From 2018-2020, I was the Artistic Director for LIT Festival: Stories In Light. By presenting high quality arts and cultural experiences in Toowoomba’s public space, the festival aimed to allow the community to see themselves, their stories, and the places they inhabited - in a different light. Funded by local and state government grants and commercial partnerships, I led a small, dedicated team to deliver two iterations of this Arts event.
Activating Toowoomba’s Bell Street Mall, ViDA - Jesse Wright & Connor Quill used light, sculpture, lanterns, movement and sound to activate the space during the 2018 festival. Image: Theresa Hall
LIT Festival 2020 - Event Documentation
The face of Louise Noble, founder of the Mulberry Project is projected on a tree in the iconic Queens Park, Toowoomba at LIT Festival 2018. Part of Australian artist Craig Walsh’s ongoing ‘Monuments’ series, the work featured the faces of two of Toowoomba’s everyday, unsung heroes. Image: Craig Walsh
Using the canvas of a central Toowoomba shopping centre, Australian artist Kellie O’Dempsey’s creates a live drawing at LIT Festival 2020.
Artists Katy Woods & Meredith Fitzsimon created ‘The Fireflies’ a group of roving, other-worldly creatures for LIT Festival 2020. Hero image by Theresa Hall.
Through a series of community workshops, artist Alex Stalling invited young people to consider the future of Toowoomba for LIT Festival 2020. Participants created miniature art works to share their dreams for the future. Activated by blue light the culminating installation ‘Parallels Of Time’ was exhibited at Toowoomba’s central Civic Square. Image: Grant Rolph
The Home Project was a series of online, artist-led workshops produced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video series allowed the workshop program delivered by Youth Connect/Toowoomba Regional Council to continue when face-to-face workshops were restricted.
From my original concept, I project managed all elements of the production. The Home Project engaged and employed local artists across a range of disciplines, as well as videographers and editors.
