Date: Saturday 1 November 2025- Time: 1.30pm – 5pm
- Location: Rockingham Arts Centre, 11 Kent Street, Rockingham
- Price: $30 per person
- Registrations close: Friday 31 October 2025. Limited to 20 participants.
Ever wondered how to break into the arts as a sculptor? Join Castaways curator Lyn Di Ciero, together with speakers with decades of art experience who talk on how to navigate the world of public art commissions. Registration required. Click here for more information and information on how to register.
About the Facilitators
Lyn Di Ciero has a wide experience in the visual arts over the past 40 years, from curator of Castaways since its inception in 2008, to publisher of the Artist’s Chronicle magazine since 1991, the longest-running independent visual arts magazine in Western Australia’s history and Artoble, the newly released free-to-download art finder App. She is a former visual arts feature writer for The West Australian, and a filmmaker with commissions including the Art Gallery of WA and St John of God Health Care where her documentaries feature on the first arts channel within a hospital in Western Australia.
Dr Audrey Fernandes-Satar PhD was born in India, has studied in Lisbon, Portugal and lived in Australia for the past 40 years. She grew up within a microcosm of stories of freedom and activism – collective memories shared, or overhead, and then kept safe in an imaginary repository somewhere in her mind. Her practice spans poetic text, painting, sculpture, drawing and the moving image. She has completed numerous site-specific art projects in public spaces and exhibited in Australia and overseas, including at the 23rd Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy in 2023. Audrey holds an MFA from the University of Lisbon, Portugal and a PhD from Murdoch University, Perth, where she has been a lecturer for the past 18 years.
Engineer Albert de Boer heads the construction and fabrication arm of the design team at Artforms, a collective of skilled and experienced artists, creators and engineers. He has been involved in many major construction projects and has a deep understanding of engineering principles. Albert’s extensive knowledge incorporates automation, fabrication, and structural, civil, electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering. Together with artist, project manager and company founder, Carol Stevens, the Artforms team has a hands-on approach to fabrication, design, materials usage, graphics, drafting and structural certification.