Meet the artist - Amelia Zaraftis
Her current and recent roles at Burgman College ANU – as Deputy Principal and now the Director of Advancement – see her enact her particular skills in strategic planning and the development and delivery of tailored learning experiences for diverse audiences. She is passionate about empowering individuals through education, healthy communities, individual wellbeing and inclusive practices.
Amelia established the Reconciliation Action Plan for Burgman and guided the college through the Covid19 Pandemic challenges. Continuing her passion for Visual Arts, Amelia also co-developed and taught the Vice Chancellor Award-winning Environment Studio Balawan Elective at the School of Art, ANU since 2015.
Holding two Bachelor degrees – of Education (UC) and of Visual Art with Honours (ANU) – she has substantial experience in education roles in the tertiary sector and as an art museum and gallery educator. She develops educational programs that promote diversity and inclusion, and which scaffold students towards being confident self-determined learners.
Holding two Bachelor degrees – of Education (UC) and of Visual Art with Honours (ANU) – she has substantial experience in education roles in the tertiary sector and as an art museum and gallery educator. She develops educational programs that promote diversity and inclusion, and which scaffold students towards being confident self-determined learners.
Amelia’s art practice centres on our relationship to the natural environment; to trees as living beings; and as human beings, our relationships to each other. Her works have variously used traffic semiotics in soft furnishings; wrapped trees in the forest; or used drawing to reproduce an emotional journey on a night-time highway square by square. Her collaborative Apron Project (with Hanna Hoyne, 2015) saw her inhabit a variety of characters for performance works.
