I dropped by Signal to capture a portrait of Angela Anqi Liang and Henry Nguyen for the Young Creatives Lab program which provides an opportunity for young artists and creative practitioners to propose new ideas to be realised in collaboration with Signal.
Angela and Henry’s project A Place Like Home: is a series of community-building art workshops, online publication, and exhibition giving voice to unheard stories within the Asian diaspora community in Australia.
Signal Arts is a creative studio for young people aged 13-25 in Melbourne CBD. The images above are from the Signal Summer showcase 2019 and the Young Creative Lab project. Photographs by Emma Byrnes
I was invited to document the impressive summer showcase at Signal Arts. Ten days of workshops culminated in an impressive showcase with 120 young people presenting words from a variety of creative disciplines including visual art, sculpture, music, spoken word, theatre, performance and animation.
If you know any young creatives who live in or near Melbourne be sure to steer their attention towards the Signal - it’s a terrific program offering young people the opportunity to work alongside professional artists in a collaborative way, through multi-artform workshops and mentoring.
What a gift to emerging young artists and ultimately the City of Melbourne!