Arts Promotion

David Brazil is a Blue Mountains based photographer and digitisation specialist who helps artists, galleries, and communities preserve their creative and cultural legacies. With over two decades of experience in photography, design, and heritage interpretation, David provides high-quality digitisation and documentation services, working with care, precision, and a deep respect for visual and historical material. David specialises in the archival digitisation of original artworks, including transparencies, prints, and large-format pieces. He also offers comprehensive exhibition documentation and performance photography, capturing the spatial, temporal, and emotional qualities of exhibitions, live art, and public events. His services are tailored to artists, academics and cultural institutions applying for grants, building portfolios, or creating long-term archives, ensuring their work is captured in faithful, high-resolution formats, ready for digital presentation or secure storage. He regularly collaborates with institutions such as the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, and has documented performances including Hands Heart & Feet at the Winter Magic Festival. His own projects, such as The Upper Reaches and Re-take Blue Mountains, funded by the City of the Arts program, reflect his broader interest in community, place, and visual storytelling. David also offers rephotography and digitisation of personal and historical collections, including delicate photo albums, family archives, and community heritage materials. Clients can choose on-site services or visit his Hazelbrook studio, with secure digital access provided for easy sharing and long-term use. Whether working with artists, performers, families, or curators, David Brazil combines creative insight with technical expertise, supporting those who want to preserve, share, or reflect on their work with professionalism and care.

Born and raised in the Blue Mountains, Chandu started her career as a nurse but spent her mornings and evenings on cliff tops painting impressionist landscapes in oil. In her mid twenties Chandu set off on a 7 month trip overseas - she didn’t move home for 12 years. Chandu spent much of that time in a remote village in Tanzania. It was here she saw the great need and opportunities for women in arts and business. In 2001 she created an international business based on fair trade principles between East Africa and Australia. She supported the micro economy and the health and wellbeing of families in the remote region and also promoted the sustainability of local customs, arts and traditions among indigenous villagers and tribe’s people. Chandu's years in a mud hut without electricity, running water or transport, found her swapping her sable brushes for simple living. Her new art form became writing poetry and prose on dodgy notebooks by lantern light. For the last 20 years Chandu has been studying, teaching and mentoring organisations, groups and individuals in the business, leadership and creative industries. An avid writer and poet she has won a scholarship with the Faber Writing Academy, been awarded local prizes for her short stories and poems, has enjoyed 2 invited residencies at Varuna and been published in several anthologies. She is a sought after and inspiring public speaker and Emcee. Chandu dedicates her time between being a creative and actively supporting creatives to take their passion and practice out into the world. An inspiring and engaging facilitator and creative coach, Chandu offers bespoke group programs and one on one mentoring for artists and practitioners like you who wish to * step more fully onto your creative path * explore and clarify your talents, ideas and offerings * make your passion your profession or * explore and extend your creative and business offerings If you'd love more information and support book a complimentary Connection Conversation today. https://chandubickford.com/services/#holisticmentoring

I work within the Arts & Cultural services of Regional NSW, providing skills in graphic design, art program administration, project management, data collection for research, facilitation and mentoring. Recent programs include: Culture Dose for Kids art program from AGNSW and The Black Dog Institute with funding from the Jibb Foundation, Intergenerational Playgroup with BANC with funding from NBMPHN and Wentworth Healthcare. As a highly skilled brand communication designer with over 25 years experience, most recently running my own business specialising in design for the Arts and Cultural sector, I manage all design projects from initiation to completion and excel in customer service forming long-lasting working relationships with clients and suppliers. Recent clients include: Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Blue Mountains City Council Cultural Development and Place Management teams, and Regional Futures for Regional Arts NSW.

Bringing magic into the world. Performing as Mx Robert Frost (Exploratory experiential sound focused on harsh noise and modified hearing through cognitive practice), and as part of Atunement with Panos Couros (exploratory, musique concrète, ambient). Designing and building electronic musical instrument equipment as MxRF. Building creative community and sharing synthesis knowledge as Mid Mountains Modular (Mmm).

With an international performance and production career, Anthony Albrecht has developed a reputation as an impresario of world-class events characterised by generosity, outreach and connection to issues of social justice, conservation and sustainability. He is co-founder and CEO of the Bowerbird Collective, an organisation devoted to forging stronger connections to the natural world through the arts. With Bowerbird, Anthony has co-produced numerous award-winning multimedia productions, described as "spectacular" by Limelight Magazine, and self-presented and performed in hundreds of events throughout regional Australia. In 2021 and 2022, their albums of endangered bird and frog calls, 'Songs of Disappearance', beat ABBA, Ed Sheeran and Adele on the ARIA charts. A musician known for his “dramatic flair” and “fluent and virtuosic” performances (Seen and Heard International, Sydney Morning Herald), he has frequently appeared with Pinchgut Opera, Van Diemen's Band, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, il Pomo d’Oro and New Vintage Baroque (NYC). Solo engagements include an appearance in the woods of East Sussex as a guest of Sam Lee’s ‘Singing with Nightingales’ project, a recital at the Handel and Hendrix House in London, a performance of Haydn’s Concerto in D at the Newcastle Music Festival, and as concerto soloist with Adelaide Baroque. Committed to musical outreach, Anthony self-produced a solo tour of over 80 concerts in regional Australia called ‘Bach to the Bush’. He is founder and director of three regional festivals, the Lapwing Music Festival in the UK, the Moonbird Festival on King Island, TAS, and the Lyrebird Festival in the Megalong Valley, NSW. Anthony was the first Australian graduate of The Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program, earning a Master of Music on full scholarship in 2014. To develop his arts business and management skills, he earned an MBA in 2022.

My name is Beth Champion, a local Blue Mountains actor with over 30 years of experience in film, TV, and voice work. I'm also a producer at Dweezl Productions and a fan and creator of audio drama and comedy. I am currently the producer and innovator of Gone Bush- Blue Mountains. Gone Bush is a comedy podcast and marketing platform. Iconic brands and business headline our comedy along with our creative team of actors, writers, director, composer and sound designer. Unlike other styles of podcast marketing which interrupt your listening experience, our brands are integral and blend seamlessly into our episodes.