WHO ARE WE?
Horst and Jennifer Kornberger – poets, writers and interdisciplinary artists. We combine a passion to create with a passion to educate through artistic processes. For more than two decades we have provided innovative programmes that train the imagination. Check the TESTIMONIALS our students have written.
WHAT WE BELIEVE IN
We believe that great writing begins with a great imagination and create our courses accordingly. Our processes focus on developing your core capacity as a writer. We develop this capacity by taking you on writing adventures – profound journeys from which you return changed.
HORST KORNBERGER is an interdisciplinary artist, director, author and poet-philosopher. He is an innovative thinker who has directed groups and communities in the development and use of aesthetic imagination and documented his research in five books. A graduate of the London School of Speech and Drama, Horst has maintained an arts practice fusing visual, conceptual, environmental and performative elements in artworks such as Kompost - the heap between ecology and art (1999), The Honeyclock, (2000), Buddha in Honey (2005), Dark Light with Tom Mueller (Zweitgeist) (2014), The Delphi Project (2016), Silent Speaks - Roe 8 protest design with Jennifer Kornberger (2017) and Seaborne – a contemporary performance/ritual with artist Tom Muller (Zweitgeist) for the 2017 Fremantle Biennale and Somnus with Jennifer Kornberger for the 2019 Fremantle Biennale and The Rehearsal 2021, a social sculpture Project. More about Horst at www.horstkornberger.com
JENNIFER KORNBERGER is a poet, writer, and artist based in Walyalup/Fremantle. She employs poetry as her primary practice for public art works, installations and publication. Her first poetry collection, I could be rain, was published in 2007 (Sunline) and a second collection, The Twilight Observatory was published by 5 Islands Press in 2025. In 2016, Jennifer won the Tom Collins Poetry Prize and was guest poet at the Perth Poetry Festival. Her writing has appeared in Blue Dog, Plumwood Mountain, Short Australian Stories, and the anthology of the Newcastle Short Story Award (2024). She has been shortlisted five times, and twice commended, in The Newcastle Poetry Prize. As co-director of Theatre of the Sea, Jennifer involves groups of writers and international performers in spoken word installations, notably 22 Pillars (Fremantle Biennale, 2017), Somnus (Fremantle Biennale, 2019), and The Rehearsal (Brink Festival, 2021). Jennifer has lived and worked in Slovenia, developing the imaginative capacities of teachers. She has worked as script editor for a number of First Lights shows in Australia. She was commissioned as script writer for the 2024 Fremantle Blessing of the Fleet Festival, and for the 2025 Adelaide Royal Show finale, Solar Wind. She is currently co-director of The Writing Connection and Theatre of the Sea. More about Jennifer's work at www.jenniferkornberger.com
