QUALIFICATIONS
* BA in Visual Communication (RMIT)
* Post Graduate Diploma in Animation & Interactive Media (SWINBURNE UNI)
* Advanced Certificate in Business Management (RMIT TAFE)

EXPERIENCE
Kiera has produced illustration, animation & graphic design for traditional & on-line learning resources and has worked commercially providing editorial illustrations, website design, posters & logos for nearly 20 years. 
She has presented animation workshops for JOINING THE CHORUS, a statewide festival run by the EDUCATION DEPARTMENT; exhibited at the NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA as a part of NEW Q, Melbourne's annual Midsumma Festival and has run workshops and lectured in animation, storyboarding & motion graphics software at the AUSTRALIAN FILM, TELEVISION AND RADIO SCHOOL and THE MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF ART.

AWARDS
* Kiera provided the art direction, animation, graphical interface design & packaging design for MABO - THE NATIVE TITLE REVOLUTION, a CD-ROM funded under the National Interest Program by FILM AUSTRALIA. This title was: *Winner of the 2001 ATOM, FILM, TV & MULTIMEDIA AWARD for best overall multimedia title.
* Nominated in the Factual Category of the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2001 Interactive Entertainment Awards.
* Purchased by the National Museum of Australia as part of a permanent exhibition within the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Module in the Gallery of the First Australians.

Kiera's art direction, graphics & animation for the 1999 BIG DAY OUT website was Winner of an ONYA award for best music event site on-line.

Kiera's art direction, graphics and animation for CHILDCARE AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE was Winner of the 1997 Victorian Training Award.

Kiera worked on REAL GORGEOUS an interactive version of Kaz Cooke's book which was Winner of the Jury Prize for the Best Interactive at New York Short Film Festival & Nominated for Emma Award at LA International Festival.

Kiera won the HERALD & WEEKLY TIMES award for Best Student in Graphic Illustration in 1986 & the ANIMAGRAPHICS award of excellence for Best Student Animation in 1994.
  

 

   

Project List

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
2009 - 12
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Illustrations for the Big Ideas in Maths series, a selection of work books for primary students focusing on concepts in mathematics
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Illustrations for the "Oxford Literacy series", a selection of primary readers designed to support concepts in mathematics in the first three years of school. Produced by Oxford University Press
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Concept illustrations for ANATOMICA, an educational graphic novel teaching kids about anatomy, commissioned by Global Publishing
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Various illustrations for Challenge magazine, published by Pearson Australia
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Poster illustrations & CD cover art for Paris Payne & Late night Radio
2006 - 08
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Book illustrations for the "Oxford Literacy series", a selection of primary readers designed to support guided reading in the first three years of school produced by Oxford University Press.
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Illustrations for the "Oxford Phonemic Speller books Years 1, 2 & My Phonemic Wordlist", a selection of work books designed to support educators using the phonemic approach to spelling.
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Cover illustrations for the "English Skills: Grammar & Punctuation" books produced for primary students by Oxford university Press.
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Various illustrations for the Blueprints series of "Big Ideas Books" interactive student CD-Roms, produced by Pearson Rigby.
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Poster illustration & design for "RockStrip", a musical theatrical extravaganza for Melbourne's 2007 Midsumma festival.
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Poster illustration & design for "Cream", a musical, performance & artistic afternoon's entertainment for girls & guests at the Old Hepburn Hotel.
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Main illustration for "Chillout 09, Disco Stampede", the largest gay & lesbian festival in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Various private commissions.
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Various branding & logo designs.
2003 - 05
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Illustration & graphical interface design for “THE LIFE, TIMES AND TRAVELS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH”, a groundbreaking interactive online graphic novel that covers the life story of a man who is a pivotal figure in Australian and British history. Boasting a unique visual interface that combines a dynamic graphic style with the detailed narrative of a novel, BLIGH features a strong active narrative based entirely on factual accounts sourced from diaries, logs and books and reports, largely from Bligh’s own hand.

“THE LIFE, TIMES AND TRAVELS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH” was produced and developed by Film Art Doco in association with the Australian Film Commission and produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Written and directed by Daryl Dellora and produced by AFI award winning producer Sue Maslin with Rob Wellington (Multimedia Producer and Director), Joanne Wellington (Co-Producer) and illustrations and artwork by Kiera Poelsma.
2002 - 03
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Various illustrations for the BULLETIN, ROLLING STONE and CITY WEEKLY magazines
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Illustration & animation for various THOMSON LEARNING educational on-line titles
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Cover design for GET OVER IT! Published by ALLEN & UNWIN
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Animation, interface & graphical illustration for the YOGO and LIBRAGIRL websites
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Design of the C'MON LET'S GO logo promoting indigenous sport for ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA
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Children's game board design for the COMMONWEALTH BANK
2000 - 01
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Character design, animation & graphical interface design for various training programs delivered both on-line and on CD ROM, including THE BUSINESS OF MULTIMEDIA.
  • Used as an example of Best Practice by the Office of Training and Further Education
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Graphics & animation for NATURAL BORN LOSERS, an interactive comic strip funded by the AUSTRALIAN FILM COMISSION
1998 - 99
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Conceptual design, graphics & animation for the 2000 BIG DAY OUT website
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Art Direction, animation, graphical interface design & packaging design for MABO - THE NATIVE TITLE REVOLUTION, a CD-ROM funded under the National Interest Program by FILM AUSTRALIA.
  • Winner 2001 ATOM, FILM, TV & MULTIMEDIA AWARD for best overall multimedia title.
  • Nominated in the Factual Category of the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts 2001 Interactive Entertainment Awards.
  • Purchased by the National Museum of Australia as part of a permanent exhibition within the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Module in the Gallery of the First Australians.
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Exhibited at the NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA as a part of NEW Q, Melbourneís annual Midsumma Festival
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Art direction, graphics & animation for the 1999 BIG DAY OUT website.
  • Winner of an ONYA award for best music event site on-line.
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Script development & graphical production of WANDERINGS, a 7 minute video exhibited at the JEWISH MUSEUM OF VICTORIA
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Website design and conduction of daily animation workshops for JOINING THE CHORUS a statewide festival run by the EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
1996 - 97
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Art direction, graphics and animation for HARD WORDS, a 7 min video funded by the DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES for children whose parents have a mental illness
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Graphics and animation for the KAZ COOKE, STARBAIT, BRIDGE and LOUNGE NIGHTCLUB web sites
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Illustrations for a series of childrensí readers for MACMILLAN EDUCATION
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Art Direction, graphics and animation for CHILDCARE ñ AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE.
  • Winner 1997 Victorian Training Award
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GEORGE PATTERSON BATES AGENCY (Multimedia Dept) Concept, graphics & animation for accounts including NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK, ANSETT, WORLD FOR KIDS, DRAKE INTERNATIONAL and NISSAN
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Weekly lectures in 2D animation at the MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF ART as part of the Certificate in Multimedia Design and Motion Graphics
1995
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Graphics & animation for REAL GORGEOUS an interactive version of Kaz Cookeís book.
  • Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Interactive at New York Short Film Festival.
  • Nominated for Emma Award at LA International Festival
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Graphics & animation for various interactive programs for the National Science Center of Malaysia.