NAVIGATE ARTISTS
Artistic Director, Louise Morris and Technical Manager, Matthew Scott offer professional expertise in theatre direction, design and production, acting and performance education, site-specific performance, public art , gallery and visual art installations, interactive and participatory arts as well as community arts practice and events.
LOUISE MORRIS: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Louise is a theatre maker & Director, vocalist and site-specific installation artist based in Tanja, NSW whose current practice responds to local stories, place making and belonging for communities and audiences. Morris’s inter-disciplinary artistic practice employs an archeological approach that reveals layers of community memory through multi-sensory experiences of found objects, Sculpture, performance, video projection, photography, sound art and live contemporary music. Her practice and research is concerned with creative actions and interventions in situ that reveal the stories of a given place and can begin to foster deeper connections between artists of all disciplines and the communities in which they live and work. She is a passionate advocate for young and mid-career artists across all creative disciplines.
She was a Lecturer in Art and Performance (2004-2019) within the School of Communications and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Burwood and is now an honorary fellow. of this university. She worked with Splinters Theatre of Spectacle (1995-1998), Co-founded Culturally Innovative Arts (1997-2001) and was a founding member of the Red Cabbage Collective (2001-2010).
Major works include: TIDE Royal Park Melbourne VIC 2017 (producer and installation artist), Anthology Stirling Park ACT 2014 (producer and installation artist), Hedge-mony (Co-creator/producer-Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival), Aviary (Director-Living Museum of the West), Comfort (Designer/Installation Artist), Collapse (Co-creator/producer- Old Port of Melbourne), and Retrieval (Installation Artist- National Library of Australia).
The recipient of two Australian Post-graduate Awards, she completed a Masters in Animateuring- Cross Modal Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2008 and was awarded her doctorate from Deakin University in 2018.
In January 2019 she established Navigate Arts, a new home for innovative, inter-disciplinary creative arts practice in the heart of Yuin Country at the Old Tanja Church, Sapphire Coast, NSW.
Matthew Scott: Technical Artist and Production Manager
With 20 years of production and technical experience delivering major events and working for leading arts institutions and companies, including technical and production management for Disney, St Petersburg Ballet, Melbourne Festival, Lucy Guerin Inc, Melbourne Museum, White Night, MONA/MOFO and Dark MOFO & St Kilda Festival- For the past 10 years Matthew has worked for Megafun - one of Melbourne’s leading production companies as a production manager, light, sound and installation technician- and was a key member of the company and active contributor to their major projects and productions. www.megafun.com.au
As well as all he does for Navigate Arts and the local community- Matthew is currently the head mechanist on the Van Gogh Alive Australian Tour 2022. In a nutshell. He is unreal.
TIDE (2017) Royal Park Melbourne. Louise Morris (Installation Artist) Matthew Scott (Technical Artist)
Photography by Matthew Scott