Jenna Lee is a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and KarraJarri Saltwater woman with mixed Japanese, Chinese, Filipino and Anglo-Australian ancestry. Using art to explore and celebrate her many overlapping identities, Lee works across sculpture, installation, and body adornment. She also works with the moving image, photography and projection in the digital medium.

With a practice focused on materiality and ancestral material culture, Lee works with notions of the archive, histories of colonial collecting, and settler-colonial books and texts. Lee ritualistically analyses, deconstructs, and reconstructs source material, language and books, transforming them into new forms of cultural beauty and pride, and presenting a tangibly translated book.

Driven to create work in which she, her family, and the broader mixed First Nations community see themselves represented, Lee builds on a foundation of her father’s teachings of culture and her mother’s teachings of papercraft.

Chi Tran is a writer and filmmaker based in Naarm/Melbourne. Tran’s writing and short films draw together broad themes of everyday life and loss with a particular emphasis on language and expression. Across a body of combined lyrical and critical texts and moving-image productions that blend elements of fantasy, philosophy, slow cinema and critical theory, Tran’s stories focus on the textures of human emotion, rooting the metaphysical in personal and physical experience. Shooting her own footage, Tran synthesises a research-based approach to writing with a run-and-gun filmmaking method, and is often inspired by real-life stories of her own and of those she lives with. Through worldbuilding and the manipulation of time, light and language, Tran creates familiar situations and feelings for the audience to re-encounter, asking the question of how useful the imaginary can be in forging a new path for relation and understanding.