This programme is for emerging artists and designers. Panel conversation with Isabel Sheridan, Lorraine Hellwig and Oksana Savchuk, followed by networking opportunities to improve resilience and solidarity across borders and disciplines in the creative sector. Come and close that gap!

Join us for a conversation about the many hard lessons designers and other creatives seem to have to learn about commissions, fair practice, negotiating and invoicing. Before doing work ‘for visibility’ or getting ‘nightmare commissions’, we’re here to increase emerging creatives’ access to tools to build resilience for those starting their professional careers.

As part of the Dutch Design Week 2024 in Eindhoven, EUNIC Netherlands is happy to present the fourth event of its FAIR P(L)AY series. DutchCulture helps host an action-oriented discussion on how to propel your (international) career as a creative or designer. We invite experiences from artists, practitioners, and cultural organizations. In the early stage of your design career, we invite you to listen, learn, and discuss your possibilities, needs, and ambitions.

FAIR P(L)AY #4 connects to Design Academy Eindhoven’s Blueprints programme, introducing designers to the scope of creative practice in the Netherlands and Europe by involving local, national and international stakeholders who can share their knowledge of the wider systems and structures that design professionals can draw upon.

Speakers
Lorraine Hellwig is a European “post-artist” who collaborates as a portrait and reportage photographer with different media formats and takes part in exhibitions in and outside the traditional artistic white cube. Lorraine finished the manifesto “Y” in 2017, has been a monthly photo columnist for Freundin Magazine in 2021/ 2022, and is the founder of the FAKE FACTORY, a platform for collaborations in between design, science, art and activism. Lorraine participates in the Nouveau Grand Tour NL, a program dedicated to graduates coordinated by Institut français NL.

Oksana Savchuk is a Rotterdam-based architect, organizer, and creative producer. She is the co-founder of VATAHA Foundation, which initiates and supports projects promoting Ukrainian art and culture in the Netherlands. By connecting artists, cultural producers and audiences, Oksana builds bridges between cultures and creates opportunities for creative Ukrainians.