Martel Ollerenshaw – director of Arts & Parts

Martel Ollerenshaw is a curator, creative producer and an international arts broker. With a wide portfolio of skills and interests, she works with artists, organisations and festivals to create and produce work that is pioneering and often genre blurring.

She has conceived and/or delivered acclaimed work for a diverse array of artists and organisations including: National Museum of Australia (Aus), Perth Festival (Aus), Adelaide Festival (Aus), Hull 2017 UK City of Culture (UK), Barbican (UK), Serious International Music Producers/London Jazz Festival (UK), Greater London Authority (UK), Four Winds Festival (Aus), City of Melbourne (Aus) and the Sydney Opera House (Aus).

Active in the new and adventurous music community, between 2018 and 2022 Martel was vice president of the Europe Jazz Network (EU funded, 198 members in 36 countries), and a member of the programming committees for European Jazz Conferences in 2019 (Novara), 2021 (Tallinn) and 2022 (Sofia). She is a board member of the Australian Music Centre (peak body for Australian art music), hcmf// (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), Making Tracks (the international music exchange programme with an environmental focus), an advisor for Jerwood Arts (UK) and The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music & Performance at Monash University (Aus), and is regularly involved in funding and showcasing selection panels in the UK, Europe and Australia.