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• Jack Green ›
• Jenna Rain Warwick ›
• Moorina Bonini ›
• Vasilika Tsingos ›

• Jack Green is an artist and activist born in the early 1950s under a Coolibah tree on Soudan Station on the Barkley Tablelands, Wakaya country. He is a Mambaliya man, Garrwa on his father’s side and Marra on his mother’s side. He grew up on cattle stations, travelling with kin for ceremonies, and settled in Borroloola in the early 1970s. Jack uses his art to campaign for land rights and the protection of his traditional Country and region, particularly against the adverse impacts of mining.
• Jenna Rain Warwick is a Proud Luritja woman, born and raised in Queensland she now resides in Melbourne Victoria working as a curator for ACMI. She is a fiction writer (fiction), filmmaker and curator with a passion for supporting First Nations storytellers, to realise ideas and promote critical reflection in film studies. Concerned with the construction and distribution of national identity on screen, her research interests intersect broadly with video and film from around the globe. Her curatorial projects hope to present thought provoking and unexpected comparisons, challenging how we might think about identity and cinema.
• Moorina Bonini is a proud Yorta Yorta and Woiwurrung woman. She is descended from the Dhulunyagen family clan of Ulupna people (Yorta Yorta) and is part of the Briggs/McCrae family. Moorina is an artist whose works are informed by her experiences as an Aboriginal and Italian woman. Within her practice, she creates artwork that examines contemporary Indigenous histories through the use of installation and video. Moorina holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from VCA. Her work has been exhibited within group shows and at various galleries such as Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Sydney Festival, Blak Dot Gallery, c3 Contemporary Art Space, SEVENTH Gallery, Koorie Heritage Trust and Brunswick Street Gallery. Moorina has produced and co-curated art and cultural programs across RMIT University and the University of Melbourne. Moorina is currently working at Next Wave as a Producer-in-Residence. She is a board member of SEVENTH Gallery, where she is currently the First Nations Programming Coordinator.
• Vasilika Tsingos is a multidisciplinary artist, interested in themes of how we legitimisze a subject within the confinements of the frame. Her work interrogates the intentionality of the ‘edge’ and displaced familiar objects through coexisting moments of figuration and abstraction. A tension between the ‘edge’ and the ‘edgeless’, a driving force of desire.