Marun Carl Fourmile is born into the Waluparra clan of the Yidinji Nation and is connected through the monsoon season, Nyumpurru. Marun has kept knowledge of cultural connection, that has been handed down through the generations of family.
Marun shares and continues the strong Yidinji culture of Gimuy through song, dance, and ceremony. He is Director of Minjil Indigenous Cultural Services, a company that provides cultural education, experiences and services in Cairns.
Bernard Lee Singleton
Bernard Lee Singleton is an accomplished craftsman, curator and designer, born and living in Cairns. Singleton grew up in Coen, Cape York. His mother is a Djabuguy woman born in Mona Mona mission near Kuranda and his father is an Umpila (east coast Cape York)/Yirrkandji man from Yarrabah mission.
Singleton has worked as a cultural consultant and guest curator for UMI Arts, Cairns Art Gallery and most recently the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, assisting the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.
Wendy Mocke
Wendy Mocke is a Papua New Guinean inter-disciplinary storyteller.
She is a NIDA Acting graduate and currently an emerging writer at Sydney Theatre Company. Wendy performed in 2018’s Festival Fatale at Darlinghurst Theatre in a play she co-wrote called Jelbu Meri.
This year, the play was listed in the lineup for Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s development program called ‘Next In Line’. Wendy also previously undertook a residency at Rex Cramphorn Studio for a verbatim theatre piece she devised called Voices of West Papua.
Wendy’s visual art’s project called ‘m e r i’, a collection of photographs and stories that focuses on the recontextualising contemporary PNG women, will be exhibited in November 2021 at North Site Contemporary Arts Gallery in Cairns, Far north Queensland, with virtual engagement throughout the month of August, 2020.
Teho Ropeyarn
Teho Ropeyarn is an artist from the community of Injinoo on the northwest coast of Cape York, who currently lives and practices in Cairns. Teho’s primary focus is to preserve and document old stories and old knowledge passed down by Injinoo Elders, ensuring the continuation of his language, art and culture into the future.
Darren Blackman
A proud Gureng Gureng\Gangalu man with maternal South Sea heritage (from Vanuatu), Blackman was born in Nambour in 1971.
With a range of practical skills and approaches to art making, Blackman generally specialises in printmaking and ceramics but also undertakes improv performance, music and painting. He has wide experience in the arts, as a musician but also as a stage manager and sound technician for cultural festivals from Woodford to Winds of Zenadth Kes festival on Thursday Island. He assisted students as studio technician at Cairns TAFE and is currently working for the senior artists at the Wik and Kugu Art Centre in Aurukun.
Olivia Azzopardi
Olivia Azzopardi is an emerging artist specialising in drawing and ceramics who started her career with exhibitions at artist-run and community spaces including Tanks Art Centre in Cairns. In 2018 at TAFE North Queensland studios, Azzopardi has been afforded scope to develop her practice, working as a tutor and workshop technician while creating new work.