Amelia Newman (they/them) is a writer, theatre maker and performer living in Djilang. Amelia has had their work presented at La Mama Theatre, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Northcote Town Hall, Arts House, and Siteworks. Amelia’s debut play ‘Younger and Smaller' is published with Australian Plays Transform and has been produced by schools across the country. Amelia co-wrote The World According to Dinosaurs which was on the VCE Drama Playlist in 2023. 

Anna Jalanski is a Djilang/Geelong-based multidisciplinary artist with autism spectrum disorder. Working mainly in sculpture, drawing, and video, Anna works intuitively with everyday materials in uncanny and tender ways, intertwining the natural and the manufactured. Anna integrates a neuro-affirming approach when making artworks by cultivating a space which allows Anna to be her authentic self. Anna’s practice is a commitment to let each object flourish—by not fundamentally changing what it is.

Daniel Longo, born in Djilang/Geelong, Australia, is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, installation, sound, video and literary fiction. His practice investigates grotesque embodiment and the human body as a site of desire, taboo, vulnerability and spectatorship. Through pseudo-surgical processes of fragmentation, reconstruction, and material intervention, Longo examines how bodies are staged, viewed, and ethically encountered.

Katey O’Sullivan is an emerging visual artist and writer based on Wadawurrung Country (Geelong). Her enquiry-driven practice is grounded in experimentation, engaging with themes of storytelling, environment, and place. Working across installation, textiles, and photography, she navigates the space between intention and chance, allowing materials and process to shape unexpected outcomes. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Alongside her studio practice, she co-founded after.fluxus.collective and RegenArt Geelong.

Kim Drew is a ceramic artist living and working on the Bellarine Peninsula, Australia. Originally from South Africa, her practice explores our enduring relationship with the natural world through the everyday use of clay in hearth-centred spaces. Drew employs traditional handbuilding techniques and saggar firing processes, where native flora, seaweed, and waste materials combust within a sealed vessel. Her work emphasises ecological sustainability and the co-existence of spiritual and material relationships with the earth.

Zia Gul Sadeqi is an Emerging Afghan filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Djilang (Geelong). Born in Afghanistan, she arrived in Australia as an eight-year-old refugee in 2005 and later graduated with a Bachelor of Film, TV and Animation from Deakin University. She currently works as the Screen Coordinator at Back to Back Theatre.
She is currently focused on exploring how documentation, memory, and performance can intersect to tell nuanced, intercultural and intergenerational stories.