Ms Catherine Jones
Speaker
Global and National Agencies for Sustainability
📅 9 November 2025 (Sunday)
🕛 0930 - 1030
Ms Catherine Jones is a creative industries leader. She is currently Co Director / CEO of the Australian Tapestry Workshop and Facilitator of Creative Climate. Between 2018-2024 she was the Director of the APAM Office delivering the contract for Australian Performing Arts Market on behalf of the Victorian State Government. Prior to taking up the role at APAM, Ms Jones was the General Manager of Arts House, Melbourne’s centre for contemporary and experimental performance. She has held Executive positions in some of Melbourne’s leading contemporary performance companies including Chunky Move, Malthouse Theatre and Arena Theatre Company. She has worked extensively in producing companies and festival contexts, nationally and internationally, with roles at Queensland Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre, Melbourne Festival, Out of the Box Festival and the Queensland Biennial Festival of Music.
Ms Jones is the Deputy Chair of the Sunshine Coast Council’s Arts Advisory Board. She consults on international engagement and market development. Ms Jones is a member of the 2024-25 Creative Leadership cohort and was previously a recipient of the inaugural ISPA - Australia Council Fellowship, an Asialink Arts Management Resident (Delhi), a former member of the Artistic Directorate of HotHouse Theatre and a Small Giants Alumni.
Organisation Description
Funded by Creative Australia as the national culture, arts and climate action peak body, Creative Climate responds to and supports the Australian sector in climate justice and adaptation. Creative Climate is working across policy, practice, research, advocacy, and public programmes to build and strengthen the mycelium of artists and organisations working towards climate-aligned cultural transformation.
Creative Climate is a First Nations and artist-led national consortium collectively bringing intergenerational, intersectional perspectives and many decades of experience in culture-led climate action.
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