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Judith Ryan AM is Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Judith received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Arts and English Literature at The University of Melbourne and a Certificate in Education at Oxford University. In her role at the NGV she has curatorial responsibility for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Oceanic Art and Pre-Columbian Art. Judith's special interest is Indigenous Australian art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Judith has curated numerous exhibitions of Indigenous art, has published widely in the field and has been responsible for developing the NGV’s collection of Indigenous Art.

Laniyuk is a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French writer and performer. She has been published nationally and internationally in poetry collections such as Solid Air (2019) and Fire Front (2020), in the 2022 speculative ...

Taylah Cole is an Indigenous textile designer and artist, with a BA in Textile Design. In her practise she focuses lots of different subject matters in her art and design practise, they tend to overlap as both of these areas complement each other well. Storytelling is something that always unifies all areas of her practice as it is embedded in her identity. Through her storytelling, she seeks to evoke emotion and through her subject matter. She aims to create aesthetics in her work with a hidden darker meaning, juxtaposing the rise in contemporary Indigenous art and design whilst highlighting the tumultuous nature of Australia's history.