Tai Snaith is an artist, author and broadcaster living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Her multi-disciplinary work celebrates the intersection of stories, collections, people and place. She is interested in how objects like books, vessels and other utilitarian items can be powerful tools to illustrate the times we live in as well as the past. How, like literature, objects can convey a deep emotional point of view and energy. Tai also has a longstanding love of animals and interest in biodiversity. She has 6 published books with Thames and Hudson, which all use animals as a way for children to connect with ideas of place, self, mindfulness and environmental action.

Tai has artwork held in both private and public collections including Artbank, City of Banyule, NGA and State Library of Victoria as well as recently commissioned series for Andaz Prague and a current public sculpture commission for the Great Victorian Rail Trail. Tai has an ongoing podcast of conversations called ‘A World of One’s Own’ originally commissioned by ACCA, which is now in its third season. Tai also has 6 books published with Thames and Hudson Australia with her most recent book ‘Wonders Under the Sun’ was released in September 2022.

Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, printmedia and drawing. Leutwyler holds concurrent bachelor degrees in Studio and Art History from Arizona State University, and additionally graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Painting and Drawing degree.

Leutwyler's current body of work features paintings exploring notions of beauty, gender and queer identity. Her artwork has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums throughout Australia and the United States. Some of Leutwyler's recent accolades include being selected as a finalist in the Archibald and Sulman Prizes, the Doug Moran Portrait Prize as well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award.

Working across painting and sculpture, Marikit Santiago co-opts her practice with references, imagery, and symbolism from her Australian-Filipino ancestry, Catholicism, and the Western Art canon. Within these pluralities, she interrogates their existing contradictory sensations, values, and ideas.

In 2020, Marikit won the prestigious Sir John Sulman Prize for her work ‘The divine’, which examines the concepts and principles surrounding faith, creation stories, motherhood, cultural heritage and gender roles. Marikit was also a two-time finalist for the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a 2019 Sulman Prize finalist, and was shortlisted for Create NSW’s 2018 Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. In 2018, the Churchie Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art awarded Marikit with the Sam Whiteley Commendation Award.

Marikit’s notable exhibitions include the Bayanihan Philippine Art Project (2017), which toured to Art Gallery New South Wales, Blacktown Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Mosman Art Gallery and Peacock Gallery; New Sacred (2018) at Mosman Art Gallery; I LOVE YOU MELISSA (2018) at The Lock Up; Mahal (2018) at Firstdraft; and Everyday Madonna (2019) at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
Marikit graduated with a Master of Fine Art (2017) from the University of New South Wales, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours Class I) in 2011 and a Bachelor of Medical Science (2007). During this time, she was awarded a Dean’s Award for her undergraduate degree and the Australian Postgraduate Award for her Masters degree. Her work features in private and public collections across Australia.

"Let's be guided by our materials. What narratives are already embedded in the textile you have chosen to work with?"

Julia Gutman is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on unceded Gadigal Land. She reuses found textiles to produce ‘patchworks’ that merge personal and collective histories to explore themes of femininity, intimacy and memory.

Julia holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Painting from UNSW Art and Design. She was one of six exhibiting Artists in Primavera, Young Australian Artists at The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, in 2022. Alongside her practice, Julia is an educator, teaching Sculpture at the University of New South wales and running accessible textile workshops for artists of all ages.

Stanislava Pinchuk is an artist working with data-mapping the changing topographies of war & conflict zones. Her work is produced in full independence, and surveys how landscape holds memory and testament to political events – spanning drawing, installation, tattooing, film & sculpture. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine - she currently lives and works in Sarajevo, BiH.

Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Angela Tiatia is of Samoan and Australian heritage.

Important institutional group exhibitions, include Intercambio, Cuba Biennial, Havana (2019), After the Fall, National Museum of Singapore (2017); Countercurrents, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide (2017); Personal Structures, a collateral exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennial (2017); Under the Sun, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2017); the Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 8), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015/16); and Tūrangawaewae: Art and New Zealand, Toi Art, Gallery of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand (2018).

Her major solo exhibitions include Narcissus, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2019), Soft Power, Alaska Projects, Sydney (2016); Survey / Fáaliga, Mángere Arts Centre - Ngá Tohu o Uenuku, Auckland (2016); Edging and Seaming, City Gallery, Wellington (2013); and Neo-Colonial Extracts, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (2011). Notable group exhibitions include Art of the Pacific, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2016); Political Ecology, The Dowse Museum, Wellington (2017); and Impact, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland (2016).

Angela Tiatia’s work is held in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra; and the Australian Museum, Sydney. She was awarded the 2018 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and has been a finalist in numerous prestigious awards, including the Edinburgh Short Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Archibald Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize, and the John Fries Art Award.