Jacky Cheng (WA)
Host Partner: Margaret River Makers, Margaret River

Jacky was born in Malaysia of Chinese heritage and currently resides in Yawuru Country, Broome, WA. Deeply rooted in her own bi - cultural experience, her focus is fundamentally about identity and awareness through cultural activities, memories, and relation ships. Jacky’s awareness is amplified through her diasporic lens and identity as a person of colour in foreign borders as she continues to question her notion of 'home' and 'belonging'. Her recent accolades include the prestigious national prize 46 th Frema ntle Art Centre Print Award (2023), The John Stringer Prize (2022); finalists in multiple national art awards including National Works on Paper, VIC (2022) and 67th Blake Prize, NSW (2022).

Jo Darbyshire (WA) with Andrea Williams (WA)
Host Partner: Lake Grace Regional Artspace

Jo Darbyshire (b.1961) is a fifth generation West Australian living and working in Walyalup/Fremantle. Darbyshire’s abstract paintings often reference the social and environmental history of place and aim to suggest a poetic, sensory connection. She also has an interest in creating exhibitions that incorporate strategies from the visual arts and social history museums. In 2002 she worked with Nyoongar artist Andrea Williams on the Proclamation Day Arch at the WA Museum. In 2003 she cr eated the ground - breaking exhibition The Gay Museum , at the WA Museum. In 2019 she was invited to join the TILT programme at Heathcote Gallery and created the exhibition Tales of the Surreal, Stories from the Oral History Collection , Heathcote Hospital. Da rbyshire exhibits regularly with Art Collective WA and her artwork is held in all major public institutions in WA, and in private collections, nationally and internationally.

Andrea Williams (b.1971) is a Nyoongar artist born on Whadjuk country, with fam ily connections to Goreng, Menang, Wilman, Balladong, Mirning and Wudjari groups and English, Scottish and Dutch heritage. Andrea also has a background in documentary filmmaking and sound recording with the Film & Television Institute of WA. From 1994 - 2000 Andrea worked as a Production Assistant, Director of Photography and Sound Recordist on many films and videos including 'Artists Up Front' for Gary Lee in Darwin, 'Buffalo Legends', a documentary about the Buffalo Football Club in Darwin, 'Ngango Battas M oorditcher' (Sunshine, Living, Strength) a video about Claisebrook Cove, Archie Roach’s tour of Northam and York (1997), Sally Morgan’s Play 'King Hit' for Yirra Yarkin Aboriginal Theatre Company (1997), Wadumbah Aboriginal Dance Company’s promotional vide o, WA Museum’s 'Katta Djinoong - The first peoples of WA' exhibition, and 'Taking the Children' (WA’s Stolen Generations) for UWA and Murdoch University’s history departments, and with SBS Independent, Sydney.

Nathan Gray (WA/GER)
Host Partner: Juluwarlu Ar t Centre & Ngaarda Media, Roebourne

Nathan Gray is a West Australian artist living in Berlin. He works with language and the voice across a range of long - term research projects that explore the history of language experiments and the applications of lingui stics. These projects take form as speculative lecture performances, radio works, documentary, exhibition and rumour. Recent investigations have included: a history of voice synthesis and disability, an enquiry into Yerkish: a language invented to communic ate with Chimpanzees and several collaborations with Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation an Indigenous - lead language and cultural archive in Northern Australia. He hosts a regular radio show on Cashmere Radio Berlin, performs and exhibits widely.

Alana Hunt (WA)
Host Partner: Kimberley Land Council, Kununurra

Alana Hunt makes art and writes and tries to find the most affective ways for this material to move in the world. It is long term relationships — with places and people and moments in time — that most inform how her work grapples with the violence and absurdities that result from the fragility of nations and the aspirations and failures of colonial dreams. Supported by the Sheila Foundation’s Fini Fellowship and The Copyright Agency, Alana is currently working on a super 8mm film that examines contemporary colonial life in the north - west of Australia. This will premiere at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in October 2023. Recent exhibitions include the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Aust ralia, Photo Kathmandu, Kaghazi Pairahan: Publishing and Resistance in South Asia at DoubleDummy, Arles, Growing Like a Tree: Sent a Letter at Sunaparanta, Goa, and Every Inch: The Bureaucratic Affect in Colonisation at The Cross Art Projects, Sydney.

Georgie Mattingley (NT)
Host Partner: Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie

Georgie Mattingley works predominantly with photography, video and painting. Her practice uses colour and beauty to make society’s hidden spaces more visible. By visually transforming these spaces, her work unravels the value systems that repress them and proposes a more holistic acceptance of realities that Western society encourages us to avoid. Her exh ibitions have occupied unique public spaces, including TOPIAS III installed at the Warrnambool Base Hospital (2017), KCAT2018 held within a decommissioned foundry in Kyneton (2018) and WE ♥ ABATTOIR that proliferated across outdoor and advertising spaces aro und Melbourne as part for the Next Wave Festival (2014). Mattingley has also exhibited in notable galleries throughout Australia, including Centre for Contemporary Photography (2018), the Shepparton Art Museum (2016) and Fremantle Arts Centre (2017). She h as been the recipient of the National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association Award (2014) and the Bayside Local Art Prize (2018).

Bennett Miller (WA)
Host Partner: Mitchell House Arts, Mount Barker

Bennett Miller is a sculptor and installation artist from Perth, Western Australia. After spending five years obsessed with mini golf, recreating the Iraqi theatre of war across nine different installations (Golf War, 2003 - 2007), Miller has been working almost exclusively with dachshund dogs. He has staged his large scale performance work 'Dachshund UN' in numerous locations, both nationally (Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2010; Now Right Now, PICA, Perth, 2011; Local Positioning Systems, MCA, Sydney, 2012) and internationally (Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK, 2012). Miller has also held solo exhibitions at IASKA (2006), Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2007) and Chalk Horse (2009). Bennett Miller had a busy 2012, undertaking a residency in New York on behalf of the Australia Council, exhibiting in the first ins tallment of IASKA's Spaced: Art Out of Place at the Fremantle Art Centre and in the prestigious New 12, at ACCA, Melbourne and restaging the Dachshund UN at the MCA in Sydney

Elizabeth Pedler (WA)
Host Partner: Wellstead CRC & Windi Windi Pastoral Co

Elizabeth Pedler is a socially engaged artist, focused on a dialogic approach to collaboration. Interested in the range of participation possible in art, Elizabeth's practice spans from playful and interactive installations to collaborative relational aesthe tics. Identity, ecology, and community involvement are areas of particular focus, and have led to significant artistic development in her recent arts practice, engaging with audiences through the sharing of experiences and storytelling. Elizabeth’s work h as been shown at the Disrupted Festival of Ideas, Social Impact Festival, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Fringe World Festival (Perth), Harvest Music Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, and Gertrude Street Projection Festi val, amongst others. She was awarded a PhD (Art) by Curtin University in 2018, and is a recipient of the Australia Council ArtStart Grant, and the WA Department of Culture and the Arts - Young People and the Arts Youth Fellowship. Elizabeth is an art progr am coordinator at Alinea Recreation Centre, working with artists with diverse physical and neurological disabilities. She also teaches Anthropology and Sociology, in the school of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, Perth.

Sarah Rodigari (NSW)
Host Partner: Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council

Sarah Rodigari is an artist whose practice addresses the social and political potential of art. Sarah’s work is site - responsive, employing, durational live action, improvisation, and dialogical methodologies to produce text - based performance, installation, and film. Rodigari has worked with and within various contexts and institutions including Sydney Opera House, HIAP(Helsinki), The Art Gallery of Western Australia, The National New Australian Art Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), the 20th Biennale of Sydney, MU MA, Melbourne International Arts Festival, ACCA, The Poetry Project (NYC) and SOMA (Mexico City). Rodigari is member of the collective Field Theory and Lectures in Sculpture and Spatial Practice at The Australian National University, Canberra.

Tina Stefanou (VIC)
Host Partner: North Midlands Project, Carnamah

With a background as a vo calist, Tina Stefanou works with a diverse range of mediums in an embodied practice she refers to as 'voice in the expanded field.' Informed by diasporic and working - class experiences, Stefanou assembles performers and materials with varied skillsets, from diverse environments and species to provoke re - assessments of culture and knowledge production. Stefanou has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, Sarah Scout Presents, Gertrude Contemporary, Chapter House, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Ian Potter Museum, Cementa, Kadist Gallery (Paris), Salt Museum (Istanbul), and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. She will also be featured in the 2024 Adelaide Biennial at the Art Gal lery of South Australia. Stefanou was the recipient of the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art in the Local Category in 2023, the Arts House and ACCA CultureLAB Development Program in 2023, a Marten Bequest Scholarship in 2021, and in 2020 received an Aus tralian Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music with the Music Box Project and Schenberg Arts Fellowship. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Victorian College of Arts School of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne.

Ana Tiquia (VIC)
Host Partner: Cannery Art Centre, Esperance

Ana Tiquia is an artist and futurist who lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne. Integrating participatory art and performance, design, and futures practice, Ana creates public interventions: works that invite dialogue with ‘the future’. She is interested in how practices and infrastructures make worlds, and aims to expand possibility in the present by generating diverse future imaginaries. Ana’s work intervenes in workplace, institutional, and everyday practices. Through these interventions Ana aims to seed diverse futures of data and technology; work and labour, and energy, material, and multispecies relations. Ana's most recent work has been commissioned by MOD. (Museum of Discovery, Adelaide), ANAT SPECTRA22, SPACED and the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). Ana holds a BA in Fine Arts, a Master of Strategic Foresight, and was 2022 Berry Family Fellow at State Library Victoria.