Creative Challenge
Creative Challenge is Barking Gecko Arts’ annual artist-in-residency program. It places two amazing, professional teaching artists within a school or community. For one or two weeks, the teaching artists devise, develop, and manage a project using a process-driven project management methodology. The program is child-led and involves young participants in creating art that shares the uniqueness of their community and identity.
Each residency culminates in a celebration, where the works created are showcased for the community to enjoy. The aim of Creative Challenge is to celebrate the talents and stories of young people in regional and remote Western Australia and to instil a sense of pride, ownership, and place within the communities.
My Habitat
Every year the Creative Challenge Program is broadly underpinned by a theme. In 2025 our theme is My Habitat.
In 2025 we want Western Australian children to consider where they call home and where they feel safest. Where does your habitat sit in the ecosystem? And how is that unique to you?
Creative Challenge celebrates the imaginative power of young people. We ask children, What elements make up your habitat? Is it the physical space, the environment, the buildings, the community? Or is it a combination of a few things? And how can we create the best habitat to thrive and grow?
Regional Creative Challenge Residencies
Creative Challenge conducts residencies across the Pilbara, Kimberly, Mid-West, Gascoyne, Goldfields- Esperance, Great Southern and South West regions of Western Australia. Barking Gecko Arts visits everywhere from bustling regional hubs, to the most remote communities in WA.
If your school or community group would like to know more about the Creative Challenge please email [email protected]
