• Employment type: Full time, 38 hours per week
• Reports to: Visual Arts Director
• Contract duration: Ongoing

The Studio Coordinator takes a leading role within the management and coordination of the five arts studios across Barkly Regional Arts. The role has exposure to a wide range of activities within Barkly Regional Arts’ Visual Arts Team including overseeing the day-to-day production and coordination of artworks, liaising with artists and community groups, and contributing to the professional management of visual arts programming. The role contributes to the production of artistic programs alongside the Visual Arts Manager. The Studio Coordinator manages each of the Barkly Regional Arts studio facilitators and is located primarily at Barkly Regional Arts in Tennant Creek with travel to community studio sites as required.

ABOUT BARKLY REGIONAL ARTS

Barkly Regional Arts is the hub for arts in the Barkly, a region that covers an area of around 322, 717 square kilometres of Australia’s Northern Territory. We collaborate with remote Indigenous communities to foster access, development and recognition of arts in the Barkly.

RESPONSIBILITES

Studio:

• Oversee the management of Tennant Creek’s studio and the casual facilitators
• Oversee and contribute to material supply and preparation, including ordering materials from Chapman and Bailey, stretching canvases and mixing paint.
• Ensure artworks are photographed to a high standard and catalogued on SAM in a timely manner.
• Ensure artists biographies are kept up-to-date and exhibition ready.
• Deliver customer service and process sales in the Tartukula Studio Gallery.
• Assist in keeping all studio spaces clean and tidy.
• Support in ensuring the Artists of the Barkly website is kept up to date, and processing orders as required.
• Support in identifying and applying for funding options for visiting artists workshops, employment opportunities and professional development opportunities for artists
• Support in negotiating and preparing licensing agreements in collaboration with artists and the Copyright Agency.
• Support in negotiating and managing consignments to partner galleries.

Outreach:

• Assist the Visual Arts Manager in preparing supplies for remote communities, stretching canvases, mixing paint, distributing paint into small containers.
• Travel to remote communities when required to deliver supplies, collect and catalogue completed art works.
• Build and maintain a strong relationship between Barkly Regional Arts and other services in remote communities.
• Work with arts workers to maximise functionality of remote art centres, including arranging the delivery of equipment and repairs where needed.
• Build and maintain a strong relationship between Barkly Regional Arts and artists.
• Promote artist development, including building and maintaining constructive feedback loops with artists and supporting the delivery of professional development workshops.
• Assist in identifying professional development opportunities for arts workers.
• Promote collaborative decision making with artists and arts workers.
• Support in identifying opportunities for bringing a new generation of artists to the studios.
• Support the Artists of the Barkly’s participation in major events such as Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and Desert Mob.
• Support the delivery of Barkly Artists Camp.

Programming:

• Assist the Visual Arts Manager and Visual Arts Director in the planning and implementation of Barkly Regional Arts’ artistic program
• Contribute to the preparation of grants and acquittals to support visual arts programs in Tennant Creek and beyond
• Maintain oversight of artwork stock, ensuring that works are directed to the appropriate sales channels, be it exhibitions, fairs, gallery consignments and internal digital sales channels
• Ensure art sales platforms are up to date, and manage cataloguing, sales and artist payments