Kaya My name is Julianne Wade, I’m a proud Nyungar yorga from my mother’s side (Sandra Egan) and on my father’s (Norman Wade) side Tainui from Ngaruawahia NZ, I’ve been an emerging artist since December  2019, I was born in Subiaco Perth, and later went to live with my father in NZ at the age of 7. I like to try different mediums in my artwork from acrylics, oils pastels natural resins and dyes and textiles materials, and bring a fusion of both cultures in their own unique ways. I would say my artwork style is contemporary. 

Nuriah Jadai
I’ve been painting since I was born, and my work has been deadly since I was four years old. I had a good eye for detail at seven or eight, especially when painting dragons, and that’s when I realised I had a talent for painting and working with colour. I began painting with the old people, the Yulparija elders, in 1997. In 2011, I started focusing on my art career in Parngurr, where I began painting with my family, the Taylor family. I’ve always lived between Bidyadanga and Parngurr, which has given me a deeper understanding of my people, culture, and Country. My photography has been exhibited at the Perth Centre for Photography (2022), QV1 Building in Perth (2023), Lawsons Flat (2024), and Lawrence Wilson Gallery (2025). I was also proud to win Best Works on Paper at the Shin Art Award (2024) in Broome. Creating art helps release the pain in my mind, and it brings me joy to see people’s responses to my work. For me, it’s all about sharing visions and dreams. 

Emily Rose is a mother, visionary and 4th generation Noongar/Yamatji artist. She’s committed to fostering generational change, promoting unity, and creating beautiful things for the benefit of those that lie forever in her heart of hearts—her children. An award-winning, multi-disciplinary artist, Emily’s work spans oil painting, weaving, and ephemeral art—for now—exploring themes of memory, natural order, and the interwoven narratives of Country. Her art exists at the intersection of tradition and innovation, paying homage to cultural knowledge while expanding the horizons of contemporary Indigenous art. Continuing a legacy where hands have woven, painted, and carved stories, Emily’s work celebrates her ancestors’ resilience but more importantly, through her own lived experiences she strives to build a transformed future for her daughter and beyond. 

Beverly Thomson is a Yamatji woman living on Wardandi Country. She is and a multidisciplinary artist specialising in pottery, weaving and “dirty pot” eco-dyeing. She is known for combining different mediums in interesting and innovative ways.  

Rhonda Norman is a respected Noongar Wilman Elder from Bunbury. Art serves as her connection to other women and her cultural identity as she navigates between two worlds.  Through her art, Rhonda celebrates her cultural heritage and the beauty of Wardandi Country. 

Josephine Jay of Gneiss Design is an established Filmmaker and Visual Designer living a colourful life in Western Australia’s Great Southern region. Celebrating subconscious forms and textures, she weaves the lived environment into each production, connecting audiences with the world around them and daring them to learn more.

Annette Carmichael is an award-winning producer and choreographer based in the Great Southern region of  Western Australia.  Creating community and connection through dance, sound and design, Annette Carmichael Projects brings together artists, scientists, knowledge holders and community to create contemporary works that explore issues important to people living in regional Australia.

Amanda Bell is a Badamia Yamatji and Yued Noongar artist woman living and working on Wardandi land in Goomburrup. Working with mediums such as video, sound, textiles, sculpture and installation, Bell’s wide-ranging practice is dedicated to ‘… trying new ways of telling stories that are sometimes uncomfortable and painful, sometimes fun and frivolous.’ Recent exhibitions include N’yettin-ngal Wagur – Yeye Wongie (Ancestors breath – Today talk), John Curtain Gallery, Perth (2024), South West Art Now 2024 (SWAN): A New Constellation, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury (2024), Emergencies (Open Borders), The Creative Corner and the Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix (2023), KANANGOOR/Shimmer, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (2023), 2021 Revealed Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle (2021). In 2022, Bell was a finalist in the John Stringer Art Prize. Bell’s works are included in the State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia and City of Fremantle Art Collection. 

Emilia Galatis is a curator, art consultant, creative producer, and arts development specialist with over 18 years’ experience working across urban and remote areas. She has lived in the Western Desert, Pilbara and Kimberley and was the arts and business manager for Warakurna Artists in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. After that, Emilia was the producer of Revealed 2016/ 2017 for FAC and the co-curator of Desert River Sea at AGWA in 2019. Emilia has received three international scholarships including a Churchill Fellowship undertaken in 2022, developing international creative business opportunities for WA artists. Her clients are museums, peak bodies and Indigenous owned arts organisations, building pathways for artists to exhibit with maximum impact. She has founded and its the director of a textile business called Flash Minky and a commercial gallery concept: EG Projects, exhibiting WA artists nationally and internationally.  

Tyrown Waigana is an artist and designer with connections to Wardandi Noongar people of the south-west, Yawuru people from the Kimberley region and the Ait Koedhal clan on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Following the coast Waigana’s heritage stretches almost half the country and is deeply connected to the oceans. Tyrown was born and raised in Fremantle, where his passion for art was fostered by his family and surrounding. He grew up admiring family members who made art, the cartoons he saw on TV and a curiosity around creating. Tyrown’s practice explores the everyday myth, gaps in communications and rhetoric around Indigenous identity while putting a humorous spin on much of his work. He enjoys pushing himself creatively both in concept, topic and outcome. Tyrown believes his creativity is limitless and seeks to prove this by taking on complex projects that allow him to grow. 

I’m Sylvia Wilson, an emerging curator at Martumili Art Gallery. The first exhibition I curated was in 2021 with fellow artists Robina Willams and Corban Williams. Paper Wangka (Paper Story in Martu) exhibition unearthed paper artwork treasures from Martumili collection as a professional development project for us three emerging curators. Since then I have lead the gallery team to curate and install a number of exhibitions including Ngapikaja (the loose translation is thingamibobs) and Mikka (bush foods). I also curated a show for Yaama Ganu Gallery in NSW in September 2023. I love working with spaces and amazing artwork. I love going through the process of selection and coming up with themes that tie the pieces together. I get so excited to see the works we send to different galleries, stretched and hung on the walls in places like Darwin, Perth and Sydney. 

A Yawuru/Bardi woman born and raised in Broome, Dalisa Pigram has worked with Marrugeku since the first production Mimi and has been Co-Artistic Director since 2008. A co-devising performer on all Marrugeku’s productions, touring extensively overseas and throughout Australia. Dalisa’s solo work Gudirr Gudirr earned an Australian Dance Award (Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance 2014) and a Green Room Award (Best Female Performer 2014). Dalisa co-conceived Marrugeku’s Burning Daylight and Cut the Sky with Rachael Swain, co-choreographing both works with Serge Aimé Coulibaly. Together with Swain she co-directed Buru, Ngarlimbah and co-curated Marrugeku’s four International Indigenous Choreographic Labs and Burrbgaja Yalirra. In her community, Dalisa teaches the Yawuru Language Programme at Cable Beach Primary School and is committed to the maintenance of Yawuru language and culture through the arts and education. Dalisa is co-editor of Marrugeku: Telling That Story—25 years of trans-Indigenous and intercultural exchange (Performance Research 2021). 

Sharyn Egan is a Noongar woman who began creating art at the age of 37, which lead to her enrolling in a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Claremont School of Art in Perth. She completed this course in 1998 and enrolled in the Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art at Curtin University, which she completed in 2000. In 2001 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Arts) from Curtin University. She has also been awarded a Certificate VI in Training and Education in 2011. The themes in Egan’s work are informed by the experiences of her life as a Noongar woman.

Georgia Mokak is a Djugun person from Broome, in the West Kimberley. They are grateful to have grown up on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Larrakia Country and to be treading lightly on Wangal and Gadigal Country.  Georgia’s area of interest and research is in First Nations led storytelling, collective practice, memory and care.  

Shannon Clohessy is a Wadandi saltwater woman from the South West of Western Australia, whose art celebrates the interconnectedness of culture, environment, and family. Inspired by her coastal upbringing, her work reflects the beauty and resilience of Country, drawing on the fluidity and transparency of glass to capture the essence of water and the ocean. Trained in glassblowing and lampworking, Shannon incorporates intricate patterns and symbols that honour her cultural heritage and evoke dialogue about our relationship with the natural world. Her art is a celebration of connection, weaving together themes of clarity, fragility, and resilience to inspire reflection and unity. Shannon’s journey has been shaped by the guidance of skilled mentors and the unwavering support of her close-knit family, who remain central to her creative process. Through her practice, she shares stories that highlight the enduring ties between people, land, and sea. 

Charmaine Green is a proud Wajarri, Badimaya and Wilunyu woman of the Yamaji Nation. A visual artist, author, poet, storyteller and social science researcher, she shares her cultural knowledge in many different spheres.  Charmaine has written five books, won several awards including the prestigious Australian Literary Society Gold Medal, and her poetry is studied as part of primary and school curriculum. Involved with the Yamaji Art Centre in Geraldton for over 22 years, she is currently their Chairperson, her visual art mediums include 2D acrylic paintings, multimedia collages and print making. Charmaine was awarded the 2022 Magabala Fellowship 2022 and 2023 Red Room Poetry Fellowship and is a member of the national First Nation Aboriginal Writers Network. Charmaine lives with her family in Geraldton, WA.