Makers Pavilion
Art, Craft & Cookery at the Royal Melbourne Show
Between 2016-2019 I was lucky enough to work for the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria as the Event Coordinator for the Royal Melbourne Show’s Art, Craft and Cookery Competition and Makers Pavilion.
This heritage competition attracts over 4000 entries each year and the Royal Melbourne Show runs over 11 days with 450,000 visitors and is the largest event in the Victorian calendar. My role requires management of event contractors, 80 judges and stewards, installation staff a casual workforce, artists, demonstrators and workshop facilitators.
I developed and managed public programming which included a workshop space, demonstration space and staging area, commissioning artists to create site specific works plus a newly minted artist in residence program, managedsocial media across various platforms and maintained and developed relationships with sponsors and coordinated the competition and installation of this much loved component of the Show. I remain a member of the Art Craft and Cookery Committee to this day.
