Gina Fairley
Emcee, full day · Senior Contributor, ArtsHub
Tour Leader with AGNSW Members, contemporary jeweller.
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Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium
Putting makers at the centre of the conversation.
artisan's inaugural Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium — a day to chart the next decade for the people and organisations shaping contemporary craft and design across Australia.
Why MADE 2026
A gathering of makers and designers to shape their future
MADE 2026 is conceived as an annual meeting place for practitioners, from First Nations art centres and regional studios to metropolitan workshops, to gather and share ideas.
MADE 2026 puts makers at the centre of the conversation. This is a day to discuss and identify the priorities, partnerships and meaningful actions that will strengthen the sector for the decade ahead, and meet the challenges around visibility, skills and access to collectors, and markets.
- 80%+
- of artisan's maker network are women
- <$75k
- earned annually by most makers running cottage businesses
- 55%
- of makers showcased by artisan in 2025 were regional and remote
The day
Program
Emcee for the day: Gina Fairley
Morning
Information sharing
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8:00am
Registration and arrival
Foyer, Queensland Terrace - 8:30am Welcome to Country
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8:45am
Minister's video message TBC
Hon. John-Paul Langbroek MP
Scott Martin, interim CEO, State Library of Queensland -
8:50am
Chair's address
Angela Spillane, Chair, artisan -
9:00am
Emcee welcome and scene setting
Gina Fairley -
9:15am
Keynote: Objects, Collections, Collaboration and Cultural Identity
Sally Brand, QAGOMA -
10:05am
Morning tea and networking
Queensland Terrace -
10:35am
A Nation of Makers
National plenary, moderated by Dr Elizabeth Shaw
Travis Tiddy, CEO, Design Tasmania
Brian Parkes, CEO, JamFactory
Aimee Frodsham, CEO & Artistic Director, Canberra Glassworks
Melanie Gibson, Hopevale Arts and Cultural Centre; Director, Indigenous Art Centre Alliance
Carmel Haugh, CEO, artisan -
12:00pm
Lunch and sector networking
Queensland Terrace
Optional tour of Alison McDonald's installation, Level 2, SLQ
Afternoon
Focusing on what's in front of us
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1:05pm
Future Proofing the Sector
Queensland panel, facilitated by Carmel Haugh
Adam Boyd, Northsite (Cairns) and Kate O'Hara, Umbrella (Townsville) — Far North and North Queensland makers
Carmel Haugh, artisan — design and multi-discipline
Susan Richardson, JMGQ and Ella Callopy, artisan — jewellers and small objects
Libby Harward, Munimba-ja Arts Centre — Indigenous art centre perspective
Diamando Koutsellis and Jane Orme, TACA, and Shannon Garson, artisan — ceramicist perspective -
1:55pm
Breakout Round 1: What Is and What Matters
5 parallel rooms, choose one -
2:50pm
Breakout Round 2: What Works
5 parallel rooms, choose one -
4:10pm
Closing remarks and next steps
Angela Spillane, Carmel Haugh, Scott Martin (SLQ) -
5:30pm
Program concludes, then networking drinks
Queensland Terrace
Timings are indicative and subject to change closer to the day.
On stage
Speakers & panellists
Sally Brand
Keynote · Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, QAGOMA
Objects, Collections, Collaboration and Cultural Identity, followed by audience Q&A.
Dr Elizabeth Shaw
Moderator, A Nation of Makers · Artist and academic
Senior Lecturer, Program Director Graduate Certificate and Master of Visual Arts, Convenor of Jewellery and Small Objects, Griffith University.
Brian Parkes
Panellist · CEO, JamFactory
Travis Tiddy
Panellist · Co-CEO, Design Tasmania
Founding Artistic Director of The Unconformity, with more than 15 years in cultural leadership, regional advocacy and arts management. Churchill Fellow; Co-Creative Director of Hobart Current 2025.
Aimee Frodsham
Panellist · CEO and Artistic Director, Canberra Glassworks
More than 25 years working with artists and craftspeople, including 12 years at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate in London. Artistic Director at Canberra Glassworks since 2018.
Melanie Gibson
Panellist · Art Centre Manager, Hopevale Arts and Cultural Centre · Director, IACA
Hopevale Arts and Cultural Centre is governed and managed by the Guugu Yimithirr people, supporting Hope Vale's creatives across painting, textiles, jewellery and weaving since 2009.
Carmel Haugh
CEO, artisan · Welcome, panellist and Future Proofing
Angela Spillane
Chair, artisan · Chair's address
A Nation of Makers is a national plenary presented with the Australian Craft and Design Centres network (ACDC): sector leaders discussing the opportunities and challenges shaping contemporary craft and design organisations across the country.
Afternoon breakouts
Future Proofing the sector
Five parallel Future Proofing rooms run across the afternoon. Round 1 (1:55pm) asks what is and what matters; Round 2 (2:50pm) asks what works. Delegates choose a room for each round — the same or different.
Far North and North Queensland Makers
Northsite (Cairns) and Umbrella (Townsville) · Adam Boyd, Kate O'Hara
Northern Queensland perspective
Strategic Goals Workshop
artisan · Carmel Haugh
Design and multi-discipline perspective
Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, Qld Chapter
Susan Richardson, JMGQ · Ella Callopy, artisan
Jewellers and small objects perspective
Munimba-ja Arts Centre
Libby Harward
Indigenous art centre perspective
The Australian Ceramics Association
Diamando Koutsellis and Jane Orme, TACA · Shannon Garson, artisan
Ceramicist perspective
Goals are tagged across five domains: Cultural · Sustainable · Social · Economic · Environmental.
Tickets
Be in the room.
30% of in-person places are reserved for regional and remote Queensland makers.
$285
General admission
$150
Student
$85
Livestream
artisan associates
Associates save on MADE 2026.
Student Maker associates save 50% on every ticket tier. Professional Maker and Peer associates save 20%. Collector associates save 10%. Membership starts at $6 a month.
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artisan acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their continuing connection to the land on which we make, exhibit and exchange ideas.
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info@artisan.org.au · (07) 3215 0800 · Cultural Precinct, State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, South Brisbane QLD 4101
