Itinerant Art Project

Itinerant: Traveling from place
to place

An art project about homelessness

The Itinerant Art Project is a collective of artists with lived experience of homelessness and housing insecurity who have been working together since 2018. We do arts and storytelling workshops, share information and advocate to improve the homeless experience, and make art.

We came together to share story, both with each other and the public, raise awareness and break down stigma of homelessness / itinerancy, create community connections, and to tell our story, our way.

We do painting, drawing, writing, audio and film, using mixed media to make artworks that intervene in the public environment, creating opportunities for people to engage with us in new ways, to have a conversation. Share our stories.

Project Producer & Curator Anna Makes

Project Advisor & Lead Artist Helen Dixon

Project Advisor & Lead Artist Terry Collins

Project Participant & Lead Artist Johan Van Nek

Project Participant & Lead Artist Janie Sharpe

Participating Artist Tristina Egan

Participating Artist Thelma Ross

Video Josh Davis

Audio Vito Lucarelli

Welcome to Country Kumalie Riley

The Itinerant Art Project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body. This exhibition is a Desert Festival 2020 Umbrella Event.

Photograph by Hannah Purdy

Opening night photographs by Mimi Catterns