Runway Journal is an open-access digital publishing platform that commissions, cultivates and preserves experimental and critical writing practices.

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.

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.

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.

Their work has been awarded Second Prize in Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a place on the shortlist for the Blake Prize, Val Vallis Awards, LIMINAL Non-Fiction Prize, Kat Muscat Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets University Prize from the University of Texas at Austin. An alumnus of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Emerging Writers Intensive, they were the 2023 recipient of the Australian Poetry/NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship and recently attended Tin House’s Summer Workshop. In 2024, they will undertake a residency at the Red Rattler Theatre with their collaborator, Amelia Mertha, to produce a podcast platforming poets and artists working poetically.

Yuanyu Li is a Chinese curator and producer currently based on Gadigal land. She has a background in contemporary art curating and social science studies. She works as Assistant Curator at Para Site and joined the Board of Runway Journal in 2022 as a Digital Producer. She has previous experience working at various art institutions in Australia and China, including Artspace Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Power Station of Art Shanghai, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, and Vermilion Art. She holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership from University of New South Wales.

Claude Moelan is an Indonesian-born digital producer, environment officer and arts administrator living and working across Dharug, Gundunggura (Ngurra) and Gadigal Countries. She joined the board of Runway Journal in 2023. She has held positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 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.

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.

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.

Athanasios (Nasi) Lazarou is a lecturer and curator. They are a lecturer in architecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Adelaide, and a co-director of FELTspace gallery, Adelaide’s oldest ongoing artist-run-initiative. As a lecturer in architecture, they teach across the history/theory, design studio and representation curricula and hold a PhD in architectural history/theory on the relationship between politics and space. Their disciplinary engagement understands the power of art and architecture as a force for shaping culture. As such, they regularly curate, commentate and contribute to a range of exhibitions and events across architecture, art and design practice. Nasi’s writing has appeared in numerous spaces including Green Left Weekly, Architecture AU, Monthly Review and The BitterSweet Review.

From Hobart/Nipaluna Tasmania, jay works under his creative alias ‘superfish’ (superfishl.com) inspired by digital connection and creating experiences. Jay creates through creative strategy, design and multi media tools. His works are focused on understanding connection. Collaborating with people and technology he aims to uncover unique forms of expression and culture.  

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.

She/Her

Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Ani) an Australian-born Māori who belongs to the Te Rarawa iwi in Hokianga, Aotearoa NZ.  She lives on unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. She is a cultural producer, writer, editor and weaver. She has edited Woven (Magabala Books), Tony Birch’s Whisper Songs (University of Queensland Press), Bebe Backhouse’s More Than These Bones (Magabala Books) and Solid Air: Australia & New Zealand Spoken Word (University of QLD Press) which she co-edited.  Between 2015 – 2017 she co-directed the Queensland Poetry Festival, and she is a co-producer of the Writers Program for the Aotearoa New Zealand International Arts Festival (Wellington - February 2024).  Ani’s forthcoming debut poetry collection titled Mettle will be published by University of Queensland Press.

Yuna Lee is a freelance writer, editor and arts worker based across Gadigal and Wangal land. She previously held positions as Editor & Secretary at Runway Journal over 2022-23. Up until recently, she worked as Gallery Assistant at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Her writing has been published by ArtAsiaPacific, Cement Fondu, Pari and Memo Review.