About Us

Harvey Welsh began his career at Art School in Melbourne in the late 1960s. After pursuing an interest in illustration and animation, he moved into all aspects of screen work and supplemented his visual art practice with working as a sound recordist, including work on notable Australian television productions including Homicide and Division 4.

From there, Harvey has been a performer, songwriter, music composer and producer for over 40 years.

He has worked in the film and recording industry both here in Australia and abroad, and has had his music works and scores played and published in many countries around the world.

He has also co-written with some great recording artists in Australia and overseas.

Harvey’s career took him to Barcelona, Santa Ponsa and Papua New Guinea, where he taught guitar and started a recording studio recording and producing many albums for Papuan and New Guinea groups, both traditional and modern.

Harvey worked with artists including Barry Humphries, Billy Thorpe, Jack Thompson, John Mellon, Leonard Teale and played on, produced and recorded the Bob Brown hit, “Home Among The Gum Trees”.

He has composed music for many films, show reels, commercials and documentaries for ABC Television, The VFL, The Film and Sound Archives, A.C.T. Tourism, Australian National Parks and Wildlife, and his musical compositions for the hit documentary Series, “Secret Animals” went on to be screened in over 55 countries worldwide.

Harvey also composed the sound recording “The Life and Death of a River” as a response to the works of Australian artist Clifton Pugh.

In addition to music, Harvey has continued his visual arts practice over the years. “Songs From my Grasslands” is his most recent gallery exhibition.

Akka Ballenger Constantin is an emerging multidisciplinary artist. Her work is never unilateral; words and images complete each other most often and she calls herself “a dreamer with a camera and a pen”. She is currently studying visual arts at CIT and enjoys printmaking and writing poetry.

Last year, she wrote and recorded a suite of 60 poems for Art Sound FM. Akka loves  French Symbolist poetry and the Spanish Romantics, particularly Paul Verlaine and Federico Garcia Lorca. She chooses to express herself in various languages and unsurprisingly, her poems move from English to French, Spanish and Romanian from one verse to another.

Her work has been published in various poetry journals and magazines such as Not Very Quiet, Jalmurra, be:longing and Woroni.  Recently, she found her feet in live performances at the Noted Festival, Alliance Française, Ainslie and Gorman Art Centre, Mother Tongue poetry showcases and the Multicultural Festival.

She is currently an Artist in Residence at Playing Fields Studios and she is preparing for her first solo exhibition in Australia, a double show which will be hosted later on this year by Strathnairn Arts Centre and Ginninderry Link Building.