Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis

Born and raised on Wadawurrung Country and currently based on Wurundjeri Country, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis is a proud Pitta Pitta woman, artist and researcher. Her work challenges colonial image-making practices and interrogates the biases embedded within different imaging technologies. Spanning photography, moving image and spoken word, her practice is informed by family stories, oral histories and archival research. Romanis recently completed a PhD at Monash University through the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture. In 2025, she was an award winner in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, held in Larrakia Country in Darwin.