Artist-Mentor Profile

Co-Founder, Co-Director – Stick Mob Studio, Mparntwe-Alice Springs, central Australia

Research Associate – Creative Careers. College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University

Senior Literacy Teacher – NT Department of Education (remote and very remote schools)

Lead Instructional Designer / Project Manager – Centre for Remote Health and Menzies School of Health Research

Executive Producer, West MacDonnell (Tjoritja) Online Visitors Centre – NRETAS (Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sports)

Policy and Learning and Performance Network Manager – professional learning, curriculum, pedagogy – NT Department of Education

Head of Faculty: IT and Literacy – Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), North London, England

Education Instructional Designer – NT Department of Education

Manager – Resistant Media – NxT: Northern Territory Xposure Multimedia Symposium. ANAT, Qantm NT

Cultural Mapping Consultant – Palmerston Town Council, NT, Australia

The Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, was a political deal designed to bring an end to 30 years of violent conflict in Northern Ireland, known as ‘The Troubles’.

Artistic Director – Red Zone Street Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

The fall of the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany

Co-Founder / Designer Leisha Cowan Textile Design, Dublin, Ireland

Mural Artist – Australia and Ireland.  Including a large scale centennial mural commission, Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland

Stage Designer – Adzido Pan African Dance Ensemble. North London, England

Eli-ad Moshav, Golan Heights

Synagogue Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, Israel

Weaver – Gaza City, Occupied Palestinian Territories

Teacher of Weaving  – West Berlin, Germany

Cook – Paris, France

Studio Residency – Watch This Space, Mparntwe-Alice Springs, Central Australia

Teaching Award  – Remote Communications Association (IRCA) – 15th National Remote Indigenous Media Festival 

Teaching Award – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) – Film and Education

Teaching Award – NARIS (National Alliance for Remote Indigenous Schools)

Studio Residency – Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) – Education and Community Program, Dublin, Ireland

Papua New Guinea – Walked the Kokoda Track with Koiari and Orokaiva women.  Travelled by cargo boat from Waiwa to Lae. Crossed the Highlands from Lae to Mendi by PMV.

Cowan, Wendy. Entangled exhibitions: Returning, Remembering more ‘just’ pasts. IMMA Magazine

Cowan, Wendy. Undoing Theory: Walking of Arrernte Country – Co-creating Knowledge and Meaning in Central Australia. Learning Communities: International; Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, 27, 15-24

Bat, Melanie; Ober, Robyn; Doe, Tina; Gillespie, Katherine and Cowan, Wendy. A two-way teaching and learning practice framework and literature review. Batchelor Institute, NT

Spillman, David; Kilgariff, Clare; Cowan, Wendy, Guy, David; and Blyth, Matt. Cross-Cultural Collobartion Project (CCCP) and Toolkit – A Culturally Responsive Toolkit using the Engoori strength-based approach and Complex Adaptive Systems. NT Department of Education and Training

Cowan, Wendy. Life and Death on Aboriginal Land with Anne Mosey. Artlink – Disintegration, 19(3)

Cowan, Wendy. Palmerston City Council Mapping Report and Exhibition. Palmerston Town Council, Northern Territory

All About One Young Fellah. Stick Mob Studio and CASSE

Her name is Topsy Smith. Stick Mob Studio and National Trust, Alice Springs

Cowan, Wendy. Hottest Gallery in the World (Co-Ed.) Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Larrakia – Darwin (formerly 24 HR Art)

Cowan, Wendy. ‘A tent of ideas, visions and actions’. In Shireen Akbar (Ed.). Shamiana: The Mughal Tent: V&A education project. London: V&A Publications

Cowan, Wendy. ‘Penned in counterstance’. In David Scott (Ed.). Friendly Street Poets Anthology. Adelaide, SA: Wakefield Press