ABOUT US
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Kinetik Collective is an emerging independent performance group of multidisciplinary artists based between Adelaide (Kaurna Country) and Melbourne (Naarm) . Led by director and Co-Founder Clara Solly-Slade, the collective consists of designer and collective Co-Founder Bianka Kennedy, dancer Zoë Dunwoodie, musician and composer Mat Morrison, and artist/technologist Max Brading. The collective works with Sydney based creative producer Malcolm Whittaker across all aspects of their work as a company.
The Collective formed in 2021 when Bianka and Clara join in a partnership and create interrogate theatre making with strong digital elements. By 2025 we have grown to form a structure with five core artists and are interested in creating work multi-disciplinary and experimental capacity.
Kinetik Collective employs an exploratory process to create ambitious performance work with a diverse range of artists, makers and thinkers. Our work is active, experimental and unexpected, and emerging technologies are regularly used as part of our contemporary aesthetics.
Development Teaser From our 2021 Digital Development of Kill Climate Deniers by David Finnigan. Video by Ali Macintosh
Clara Solly-Slade
Director / Co-Founder
Clara Solly-Slade (Director/ Co-Founder of The Kinetik Collective): Clara graduated from the acting stream of The Adelaide College of the Arts (2013) then undertook further training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London (Acting Shakespeare course, 2016). In 2017 she trained in Italy with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company at their International Directors Symposium. Clara was awarded the Helpmann Academy’s Neil Curnow Award (2018) where she interned in the USA with The H.E.A.T Collective, Working Classroom and continued her work with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company. She is a member of the multidisciplinary art collective The Bait Fridge.
Clara worked for two years full time as an Emerging Director Fellow with the State Theatre Company of South Australia and State Opera of South Australia (2019-2020). In 2021 Clara directed ‘Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons’ at Adelaide Collage of the Arts and for Dream Big Children’s Festival with Finnigan Kruckemeyer’s ‘Everything They Ever Said with Fingers Crossed Behind their Backs’ for the Say Art’s Youth Ensemble. Co-Founder of Independent Company The Kinetik Collective she Directed ‘Kill Climate Deniers’ in 2022 as part of The State Theatre Company of South Australia’s ‘Stateside Program’. Clara Co-Directed The River that Ran up Hill with Andy Packer for Slingsby Theatre Company presented in the 2023 Adelaide Festival, ‘Hypercolour Miscellaneous Bistro Buffet’ with Dave Court for Slow Mango and The Bait Fridge as a part of Illuminate Festival and The Sight with Victoria Falconer for Dark Mofo.
Bianka Kennedy
Director / Co-Founder
Bianka Kennedy (Designer/ Co-Founder of The Kinetik Collective): Bianka is a designer + maker with a diverse practice, working across the stage, screen and gallery settings. Bianka has been Head of Prop Making for the multi award winning children’s TV series Beep and Mort, lectured in the creative industries division of Adelaide College of the Arts, is Co-Founder of Kinetik Collective and operates a workshop from Fab, the former acclaimed George Street Studios. Currently Bianka is working on the design of DreamBIG festival (2025).
Bianka’s design for State Theatre Company of South Australia’s 2019 sold-out season of Animal Farm was a national finalist in the Australian Production Guild’s awards for emerging designer for live performance. Her debut solo exhibition Sugar won an Adelaide Fringe 2021 visual arts award and was an industry example of integrating accessibility into the design, fabrication and exhibition of an art experience. Her accessible theatre designs have also been recognised with a 2022 Ruby Award. Permanent public artworks can be found in Adelaide and in the Kangaroo Island Sculpture Trail. Collaborators include Warner Brothers, Windmill Theatre, Windmill Picture + ABC, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Theatre Republic, Kinetik Collective, Crossover (London) + Adelaide Fringe, Largent Studio (New York) +FOMO, Fox Creek + Garden of Unearthly Delights, SA Water, SA Tourism Commission, SA Power Networks, Adelaide City Council, independent theatre and private commissions.