FlameWriter  🔥  artist moniker of Glenn Todd

🔥 Contact 🔥

Contact Glenn to discuss collaboration, commissions or any other arty stuff:
 

• Schedule a Zoom meeting with Glenn
  (via gippsland.au)
• Email
• Phone: 0489 988 649

🔥 Socials 🔥

Follow me on Cara.app

🔥 Bio 🔥

Glenn is a sculptor, graphic designer and creative director, whose art aims to provoke engagement and connection with nature and environmental protection.

Qualified as a graphic designer, and with experience as an industrial sign-writer using 3-D manufacturing techniques and materials, Glenn has a unique mix of skills that he now applies to his sculptural work.

Cofounder of Pyromancer & Co, Australia’s premier fire art and sculpture company, Glenn has delivered fire performances for local council, community events and burning man festivals. Founder of the startup: Gippsland Artist Directory.

Glenn approaches his work with a high level of professionalism with a specific focus on public safety.

🔥 Art Grants 🔥

• Esoteric Festival decor commission: 2025
• Australian Government Regional Arts Fund Program, Project Grant: 2024
• Underland Festival temple: 2023
• Esoteric Festival decor commission: 2023
• Underland Festival effigy: 2022
• Melburners art grant: 2021
• Bayside Council Peterson Street Reserve Public Art Commission shortlist: 2021
• Rainbow Serpent Festival major art grant: 2020
• Burning Seed Festival Effigy grant: 2015
• Burning Seed Festival Arts grant: 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018

🔥 Experience 🔥

• Underland Festival – Build Crew Mentor – 2025
• Underland Festival – Build Crew Mentor – 2023
• Underland Festival – Effigy Ignition Safety Coordinator – 2022
• Burning Seed Festival – Effigy Ignition Safety Controler 2019
• 25 Years graphic design, website development and digital marketing
  • Founder/Director of ActionSkills – Web Development company focusing on enviromental and social causes
  • Founder/Director of Dvize Creative – Web Development company with clients including Stereosonic, Australian Ballet and Arts Centre Melbourne

🔥 Tickets 🔥

• Working with Children Check
• Car Drivers Licence
• Work safely in the construction industry
• Operate and maintain chainsaws
• Conduct telescopic materials handler operations
• Operate elevating work platform
• Provide basic emergency life support
• Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Provide first aid

🔥 Education 🔥

• Block 4, Design and development across learning environments AET6004 – Victoria University – 2022
• Certificate of Advanced Group Facilitation – Groupwork Institute – 2013
• Diploma of Graphic Design and Multimedia – Western Australian School of Art Design and Media – 1996 – 1999
• Certificate of Trade Studies in Signwriting – Technical and Further Education, Western
  Australia – 1995 – 1996
• Certificate of Art and Design – Western Australian School of Art, Design and Media – 1994

🔥 Exhibitions 🔥

• Tarkine In Motion group show (Bob brown Foundation) – Hobart and Melbourne – 2015
• Solo Exhibition – Bubble – Brunswick Street Art Gallery – 2011
• ACMI permanent collection – Map of Australian Nuclear Sites – 2013