WORLDS END, TASMANIA
Positive, disruptive social impact around art,
design and for-purpose organisations.
Worlds End is based in Launceston, Tasmania, near to the ‘end-of-the-Earth’, Worlds End’s moniker is also a nod to Vivienne Westwood and the late Malcolm McLaren’s London-based positive social disruption hub established in the 1980’s and still in existence today.
Creating positive social impact around art, design and for-purpose organisations is the principal driving force for Worlds End. Educational experiences for the public interfacing with the arts are a major priority for relieving the tensions of extremist ideals, creating networks of empathy and encouraging community acceptance. Engagement with the arts engenders creative thinking and impacts the community at large by creating informed and critically thinking citizens. This is the cornerstone of a functional democracy. The public value of the arts can only reach its full potential through creative communications strategies that uplift artisans and curators processes, pushing this platform into the public sphere where it reaches its audience. The key here is: engagement.
Arts and for-purpose organisations are unique each to each; their offering has a significant impact on the audiences they attract, but this is the low-hanging fruit of engagement.
Extending audiences is not only a civic duty that any organisation has, but creating meaningful interactions is what determines the success of any artistic or public program.
Worlds End works together with the specific objectives and ideals of organisations to exact communications services that aim to reach the full potential of the organisation’s capacity.
PHOTO: joffre street productions
Clementine Blackman, Director
Clementine Blackman (BA/BAdvStudies, University of Sydney) is the Founder and Director of Worlds End, a consulting agency specialising in positive social disruption through business development and communications strategies art, design and for-purpose organisations.
With over 15 years experience in business and art communications strategy in Australia and the USA, Clementine provides communication advice, media training and support to CEOs, Chairpeople, Directors and stakeholders. She also proactively manages multiple press campaigns and issues through global media and locally in Australia, in particular for the arts sector and not-for-profits.
“Robert Hughes said in The Fatal Shore “All people, but especially, the young, tend to become what society says they are”: I take this further and say that our identity as a society is formed by what we see around us and the voices we see and hear represented in the culture we consume. If our culture is consistently pasteurised in the arts, we suffocate our identity as a society and limit the texture and dimension in the tapestry of our community.”