ideas and developments in studio practice, art, film, politics, and philosophy. 

AP is a non-exploitative employer that respects the knowledges and specialisations of all its facilitators and participants.

We aim to keep our costs as low as possible, without compromising a fair renumeration for our presenters and guests. We support the Code of Practice established by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) (Australia).

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[AP] Research Groups 

Are you looking for a place to deepen your practice or writing research interests? 

We will help you fashion an organised program of online or in-person critical discussions, with fresh and up-to-date readings, seminars structured to your own needs, and flexible delivery and group sizes

Contact Jan Bryant artprogramme68@gmail.com



UPCOMING

FIELD WORK WITH KATIE STACKHOUSE

A day’s immersion in making and art thinking. The workshop will involve time in the field and studio, with time for critical feedback from the group. 

About Katie. She/her has developed an intimate way of working with the natural world: a way of sensing and then harnessing the environment’s vibrational forces in her sculptures. She often forms collaborations with sound and dance performers, intensifying the relationship between matter and vitality.

Dates & costs to come.

Warrandyte Creek :
Katie Stackhouse

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Our ethos

[AP] is a post-institutional collective with years of experience and specialist knowledges. 

We recognise the limitations that institutions and bureaucracies place on creative thinking and are intent on maintaining a supportive environment in which all participants feel free to explore new ideas in confidence and without judgement.

This extends to our studio pracs and crits which are led by experienced artists who ensure that all feedback is constructive, empathetic, and relevant in the context of current contemporary art practices.

[AP] functions as a flexible organising system of unranked independent elements that can be arranged/rearranged, depending on the task at hand. As a ‘heterarchy’, we actively  resist hierarchical ordering. 

Angel Brennan, Planet Abstract I (2021) oil on linen, 125.5 x 146 cm.