Hiromi Tango is a Japanese - Australian artist whose work spans sculpture, photography, installation and performance. Tango is dedicated to generating healing conversations through arts engagement. Reacting to an age in which human relationships are being eclipsed by the globalisation and virtualisation of communication, the artist’s practice is often collaborative, performative and site-specific.

Polly Borland is an Australian photographer who formerly resided in England from 1989 to 2011, was based in Los Angeles and more recently Byron Bay, New South Wales. Borland is known for her photographs of noted figures including Queen Elizabeth II, Nick Cave and Gwendoline Christie. The recent period of Borland’s practice has seen her explore more abstract and surreal imagery. Borland creates images that invite the viewer to see the human form in unfamiliar ways, infused both with humour and an unsettling disquiet.

The Tennant Creek Men’s art program started in 2016 as an Art therapy/outreach program set up by Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corp. The group, a mix of fringe dwellers and cultural leaders have continued to work together and often collaboratively, forming an unique and cutting edge artists collective named 'The Tennant Creek Brio'. Their work pushes conventions, drawing on imagery and traditions from the Wirnkarra (Dreaming), the Old Testament and mythic iconography from around the world. Their action paintings and performance represent the enthusiasm and dedication of the collective as they continue to develop a cathartic visual language fuelled by the complexities of life in Tennant Creek.

Laith McGregor’s practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture and video. His intricately drawn works, using ballpoint pen, have been shown in Australia and internationally. “I see my work as a long drawn-out continuous narrative, slowly unravelling and revealing aspects of myself, my immediate surroundings and thoughts,” he says.

A Bundjalung man, Michael Philp is a contemporary aboriginal artist from the Tweed Caldera. He grew up on the Tweed Coast, his mum an aboriginal woman and his father a white fisherman. Much of Michael’s youth was spent at the seaside or on the river. It was a place to connect with his dad, to spend time with friends and sometimes to reflect in solitude. This coastal landscape of his childhood features regularly in his current works. With his signature minimalist style, Michael tells the story of his people from a modern-day perspective. His work explores themes around identity, connection to land, connection to his people, and his own personal memories of his family history, within the Tweed community.

“My name is Zion Levy Stewart and I am an artist. I do art every day, and really enjoy working with clay as well as painting and drawing. Drawing people is my favourite. I live in a place called Paradise, which is like heaven. Nature and the outside world interests me, full of seasons, wallabies, birds, snakes and fish. I am happy being an artist and this shows in my work as it makes people smile.”

Garth Lena, a Minjungbul sculptor, was born in 1967 in Murwillumbah, northern New South. Wales. Lena’s sculptural pieces incorporate local Dreaming Stories of the Minjungbul and Bundjalung Indigenous people of Northern NSW and are created from wood, clay, steel and local bark. Although Lena has only been practicing as an artist since 2000 his work has already been recognised at a State level. His work is in the permanent collections of the NSW Premiers Department, Tweed River Art Gallery, the Tweed Shire Council and the NSW Parliament House Art Collection.

Justine Muller is an artist working in multi mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, writing and activism.

Muller arrived in Wilcannia in 2015 and took up self-funded residency in the community. She has been working under the guidance and mentorship of respected elder and artist Uncle Badger Bates. Together they are collaborating on an exhibition “Barka, the forgotten river” that opened in Broken Hill Regional, May 2018. The exhibition tour regional areas for 2018-19 drawing attention the plight of the Barka (The Darling River) and the Barkandji people (River People).

Selena Murray, currently a student at Byron School of Art, is a Northern Rivers based assemblage and installation artist, working with botanical and found objects. Reimagining these elements and manipulating them in unexpected ways to expose the complexity and often symbiotic connections between nature and man. A communion of the higher realms in a physical space.

Beki Davies is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses immersive installations that employ the mediums of print, photography, ceramic sculpture and drawing to explore the phenomenology of Place. “My arts practice is situated within the genre of Contemporary Landscape, exploring themes of the Anthropocene and the visual folklore of changing spaces.” Beki has worked extensively in the Arts industry, with 15 years as a professional tattooist and has curated many group and solo shows as founder and Co-director of Muse Contemporary Gallery, an artist run initiative in Lismore NSW.

"In many respects my work exemplifies the confusion of categories that now pervades the creative industries: in production, process and materiality they belong to the domain of craft, while the subversive content keeps this category at arm’s length. I use relationships of surface, form, colour, line and mark making, (the mainstays of the painter’s vocabulary) to create narratives… I believe visual art is all about humanity’s relationship to objects and I wish above all to invoke the emotional connections which are felt towards things that have been made by hand with love."

Michael is based in Lismore, New South Wales. His practice is a broad investigation of abstraction and transcendence through multiple mediums including painting, assemblage, performance and sound. A predominantly self-taught artist, Michael augmented his skills in 2017 by undertaking a BA in Visual Arts at Southern Cross University. Michael has been an active member of the Australian experimental music scene for over 30 years, performing in numerous improvisational ensembles, and running independent music publishing labels. Michael is currently co-director at Elevator ARI in Lismore New South Wales.

Ozzy is an Australian professional surfer, artist, and musician living on Bundjalung Country. He creates psychedelic scenes with textiles, paint and anything he can get his hands on.

“My practice with food and cookery as both artistic medium and subject matter is informed by food anthropology and my background as a trained chef. In diverse ways I collaborate with professionals from other disciplines and with community groups and/or individuals to investigate the ever-shifting value and symbolism in what we eat. Through interactive public events presented as cookery and/or meal sharing performances, I provide embodied experiential engagement for audiences to ingest information on the ethical, political and environmental implications of modern foodways.”

Dr Clare Milledge is an artist and academic, she is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Art & Design and is represented by STATION gallery. Milledge's work re-examines contemporary environments with a focus on our engagement with ecology through art, in particular through the use of the historical figure of the artist-shaman. Working with fieldwork as her primary methodology she collects, re-organises, transforms and re-presents recordings, information and material gathered on ecological surveys and site visits. Her research output takes the form of public installation environments that variously incorporate glass paintings, textile works, costumes, sets, collaborative experimental sound and performance.

Tralala Blip are an Australian unit of differently-abled musicians hailing from the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Over the past decade they have carved out a unique position in the Australian electronic music community. Working to overcome a range of challenges imposed by their disabilities, Tralala Blip have created a range of approaches to instruments, performance and composition that allows them to seamlessly create music together.

Nickolla Clark is a proud Arakwal woman of the Bundjalung Nation and a contemporary Indigenous artist. Nickolla has worked on Country, caring for Country most of her life. From a young age she developed a strong cultural sense and connection to her land. She shares the traditions of her elder’s legacy and cultural knowledge through her art practice to advocate keeping Country clean, healthy and alive showing respect.

Nickolla began painting at thirteen using her connection to Country to showcase the vivid and subtle colours of her homelands through her artworks, prints and projects. Working as a field/education officer for National Parks and Wildlife Service she has drawn and been inspired by the distinctive landscapes and surroundings of her Country. Nickolla has always advocated for conservation, youth and cultural rights while playing a strong contributing role to sharing and practicing lore in community.

Nickolla’s artistic attributions has been a personal journey which highlights the hard work and many cultural insights she has expressed in all of her public art murals, commissions, artworks and community engagement. Her practice speaks the longest living culture and showcases Arakwal / Aboriginal history and knowledge.

Aboriginal Art has been the means of storytelling for Aboriginal people for thousands of years, Nickolla’s work is contributing to the continuation of culture right here on her Country, Arakwal Country in Byron Bay, NSW.

Djon Mundine  OAM  is a foundational figure in the criticism, development and exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art, and is widely respected as an intellectual and cultural leader. A sought-after and innovative curator, the quality and volume of his writing and public speaking is a testimony to his influence, national and international reach.

A commitment to grass-roots practice and development underlies his work with artists and communities across Australia, and he has held senior curatorial positions in national and international institutions.

Mundine won The Australia Council's 2020 Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement and is currently an independent curator of contemporary Indigenous art and cultural mentor.

Ryan Andrew Lee is a conceptual artist whose works explore alternative ontologies and epistemologies which are strongly influenced by First Nations, spiritual and universal philosophies of life and mind. Ryan's strong background in cinematography and experimental documentary film-making shines strongly throughout his works. Most commonly using the mediums of moving image and installation as his favoured tools of choice, Lee proactively strives to create works that resonate on a deeper level of consciousness with the intent to unify all things. Ryan's works are sometimes factually and historically based (whether that be a positive or negative history) and are always created with the intent to educate, raise awareness on and offer up alternate perspectives on cultural, environmental (and sometimes political) issues in hopes to provoke further discussion on such topics; in a sense we must investigate the past to understand the present. Ryan's work is driven by personal experience and experiences shared by family, friends and the wider community.

Tessa Walker-Charles is a multi-disciplinary artist, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales. Their practice is multi-disciplinary, spanning across the digital and physical, including performance, film, photography, written word art and painting. Through these mediums they explore the relationship between colonialism and self. Acknowledging the complex and confusing entanglement of learnt belief structures, thought patterns, behaviours, desires and systems of colonisation which we have all been taught. Tessa works to unravel and build new, de-colonial pathways forward, using their practice to critique and disrupt ideals of colonialism through focusing on their personal experiences and histories as a mixed-race person of Caribbean heritage living in Australia.

Elise Derwin is an award-winning photographer based in Lismore, NSW, who specialises in documentary and editorial photography.

Fuelled by curiosity and a genuine connection to the people and places she’s photographing, Elise aims to capture not just moments, but whole stories. She enjoys getting to know the people she’s photographing to tell important and often personal stories, and the resulting images are rich with humanity and compassion.

Elise has a Bachelor of Design (Photomedia) from the University of Western Sydney, and has extensive experience as a press photographer. Her images have featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Guardian, The Australian, The Telegraph, Herald Sun and The NT News. She has also captured iconic images for Tourism NT, and is the official photographer for Darwin Festival.

Currently based in Lismore, Elise regularly travels throughout northern NSW and southern Queensland for her work and is available to travel interstate for assignments. She has also worked extensively across Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory, and has undertaken several overseas assignments, including to the United States, East Timor and Indonesia.