Vanessa Bradley Email and Phone Number

Vanessa is the Program Lead for FORM’s Creative Schools Program. She leads a team of 34 Creative Practitioner from diverse creative practises. Working to enable this innovative team to deliver a high quality creative learning experience in the WA education sector in both regional and metro schools. Vanessa provides project design and direction across the program portfolio.With over 20 years’ experience, her career spans a number of fields including roles in the community, arts and culture sector, education and book publishing.She is a visual artist and holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Her paintings depict the experiences of women and develop imagery and storylines taken from politics, history, literature and her own personal heritage. She seeks and paints lost and hidden stories.Vanessa has had an extensive career in book publishing, working at Penguin Books (London), Raincoast Books (Canada) and as Associate Publisher at Fremantle Press (Perth) and has a passion for promoting literacy and storytelling amongst young people.In 2018 Vanessa was invited to be a creative practitioner in the Creative Schools pilot program. She loved it so much that in 2019 she became part of the FORM Creative Learning team. She is passionate about the impact that the Creative Schools Program is having on cultivating curious classrooms in so many schools around WA.