We believe Bassendean is a better place to live when artists, designers and creatives lead the change. We’re here to support and nurture creativity in all its forms. We are Bassendean’s most trusted creative community.
Bassendean Arts Community Principles
- Give artists problems to solve, not solutions to implement
- All members and artists are considered professional artists, regardless of their background
- Always use constraints
- No false deadlines. We only use real deadlines
- Our actions and interactions connect us and others to emotion and meaning
- The unique experience of members and the community is more important than the numbers/scale
- Imagination and curiosity are superpowers expressed through flow and momentum
- Cultivate environments for flow
- Embrace (loud) expression of art, music & culture
- Think big through small acts
- Financially sustainable
- Members first
- Members are connected with Bassendean
Meet the team
Your committee are artists and members and all our actions and interactions are guided by the principles above. Meet the whole team
Michael Grau
Your point of first contact at Bassendean Arts. Naturally collaborative, I connect you with the committee and other members.
Creative Fields: Visual arts, artisan sourdough baking, landscape design, lime-paint-inventing, surfboard inventing, athlete, youtubing, interior design, lighting design, facilitation, futures trading, skateboarding, product design, graphic design, Ai training, writing, athleticism, learning.
Themes: Spatial relationships and physical movement / expression.
Why I Volunteer: Bassendean Arts helped me to bake artisan loaves for the local community and (as President) it’s my turn to support the committee and members.
Our Strategy
What is our winning aspiration?
High quality creative activities of an ongoing nature run by members and in keeping with BAC purpose and principles. High quality refers to excellence and/or clarity of “why” the activity is taking place. Our strategic emphasis is on ongoing activities and performing/supporting on one-off acts to tactically assist ongoing activities.
Where will we play?
- Individual arts practices (solo practitioner support)
- Group arts practices
- Cyril Jackson Senior Campus Arts House (and other facilities on campus)
- Partnering with businesses in their location
- Bassendean streetscapes and town centre
- Town of Bassendean shared spaces
- Virtually (group video chats / video publication / blog-newsletter / artist support).
How will we win where we have chosen to play?
- Clarity of message and the medium (art activities) strongly reflect the message and are the medium. The medium is the message. ie. When we do quality work in the community our brand is associated with the quality outcomes. We are seen to do good work and believed to do good work
- Our brand is known and respected/heartwarming across Bassendean
- Using our principles in the spaces where we play
- Connecting artists with other artists, with organisations and with the community
- The committee leading by example with our own art practices.
What capabilities must be in place to win?
- Committee team work and flexibility / capacity (for life to intervene, eg. dealing with unavailability) – a quorum (minimum of two committee members)
- Financial growth / stability
- Frequent, scaled communication, including case studies
What management systems are required to ensure the capabilities are in place?
- Shared access to systems
- Shared communication channel for committee
- End-to-end process for onboarding new members (logistics and informal qualitative data)
- Keep the lights on acts and processes (secretary / treasurer)
- The website as a tool for communication (externally) and connection.