tinygold is a not-for-profit artist-run initiative launched in 2007 on the Gold Coast, Australia. Each year we conduct ‘Tales from the Cold Ghost’, an annual art showcase providing local emerging artists with the necessary exposure, resources and professional development skills needed to progress into their arts practice. Through this we provide emerging Queensland artists with exhibition resources for work creation, and networking strategies that promote dialogue between emerging artists and the wider Queensland art community. tinygold acknowledges the importance of supporting the independent arts community in Queensland. We also encourage networking platforms by providing unrepresented artists the rare platform to be featured alongside prominent emerging artists.
VIEW OUR EXHIBITION SERIES AND LIST OF ARTISTS.
Mariam and Megan are taking a break in 2010 to focus on other arts and curating projects. We thank you for your interest and continued support. To recieve backcopies of our catalogues and invites please email tinygoldATgmail.com.
Project Directors
Mariam Arcilla is a Gold Coast curator, artsworker and sometime artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and Bachelor of Creative Arts Degree from Griffith University. After graduating Mariam co-founded the artist-run-initiative tinygold with Megan Cope, and for 3 years curated annual survey shows showcasing emerging SE Qld artists. She was also co-founder of 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace - a commercial gallery dedicated to fostering the careers of emerging and established Australian and International artists. As a Gallery Director for 2 years she curated exhibitions and facilitated workshops, artist talks, residencies and community events. Mariam’s projects have been featured in ABC TV, Gold Coast White Pages, Art Monthly, Monster Children, Frankie, Triple J, Pedestrian and Gold Coast Bulletin. She currently works as a Cultural Developer at Gold Coast City Council, is 1/3 of the upcoming arts hub rabbit+ cocoon, and is also a freelance curator.
Megan Cope is a young contemporary Indigenous artist, who in 2006 graduated from a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Visual Communication) at Deakin University, Melbourne. She currently lectures in Indigenous Critique at Griffith University. Relationships with the environment and exploring self narrative mythologies are a primary aspect of her practice. She is a descendant from the Quandamooka region (North Stradbroke Island) in South East Queensland. Megan has exhibited her works in the Koori Heritage Trust in Melbourne, Craft Queensland & Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. In 2008 she was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ prize in the Gold Coast Indigenous Art & Design Award, and in 2006 was the ‘Youth Category’ winner in the same Award. She has had works published in Gatherings II. Megan lives and works in Brisbane, and together with Mariam Arcilla has established the Gold Coast based artist run-initiative ‘tinygold.’ She is the Creative Director for the Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives festival.
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