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Mariam Ella Arcilla is a Filipino-Singaporean arts manager working across community engagement, arts programming, writing, marketing, and gallery management. Since 2006, she has collaborated with people and organisations to turn radiant ideas into programs, resources, and publications. She lives and work on Gadigal land, with a praxis that intertwines with projects in Naarm, Meanjin and Yugambeh/Kombumerri lands. Mariam got her start in galleries and artist-run initiatives, before working up to senior roles at museums, commercial galleries, creative tech companies, and government departments. She has dreamed up programs with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Institute of Modern Art, Arts Queensland, City of Gold Coast, Museum of Brisbane, Powerhouse Museum, Accessible Arts NSW, THE WALLS, and the State Library of Qld. Her writing is published in VAULT, Running Dog, Art Collector, Runway Journal, and Art Guide. She also copyedits arts websites, catalogues, and books across Australia. Mariam holds a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Creative Arts in Contemporary Art & Creative Writing from Griffith University. 

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Sarah Hibbs is a curator and creative producer living and working on Gadigal land (Sydney). With over a decade of experience across the private, independent, and not-for-profit art sectors, she has an in-depth knowledge of Australian and international contemporary art. She is the Sydney WorldPride 2023 Program Producer at the National Art School, and sits on the board of Runway Journal as Co-Chair.. She has held managerial positions as Director, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney / Singapore, and Chief of Operations at LoveArt Art Advisory, Sydney / New York. She has also previously worked as a Project Manager at Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOA) and has held positions at Artspace, Sydney; Swiss Institute, New York; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. She holds a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.

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Yuna Lee is an arts worker and writer living and working on unceded Gadigal land. She is interested in engaging with others the tools to imagine a different kind of world, building relationships and collective power, and sharing resources for informed, joyful resistance. She currently works at 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art as a Gallery Assistant and joined the Board of Runway Journal in 2022 as an Editor. Her writing has been published online and in print by ArtAsiaPacific.

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Akil Ahamat is a Sri Lankan Malay artist, filmmaker and arts worker currently based on Ngunnawal & Ngambri land. Akil’s work across video, sound, performance and installation considers the physical and social isolation of online experience and its effects in configuring contemporary subjectivity. Among their research influences, they draw especially on the use of ASMR in online spaces as a self-administered therapeutic tool, translating its restorative effects into intimate audio experiences.

Akil has most recently exhibited physically at Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Monash University Museum of Art, Institute of Modern Art and Artspace and produced online works for 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Parramatta Artist’s Studios and Sydney Review of Books.

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Bea Rubio-Gabriel is a writer, performance artist, and curator born in the Philippines now living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Approaching writing as artform and ephemera, they use ergodic texts and homemade books to create new modes of access and dismantle dominant knowledge and power structures. Using performance, they explore pre-colonial writing systems (Baybayin) and how languages of the past can be activated as cultural imaginaries for the utopian present. Currently interrogating systems of care and Resistance Aesthetics, they challenge current curatorial and euro-centric modes of exhibiting by approaching the curatorial as its own artistic medium; grounded in rhizomatic ways of care and collectivisation. Their research currently focuses on the moral economy of labour, care critique, and the politics of translation. Bea is currently a co-coordinator for the KINGS Artist-Run Emerging Writers Program.

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Georgia Hayward [she/her] is an Meanjin-based artist, curator and artsworker with cultural connections to the Mardigan people in west QLD. Her practice explores the influence of public space on contemporary social dynamics and community development through social, spatial and digital practices to engage with polyphonic and polycentric readings of public space. Georgia currently works as the General Manager of Outer Space, a non-for profit contemporary arts organisation.

Julie Ha | Digital Producer

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Julie is an emerging producer and artist based in Naarm. She is currently on the board of Runway Journal.

Her work has been published in Seventh Gallery and Voiceworks. She has produced projects for the Contemporary of Centre Photography and Foundation Young Australian and Urban Climb - working across digital publication, community applications and galleries.

She loves to make work with her friends.

Yuanyu Li | Digital Producer

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Yuanyu is an emerging curator and producer working on Gadigal Country (Sydney). She has a background in contemporary art curating and social science studies. She currently works as a Curatorial Assistant at Artspace and has worked at various art institutions in Australia and China, including the Art Gallery of NSW, Power Station of Art Shanghai, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, and Vermilion Art. In addition, she has curated exhibitions and produced programs at various creative spaces. Throughout her curatorial practices, Yuanyu has strived to promote art's infinite possibilities and vitality and the creation of unique experiences.

Sam Soh | Digital Producer

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Sam Soh is an Australian-Malaysian multimedia producer and filmmaker based in Naarm. Her research-based practice draws from the traditions of documentary, design, dance and cultural theory. Through interdisciplinary experimentation, Sam is interested in exploring human movement, cultural lineages, migration, environment, technology, community and subculture. Her films have been recognised at festivals in the USA, France and the United Arab Emirates.

Claude Moelan | Digital Producer

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Claude Moelan is an Indonesian-born digital producer and arts administrator living and working on Ngurra Country and Gadigal land. She is currently the Senior Digital Producer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and sits on the board of Runway Journal. She has held positions at the Australian Museum, Biennale of Sydney, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Film Festival and Sydney Festival, working across digital marketing, content production and web development. Claude is passionate about developing accessible experiences in the visual arts, working with diverse and emerging contemporary artists within the digital space and supporting local community arts initiatives.

Mike Spiteri | Digital Producer

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Mike Spiteri is a designer, illustrator and animator working out of Eora, with a passionate interest in all things visual storytelling, specifically concept creation, art direction, animation and typography. They are currently working as an Art Director at Eora based creative agency Studio 3AM. Their personal practice explores sci-fi tropes and pop-culture to interrogate their personal experience with gender binaries and challenge negative attitudes towards the use of science and technology for gender affirmation.

Tahmina Maskinyar | Development & Engagement Coordinator

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Tahmina Maskinyar is a queer Tajik Afghan woman with the privilege of working and learning across the Eora Nation. She is an architecturally trained creative producer with a focus on supporting art projects and development programs within contemporary visual arts practice. She currently works within the International Engagement team at the Australia Council for the Arts, leading the production of the Venice Biennale Project. Tahmina’s arts administration approach is centred on facilitation to enable pathways for racialised people navigating spaces that so often negate the transactional nature of diversity and inclusion. She is bad at singing, can't whistle, good at dad jokes and averagely good at most sports.

Laura Pike | Digital Development & Engagement Coordinator, Deputy Chair

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Laura is a multi-disciplinary creative producer living and working on Gadigal land. Laura’s practice is situated between art, design, strategy, education and community.

Laura cares about connecting and embedding artists in communities, and has worked closely with a range of artist-run-initiatives including 107 Projects, Join the Dots Workshop and The Paper Mill. As a founder and co-director of Province Studio, Laura has over fifteen years experience with socially and critically engaged practice, alongside a deep commitment to advocacy, strategy and digital innovation.

Laura has worked with Australia Council for the Arts, City of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), Blacktown Arts Centre, PYT Fairfield, and FBi Radio. Laura is a sessional academic in the Masters of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW Art & Design.