About Us
Staff
Carli Leimbach, Producer
Carli Leimbach is a Producer, Curator and Artist. She has developed and managed innovative, high quality arts projects and programs for large-scale outdoor festival settings in Australia, America, Indonesia and the United Kingdom including Zero1 Biennale San Jose USA, Burning Man Festival, Splendour In the Grass Festival, The Great Escape Festival, Cockatoo Island Festival, Gang Festival, Body Pacifica and Sydney Laneway Festival.
In her spare time she mixes eclectic film footage with hand made visuals with collective Pixel Vision presenting original multi-stream VJ performances, art installations and experimental audiovisual events. She has collaborated with international dancers, musicians and actors to provide visual events for Woodford Festival, Carnivale Festival, Sydney Latin American Film Festival, The Studio - SOH, Performance Space, Seymour Centre, Art Gallery of NSW, Melt Bar, Elizabeth Bay House and Plug n Play Sydney.
Working as Producer for Splendid, Carli has been able to draw on her experience when assisting in the design of the Art Labs, mentoring and overseeing project commissions for festival audiences. Her focus continues to be on creating interactivity and how to encourage artists to create work that will inspire, engage, question, puzzle, amuse, seduce and transform the festival site.
She believes passionately in the Splendid program developing large scale public art and performance that is imaginative and provides a "wow" factor outside the traditional gallery space.
Andy Stewart, Production Manager
In 1998 Andy graduated from the Technical Production course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. He has worked as a stage manager, lighting designer, and production manager for theatre and events.
Since graduating he has worked with Sydney Festival in several roles including as Technical Manager on Festival First Night. Other companies Andy has worked for include Railway Street Theatre Company, South Australian Theatre Company, Theatre of Image, Spectak Production, City Of Sydney NYE, and NSW Premier's Department.
He was business manager for NIDA Open Program before returning to the North Coast of New South Wales, where he grew up. He recently worked with Wan Smolbag Theatre in Vanuatu as their lighting designer after returning from a stint with Sydney Festival.
He enjoys working closely with designers and is thrilled to be involved with SPLENDID in the creation of new works.
Brett Adlington, Director Lismore Regional Gallery
Brett Adlington is Director of Lismore Regional Gallery. He has worked in the regional gallery sector for nearly 15 years since graduating from Sydney College of the Arts. Prior to Lismore Regional Gallery he worked in curatorial positions at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Gold Coast City Art Gallery and Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery. For Gold Coast City Art Gallery he produced over 30 exhibitions across a wide range of areas, many examining the particularities of Gold Coast culture. These include A Place in the sun: historical visions of the Gold Coast and All that Glitters ...contemporary visions of the Gold Coast. In 2005 he curated the Scott Redford solo exhibition The content of these paintings is secret, known only to the people of Surfers Paradise, and in 2002 he curated and toured 6ft + clean: surf + art to nine venues across the country.
Brett has curated numerous exhibitions in a freelance capacity including 12 Degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in Queensland that toured throughout that state. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Arts and Cultural Management from the University of South Australia.
His now defunct art practice included exhibitions at Museum of Brisbane, Queensland Centre for Photography, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Redland Art Gallery and Umbrella Studio.
Kathryn Holloway, Publicist
Kathryn Holloway is an independent lover of various hats – the variety that can be worn across all things communications, programming and events in the realm of music and the arts.
Kathryn has had the privilege of working in programming at some of Australia’s finest arts festivals – Sydney Festival and Perth International Arts Festival as well as learning from the best in the music festival PR business. Since 2004, Kathryn has worked in publicity across Splendour in the Grass, Homebake, Waveaid, Bluesfest, Live Earth and Groovin the Moo.
From 2003 – 2010, Kathryn coordinated the 1233 ABC Newcastle Music Awards project (supporting and giving airplay to the regions up and coming artists) for the Nation’s Broadcaster and in-between has worked with Gadigal Music, ABC Music and Universal Music Australia on a range of album releases and tours.
Kathryn will continue to coordinate the Splendid publicity effort to introduce media of Australia and beyond to the exciting world of Splendid 2011.
Jessica Whiting, Marketing Coordinator
Jessica Whiting is an independent arts marketer and publicist operating out of Brisbane. Since succeeding as our Marketing Intern in 2010, Jess has graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business Communication. She now dedicates herself to contracts with galleries and organisations such as White Canvas Gallery, Artworkers Alliance and Youth Arts Queensland.
Inspired by the creative energy and ambition within her city, Jess volunteers her time and expertise to artist-run initiatives whenever possible. In 2010, she researched and wrote five chapters of So You Want To Be An Artist And Still Be Able To Eat?, a handbook published by Artworkers Alliance.
Jess will continue to be our social media champion and coordinate the Splendid marketing effort in 2011 to engage and involve audiences in the program and resulting works across Australia … and the big wide world.
Phoebe Hall, Splendid Intern
Phoebe has been involved in the film/SPFX industry since 2006 in various roles, primarily focusing on prosthetics and wigging. She worked for JMB FX Studios as a prosthetic and wigging technician on numerous films including "The Ruins", "Daybreakers" and "The Pacific". She has also worked as a freelance makeup artist with Liz Sharp at Splendour in the Grass' "Double Dragon" show ( 2006) .
After a stint in the European squat scene, Phoebe returned to Lismore and became involved with the clandestine equine art terrorists, locally known as "The Goldworthies". Due to the anonymous nature of her involvement, her identity as "Tiffany Goldworthy" has only recently been exposed when she "drowned Tiffany" publicly at Lismore Public Baths on New Years Day. Currently, Phoebe is studying Visual Arts at Southern Cross University.
