Designed for early and mid-career women artists in the visual arts.

HOW TO SUSTAIN A LIFE-LONG, CREATIVE, STUDIO PRACTICE

Mentoring is a rich, challenging conversation centered on your art practice; encouraging reflection, new insights, broader perspectives, food for thought, action and is rewarding for both parties.
Margaret's website: http://margaret-turner.com.au

What’s in it for you?
Any form of art education is merely the beginning. This mentoring scholarship provides the structure to assist you continue to investigate and develop your own art practice into something that sustains you and itself for your whole life.

Alison Mooney writes of her experience. “Margaret has a way of leading down to the core of why you paint, or create. Her inquiries continue until you’re at the crux of the drive to create. And from there, her questioning and insight guide you up, like a vine reaching for the sun… the confidence instilled in my work led me to gallery representation and firmly off on my way out of ‘hobbyist’ to artist, in my own mind.
I highly recommend this opportunity. Be brave. You’re going to dive in deep and it’s not always pretty, but ultimately satisfying."

The Scholarship
· available for 12 or 6 months to suit the applicant.
· covers the costs involved in the mentoring. Applicants are responsible for their own costs.
· Applications close October 31, 2025

What is required of me? (Eligibility Criteria)
· Applicants must be willing to commit at least 12 hours per week to practice in their own dedicated studio space.
· Plus attending a fortnightly or monthly studio session with mentor in Caloundra, and journaling own studio process in electronic formats.
· Be a member of Flying Arts – an organization for artists in QLD, which offers connection with other artists and professional training workshops.

Mentorship supports participant to…
· develop new ideas and extend current practice
· expand and develop practice beyond the purely technical
· develop a reflective critical dialogue with your own work
· stimulate and challenge own ideas
· Develop the discipline that underpins a life long practice

In each mentoring session you will present a…
· PowerPoint discussing the work you have done since the last mentoring session,
· with images of your ongoing work
· evidence of experimentation
· examples of research relevant to your practice
· and (in time) the inclusion of video taken as you practice
The purpose of these presentations is to learn from one’s own practice, develop a vocabulary to articulate what is particular to your own practice, assist in developing rationales for promotion and exhibitions, getting work exhibition ready, making videos for the internet, et al.

To complete the application form you will need
· Three (3) written statements,
a. brief CV applying eligibility criteria
b. statement about why you choose to make art, what you want from art, what art contributes to your life and/or how art can benefit the greater human community
c. a proposal of what you think you need to work on during the mentorship
· Three (3) images of recent work loaded to your online drive - for example G Drive or DropBox.

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