Adaptation - Imagining Literature into Art

Fri 6 Sep 2019

Anna Spiro + Anne-Marie Te Whiu + David Stavanger

Cinema B, GoMA

Panel

6103

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Story being the heart of all art, literature is often the springboard for other artforms. The panel will discuss the creative process of transforming literature into a visual or performance medium.

#Artists

Anna Spiro

Anna Spiro is the Director and Head Interior Designer at Anna Spiro Design, with over 20 year’s experience in the design industry. She is known for her inherent ability to create unique, comfortable and awe-inspiring environments that people want to linger in. Anna is the founder of 'Anna Spiro Textiles' alongside her brother Sam Spiro and has recently been announced as an Audi Australia brand ambassador. Anna’s work has been featured in many publications including the Wall Street Journal, various issues of Vogue Living, Belle Magazine and the highly ac- claimed Andrew Martin Interior Design Awards yearly publication. She has an excellent reputation within the industry and has worked on many residential and numerous commercial projects throughout Australia. Featuring traditional elements such as antiques is of paramount importance to Anna. She believes strong, classic features keep spaces from becoming tired and dated. She also uses a beautiful curated mix of fabrics, artwork and found objects to create spaces that have interest, soul and enduring style. Anna throws herself 110% into each and every project she undertakes, no matter the size. She works tirelessly to create places that are unique and interesting for each and every client and aims to go above and beyond their expectations.

Anne-Marie Te Whiu

Anne-Marie Te Whiu is an Australian-born Māori belonging to the Te Rarawa iwi in Aotearoa NZ. She is a poet, editor, cultural producer and weaver. She was a 2021 Next Chapter Fellowship recipient, and her writing has been published broadly. Most recently she edited Woven (Magabala Books, 2024). This year she has been awarded the Varuna Residential Fellowship Writers and a Bundanon Artist Residency.
Anne-Marie’s forthcoming debut poetry collection titled Mettle will be published by University of Queensland Press.

David Stavanger

David Stavanger is a poet, producer, parent, and former psychologist living on Wodi Wodi Dharawal land. He also spends most of his week as an Artistic Director at Red Room Poetry. David is the author of The Special (UQP), awarded the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize; and Case Notes (UWAP), which won the 2021 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. He is the co-editor of SOLID AIR: Collected Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word (UQP, 2019) and Admissions: Voices Within Mental Health (2022). David's new collection is The Drop Off (Upswell Publishing, 2025), which explores the liminal space of shared custody and societal tropes of the ‘broken family’.

#Moderator

Bec Mac

Bec Mac is an artist, creative entrepreneur and Queen of Arts Communication who has founded innovative game-changing work LOVE TV, POPSART Artsmedia and more recently Chrysalis Projects creative placemaker.