Dr. Jeremy Mayall

Creative Waikato

Dr. Jeremy Mayall is the CEO of Creative Waikato, a regional arts organisation based in Kirikiriroa-Hamilton. At Creative Waikato he works to advocate for the value and importance of arts, culture and creativity to collective wellbeing. This organisation is a strategic capability builder who work throughout the wider Waikato region supporting all forms of artistic and cultural expression. They celebrate the importance of creativity, wellbeing and people in supporting the region to thrive with diverse and transformative creative activity. Outside of that mahi, Jeremy is also a composer, performer, artist, and researcher. From an artistic perspective, his creative work is primarily in music, sound art, installation and multimedia formats, with a focus on exploring the interrelationships between sound, time, space, the senses, and the human experience. Collaboration is at the core of much of his multi-sensory work, and recent projects have included work with musicians, dancers, poets, aerial silks performers, theatre practitioners, scientists, perfumers, bakers, authors, sculptors, filmmakers, pyrotechnicians, lighting designers and visual artists.