SEESAW MAGAZINE APPOINTS BUSINESS AND EDITORIAL MANAGER
29 April 2025
The Board of Seesaw Magazine is delighted to announce the appointment of Jesse Oliver Garlick as Business and Editorial Manager to lead the restart of WA’s premier online arts magazine.
Jesse’s extensive leadership experience spans publishing, financial strategy, governance and audience engagement, with a proven ability to drive editorial excellence, financial sustainability and diverse readership growth.
He will commence as Business and Editorial Manager in late May as Seesaw takes the next step towards returning as the source of WA’s best arts and cultural news, reviews and views by the middle of the year.
Working closely with the Seesaw Board, Jesse will engage with contributors, artists and arts organisations, corporate and government partners and donors to build a community of support for Seesaw’s vision to promote Western Australia’s creative sector and diverse voices in arts journalism.
Seesaw Chair Natalie Jenkins says: “We are thrilled that Jesse has agreed to join the Seesaw team. Jesse is someone with a passion for journalism and arts, culture and creativity, and who wants to help shape debate and conversations about our unique part of the world. He joins us with an imperative to drive audience engagement, diversify revenue opportunities, and embrace innovation to ensure Seesaw’s sustainability as a platform for excellence in arts journalism in WA.”
Jesse Oliver Garlick says: “I’m honoured to support Seesaw’s return at a time when independent arts journalism is more vital than ever. If art moves us, arts journalism helps us understand why we must be moved. These very discussions play a critical role in shaping how we reflect on creative work, how we value it, and how we advocate for its future. I’m looking forward to ensuring Seesaw remains a dynamic, inclusive, and sustainable platform that elevates our creative community in this way.”
The return of Seesaw through the appointment of the Business and Editorial Manager is being supported by the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport. We also thank our other supporters, including our significant donors and loyal Buy Me A Coffee supporters.
About Jesse Oliver Garlick:
For two years as CEO of Express Media in Melbourne, Jesse oversaw a national editorial team of 35, ensuring high-quality content through the flagship quarterly publication Voiceworks while fostering diverse voices through an annual development program for writers, artists and creators under 25. More recently, he has been Operations Manager at the Blue Room Theatre and Community Arts and Strategic Officer at the City of Joondalup.
Jesse also has a background as a writer, artist, producer, and performance poet who won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2017 and has appeared at Fringe World, TedxPerth, the Byron Bay Writers Festival, Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, Singapore Writers Festival and the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
About Seesaw:
Seesaw – Western Australia’s premier online arts magazine – was founded in 2017 and associated as a not-for-profit organisation in 2019.
Our purpose is to produce quality, independent, professional arts journalism for the benefit of all Western Australian artists, companies, audiences and the wider public.
Our work also plays a vital role in informing policy makers, government funding bodies and their peer assessors, sponsors and philanthropists. Seesaw is the arts sector’s solution to declining arts coverage everywhere.
The Seesaw Board
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