Funding Success for printmaking workshops in Tully

November 9, 2025

The Tully Arts and Cultural Precinct Inc. was successful in attracting funding through the CCRC RADF program to engage Cairns based master printmaker Dian Darmansjah to create work for an exhibition “Tradition, Ritual and Community” exhibition at the Tully Masonic Centre in July 2026 to coincide with 100 years of Tully Free Masons. This creative development project will include collaborative processes, teach new skills, enhance professional development for artists and produce quality artworks. Artists will be encouraged to look to their own lives to interrogate the themes of tradition, ritual and community to develop creative narratives which convey individualised perspectives. This project builds on our 2025 artist book project “About Sugar Tully” and will allow artists to incorporate skills learned with new ones. Through the workshop process artists will also engage with and learn from each other, consider what the themes mean for others therein building cultural and community capacity and encouraging diversity. Thank you to CCRC RADF program for the funding to undertake this project. Further details soon.

This professional development project will include a minimum 4 days of professional tuition for local artist participants, a guided process of concept development around the themes of “traditional, ritual and community”, discussion and consideration of material preparation and use and ways to take the project from idea to form. A minimum of two workshops of two days each, with at least 2 weeks between workshops will give participants time to process information and build creative narratives which reflect themes and individual responses. It will give participants opportunities to learn new skills and engage with alternate ways of working. All of this in conversation with a highly skilled arts tutor and practising artist with many years of teaching in tertiary and studio settings.