Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer (he/him) is an artist and arts worker with ten years of experience in the industry. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has worked at Artspace, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, and as a lecturer and tutor at the University of Technology Sydney and Queensland College of Art. He holds a Bachelor of Design with Honours in Photography and Situated Media from UTS and a Masters of Fine Art (Research) from the University of New South Wales.

Contact: nick@ima.org.au

Stephanie Berlangieri (she/her) is a curator, researcher, and writer. Her research interests include digital technology, labour, mental health, and their impacts on contemporary selfhood and social relation. She is currently Curator — Research at the Monash University Museum of Art and has held curatorial positions at Carriageworks, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Biennale of Sydney. Recent curatorial projects include Salote Tawale: I Remember You and The National 4: Australian Art Now (Carriageworks, 2023); and Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Doug Aitken: New Era, and Anywhere but Here (Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021). She has written for Art Monthly Australasia, Art Asia Pacific, Artist Profile, and Art and Australia.

Shannon Brett (they/them) is a proud Wakka Wakka/Butchulla/Gooreng Gooreng person, an artist, designer, and curator, currently completing a PhD in Social Justice at the Queensland University of Technology. Their research on whiteness responds to systemic racism and misogyny in Australia from decolonial and black feminist perspectives. They hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Queensland College of Art and have worked in numerous arts institutions throughout Australia.

Kink are a cross-disciplinary working group researching and formalising a history of queer Australian art. Their work is defined by interests in scholarship, publishing, advocacy, and  access. They are passionate about generating new and open resources for and about the Australian LGBTQIA+ art community. They currently comprise art historian Amelia Barikin, artist and facilitator Courtney Coombs, artist and researcher Callum McGrath (pictured right), artist and educator Spiros Panigirakis (pictured left), and art historian and curator Tim Riley Walsh.

Hen Mills (they/them) is an arts worker and artist whose work involves kinetic sculpture, poetry, repurposed waste, and expanded sound. They are an experienced gallery installation technician and work with artists, art galleries, and community groups to provide technical services and facilitate workshops.

Contact: production@ima.org.au

Nadine Schmoll (she/her) is an artist and educator experienced in working with diverse audiences. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education (Visual Arts) and has worked across curriculum areas, including art, design, fashion, history, science, and English. Prior to joining the IMA, she was Learn Curator at the Museum of Brisbane.

Contact: education@ima.org.au

Larissa Deak (she/her) is an an artist and experienced arts educator. She works in visitor experience and learning at the Museum of Brisbane, and in programming for Annerly Junction Fest. She holds a Bachelor of Theatre Theory and Practice from the University of Western Sydney and a Graduate Diploma in Arts and Cultural Management from the University of South Australia.

Caitlin Sheedy (she/her) is an artist and experienced retail manager, with interest and knowledge in artisanal design. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art, where she was awarded the Win Shubert Graduate Prize for Fine Art and the Karl and Gertrude Langer Memorial Prize for the highest graduating student in printmaking. Prior to the IMA, she worked at the Museum of Brisbane and Artisan.

Contact: shop@ima.org.au

Jessica Dorizac (she/her) is an arts worker and artist whose practice explores assemblage, ornament, and pattern. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has worked within the artist-family collective, Fruit Juice Factori Studio. In 2022, Dorizac was awarded the National Artists’ Book Prize.

Contact: jessica@ima.org.au

Dean Ansell (he/them) is an artist of Melanesian (Rigorabana, Balawaia, Papua New Guinea), Maltese, and Anglo-Celtic heritage. His practice is a material-oriented investigation into concepts of time, place, memory, and transformation; using the body, the earth, and its atmosphere in the works’ creation. He holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Queensland University of Technology.