Susan Balbunga is an artist and cultural teacher at Milingimbi Art and Culture centre who works with fibre. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions: Open Hands, Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia (2020) and Gapu ga rangithirri ga ngurruthirri (the water is coming up, the water is going away) at Woolloongabba Art Gallery (2017) and Yiribana Gallery (a selection of works from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection in Art Gallery of New South Wales). Balbunga’s work is also held in collections of the National Museum of Australia and in private collections.

Elisa Jane Carmichael is a multi-disciplinary artist working across painting, weaving, textiles, sculpture, and public art. Recent group exhibitions include Open Hands, Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia (2020); Weaving the Way, University of Queensland Art Museum (2020); and Transits and Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery (2020). She was a participating artist in the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s Women’s Wealth project for the Asian Pacific Triennial 9 (2018). Carmichael’s work is held in private and public collections across Australia including Queensland Art Gallery, University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Victoria. She is represented by Onespace Gallery.

Fiona Elisala-Mosby is an artist at Moa Arts who works primarily in lino printing, etching, mono printing, weaving, and jewellery making. She has completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. In 2019 she contributed to a creative collaboration between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Centres and design brand Koskela, culminating in the exhibition Ngalya/Together, Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia (2019). In 2018 she was finalist in the Fremantle Art Prize and received the 2018 Indigenous Art Centre Alliance Lucille Osborne Emerging Artist Fellowship (along with Paula Savage). Her work is held in private and public collections across Australia including the National Gallery of Australia and Cairns Regional Art Gallery.

Helen Ganalmirriwuy is a senior weaver with Milingimbi Art and Culture centre. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions: Open Hands, Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia (2020); The Alchemists: Weaving Knowledge, The Goods Shed (2019); the Asia Pacific Triennial 9, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (2018); and Bathi Mul, ARTKELCH, Germany (2018). Her work is held in collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, among others.

Paula Savage is an artist at Moa Arts specialising in weaving, lino-printing, drawing, carving, and jewellery making. She was a lead artist in a creative collaboration between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Centres and design brand Koskela, culminating in the exhibition Ngalya/Together at Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia (2019). Other recent group exhibitions include: Notation, Cross Art Projects (2019) and Lei It On, Contemporary lei and body adornment from the Torres Strait Islands, Cairns Regional Gallery (2017). She was the recipient of the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Holding Redlich Innovation Award (2020) and alongside Fiona Elisala-Mosby was the Indigenous Art Centre Alliance Lucille Osborne Emerging Artist Fellowship (2018). Her work is held at the National Gallery of Victoria and in many private collections.

Delissa Walker is an artist skilfully working with Black Palm fibre and is active in sharing her knowledge through weaving workshops and demonstrations. In 2017, she was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Recent group exhibitions include: Weaving the Way, University of Queensland Art Museum (2020); Measured Response, National Art School (2018); ARTNOW FNQ, Cairns Regional Gallery (2017); and Who’s Afraid of Colour?, National Gallery of Victoria (2016). Her work is held in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria and Cairns Regional Gallery, among others.

Freja Carmichael is a Ngugi woman and curator belonging to the Quandamooka People of Moreton Bay. She works broadly across the cultural sector with artists and communities on projects with a focus on collaborative curatorial approaches and the promotion and preservation of First Nations fibre knowledge. Carmichael recently curated Weaving the Way, The University of Queensland Art Museum (2019), Seeing Country, Redland Art Gallery (2019) and Around and within, Macquarie Group Collection space gallery (2018) and was a co-curator of The Commute, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018) and its follow on iterations as The Layover, Artspace Aotearoa (2019) and Transits and Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery (2020). Currently, Freja is curator IMA Belltower at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts and also works as an independent curator, writer and arts worker.