Born in Meanjin/Brisbane and based in Naarm/Melbourne, Callum McGrath is a research-artist whose work questions and challenges institutional modes of historicising and archiving.


Daisy is a queer koorie artist, writer and worker who embraces the humour and humility of survival and belonging in a schismatic deep-fake post-truth context. Their recent projects address the escalating costs and devastating impacts of settler colonial carceral logic in Australia. Their work makes use of grounded theory to contribute critical insights into creative practice while expanding upon dialogues relative to their experience as an artist and storyteller.


Elyas Alavi is a visual artist and poet whose practice spans painting, installation, poetry, and performance. His work examines the complex intersections of memory, displacement, gender, and sexuality. Alavi often examines SWANA histories and their entanglements with globalization, settler colonialism, and the displacement of Black and Brown bodies.


Jemi Gale is an artist and singer-songwriter. She performs with performance art group Dandd and is represented by Mary Cherry Contemporary.


Lara Chamas is a Lebanese artist, based in Naarm (Melbourne). Fleeing from war, her parents migrated to Australia, where she was born. Her practice investigates topics of postcolonial and migrant narratives within the context of her cultural identity. Using narrative and experience documentation, storytelling, transgenerational trauma and memory and tacit knowledge; her research explores links and meeting points between narrative theory, cultural practice, current political and societal tensions, and the body as a political vessel. Central to her practice is the expansion of these notions in a more historical and anthropological sense. With discussing geopolitical issues, research and first-hand experience is important to the authenticity of her work.


mohamed chamas has been called a poet and new media artist among many other things either erroneous or partially-correct. Mohamed re-enchants subjective worlds from the space between heresy and miracle, where sacred rage and ecstatic dissolution are invited. Mohamed agitates language, cyberspace, gamification, the military-entertainment complex, occult studies and spirituality. They defy form, dancing with hybridity among poetry, live visuals, interactive work, image, video, spatial installation and sculpture. Namely they create interactive VR work that is activated by ceremonial performance and/or spatial altar. Their work has been witnessed through platforms like Debris Magazine, Emerging Writers Festival, Incinerator Gallery, Seventh Gallery and 7 news.


Roberta Joy Rich is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in critical fabulation and anarchiving as processes for unearthing silenced and emergent narratives, and in doing so, the possibilities they conjure for Black empowerment. Roberta often draws upon her lived experiences as a diaspora Southern African kaapse woman with African and Asian lineages. With a focus on communal knowledge systems, alterity, imperialism and socio-political histories, her projects explore resilience, power, memory, belonging and truth-telling. Roberta utilises text, archives, video, installation, photo-media, satire, and storytelling as platforms to interrogate constructs of race, gender, history and notions of authenticity. Her practice aims to deconstruct colonial modalities and Western singularity, while proposing empowering sites of collective self-determination.


Born in Burnie Lutruwita, Tabitha Glanville spent the first eighteen years of her life in Lutruwita Tasmania before moving to Melbourne and completing a bachelor’s degree at Monash University. An emerging curator of both Aboriginal, Anglo-Saxon and Irish descent, Tabitha situates her curatorial practice in the quiet strength of her Kamilaroi father, and the deep creative and spiritual aptitude of her mother. Tabitha enters the art world with a dedication to research and emotional accessibility, accompanied by a constant view to decolonise. Eschewing selective solidarity, she endeavour to provide space and breathe air into creative practices which follow earnest paths to truth-telling and current discovery.


Tamsen Hopkinson Tamsen Hopkinson (b. 1986, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera) is an artist and curator from Aotearoa based in Naarm. She is interested in systems of measurement, language and the fraught application of these systems to ideas of sovereignty and agency.