Rudder Exchange Visual Arts Mentoring Partnerships- REVAMP
A program of the Artful Dodgers Studios (Jesuit Social Services) developed in 2010 by Forest Keegel in consultation with Dodgers artists. Rudder Exchange Visual Arts Mentoring Partnerships (REVAMP) matched established visual artists (mentors) with Dodgers artists- young people (18-28) (mentees) to work together in a mentoring partnership. Mentor – mentee partnerships were primarily matched by art form. The mentees and mentors participated in training and mentees had agency in choosing a mentor.
Upon entering the program many of the mentees had faced barriers to employment or education and had not undergone formal arts training, having dedicated studio space, working collegiately to support each other and developing work for exhibition led many of them to University and sustained art practices.
Juan Davila was the Artistic Patron of REVAMP
Australia Council for the Arts funded the program for 2 years
Exhibitions
2012 NGV Studio - Habitat
2011 Yarra Sculpture Gallery- Cahoots
2021 VicHealth Office relocation mural project
Curation of wall vinyl murals of existing works by artists connected with MAV; Arts Access Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria that reveal the intersectionality and breadth of artists from across Victoria. Working with First Nations first principles and the understanding that not everyone is verbal or literate in artists Moral Rights and Intellectual Property. Putting artists first, advocating for their rights and best possible way for their work to be presented as a licensed vinyl full wall print.
Amelia Bell Water around Tower Hill (foreground) Kim Anderson Merge/Emerge (background)
Photo by Seung Hyuk Choi
Nyuso by Clitories
Photo by Seung Hyuk Choi