WHAT WE DO
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Diving deep into your organisation or agency, develop informed strategic plans, business development and strategic revisions
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Build relationships and gather input from this who matter the most as you develop your project or approach
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Write clear, compelling and competitive funding applications and proposals to get your project underway, and help to evaluate and report on them along the way
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Plan, execute, and evaluate projects of all kinds including events, curatorial and performing arts
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Prepare high quality and succinct written content for a variety of purposes
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Develop communications strategy, plan implementation and analysis to engage audiences and make a strong impression
CLIENTS
City of Melville
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City of Karratha
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City of Fremantle
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Town of Bassendean
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Arts and Culture Trust (formerly Perth Theatre Trust)
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National Trust of WA
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City of Melville 〰️ City of Karratha 〰️ City of Fremantle 〰️ Town of Bassendean 〰️ Arts and Culture Trust (formerly Perth Theatre Trust) 〰️ National Trust of WA 〰️
Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of WA
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Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation
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Ngaarda Media
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Yindjibarndi Nation Ltd
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Garlbagu
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Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation Ltd
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Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of WA 〰️ Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation 〰️ Ngaarda Media 〰️ Yindjibarndi Nation Ltd 〰️ Garlbagu 〰️ Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation Ltd 〰️
Tura New Music
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PACT Centre for Emerging Artists (NSW)
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Beyond Empathy (NSW)
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Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
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Centre for Stories
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WA Youth Theatre Company
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Seesaw Magazine
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Tura New Music 〰️ PACT Centre for Emerging Artists (NSW) 〰️ Beyond Empathy (NSW) 〰️ Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) 〰️ Centre for Stories 〰️ WA Youth Theatre Company 〰️ Seesaw Magazine 〰️
PREVIOUS WORK
Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation
Ngurra Nyujunggamu | When the world was soft
Ngurra Nyujunggamu – When the World Was Soft is Juluwarlu’s spectacular theatrical celebration of the rich culture of the Pilbara. This stunning, large-scale outdoor performance launched at Red Earth Arts Festival in May 2023.
Compelling Yindjibarndi creation stories are told through puppetry, projections, and specially composed music. They teach important life lessons including the story of the Marrga, the powerful Creation Spirit who is embodied by the praying mantis, and lessons about looking after each other, about greed, and about the consequences of breaking cultural laws.
Executive Producer: Lorraine Coppin | Creative Director: Peter Wilson
Producers: Mollie Hewitt & Rania Ghandour - Walk Through Walls
Ngurra Nyujunggamu performance, Photo courtesy of Juluwalru.
Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of WA
AACHWA StrategiC PLan 2024-2027
In 2022 Walk Through Walls worked with Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of WA (AACHWA) to develop their next strategic plan and multi-year funding application.
The process involved deep consultation with AACHWA’s membership and Board including workshops in Derby and Perth to develop a plan that reflected the ambitions of the sector.
The resulting strategy outlined significant growth for the organisation while keeping to the core of AACHWA’s role as the peak body supporting art centres through promotion, empowerment and connection.
Photo of AACHWA’s Derby workshop.
Tura New Music
Planning, Fundraising & Project Support
Walk Through Walls has worked with Tura New Music since 2020 to develop organisational strategy, apply for operational and project funding and to support major projects.
During this time together we have developed Tura’s five-year strategic plan and communications strategy as well as successfully gained major funding applications from federal and state governments and others.
This has aided Tura in their delivery of projects such as The Journey Down - an animated and vibrant celebration of dance, song, projections and otherworldly sound coming together to transform an old bush wreck. This was a regional tour throughout WA.
The Journey Down, a Tura project in partnership with WA Museum. Image OF THE BROOME PERFORMANCE by Edify Media, courtesy of Tura.
Ngaarda Media
business Development for community radio
Over the last three years Walk Through walls has worked with Ngaarda Media, an independent media broadcaster and media training hub representing the Aboriginal people of the Pilbara.
We have worked together on organisational strategy, fundraising, and business development - raising funding for repairs to broadcast towers, employment, and equipment to aid Ngaarda Media in their exponential growth.
Ngaarda Media host Brandon Cook at outside broadcast in Tom Price, image courtesy of Ngaarda Media.
City of Karratha
Evaluation & Arts Programming
In 2021 Walk Through Walls (under our previous name Black Iris Consulting) developed and delivered a year-long arts and exhibitions program with the City of Karratha. The program included curating, installing and programming six exhibitions over twelve months at venues across the City. The program included workshops and public programs and had a focus on local Pilbara artists.
Walk Through Walls also worked with the City of Karratha in 2018 on a major evaluation and review of their multi-year major artists-in-residency program VAST. The result of this review was a tabletop publication showcasing the results of the project as well as robust evaluation engaging many different stakeholders. The review put forward a series of recommendations for Council for future programs.
Photo of opening night of Place Manifest featuring 25 local artists.
National Trust of WA
Australian Heritage FEstival
In 2022 and 2023 Walk Through Walls supported the National Trust of WA with the delivery of the State’s arm of the Australian Heritage Festival.
Our services involved outreach and recruitment of event holders, the coordination of event holder participation, and the development and facilitation of the content, design, print and distribution of the event program.
We also generated the event’s marketing and promotion plan and coordinated the Festival’s presence through owned, earned and paid media platforms.
Image a crop of front cover of WA 2023 program courtesy of National Trust of WA.