Lucie is an artist, curator and writer. Her visual practice is largely concerned with ideas of the contemporary image, and the different ways that the image is disseminated and mediated in our social and political spheres. Alongside her independent practice, Lucie has committed much of her professional capacity to platforming independent, artist-led and experimental practice. She has worked on and created many projects that seek to deconstruct the contemporary art economy and decentralise established systems of power. Lucie is interested in the ways that contemporary art practice intersects with, informs and is influenced by culture. This circular relationship informs the way that she works, and underpins her approach to cross-disciplinary collaboration and critical, community-building projects.

Sol Fernandez is a South Asian multidisciplinary storyteller and maker, whose work engages with cultural liminality, identity, and the complexities of age, relationships, and sexuality. As Artistic Director of Way Over There Collective, Sol prioritises the voices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities in South East Naarm (Melbourne). Her artistic practice, which often involves collaboration with her daughter Blu Fernandez Lennon, is deeply connected to the process of personal and cultural reclamation. Sol’s work challenges traditional narratives, seeking honest and layered representation while navigating the fluidity of identity and experience.

Jonathan Nguyen is a marketing specialist, researcher and curator. A French citizen with French/Vietnamese/Algerian roots, he made his way to Naarm in December 2019 from Paris. Jonathan’s background spans law, marketing, philosophy and the arts.

He most recently held the position of Gallery Manager at Murray White Room and has an ongoing role in a data-driven digital marketing agency. He is concomitantly working on completing a PhD in Aesthetics at Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Jonathan has a values-oriented way of coming to art, focusing on fostering critical thinking, dialogue, collaboration and experimentation.

George Akl is a socio-political interdisciplinary artist with practice foundations in video and photography. He brings a wealth of experience in community building that strategically employs ethics to shape and nurture bold contemporary art practice. George’s work spans resistance organising, contemporary art and socially engaged practice. Including decades of management in the film industry, George has collaborated with many local international artists like Magdalena Jetalove and Fred Schepsi.

As a recipient of a creative scholarship from Melbourne University, George holds a Master's degree in Community Cultural Development. With over 9 years in Deaf and Disability Arts practice, George brings a nuanced perspective on accessibility and affirmation. As Collections Impact Producer at Arts Access Victoria, he led the research and development of the world's first Deaf and Disability Arts Museum.

His commitment to inclusivity extends to fostering significant diversity within the arts, aligning with broader social justice initiatives such as environmental activism and First Peoples' justice campaigning, and a ferocious determination to undermine racial intolerance.

Christiane Carr is a client manager currently working at the not-for-profit Auspicious Arts Projects. She works closely with both independent artists and local councils to help get their creative endeavours off the ground running. Christiane predominantly assists clients with administrative and financial support, managing their project budgets.

Since graduating from her Masters of Arts Management (2020) at RMIT, Christiane has worked in several local arts organisations including Footscray Community Arts Centre, M Pavilion, and the Centre for Projection Art. She is interested in the field of community-engaged practice and the ethics involved in effective arts management. This involves a deep collaboration between arts practitioners and communities which Christiane hopes to facilitate as a board member at Seventh Gallery.

Kenny Waite (they/he) is a Filipinx/o artist, producer and programmer currently working in Naarm. They are passionate about arts, community engagement and supporting artists. Interested in process-driven, relationship-building and context-driven work that promotes a connective, empathetic and sustainable arts practice.

They have over six years of experience working in the arts, events, and festival sector including their current role as Associate Producer, Programming at Abbotsford Convent, where they have worked the past 2.5 years. They also work as a FOH Manager at the Malthouse Theatre and as a Venue Services Officer at Darebin Arts Centre.

As a practicing multi-disciplinary artist, they primarily use visual mediums and words to explore our many identities and how our heritage, grief and queerness overlap with the common theme of re-connection to self, culture and community. A process of how personal creation and representation can be used to reconnect and heal lost connections.

Angela Glindemann is a queer and neurodivergent writer, poet and editor based in Naarm. She holds a Master of Arts (Writing), and she worked in the educational publishing industry for six years. She is a member of the Australian Publishers Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group.

In her creative practice, she is preoccupied with everyday aesthetics, spatial writing, and ekphrasis, as well as fragmentary and digital writing experiments. She has written for publications such as Archer Magazine, Un Extended and Rabbit, and has participated in several arts writing programs, including the 2022 Writing in the Expanded Field program through ACCA and RMIT’s non/fictionLab.

Nina Gibbes is a graphic designer, researcher and lecturer with an interest in feminism, publication design and collaborative practice. Her work spans cultural projects, exhibitions, publications, typography, branding for not-for-profit organisations and small businesses, commissioned artworks, and music. Gibbes has a background in contemporary art and emerging art spaces, and began working as a full-time graphic designer in 2018.

Gillian Daniel is a curator, programmer and art historian of modern and contemporary art from Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Having lived and worked in Singapore, London and now Naarm, she is interested in the role of art and visual culture in discovering and configuring cultural identities and affinities. She is also invested in the ways that we can mine shared pasts and presents to think about alternative futures.

She is currently on sabbatical from her role as Manager (Curatorial Programs) at National Gallery Singapore to pursue her Doctor of Philosophy in Art History and Visual Culture at the Australian National University, where she is studying representations of the natural world in colonial Singapore and Malaysia. At NGS, she led the development of live programs and digital projects that strove to provide points of entry for a wide public into the gallery’s exhibitions and commissions. Prior to this, she held various positions in London at Wellcome Collection, Frieze Art Fair and Camden Arts Centre, across production, communications and operations.

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Alanna is an artist, curator, writer and arts worker practicing in Naarm. They seek to examine ideas of digital language, emphasizing ever-evolving notions of storytelling and care, dissecting what makes objects or phrases sacred. Alanna asks how we demonstrate community care and healing in a digital age, and if it is possible to coalesce ancient notions of community with contemporary dialogue and ego-centric imaginings. Combining contemporary text and symbol through use of drawing, sculpture and installation, Alanna looks to draw similarities between texts and timelines and unpack notions of circular history.

Alanna has a degree in Fine Arts from RMIT and has exhibited with various galleries in Melbourne and internationally, including Unassigned Gallery, Divisions Gallery and SOL Gallery, as well as being a part of Sleepless Footscray's 2023 program. She currently volunteers at Seventh and ACCA, and has previously volunteered at Milk Gallery.