Natasha Shaw, Arts Projects Coordinator, Queensland Rail

QR Positive Partnerships - community art as a tool in crime prevention

QR’s Positive pARTnerships is a proactive community arts program focused on beautifying our stations as well as being a crime prevention strategy.  The past 7 years have seen it evolve from an ad-hoc, opportunistic activity to a fully coordinated community art initiative.  There is strong emphasis in the Positive pARTnerships program on local community participation.  The initiative aims to enhance the communities’ sense of ownership of, and pride in, their stations and, as a by-product, reduce the amount of vandalism and crime at and around the stations. Natasha Shaw, QR’s Arts Coordinator, will trace the history of the Positive pARTnerships program, and identify key stakeholders and events that have led to its success.

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Natasha Shaw recently joined QR (Queensland Rail) as Coordinator of QR’s art initiative, Positive Partnerships. Natasha has worked within the Arts for the last 15 years, as an artist, designer, and project coordinator for organisations such as Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Flying Arts, Access Arts, Brisbane Youth Service and Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney. In recent years Natasha worked as an Art Centre Manager in the remote indigenous communities of Aurukun, west Cape York Peninsula and Balgo, WA. Natasha was a founding member of UMI Arts, a peak advisory body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in far north and north-western Queensland.

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