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Freya was a selected finalist in the Tom Bass Prize for
Figurative Sculpture 2016 and 2018; Sculpture @Scenic
World, 2018; PARAMOR Art and Innovation Prize, 2016;
HC Hidden @ ROOKWOOD, 2015; Woollahra Small
Sculpture Prize, 2012 and 2014, and Fisher’s Ghost Art
Award 2004-18. She won Sculpture in the Vineyard, 2014,
and the Queanbeyan Clearwater Sculpture Prize, 2015,
and was a resident artist at Penrith Regional Gallery,
and MCA Artbar participating artist, 2016 and 2018.
Freya is currently working towards her upcoming solo
show in 2020 at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, which will
include assemblages of masks, prints and collage works.
Danie Mellor
Born in Mackay, Queensland, Danie Mellor has lived,
worked, travelled and studied in Australia, England,
Scotland and South Africa. His mother’s Aboriginal family
were from the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland, and
his father’s family emigrated from California, coming
to Australia in the early 1900s. His work is represented
in permanent international, national, state, regional,
university and important private collections within
Australia and overseas. It has been shown in significant
exhibitions here and overseas, including Story Place,
Queensland Art Gallery and Primavera, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Culture Warriors and unDisclosed
at the National Gallery of Australia, and Sakahàn, the
inaugural international survey of Indigenous art at the
National Gallery of Canada in 2013. He has won several
major awards, including the 26th National Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Award in 2009, and the National
Indigenous Ceramic Art award in the same year.
In 2014, the University of Queensland Art Museum
hosted a 10-year retrospective of his practice that
toured nationally to four venues, and a solo exhibition
of his works Primordial: SuperNaturalBayiMinyjirral was
shown at the National Museum of Scotland as part of the
Edinburgh Art and International Festivals. Major works
were created for the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA
in 2015, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at AGSA
and the Samstag Museum in 2016, and the inaugural
Yinchuan Biennale For an Image, Faster Than Light held
at the Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art in Ningxia
Province, China.
Danie works full time from his studio in Bowral, and has
previously held positions of lecturer and senior lecturer
at the National Institute of the Arts, ANU and Sydney
College of the Arts, USYD. In 2010 he was appointed to
the Visual Arts Board at the Australia Council for the Arts
and subsequently served as Chair of Artform until 2015.
Raquel Ormella
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Raquel Ormella (b. Sydney 1969) has a diverse practice
that includes video, installation, drawings, and zines.
She works at the intersections of art and activism,
investigating the means by which critical reflexivity
in contemporary art encourages processes of selfexamination regarding political consciousness and social
action. Her practice is grounded in exploring the nature
of the relationship between humans and the natural
environment, with a particular focus on urban expansion
and forest activism. In highlighting the connectedness
between the two, she attempts to show that our
depictions of the natural world are not representations
of true wilderness or a pure state, but instead, informed
by human contact and reflective of human values.
She is also interested in exploring the relationship
of audiences to artworks by using multiples, producing
a work for the 2008 Sydney Biennale using electronic
whiteboards to print drawings made by the artist,
so that audiences may take them home.
Kiera Lindsey
Simon Lobelson
Dr Kiera Lindsey is based at University of Technology
Sydney (UTS) where she is completing an ARC Discovery
Early Career Research Award (DECRA) on speculative
biography and historical craft. In 2016, she published
her first speculative biography, The Convict’s Daughter
with Australia’s largest independent publishing house,
Allen & Unwin and is currently working on a second,
due in 2020. Kiera has been the on-camera historian
with the HISTORY Channel and a regular guest
on ABC’s Radio National.
With a career that has spanned four continents and
75 operatic roles from the baroque to the newlycomposed, high respect as a pedagogue and superlative
press reviews, Simon Lobelson has established himself
as one of the most versatile baritones of his generation.
Since graduating with honors from the University
of Sydney and subsequently studying at London’s Royal
College of Music on a scholarship, Simon has performed
in venues such as Sydney Opera House, Queen Elizabeth
Hall, St Johns Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields,
and all over China, with companies such as The Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera,
Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney Chamber
Opera, London Mozart Players, Sydney Symphony
Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia, English Chamber
Orchestra, Israel Camerata and the Lucerne Festival.
He has worked under such conductors as Pierre Boulez,
Simon Halsey, Charles Dutoit, Paul McCreesh and Richard
Bonynge, and recorded for Chandos and ABC Classics.
Some of his roles have included Amfortas, Escamillo,
Rigoletto, Alberich, Nick Shadow, Marcello, Ford,
Germont, Figaro, Michele and Don Alfonso. Simon is on
staff as lecturer, coach and vocal professor at the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music, regularly adjudicates for the
Sydney Eisteddfod and has given master classes in both
Australia and China.
Solo exhibitions include: Golden Soil, Milani Gallery, 2016;
Birds, School of Art Gallery, ANU, Canberra, 2013;
New Constellation, Milani Gallery, 2013; Feeders, Canberra
Contemporary Art Space, ACT, 2012. Group exhibitions
include the 2015 Artist Making Movement, Asian Art
Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung;
See you at the barricades, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney;
More love hours: contemporary artists and craft and Basil
Sellers Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne;
Protest Songs, Artful Actions, Lismore Regional Gallery,
Lismore; Conflict: Contemporary responses to war,
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane;
2013 California-Pacific Triennial, Los Angeles; Social
networking, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2012, and
the 1st Aichi Triennial, Art and Cities, Nagoya, Japan, 2010.
Raquel was selected for the One Year Studio Artists
program at Artspace, Sydney. In 2012 she was awarded
the prestigious Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown,
NSW; a New Work Grant from the Australia Council
and Arts ACT, 2009; Warrnambool Art Gallery’s
New Social Commentaries Prize, 2006; Western Sydney
Artist Fellowship from the NSW Ministry for the Arts,
2000; and the Australia Council Studio Residency
in Barcelona, Spain, 1999. In 2013 Raquel completed
a PhD in Visual Arts at ANU where she is lecturer in the
Painting Workshop.
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Judith MacCallum
Dr Judith MacCallum grew up in Sydney and completed
a science degree at UNSW. She initially worked as a food
technologist before a career change to secondary school
teaching and then teacher education and educational
research. At Murdoch University since 1993, Judith has led
national and local research projects, such as mentoring
in schools, role models for young people, and community
building through intergenerational exchange programs.
Her leadership roles include Dean of Education from
2009-13. She is currently Chair of the WA Youth Mentoring
Network and runs professional learning workshops for
teachers, supervisors and research students. She married
Howard in 1974, and they have three children and four
grandchildren.
Tara Moss
Tara Moss is a bestselling author, documentary maker
and presenter, speaker and human rights advocate.
Since 1999 she has written 11 bestselling books, published
in 19 countries and 13 languages, including the acclaimed
Mak Vanderwall crime fiction series, the Pandora English
paranormal series and the critically acclaimed non-fiction
book The Fictional Woman.
Tara Moss is the host, co-executive producer and
co-writer of the documentary Cyberhate, examining
the phenomenon of online abuse, and gave her address
to the nation, ‘Cyberhate and Beyond’, at the National
Press Club. She has received an Edna Ryan Award for her
significant contribution to feminist debate, speaking out
for women and children and inspiring others to challenge
the status quo. In 2017 Moss was recognised as one of the
Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life, for using
her position in public life to make a positive impact
in diversity, alongside Malala Yousufzai, Angelina Jolie,
Bernie Sanders, Emma Watson, His Holiness the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet and more.
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