Artists

Jamila Main is a trained actor and self-taught, award-winning playwright living and working on unceded Peramangk and Kaurna land in South Australia.

Daniel Savage is an artist, disability advocate, and curator working across photography, video and performance.

Georgia Morgan works with thresholds: an open window, a hole in the fence, a pause for thought in conversation.

J Bi Li Chan is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, writer and researcher based in Sydney. For many years she has been an academic sociologist, researching on topics such as policing, culture, creativity, and technology.

Julia Bavyka is a Kazakhstan-born interdisciplinary artist, writer and community organiser interested in the intersection of artistic and everyday research.

Shireen Taweel is a multimedia installation artist whose work broaches issues of the construction of cultural heritage, knowledge and identity through language and the constantly shifting public space of the social, political and religious axiom.

Riana Head-Toussaint is an interdisciplinary disabled artist who uses a manual wheelchair for mobility. Her work often crosses traditional artform boundaries, and exists in online and offline spaces.

Harrie McKay’s practice is oriented around the personal and collective memories we house within ourselves and hold physically within our body.

Spence Messih’s practice speaks broadly to sites of pressure, power structures, materiality and language and more specifically about these things in relation to their own experience.

Amelia Skelton is a multidisciplinary artist, living and working on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Working within the framework of craft and assemblage, Skelton produces predominantly textile-based artworks that speculate on the relationship between the person and the object.

Sofiyah Ruqayah works across watercolour, assemblage, sculpture and installation to explore themes of personal and collective entanglement.

IchikawaEdward (ie.) is a multidisciplinary cultural exchange which was established in 2017 namely between Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward as a way of spatially negotiating the common frictions that queer/othered/disabled bodies experience in today’s “architectures.”

Tim Marvin is an emerging curator, artist, and aspiring art historian based on Darug land.

Morgan Hogg’s work explores Indigenous perspectives within the Pacific Islands, and the cultural impact modern day has on traditional standards.

Laetitia Olivier-Gargano’s practice is driven by a close survey of food, plants and everyday objects, through surreal, sculptural reimagining.

Edwina Green is a proud Trawlwoolway multidisciplinary artist, based in Narrm (Melbourne.) Her practice utilises painting, mixed media, video, sculpture, and cultural installation, in order to cross-examine the post-colonial paradigm and its effects on people and place.

Jana Ortanez’s multidisciplinary practice often incorporates drawing and photography to create her own references for paintings and spatial forms.

Tanaporn Norsrida is a Bangkok-born, Sydney-based emerging artist. Having migrated to Australia at a young age, their childhood between rural Australia, metropolitan Bangkok and Isaan, Thailand informed their outlook on culture, family and self.

Natalie Tso creates sculptures, installations and performances through bodily memories as a means of navigating personal trauma.

Sineenart Meena is an emerging curator, currently undertaking a Masters of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW Art & Design.