Artist Talk with Morag Myerscough, Claudio Kirac & Naina Sen
Saturday 03 October 2026 | 10:30 AM
Surfers Paradise
Join us for an illuminating conversation and rare insight into creative practice from artist’s Morag Myerscough, (BEACON), Claudio Kirac, (Kaleidoscope Skies) and Naina Sen, (Shundori).
Hosted by Kate Baggerson, Everybody NOW! Executive & Artistic Director, this special event is sure to be an inspiring conversation covering placemaking, cross-cultural collaborations, large-scale artistic projects and a behind the scene insight into the creative process.
Artist's Bio's
Morag Myerscough
Morag Myerscough is an acclaimed UK artist and designer, renowned for her vibrant and immersive public art installations that transform urban environments. She is best known for her use of bold colours, patterns, and words to create spaces that foster a sense of community, belonging, and joy.
Myerscough’s work spans a wide range of projects, from schools and hospitals to cultural hubs and town centres, often involving local communities in the design process to reflect their cultural identity and shared history.
Myerscough’s work is instantly recognizable for its energy and ability to resonate with diverse audiences worldwide, having been featured in cities across the globe, including London, USA, Hong Kong, and Mexico City.
Claudio Kirac
With his head in the clouds and his feet planted firmly on the ground, Claudio Kirac’s work investigating themes of nostalgia, shared experience and joy.
Known for his bold use of color and expressive mark-making, he explores these themes through layered and energetic abstract paintings and portraiture, often drawing inspiration from nature, landscapes and gardens, as well as pop culture and the everyday.
Over a career spanning 25 years, Kirac’s work has found a home in prestigious collections including HOTA Home of the Arts, the National Library of Australia, the New York State Library and Louis Vuitton Asia Pacific, as well as in private collections worldwide.
Naina Sen
Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is a Walkley and AACTA nominated filmmaker and video artist. Based between the lands of the Larrakia People in Darwin, Northern Territory and New Delhi, India, Naina works across documentary, installation and live projection, using image making to explore gender, cultural identity, equity, place, memory and ritual privileging First Nations and South Asian and South Asian diasporic narratives.
Most recently, Naina and co-collaborators Harrison Hall and Naveed Farro’s sculptural video installation work Through Line has been awarded Adelaide Film Festival’s prestigious Expand Lab Moving Image Commission that will premiere at Adelaide Film Festival 2026.
Host: Kate Baggerson
Kate Baggerson is a highly experienced leader in the arts and cultural sector, having worked across a range of arts organisations, not-for-profits and community cultural development initiatives Australia wide. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Australian Arts Organisation Everybody NOW, where she has strategically guided the company through a highly successful period of growth since formation in 2015, reaching over 85,000 people in 250 communities across Australia.
Kate has a passion for community placemaking, social impact and telling stories that make us who we are, and who we can become, through participatory and immersive creative experiences where audiences, artists and communities are co-creators.
Getting there
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