• WHAT WE DO!

    Artology develops the creative potential of young people through experiential learning in the arts.

OUR VISION

The leaders of experiential learning in the arts.

OUR MISSION

Enriching lives and communities by nurturing creativity.

OUR VALUES

Curiosity : Exploring opportunities
Creativity : Encouraging discovery
Courageous : Daring to challenge the status quo
Connect : Uniting people and ideas through the arts

WE BELIEVE

* Creativity is our most valuable human resource.
* Creative thinking is under-valued.
* Fostering creativity in young people enriches their life’s and society.

HOW WE DO IT

Artology develops the creative potential of young and not so young people through experiential learning in the arts. Our mission is to enrich the lives and communities by nurturing creativity. Artology’s key objectives are to offer creative development projects and promote the creativity of writers, composers, producers and directors. Everyone that is engaged in an Artology project is treated as a professional and mentors are there merely to guide them through the aspects of the creative process. Projects have included Fanfare Competition, RAW Filmmakers, WotOpera and Artology Remix. Artology is support by the Graeme Wood Foundation.

Artology’s Fanfare Competition is the winner of the 2016 Art Music Award for Excellence in Music Education.  ‘

This outstanding program offered its young participants a unique opportunity that included composition, mentoring and terrific exposure.’

ARTOLOGY WAS FOUNDED BY THE GRAEME WOOD FOUNDATION

ANNA CERNEAZ, DIRECTOR

Anna Cerneaz started her professional life as an oceanographer. However, her lifelong interest in the arts, notably as an oboe player and concertgoer, soon channelled her career in an entirely different direction. Over a number of years, she built up her own artistic management business; among the many positions she held during that time was as general manager of Pinchgut Opera.

In the past decade, Anna has honed her company director skills in a very practical way. She is currently a director of several for-profit and not-for-profit organisations, including the Graeme Wood Foundation, which supports progressive thinking and action, Artology, Spring Bay Mill, Wild Mob and Syrinscape.

Anna’s greatest wish is that by developing the creative development of the young (and not-so-young), the current not-so-rosy prognosis of Homo sapiens can be rescued via deep immersion in the glorious worlds of nature and music.

GRAEME WOOD, DIRECTOR

Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the online travel business Wotif.com in 2000. The Graeme Wood Foundation was formed in 2006 and supports environmental sustainability, the arts and education. Graeme is a major donor to the University of Queensland, where he was instrumental in the formation of the Global Change Institute. In 2013, he teamed up with the UK Guardian News and Media to form Guardian Australia. Graeme was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2012.

ANTHONY HALLAM, DIRECTOR

Anthony Hallam is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and principle of AnthonyHallam Chartered Accountants, a position he has held for over ten years. He specialises in areas of taxation and business services and has an interest in matters of philanthropy. Anthony attended the University of Queensland, where he attained a Bachelor of Commerce (Hon) degree.

NICHOLAS VINES, MENTOR COMPOSER, FANFARE

The works of Nicholas Vines (b.1976, Sydney) have been performed by the likes of Alarm Will Sound, BMOP, Ensemble Offspring, the Schola Cantorum Gedanesis Chamber Choir, the BT Scottish Ensemble and the Australian Piano Quartet. He has been commissioned by organisations around the world, such as Acacia Quartet, Callithumpian Consort, Firebird Ensemble, mmm…, Guerilla Opera, ChamberMade Opera, Ensemble Apex, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and various Sydney schools. Recognition for Vines’s work includes APRA AMCOS Art Music, Helpmann and Green Room Awards (2011/2012, 2007, 2006), runner-up in the 2010 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, an honourable mention in the 2006 Salvatore Martirano Competition (USA), and 2nd Prize in the ‘Musica Sacra 2005’ Competition (Poland). Published by Wirripang, Faber Music, the Australian Composers Online Project and Alexander Street Press, the bulk of his work is available through the Australian Music Centre. Navona Records has released albums of Vines’s compositions featuring the Callithumpian Consort (Torrid Nature Scenes), Guerilla Opera (Loose, Wet, Perforated) and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (Hipster Zombies from Mars). Graduating in 2007 with a PhD from Harvard University, Vines taught theory and composition there and at Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before taking up a position at Sydney Grammar School. He is also a composition tutor at the University of New South Wales, and mentor for the annual Artology Fanfare Competition, which in 2016 won the APRA AMCOS Art Music Award for Excellence in Music Education.

LYLE CHAN, MENTOR COMPOSER, FANFARE

Lyle Chan’s compositions are known for their combination of intellectual rigor and powerful emotional impact, even for audiences unaccustomed to classical music. He is best known for three works: his most notorious composition is Wind Farm Music, dedicated to Australia’s unpopular then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott in protest against the government’s anti-renewable energy stance. The work that first brought him widespread recognition was Rendezvous With Destiny for narrator and musicians – based on US political history – and performed by Bob Carr, a former Foreign Minister of Australia. His most personal and confronting work is his 90-minute String Quartet, a memoir of his years as an AIDS activist in the 1990s. It was hailed by American composer John Corigliano as “a serious and deeply felt work of art born out of a seemingly endless plague.” He was awarded the 2017 Art Music Awards’ Orchestral Work of the Year prize for his acclaimed 40-min orchestral song cycle called My Dear Benjamin, based on the wartime letters between a young Benjamin Britten and his first love, Wulff Scherchen. For the Debussy centenary of 2018, he was commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music to compose the remaining 3 Sonatas of Debussy’s unfinished final project.

Lyle Chan holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He spent over a decade at ABC Classics, where as Artists, Repertoire and Marketing Manager he spearheaded the production of over 200 recordings, including every winner of the Best Classical category of the ARIA Awards between 1998 and 2008. He is co-founder and co-artistic director of Extended Play, a unique festival that is a ‘complete venue take-over’ of Sydney’s famed City Recital Hall.