Creative Victoria spotlights First Peoples team and projects for 2025

Creative Victoria Chief Executive, Claire Febey, has spotlighted their First Peoples team and projects for 2025.

Febey introduced Troy Walsh who has joined the Creative Victoria Executive Group as Director, First Peoples and noted “Troy is a proud Panninher/Palawa man, born and raised in Victoria on GunaiKurnai Lands. Naarm has been his home for over 40 years. “Troy has 20 years senior management experience across the corporate, community and creative sectors including recently serving as an executive at Arts Centre Melbourne.

“As Director First Peoples, Troy leads the talented First Peoples unit as they deliver on an ambitious agenda, working closely with the First Peoples Direction Circle and alongside First Peoples leaders across government, community and Victoria’s creative industries.

“One of the many projects Troy and the First Peoples team are focused on is the establishment of a new Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair. This week we’ll get an impressive preview with the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair Showcase Exhibition within the Melbourne Art Fair.”

The Showcase Exhibition will bring together work from 37 First Peoples visual and screen artists and four arts centres, showcasing creativity and artmaking from across the state and the diversity, distinctiveness, and ingenuity of First Peoples creative practice in Victoria. All artworks will be available for sale.

The recently published Audience Atlas Victoria reveals a strong appetite for First Peoples arts and cultural experiences among Victorian audiences with Febey adding “the Fair will join the extraordinary and growing calendar of First Peoples creative festivals and platform events including the Birrarangga Film Festival, coming up in March.”

Image. Troy Walsh