Channels: Artists on Ageing Creatively

In this hybrid documentary and live music experience at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, award-winning composer and videographer Creswick (FKA Liam Budge) turns both lens and sound toward a question rarely explored with depth: what does it mean to keep creating across a lifetime?

Through intimate portraits of celebrated artists including jazz musician Vince Jones, composer Judith Clingan AM, ceramicist Malcolm Cooke, artist Marily Cintra and dancer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman AM, Channels traces a shared, unrelenting creative force, one that does not fade with age, but evolves, deepens and transforms.

Drawn from conversations with these artists, Creswick weaves cinematic portraiture with a responsive live score. Song, spoken word and image converge in real time, bringing lived experience, artistic legacy and present-moment vitality into powerful alignment.

The music moves fluidly across jazz, ambient, folk and contemporary classical textures, performed live by a dynamic ensemble attuned to the emotional pulse of each story.

Visually, the work travels through studios, theatres, coastlines and quiet interior worlds, spaces where creativity continues to take shape. Grounded in the voices of the artists themselves, each composition is shaped by memory, reflection and the enduring drive to make.

The result is an immersive, evolving performance that listens as much as it speaks. Channels is both a meditation and a provocation, interrogating legacy, relevance, the body and time itself.

What if ageing is not an ending, but a powerful act of ongoing creation?