About us
Founded in September 2023 via the Enterprize Tasmania Born Global business incubator, ConnectCurateCreate is an early stage start up based in lutruwita/Tasmania. As a for-purpose media company, we exist to share the stories of emerging artists with the world.
Through podcasting and film making, ConnectCurateCreate offers a unique media platform for Tasmanian artists to grow their audiences and build community by sharing meaningful and engaging insights into their creative processes.
Each story we share creates fresh opportunities for new audiences to discover not only artists’ finished work, but also to learn how and why they make the art they do. By immersing audiences in artists’ creative processes, we forge lasting connections that matter.
Our team
Dr Tim Butcher
Founder, CEO, Podcast Host
Following a 20-year academic career across leading universities in Australia and the UK, collaborating with communities and organisations ranging from the people of Papunya to Counterpoint Arts, Tim founded ConnectCurateCreate to produce solutions to the problems he identifies in his most recent book, 'Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together,' published by Routledge in 2023 — scroll down for more info.
This could be you…
Production Assistant
We’re currently recruiting for this position. For further information, click the Connect with Tim button or see our advertisements on our LinkedIn and Instagram accounts.
Testimonials
“Tim’s unique and important background in research surrounding creative labour truly empowers his latest endeavour, ConnectCurateCreate. This platform is built not only on deep knowledge, but also significant passion. Tim is a great listener, thinker and this next development will garner the ability to empower creatives of all kinds of backgrounds, and I look forward to seeing how it develops.”
Zara Sully, Director, Sawtooth ARI, Lutruwita
“In previous collaborations Tim could be trusted to centre artists and arts workers’ interests and arts practices. His curiosity about people, his creativity and passion for fairness match Tim’s knowledge of how complex systems work and concepts made accessible. Inventing ConnectCurateCreate looks to bring all of Tim’s experience into one platform that all kinds of creatives and organisations would find interesting and enabling.”
Dijana Rakovic, Senior Producer, Counterpoints Arts, UK
Founded on Tim’s academic research
Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together
Tim’s book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance arts and creative careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy.
Endorsements of the book
"In this beautifully written and strongly engaged text, Tim Butcher shows how creative work might be liberated from precarious labour through a systematic focus on collaboration. Weaving skilfully between theories of affect, precarity and learning and stories of artistic practice, the outcome is an impassioned argument for realising new possibilities within creative economy"
Prof. Steven D. Brown, Nottingham Trent University, UK
"Tim Butcher raises a number of provocative questions: Can we work creatively and freely without experiencing precarity and complicity with labour market logics? Can the creative arts contribute to discussions of equality, marginalization, and social change? He addresses these questions through a blend of academic sources, artist reflections, and his own experience."
Prof. Ann L Cunliffe, FGV-EAESP, Brazil
Quotes from the book
Work is so much more than what is individually traded as labour — it should be a life affirming collective cultural encounter filled with possibility, and if it doesn’t feel that way, then we should do something about it. (P68)
Creative work is not found to nor benefits from precarity. So, from these fresh roots, new collaborative creative work practices might be learned to propagate an alternative discourse — one that is less economically driven and more culturally meaningful. (P69)
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