What do the arts teach us?
Curiosity, Initiative, Grit, Adaptability, Leadership, Social and Cultural Awareness.
These are the qualities that Australian industry needs from workers in a post COVID- Industry 4.0 world.
Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody over the month of October for this series of Instagram live discussions with key industry figures as she talks to community leaders, arts practitioners and researchers about the use of youth arts in a post-COVID world. We’ll be chatting about why the arts are vital for a strong, vibrant and sustainable economic recovery in Australia, how the arts instill critical qualities in Australia’s workforce and what we can do to ensure that youth arts are supported into Australia’s future.
Tune in through our Instagram page: @interfaithchildhoods
Beverley Irving:
I am Beverley Irving and I am an illustrator from Liverpool, UK. I work with mixed media to create more traditional 2D forms but I also work with clay, challenging the boundaries of what illustration can be. My work is predominantly authorial rather than brief responsive. I address experience, gender, equality, and mental health as a way of initiating conversations about society from a feminist perspective.
My practice also involves working in collaboration with others. I have worked as an assistant with the Interfaith Childhoods project working with children to find common threads through art. With the Manchester based charity, Mustard Tree, we made collaborative work through clay workshops for an exhibition that embodied the support generated by the organisation and its volunteers.
This year I will begin my PhD study where I will investigate how clay can help to improve mental health, wellbeing and body image.