Artist Workshop - Kate Teal-Spicer

An interactive, hands-on creative workshop using projected animations and visual stimuli to explore the fundamental building blocks of art.

The workshop aims to build creative confidence, introduce new artistic skills, and encourage experimentation and embodied learning. By engaging directly with the space and visual environment of MAP mima, participants are supported to connect with contemporary art processes in an accessible and inspiring way.

The workshop is structured in two parts. The first half focuses on guided group activities, with the artist demonstrating the use of different mediums and approaches to build foundational artistic skills and confidence. In the second half, participants are invited to find their own space within MAP mima to create an individual artwork, with ongoing one-on-one guidance and support provided throughout.

Kate Teal-Spicer is a Newcastle-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker. A graduate of the University of South Wales (UK), she holds first-class honours in TV and Film Set Design and has worked across film, visual art, and live creative projects in Australia and the UK.

Her practice spans exhibitions, festivals, workshops, videography, and production design, with credits including work on the BBC’s Doctor Who, art direction for the feature film Beat, and production design for Luca Brasi’s Party Scene. She has also worked in factual content production as a researcher with ABC’s Compass.

Kate is currently undertaking a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle. Her research centres on Diagnosis: Female, a solo documentary project exploring women’s healthcare experiences across NSW through an ethics of care, practice-based framework.

MAP mima is located in Speers Point Park, off Park Street, on the edge of Lake Macquarie. MAP mima is accessible by ramp with accessible toilets. MAP can be reached easily from the lake foreshore cycleway, the water, or by public transport. There is plenty of parking for cars, and buses with accessible spaces available, onsite and in the surrounding parklands.