The Institute of Modern Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Jody Rallah, Keemon Williams, and Mandy Quadrio as our Indigenous Advisory Council.

Bringing a wealth of experience across visual arts, government, academic, and private sectors, the Advisory Council provides a dedicated forum to support strategic leadership, and engagement with First Nations artists, audiences, and broader community.

With their appointment, we farewell and thank outgoing members Katina Davidson and Warraba Weatherall. Former members also include d harding, Cheryl Leavy, Bridget Garay, and Les Malezer.

Jody Rallah is a Yuggera and Biri artist. Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in a deep reverence for materials, place, and intergenerational wisdom. Working in relationship with the aliveness of her surroundings, she embraces a Country-echoed approach to storytelling, where material and place become active participants in the work. Her practice moves between large-scale and intimate forms, encompassing object-making, sculptural installation, painting, and collaborative processes. Each work becomes a ‘knowledge vessel’—holding threads of living history, connection, memory, and healing, while creating space for knowledge to be carried forward. Rallah holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA) from the Queensland College of Art and Deisgn (QCAD), Griffith University.

Keemon Williams is a queer interdisciplinary artist and curator of Koa, Kuku Yalanji, Meriam Mir, and South Sea Islander descent. His practice considers queer, Indigenous, and Australian experiences as lived in the shadow of colonisation. His work often draws on the language of production, as well as memory, and humour. Williams is currently Assistant Curator, Indigenous Australian Art at QAGOMA. He was previously Exhibitions Officer at Outer Space from 2022–2025. He graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a BFA (Visual Art) in 2019.

Dr Mandy Quadrio is a visual arts lecturer, researcher, and artist connected to the Trawlwoolway and Laremairemenner peoples of Lutruwita/Tasmania. Based in the CAIA program at QCAD, Griffith University, her research and teaching practice focuses on visual communication, Indigenous art, culture and politics. Quadrio works across sculpture, and video, using steel wool as medium to reclaim and foreground indigenous culture. She has a strong background in the government and private sector areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy and service delivery. Her long-time Aboriginal, maternal lineage influences her engagement with her art, research and teaching responsibilities where she is committed to amplifying Indigenous voices and perspectives that honour and respect different ways of knowing, being and doing.