| Collaborators | Image | Photo credit | Content | Programs |
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| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | The Podcast Hour |
| A-SPACE | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASPACE_SHOOT-55.jpg | A—SPACE. | A-SPACE is a meditation studio that helps people around the world feel more present and compassionate with themselves and others. | The Podcast Hour |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | The Podcast Hour |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | The Podcast Hour |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | The Podcast Hour |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | The Podcast Hour |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | The Podcast Hour |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | The Podcast Hour |
| Alex Cullen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_AC_LindaTegg.jpg | Alex Cullen. Photo by Linda Tegg. | Alex Cullen is a human geographer whose research focuses on the politics of socio-environmental relations, livelihoods, participatory mapping and identity. His research in Timor-Leste investigates the impacts experienced by customary communities through conservation processes. Alex currently lectures at the University in Melbourne in the School of Geography. | The Podcast Hour |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | The Podcast Hour |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | The Podcast Hour |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | The Podcast Hour |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | The Podcast Hour |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | The Podcast Hour |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | The Podcast Hour |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | The Podcast Hour |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | The Podcast Hour |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | The Podcast Hour |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | The Podcast Hour |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | The Podcast Hour |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | The Podcast Hour |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | The Podcast Hour |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | The Podcast Hour |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | The Podcast Hour |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | The Podcast Hour |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | The Podcast Hour |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | The Podcast Hour |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | The Podcast Hour |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | The Podcast Hour |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | The Podcast Hour |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | The Podcast Hour |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | The Podcast Hour |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | The Podcast Hour |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | The Podcast Hour |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | The Podcast Hour |
| Atlanta Eke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atlanta-Eke_Tim-Birnie.jpg | Atlanta Eke is a dancer and choreographer working internationally. In 2010 Atlanta was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient mentored by artist Sarah Michelson. She has performed with and for Sidney Leoni, Marten Spangberg, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Joan Jonas, Christine de Schmitt and Jan Ritesmas among others and participated in the Allianz-The Agora Project (Performing Arts Forum), France. Atlanta was the winner of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award, received Next Wave Kickstart in 2011, was the Dancehouse Housemate resident and an ArtStart Grant recipient. She has shown works at Next Wave Festival, ACCA, Spring1883, Chunky Move, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Dance Massive Festival, MONA FOMA, DARK MOFO, MDT Stockholm, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Fierce Festival Birmingham, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie Paris, Adelaide Festival to name a few. In 2016 Atlanta received Artshouse CultureLab for I CON and Death of Affect. In 2017 she was commissioned for the inaugural biennale The National Exhibition and more recently Atlanta presented Body of Work at Performance Space New York. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | The Podcast Hour |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | The Podcast Hour |
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | The Podcast Hour |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | The Podcast Hour |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | The Podcast Hour |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | The Podcast Hour |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | The Podcast Hour |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | The Podcast Hour |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | The Podcast Hour |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | The Podcast Hour |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | The Podcast Hour |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | The Podcast Hour |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | The Podcast Hour |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
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| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | The Podcast Hour |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | The Podcast Hour |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | The Podcast Hour |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | The Podcast Hour |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | The Podcast Hour |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | The Podcast Hour |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | The Podcast Hour |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | The Podcast Hour |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | The Podcast Hour |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | The Podcast Hour |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | The Podcast Hour |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | The Podcast Hour |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | The Podcast Hour |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | The Podcast Hour | |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | The Podcast Hour |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | The Podcast Hour |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | The Podcast Hour |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | The Podcast Hour |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | The Podcast Hour |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | The Podcast Hour |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | The Podcast Hour |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | The Podcast Hour |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | The Podcast Hour |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | The Podcast Hour |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | The Podcast Hour |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | The Podcast Hour |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | The Podcast Hour |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | The Podcast Hour |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | The Podcast Hour |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | The Podcast Hour |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | The Podcast Hour |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | The Podcast Hour |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | The Podcast Hour |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | The Podcast Hour |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | The Podcast Hour |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | The Podcast Hour |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | The Podcast Hour |
| Danièle Hromek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0903.jpg | Danièle Hromek. | Danièle Hromek is a spatial designer and artist, fusing design elements with installations and sculptural form. Her work derives from her cultural and experiential heritage, often considering the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country, and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle is a lecturer and researcher considering how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to substantially affect Indigenous rights and culture within an institution. Danièle’s research contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, Dream and contest their spaces. It rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice; in doing so, it considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective. | The Podcast Hour |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | The Podcast Hour |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | The Podcast Hour | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | The Podcast Hour |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | The Podcast Hour |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | The Podcast Hour |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | The Podcast Hour |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | The Podcast Hour |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | The Podcast Hour |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | The Podcast Hour |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | The Podcast Hour | |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | The Podcast Hour |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | The Podcast Hour |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | The Podcast Hour |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Tien Huynh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC06670-edited.jpg | Dr Tien Huynh. | Dr Tien Huynh is a teacher, researcher, nature lover and superstar of STEMM. She is a senior lecturer at RMIT University specialising in medicinal plants, environmental sustainability, smart materials and much more. Tien is interested in making the world a brighter, cleaner and healthier place. | The Podcast Hour |
| Dr Watts | Dr Watts is a strategic thinker, advocate, a public speaker and a Public Health Expert and a leader in women’s health, gender health and international health. Her expertise includes: women’s health, social inclusion, chronic disease prevention and management, health promotion, migrant and refugee health, strategic planning and health policy as well as curriculum development and teaching research methods. Dr Watts was appointed by the Department of Health to the reference group responsible for the implementation of the first Victorian Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan for the state. She served on the Federal Government Reference Group for the FGM Prevention Plan. Dr Watts is a Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission; Deputy Chair, Board of Directors at Women’s Health West, a former Board Director at Western Health and currently serves on the Board of AMES Australia. Dr Watts Chairs the African Diaspora Women Summit Committee. Dr Watts is Director of Akirteh Institute of African of African Studies at Melbourne Polytechnic. Dr Watts is a respected public speaker, strategic thinker and academic with local and global networks. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | The Podcast Hour |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | The Podcast Hour |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | The Podcast Hour |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | The Podcast Hour |
| Emily Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_EW_GerardLokic.jpg | Emily Wong. Photo by Gerard Lokic. | Emily Wong is the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia magazine and a sessional lecturer, studio leader and tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Her interests include cities and their social and physical infrastructures and participatory mapping. | The Podcast Hour |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
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| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | The Podcast Hour |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | The Podcast Hour |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | The Podcast Hour |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | The Podcast Hour |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | The Podcast Hour |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | The Podcast Hour |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | The Podcast Hour |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | The Podcast Hour |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | The Podcast Hour |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | The Podcast Hour |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | The Podcast Hour |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | The Podcast Hour |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | The Podcast Hour | |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | The Podcast Hour |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
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| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | The Podcast Hour |
| Four Pillars Gin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Four-Pillars-Gin.jpg | Photo courtesy of Four Pillars Gin. | Four Pillars was established by Cameron, Matt and Stuart, who sold their first batch of Rare Dry Gin through a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible in late 2013 to a very enthusiastic group of gin-lovers. Since that time, they've brought a modern Australian sensibility to the process of distilling gin. From Rare Dry Gin to Barrel Aged Gin to Navy Strength Gin to Orange Marmalade (made with the oranges that make the gin) and Four Pillars’ special Christmas Gin (made with star anise, cinnamon, juniper, coriander and angelica), everything Four Pillars does is designed to elevate the craft. Four Pillars is available in great bars, great restaurants and great retailers around Australia and in a number of countries around the world (including Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore). Four Pillars Gin is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | The Podcast Hour |
| Galambo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/galambo2.jpg | Galambo. | Folk investigator and sound originator Galambo weaves electronic dance music for moving bodies. Expect town square dance rooted deep in the bass and rhythms of the Abya Yala. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | The Podcast Hour |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | The Podcast Hour |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | The Podcast Hour |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | The Podcast Hour |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | The Podcast Hour |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | The Podcast Hour |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | The Podcast Hour |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | The Podcast Hour |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | The Podcast Hour |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | The Podcast Hour |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | The Podcast Hour |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | The Podcast Hour |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | The Podcast Hour |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | The Podcast Hour |
| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | The Podcast Hour |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | The Podcast Hour |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | The Podcast Hour |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | The Podcast Hour |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
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| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | The Podcast Hour |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | The Podcast Hour | |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | The Podcast Hour |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | The Podcast Hour | |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | The Podcast Hour |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | The Podcast Hour |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | The Podcast Hour |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | The Podcast Hour |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | The Podcast Hour |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | The Podcast Hour |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | The Podcast Hour |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | The Podcast Hour |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | The Podcast Hour |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | The Podcast Hour |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | The Podcast Hour |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | The Podcast Hour |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | The Podcast Hour |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | The Podcast Hour |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | The Podcast Hour |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| La Trobe University Centre for the Study of the Inland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TDSvLWZTUqp9Z9grcR5v_Whats-Left-Farina-SA-by-Clare-Wright.jpg | 'What's Left, Farina SA' by Clare Wright. | How do we live with significant environmental change – and how do we adapt? That’s one of the crucial questions at the heart of La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland. Inland is both a place and an idea; in the Australian imaginary, the space of the inland has been really powerful in shaping a sense of who we are as Australians. Particularly for Indigenous Australians, the inland is a place of identity and movement. The Centre has a broad focus on inland Australia and specifically on the Murray Darling Basin, which maps La Trobe’s unique geographical footprint, and matches the Centre's research focus areas: water; landscape and land use; pastoralism and agriculture; settlement and mobilities; resource extraction; and climate and environmental change. As the Centre's Director Professor Katie Holmes explains, "Environmental change creates profound challenges for us as a community and big challenges require more than one disciplinary approach and solution." The Centre for the Study of the Inland aims to be an integral part of the process of understanding the complexities of living with profound change. | The Podcast Hour |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | The Podcast Hour |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | The Podcast Hour |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | The Podcast Hour |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | The Podcast Hour |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | The Podcast Hour |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | The Podcast Hour |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lisa Currie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AuthorPhoto_NickDale.jpg | Lisa Currie. Photo by Nick Dale. | Lisa Currie is an artist and author of several books for creative self-reflection including The Positivity Kit and The Scribble Diary. Her newest book, Notes to Self: a self-care journal, will be released in 2019 by Penguin Random House. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | The Podcast Hour |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | The Podcast Hour |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | The Podcast Hour |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | The Podcast Hour |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | The Podcast Hour |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | The Podcast Hour |
| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | The Podcast Hour |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | The Podcast Hour |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
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| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | The Podcast Hour |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | The Podcast Hour |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | The Podcast Hour |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | The Podcast Hour |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | The Podcast Hour |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | The Podcast Hour |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | The Podcast Hour |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | The Podcast Hour |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | The Podcast Hour |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | The Podcast Hour |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | The Podcast Hour |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | The Podcast Hour |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | The Podcast Hour |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | The Podcast Hour |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | The Podcast Hour |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | The Podcast Hour |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | The Podcast Hour |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | The Podcast Hour |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | The Podcast Hour |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | The Podcast Hour |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | The Podcast Hour |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | The Podcast Hour |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | The Podcast Hour |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | The Podcast Hour |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | The Podcast Hour |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | The Podcast Hour |
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | The Podcast Hour |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | The Podcast Hour |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | The Podcast Hour |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | The Podcast Hour |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | The Podcast Hour |
| Neil Cabatingan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/neil.jpg | Neil Cabatingan. | Neil Cabatingan is a Filipino electronic music producer. He produces and DJs under the alias Yumgod and his work covers footwork, hip-hop and electronic music. Neil is the producer for Auckland-based rap collective Fanau Spa and co-runs Tracks and Sound Volumes, an online platform for electronic dance music. Outside of production, Neil is member of Sound School, a community electronic music school running free workshop programs in Narrm. His debut EP, Barrio Trax, is available on tsv.world Neil will be in DJ teacher to the Mi Gente DJ crew! | The Podcast Hour |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | The Podcast Hour |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | The Podcast Hour |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | The Podcast Hour |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | The Podcast Hour |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | The Podcast Hour |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | The Podcast Hour |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | The Podcast Hour |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
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| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | The Podcast Hour |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | The Podcast Hour |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | The Podcast Hour | |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | The Podcast Hour |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | The Podcast Hour |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | The Podcast Hour | |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | The Podcast Hour |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | The Podcast Hour |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
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| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | The Podcast Hour |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | The Podcast Hour |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | The Podcast Hour |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | The Podcast Hour |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | The Podcast Hour |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | The Podcast Hour |
| Peter Symes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Peter-Symes.jpg | Peter Symes. | Peter Symes is a Global Gardens of Peace director and the Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with wide-ranging expertise in large living landscapes, including over twenty-five years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in plant biosecurity, soil health, integrated water management, plant selection methodologies and design of plant environments. Peter has been heavily involved in projects such as the $AU1.7 million Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and the $AU6.5 million Working Wetlands project. He is also one of the lead authors in the development of the world-leading Landscape Succession Strategy which aims to guide the transition of the heritage Melbourne Gardens into the climate conditions of 2090. | The Podcast Hour |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | The Podcast Hour |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | The Podcast Hour |
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | The Podcast Hour |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | The Podcast Hour |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | The Podcast Hour |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | The Podcast Hour |
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | The Podcast Hour |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | The Podcast Hour |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | The Podcast Hour |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
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| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | The Podcast Hour |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | The Podcast Hour |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | The Podcast Hour |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | The Podcast Hour |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | The Podcast Hour |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | The Podcast Hour |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | The Podcast Hour |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | The Podcast Hour |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | The Podcast Hour |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | The Podcast Hour |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | The Podcast Hour |
| Robin Penty | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Robin-Penty-cropped-1.jpg | Robin Penty. | Robin Penty is the executive director of Engagement and Impact at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Over a career-spanning three decades in the arts and culture, not-for-profit, higher learning and public sectors, Robin’s role is to ensure the Gardens and its visitors thrive as an open and inclusive place where important stories are told and memories made. Robin’s background includes roles as a director of programs, business development and marketing executive, cultural programmer, executive producer, qualitative researcher, strategic consultant and skilled facilitator. She has held leadership and executive positions for diverse organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Drug Foundation, The Smith Family and the University of Melbourne. Early in her career, Robin worked professionally as a choreographer and dance educator. Her perspectives on place and country are deeply grounded in knowledge of how humans move through and sense public space, as well as experiences from Canada, where she was born. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rohan Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rory-Rohan-Rudely-Interrupted.jpg | Rory Burnside and Rohan Brooks. | Rohan Brooks has been a professional musician for thirty-five years, performing all over the world with Melbourne rock band The Anyones, touring with Jet, The Killers, Morrissey, You Am I—the list goes on. In 2005 Rohan met Rory Burnside in 2006 they started the group Rudely Interrupted. In the twelve years they've worked together, Rudely Interrupted have released five studio records, toured internationally fourteen times, including to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Singapore and NZ. Rohan has produced, managed and booked the band to the dizzy heights of some of the biggest stages in the world, including the United Nations in 2008. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | The Podcast Hour |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | The Podcast Hour |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | The Podcast Hour |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | The Podcast Hour |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | The Podcast Hour |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | The Podcast Hour |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | The Podcast Hour |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | The Podcast Hour |
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | The Podcast Hour |
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | The Podcast Hour |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | The Podcast Hour |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Sir Nicholas Serota CH | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NS-cropped-1.png | Sir Nicholas Serota CH. |
Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | The Podcast Hour |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | The Podcast Hour |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | The Podcast Hour |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | The Podcast Hour |
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | The Podcast Hour |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | The Podcast Hour |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | The Podcast Hour |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | The Podcast Hour | ||
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | The Podcast Hour |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | The Podcast Hour |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | The Podcast Hour |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | The Podcast Hour |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | The Podcast Hour |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | The Podcast Hour |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | The Podcast Hour |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | The Podcast Hour |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | The Podcast Hour |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | The Podcast Hour |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | The Podcast Hour |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | The Podcast Hour |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | The Podcast Hour |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | The Podcast Hour |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | The Podcast Hour |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | The Podcast Hour |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | The Podcast Hour |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | The Podcast Hour |
| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | The Podcast Hour |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | The Podcast Hour |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | The Podcast Hour |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | The Podcast Hour |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | The Podcast Hour |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | The Podcast Hour |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | The Podcast Hour |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | The Podcast Hour |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | The Podcast Hour |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | The Podcast Hour |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | The Podcast Hour |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | The Podcast Hour |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | The Podcast Hour |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | The Podcast Hour |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | The Podcast Hour | |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | The Podcast Hour |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | The Podcast Hour |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | The Podcast Hour |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | The Podcast Hour |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | The Podcast Hour |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | The Podcast Hour |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | MPavilion 2018 closing party |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | MPavilion 2018 closing party |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | MPavilion 2018 closing party |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | MPavilion 2018 closing party | |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | MPavilion 2018 closing party |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
A conversation with Sir Peter Cook – Archigram |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | A conversation with Sir Peter Cook – Archigram | ||
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | A conversation with Sir Peter Cook – Archigram | |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
A conversation with Sir Peter Cook – Archigram | |
| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | A conversation with Sir Peter Cook – Archigram | |
| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ | |
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ | |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ |
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ | |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ |
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | Littlefoot & Co in collaboration with Bunjil Place present ‘Southeast spoken word’ |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | Real Life: Summer get-together |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | Real Life: Summer get-together | |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | Real Life: Summer get-together |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | ‘Branded Cities: Can we avoid an urban dystopia?’ with Chris Sanderson |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | Blak writing skillshare #1: Critical non-fiction |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | Hyphen-Labs present ‘In emergency break glass’ |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | A+, Elizabeth and Baby Blue |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | A+, Elizabeth and Baby Blue |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | A+, Elizabeth and Baby Blue |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | Groove Therapy workshop for teens |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | Tenth Court Records celebrates five years |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | Tenth Court Records celebrates five years |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | Tenth Court Records celebrates five years |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | Tenth Court Records celebrates five years |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | ‘Coding Skills for the web’ with Code Like a Girl |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | ‘The future starts here’ with Rory Hyde |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | Public anxiety: Planning safe cities |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | Public anxiety: Planning safe cities |
| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | Public anxiety: Planning safe cities | |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | Public anxiety: Planning safe cities |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | Space and sometimes movement | |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | Space and sometimes movement |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | Space and sometimes movement |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Space and sometimes movement |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | Space and sometimes movement | |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | Space and sometimes movement |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Exploring tapestry weaving: Interactive installation |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | Exploring tapestry weaving: Interactive installation |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | Exploring tapestry weaving: Interactive installation |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Exploring tapestry weaving: Interactive installation |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations | |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations | |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations | |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations |
| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations | |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | Arquitectonic |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | Skip rope with One Love Jump |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | MUMA presents ‘Art organisations as sites for unlearning’ | |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | MUMA presents ‘Art organisations as sites for unlearning’ |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | MUMA presents ‘Art organisations as sites for unlearning’ |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | MUMA presents ‘Art organisations as sites for unlearning’ | |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | Living soul songs |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | SensiLab presents ‘Big Earth jamming’ |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | Nervegna Reed Architects presents ‘Screen Test’ |
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | Nervegna Reed Architects presents ‘Screen Test’ |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | Nervegna Reed Architects presents ‘Screen Test’ |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | Designing future workplaces: Techne Architecture + Interior Design with Collectivity Talks | |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | Designing future workplaces: Techne Architecture + Interior Design with Collectivity Talks |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | Designing future workplaces: Techne Architecture + Interior Design with Collectivity Talks | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | Designing future workplaces: Techne Architecture + Interior Design with Collectivity Talks | |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | Designing future workplaces: Techne Architecture + Interior Design with Collectivity Talks | |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | Designing future workplaces: Techne Architecture + Interior Design with Collectivity Talks |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | Pin-up cities: Melbourne and Barcelona |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | Pin-up cities: Melbourne and Barcelona |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | Pin-up cities: Melbourne and Barcelona |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | Pin-up cities: Melbourne and Barcelona |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | Pin-up cities: Melbourne and Barcelona |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | Pin-up cities: Melbourne and Barcelona |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | Middle-year math at MPavilion—Cancelled |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | Middle-year math at MPavilion—Cancelled |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | Open House Melbourne x Bates Smart slide night at MPavilion |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
Open House Melbourne x Bates Smart slide night at MPavilion |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | Open House Melbourne x Bates Smart slide night at MPavilion |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | The Orbweavers present ‘Waterway Songs’ |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | Men’s business, women’s business | |
| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | Men’s business, women’s business | |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | Vibrate the cosmos: Kundalini yoga and meditation |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | Vibrate the cosmos: Kundalini yoga and meditation |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | A workshop for teenagers, presented by Hyphen Labs |
| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| A-SPACE | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASPACE_SHOOT-55.jpg | A—SPACE. | A-SPACE is a meditation studio that helps people around the world feel more present and compassionate with themselves and others. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Alex Cullen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_AC_LindaTegg.jpg | Alex Cullen. Photo by Linda Tegg. | Alex Cullen is a human geographer whose research focuses on the politics of socio-environmental relations, livelihoods, participatory mapping and identity. His research in Timor-Leste investigates the impacts experienced by customary communities through conservation processes. Alex currently lectures at the University in Melbourne in the School of Geography. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Atlanta Eke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atlanta-Eke_Tim-Birnie.jpg | Atlanta Eke is a dancer and choreographer working internationally. In 2010 Atlanta was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient mentored by artist Sarah Michelson. She has performed with and for Sidney Leoni, Marten Spangberg, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Joan Jonas, Christine de Schmitt and Jan Ritesmas among others and participated in the Allianz-The Agora Project (Performing Arts Forum), France. Atlanta was the winner of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award, received Next Wave Kickstart in 2011, was the Dancehouse Housemate resident and an ArtStart Grant recipient. She has shown works at Next Wave Festival, ACCA, Spring1883, Chunky Move, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Dance Massive Festival, MONA FOMA, DARK MOFO, MDT Stockholm, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Fierce Festival Birmingham, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie Paris, Adelaide Festival to name a few. In 2016 Atlanta received Artshouse CultureLab for I CON and Death of Affect. In 2017 she was commissioned for the inaugural biennale The National Exhibition and more recently Atlanta presented Body of Work at Performance Space New York. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
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| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Danièle Hromek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0903.jpg | Danièle Hromek. | Danièle Hromek is a spatial designer and artist, fusing design elements with installations and sculptural form. Her work derives from her cultural and experiential heritage, often considering the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country, and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle is a lecturer and researcher considering how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to substantially affect Indigenous rights and culture within an institution. Danièle’s research contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, Dream and contest their spaces. It rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice; in doing so, it considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Tien Huynh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC06670-edited.jpg | Dr Tien Huynh. | Dr Tien Huynh is a teacher, researcher, nature lover and superstar of STEMM. She is a senior lecturer at RMIT University specialising in medicinal plants, environmental sustainability, smart materials and much more. Tien is interested in making the world a brighter, cleaner and healthier place. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Dr Watts | Dr Watts is a strategic thinker, advocate, a public speaker and a Public Health Expert and a leader in women’s health, gender health and international health. Her expertise includes: women’s health, social inclusion, chronic disease prevention and management, health promotion, migrant and refugee health, strategic planning and health policy as well as curriculum development and teaching research methods. Dr Watts was appointed by the Department of Health to the reference group responsible for the implementation of the first Victorian Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan for the state. She served on the Federal Government Reference Group for the FGM Prevention Plan. Dr Watts is a Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission; Deputy Chair, Board of Directors at Women’s Health West, a former Board Director at Western Health and currently serves on the Board of AMES Australia. Dr Watts Chairs the African Diaspora Women Summit Committee. Dr Watts is Director of Akirteh Institute of African of African Studies at Melbourne Polytechnic. Dr Watts is a respected public speaker, strategic thinker and academic with local and global networks. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Emily Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_EW_GerardLokic.jpg | Emily Wong. Photo by Gerard Lokic. | Emily Wong is the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia magazine and a sessional lecturer, studio leader and tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Her interests include cities and their social and physical infrastructures and participatory mapping. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
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| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
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| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Four Pillars Gin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Four-Pillars-Gin.jpg | Photo courtesy of Four Pillars Gin. | Four Pillars was established by Cameron, Matt and Stuart, who sold their first batch of Rare Dry Gin through a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible in late 2013 to a very enthusiastic group of gin-lovers. Since that time, they've brought a modern Australian sensibility to the process of distilling gin. From Rare Dry Gin to Barrel Aged Gin to Navy Strength Gin to Orange Marmalade (made with the oranges that make the gin) and Four Pillars’ special Christmas Gin (made with star anise, cinnamon, juniper, coriander and angelica), everything Four Pillars does is designed to elevate the craft. Four Pillars is available in great bars, great restaurants and great retailers around Australia and in a number of countries around the world (including Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore). Four Pillars Gin is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Galambo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/galambo2.jpg | Galambo. | Folk investigator and sound originator Galambo weaves electronic dance music for moving bodies. Expect town square dance rooted deep in the bass and rhythms of the Abya Yala. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
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| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| La Trobe University Centre for the Study of the Inland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TDSvLWZTUqp9Z9grcR5v_Whats-Left-Farina-SA-by-Clare-Wright.jpg | 'What's Left, Farina SA' by Clare Wright. | How do we live with significant environmental change – and how do we adapt? That’s one of the crucial questions at the heart of La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland. Inland is both a place and an idea; in the Australian imaginary, the space of the inland has been really powerful in shaping a sense of who we are as Australians. Particularly for Indigenous Australians, the inland is a place of identity and movement. The Centre has a broad focus on inland Australia and specifically on the Murray Darling Basin, which maps La Trobe’s unique geographical footprint, and matches the Centre's research focus areas: water; landscape and land use; pastoralism and agriculture; settlement and mobilities; resource extraction; and climate and environmental change. As the Centre's Director Professor Katie Holmes explains, "Environmental change creates profound challenges for us as a community and big challenges require more than one disciplinary approach and solution." The Centre for the Study of the Inland aims to be an integral part of the process of understanding the complexities of living with profound change. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lisa Currie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AuthorPhoto_NickDale.jpg | Lisa Currie. Photo by Nick Dale. | Lisa Currie is an artist and author of several books for creative self-reflection including The Positivity Kit and The Scribble Diary. Her newest book, Notes to Self: a self-care journal, will be released in 2019 by Penguin Random House. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
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| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Neil Cabatingan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/neil.jpg | Neil Cabatingan. | Neil Cabatingan is a Filipino electronic music producer. He produces and DJs under the alias Yumgod and his work covers footwork, hip-hop and electronic music. Neil is the producer for Auckland-based rap collective Fanau Spa and co-runs Tracks and Sound Volumes, an online platform for electronic dance music. Outside of production, Neil is member of Sound School, a community electronic music school running free workshop programs in Narrm. His debut EP, Barrio Trax, is available on tsv.world Neil will be in DJ teacher to the Mi Gente DJ crew! | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
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| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
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| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Peter Symes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Peter-Symes.jpg | Peter Symes. | Peter Symes is a Global Gardens of Peace director and the Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with wide-ranging expertise in large living landscapes, including over twenty-five years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in plant biosecurity, soil health, integrated water management, plant selection methodologies and design of plant environments. Peter has been heavily involved in projects such as the $AU1.7 million Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and the $AU6.5 million Working Wetlands project. He is also one of the lead authors in the development of the world-leading Landscape Succession Strategy which aims to guide the transition of the heritage Melbourne Gardens into the climate conditions of 2090. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
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| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Robin Penty | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Robin-Penty-cropped-1.jpg | Robin Penty. | Robin Penty is the executive director of Engagement and Impact at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Over a career-spanning three decades in the arts and culture, not-for-profit, higher learning and public sectors, Robin’s role is to ensure the Gardens and its visitors thrive as an open and inclusive place where important stories are told and memories made. Robin’s background includes roles as a director of programs, business development and marketing executive, cultural programmer, executive producer, qualitative researcher, strategic consultant and skilled facilitator. She has held leadership and executive positions for diverse organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Drug Foundation, The Smith Family and the University of Melbourne. Early in her career, Robin worked professionally as a choreographer and dance educator. Her perspectives on place and country are deeply grounded in knowledge of how humans move through and sense public space, as well as experiences from Canada, where she was born. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rohan Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rory-Rohan-Rudely-Interrupted.jpg | Rory Burnside and Rohan Brooks. | Rohan Brooks has been a professional musician for thirty-five years, performing all over the world with Melbourne rock band The Anyones, touring with Jet, The Killers, Morrissey, You Am I—the list goes on. In 2005 Rohan met Rory Burnside in 2006 they started the group Rudely Interrupted. In the twelve years they've worked together, Rudely Interrupted have released five studio records, toured internationally fourteen times, including to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Singapore and NZ. Rohan has produced, managed and booked the band to the dizzy heights of some of the biggest stages in the world, including the United Nations in 2008. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Sir Nicholas Serota CH | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NS-cropped-1.png | Sir Nicholas Serota CH. |
Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | Hidden stories of women on the land | ||
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | Hidden stories of women on the land | |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | Hidden stories of women on the land |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | Building using augmented reality |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | Doggo day disco: Xmas with WAG |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | Engineers Without Borders STEM workshop |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | ‘Unreconciliatory landscapes’ with MPavilion Writer in Residence Maddee Clark |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | ‘Unreconciliatory landscapes’ with MPavilion Writer in Residence Maddee Clark |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | ‘Unreconciliatory landscapes’ with MPavilion Writer in Residence Maddee Clark |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | Dive into the centre of a cell with CBNS | |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | [Cancelled] Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Caseaux O.S.L.O x Amadou Suso’ |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | [Cancelled] Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Caseaux O.S.L.O x Amadou Suso’ |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | Permits, Thigh Master and Waterfall Person |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | Permits, Thigh Master and Waterfall Person |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | Permits, Thigh Master and Waterfall Person | |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | MUMA presents Gabi Ngcobo: ‘Working with the unknown’ |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | MUMA presents Gabi Ngcobo: ‘Working with the unknown’ |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | En Route: Juliana Engberg in conversation with Louise Adler |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | En Route: Juliana Engberg in conversation with Louise Adler |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | En Route: Juliana Engberg in conversation with Louise Adler |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | Saturday yoga flow and release |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | Saturday yoga flow and release |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | Jewel Box Performances presents Jessica Hitchcock |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | Jewel Box Performances presents Jessica Hitchcock |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | Friday morning flo with Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | Friday morning flo with Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | Friday morning flo with Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | Tract presents Regenerative Cities | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | Tract presents Regenerative Cities | |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | Tract presents Regenerative Cities | |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | Tract presents Regenerative Cities | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | Tract presents Regenerative Cities | |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | Tract presents Regenerative Cities | |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | Tract presents Regenerative Cities |
| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | Open House Melbourne x Grimshaw slide night at MPavilion |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | Open House Melbourne x Grimshaw slide night at MPavilion |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
Open House Melbourne x Grimshaw slide night at MPavilion |
| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | Spatial Audio: Applications for functional and artistic spaces |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | Creating tactile stories |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | Creating tactile stories |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | Creating tactile stories | |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | Creating tactile stories |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | What does the future look like for affordable housing? |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | What does the future look like for affordable housing? |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | What does the future look like for affordable housing? |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | What does the future look like for affordable housing? |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | What does the future look like for affordable housing? | |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | What does the future look like for affordable housing? |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | Free coffee day with Three Thousand Thieves |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | Craft beer tasting with Two Birds Brewing |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Wine tasting with Shadowfax Wines |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | Tech yarns with Celeste Carnegie |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | ‘Rethinking timber for a better tomorrow’ with Abodo and Britton Timbers |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | ‘Rethinking timber for a better tomorrow’ with Abodo and Britton Timbers |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | Melbourne Fashion Showcase Hong Kong in conversation |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | Melbourne Fashion Showcase Hong Kong in conversation |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | Melbourne Fashion Showcase Hong Kong in conversation |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | Melbourne Fashion Showcase Hong Kong in conversation |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | Melbourne Fashion Showcase Hong Kong in conversation |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | Melbourne Fashion Showcase Hong Kong in conversation |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | Playgrounds of the future: Creating art for play |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | The future of work is here, now |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | The future of work is here, now |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | The future of work is here, now |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | The future of work is here, now |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | The future of work is here, now |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | The future of work is here, now |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | Q_Studio presents ‘Radical heterotopias’ |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | Asialink Arts presents Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
Asialink Arts presents Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | Universal: A place for everyone |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | Universal: A place for everyone |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | Universal: A place for everyone |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | It’s a run crew thing |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | Ask an expert |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | Ask an expert |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | Ask an expert |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | ‘Curating videogames in museums’ with Marie Foulston |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | ‘Curating videogames in museums’ with Marie Foulston |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | In conversation with Elizabeth Churchill of Google USA |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | In conversation with Elizabeth Churchill of Google USA |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | Bug Blitz |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | Bug Blitz |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | Bug Blitz |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | Bug Blitz | |
| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Gordon Koang x 30/70’ |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Gordon Koang x 30/70’ |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Gordon Koang x 30/70’ |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | ‘Digital media and social innovation’ with Carlo Ratti and Rob Adams AM |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | ‘Digital media and social innovation’ with Carlo Ratti and Rob Adams AM |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | ‘Digital media and social innovation’ with Carlo Ratti and Rob Adams AM |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | ‘Digital media and social innovation’ with Carlo Ratti and Rob Adams AM | ||
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | Designing the future of robotics |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | Designing the future of robotics |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | Preliminary outline: Performance drawing |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | Preliminary outline: Performance drawing |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | Swampland presents ‘Celebrating the contemporary choir’ |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | Swampland presents ‘Celebrating the contemporary choir’ |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | Swampland presents ‘Celebrating the contemporary choir’ |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | Swampland presents ‘Celebrating the contemporary choir’ |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | Swampland presents ‘Celebrating the contemporary choir’ |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | In conversation with Hannah Barry |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | In conversation with Hannah Barry |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | Aphids new world order party |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | Continuous Monument |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | Continuous Monument |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | Continuous Monument |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | Continuous Monument |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | Continuous Monument |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | Continuous Monument |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | Deep Soulful Sweats |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | Deep Soulful Sweats |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | Mixtape marathon cheerleading |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | La Buena Vida Social Club at MPavilion |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | La Buena Vida Social Club at MPavilion |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | La Buena Vida Social Club at MPavilion |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | ‘Changing shape: Adaptive curating’ with Danny Lacy | ||
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | ‘Changing shape: Adaptive curating’ with Danny Lacy | ||
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | Creating space for women: Designing for safety and power |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | Creating space for women: Designing for safety and power |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | Creating space for women: Designing for safety and power |
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | Creating space for women: Designing for safety and power |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | Creating space for women: Designing for safety and power |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: Language and music journalism’ |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: Language and music journalism’ |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: Language and music journalism’ |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: Language and music journalism’ |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: A call out’ |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: A call out’ |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: A call out’ |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: A call out’ |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | MMW presents ‘Hypotheticals: A call out’ |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | MMW presents ‘Sound healing and music therapy’ |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | MMW presents ‘Sound healing and music therapy’ |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | MMW presents ‘Sound healing and music therapy’ |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | MMW presents ‘Sound healing and music therapy’ |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | Stork Theatre presents ‘Homer’s Odyssey: A twelve-hour epic’ | ||
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | ‘Leadership and women’ with Collectivity Talks |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | ‘Leadership and women’ with Collectivity Talks |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | ‘Leadership and women’ with Collectivity Talks |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | ‘Leadership and women’ with Collectivity Talks |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | ‘Leadership and women’ with Collectivity Talks |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | Rock Academy XIV performance |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Tapestry x architecture |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | Tapestry x architecture |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | Tapestry x architecture |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Tapestry x architecture |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | Fringe Furniture presents ‘Why exhibit design in a gallery context?’ |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | Fringe Furniture presents ‘Why exhibit design in a gallery context?’ |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | Fringe Furniture presents ‘Why exhibit design in a gallery context?’ |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | Fringe Furniture presents ‘Why exhibit design in a gallery context?’ |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | Fringe Furniture presents ‘Why exhibit design in a gallery context?’ |
| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| A-SPACE | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASPACE_SHOOT-55.jpg | A—SPACE. | A-SPACE is a meditation studio that helps people around the world feel more present and compassionate with themselves and others. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alex Cullen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_AC_LindaTegg.jpg | Alex Cullen. Photo by Linda Tegg. | Alex Cullen is a human geographer whose research focuses on the politics of socio-environmental relations, livelihoods, participatory mapping and identity. His research in Timor-Leste investigates the impacts experienced by customary communities through conservation processes. Alex currently lectures at the University in Melbourne in the School of Geography. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Atlanta Eke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atlanta-Eke_Tim-Birnie.jpg | Atlanta Eke is a dancer and choreographer working internationally. In 2010 Atlanta was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient mentored by artist Sarah Michelson. She has performed with and for Sidney Leoni, Marten Spangberg, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Joan Jonas, Christine de Schmitt and Jan Ritesmas among others and participated in the Allianz-The Agora Project (Performing Arts Forum), France. Atlanta was the winner of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award, received Next Wave Kickstart in 2011, was the Dancehouse Housemate resident and an ArtStart Grant recipient. She has shown works at Next Wave Festival, ACCA, Spring1883, Chunky Move, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Dance Massive Festival, MONA FOMA, DARK MOFO, MDT Stockholm, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Fierce Festival Birmingham, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie Paris, Adelaide Festival to name a few. In 2016 Atlanta received Artshouse CultureLab for I CON and Death of Affect. In 2017 she was commissioned for the inaugural biennale The National Exhibition and more recently Atlanta presented Body of Work at Performance Space New York. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
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| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Danièle Hromek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0903.jpg | Danièle Hromek. | Danièle Hromek is a spatial designer and artist, fusing design elements with installations and sculptural form. Her work derives from her cultural and experiential heritage, often considering the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country, and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle is a lecturer and researcher considering how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to substantially affect Indigenous rights and culture within an institution. Danièle’s research contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, Dream and contest their spaces. It rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice; in doing so, it considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Tien Huynh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC06670-edited.jpg | Dr Tien Huynh. | Dr Tien Huynh is a teacher, researcher, nature lover and superstar of STEMM. She is a senior lecturer at RMIT University specialising in medicinal plants, environmental sustainability, smart materials and much more. Tien is interested in making the world a brighter, cleaner and healthier place. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Watts | Dr Watts is a strategic thinker, advocate, a public speaker and a Public Health Expert and a leader in women’s health, gender health and international health. Her expertise includes: women’s health, social inclusion, chronic disease prevention and management, health promotion, migrant and refugee health, strategic planning and health policy as well as curriculum development and teaching research methods. Dr Watts was appointed by the Department of Health to the reference group responsible for the implementation of the first Victorian Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan for the state. She served on the Federal Government Reference Group for the FGM Prevention Plan. Dr Watts is a Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission; Deputy Chair, Board of Directors at Women’s Health West, a former Board Director at Western Health and currently serves on the Board of AMES Australia. Dr Watts Chairs the African Diaspora Women Summit Committee. Dr Watts is Director of Akirteh Institute of African of African Studies at Melbourne Polytechnic. Dr Watts is a respected public speaker, strategic thinker and academic with local and global networks. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Emily Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_EW_GerardLokic.jpg | Emily Wong. Photo by Gerard Lokic. | Emily Wong is the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia magazine and a sessional lecturer, studio leader and tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Her interests include cities and their social and physical infrastructures and participatory mapping. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
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| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
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| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Four Pillars Gin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Four-Pillars-Gin.jpg | Photo courtesy of Four Pillars Gin. | Four Pillars was established by Cameron, Matt and Stuart, who sold their first batch of Rare Dry Gin through a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible in late 2013 to a very enthusiastic group of gin-lovers. Since that time, they've brought a modern Australian sensibility to the process of distilling gin. From Rare Dry Gin to Barrel Aged Gin to Navy Strength Gin to Orange Marmalade (made with the oranges that make the gin) and Four Pillars’ special Christmas Gin (made with star anise, cinnamon, juniper, coriander and angelica), everything Four Pillars does is designed to elevate the craft. Four Pillars is available in great bars, great restaurants and great retailers around Australia and in a number of countries around the world (including Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore). Four Pillars Gin is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Galambo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/galambo2.jpg | Galambo. | Folk investigator and sound originator Galambo weaves electronic dance music for moving bodies. Expect town square dance rooted deep in the bass and rhythms of the Abya Yala. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
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| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| La Trobe University Centre for the Study of the Inland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TDSvLWZTUqp9Z9grcR5v_Whats-Left-Farina-SA-by-Clare-Wright.jpg | 'What's Left, Farina SA' by Clare Wright. | How do we live with significant environmental change – and how do we adapt? That’s one of the crucial questions at the heart of La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland. Inland is both a place and an idea; in the Australian imaginary, the space of the inland has been really powerful in shaping a sense of who we are as Australians. Particularly for Indigenous Australians, the inland is a place of identity and movement. The Centre has a broad focus on inland Australia and specifically on the Murray Darling Basin, which maps La Trobe’s unique geographical footprint, and matches the Centre's research focus areas: water; landscape and land use; pastoralism and agriculture; settlement and mobilities; resource extraction; and climate and environmental change. As the Centre's Director Professor Katie Holmes explains, "Environmental change creates profound challenges for us as a community and big challenges require more than one disciplinary approach and solution." The Centre for the Study of the Inland aims to be an integral part of the process of understanding the complexities of living with profound change. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lisa Currie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AuthorPhoto_NickDale.jpg | Lisa Currie. Photo by Nick Dale. | Lisa Currie is an artist and author of several books for creative self-reflection including The Positivity Kit and The Scribble Diary. Her newest book, Notes to Self: a self-care journal, will be released in 2019 by Penguin Random House. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
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| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Neil Cabatingan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/neil.jpg | Neil Cabatingan. | Neil Cabatingan is a Filipino electronic music producer. He produces and DJs under the alias Yumgod and his work covers footwork, hip-hop and electronic music. Neil is the producer for Auckland-based rap collective Fanau Spa and co-runs Tracks and Sound Volumes, an online platform for electronic dance music. Outside of production, Neil is member of Sound School, a community electronic music school running free workshop programs in Narrm. His debut EP, Barrio Trax, is available on tsv.world Neil will be in DJ teacher to the Mi Gente DJ crew! | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
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| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
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| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Peter Symes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Peter-Symes.jpg | Peter Symes. | Peter Symes is a Global Gardens of Peace director and the Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with wide-ranging expertise in large living landscapes, including over twenty-five years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in plant biosecurity, soil health, integrated water management, plant selection methodologies and design of plant environments. Peter has been heavily involved in projects such as the $AU1.7 million Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and the $AU6.5 million Working Wetlands project. He is also one of the lead authors in the development of the world-leading Landscape Succession Strategy which aims to guide the transition of the heritage Melbourne Gardens into the climate conditions of 2090. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
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| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Robin Penty | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Robin-Penty-cropped-1.jpg | Robin Penty. | Robin Penty is the executive director of Engagement and Impact at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Over a career-spanning three decades in the arts and culture, not-for-profit, higher learning and public sectors, Robin’s role is to ensure the Gardens and its visitors thrive as an open and inclusive place where important stories are told and memories made. Robin’s background includes roles as a director of programs, business development and marketing executive, cultural programmer, executive producer, qualitative researcher, strategic consultant and skilled facilitator. She has held leadership and executive positions for diverse organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Drug Foundation, The Smith Family and the University of Melbourne. Early in her career, Robin worked professionally as a choreographer and dance educator. Her perspectives on place and country are deeply grounded in knowledge of how humans move through and sense public space, as well as experiences from Canada, where she was born. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rohan Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rory-Rohan-Rudely-Interrupted.jpg | Rory Burnside and Rohan Brooks. | Rohan Brooks has been a professional musician for thirty-five years, performing all over the world with Melbourne rock band The Anyones, touring with Jet, The Killers, Morrissey, You Am I—the list goes on. In 2005 Rohan met Rory Burnside in 2006 they started the group Rudely Interrupted. In the twelve years they've worked together, Rudely Interrupted have released five studio records, toured internationally fourteen times, including to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Singapore and NZ. Rohan has produced, managed and booked the band to the dizzy heights of some of the biggest stages in the world, including the United Nations in 2008. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Sir Nicholas Serota CH | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NS-cropped-1.png | Sir Nicholas Serota CH. |
Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | Free Wi-fi at MPavilion 2018 |
| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| A-SPACE | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASPACE_SHOOT-55.jpg | A—SPACE. | A-SPACE is a meditation studio that helps people around the world feel more present and compassionate with themselves and others. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alex Cullen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_AC_LindaTegg.jpg | Alex Cullen. Photo by Linda Tegg. | Alex Cullen is a human geographer whose research focuses on the politics of socio-environmental relations, livelihoods, participatory mapping and identity. His research in Timor-Leste investigates the impacts experienced by customary communities through conservation processes. Alex currently lectures at the University in Melbourne in the School of Geography. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Atlanta Eke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atlanta-Eke_Tim-Birnie.jpg | Atlanta Eke is a dancer and choreographer working internationally. In 2010 Atlanta was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient mentored by artist Sarah Michelson. She has performed with and for Sidney Leoni, Marten Spangberg, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Joan Jonas, Christine de Schmitt and Jan Ritesmas among others and participated in the Allianz-The Agora Project (Performing Arts Forum), France. Atlanta was the winner of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award, received Next Wave Kickstart in 2011, was the Dancehouse Housemate resident and an ArtStart Grant recipient. She has shown works at Next Wave Festival, ACCA, Spring1883, Chunky Move, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Dance Massive Festival, MONA FOMA, DARK MOFO, MDT Stockholm, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Fierce Festival Birmingham, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie Paris, Adelaide Festival to name a few. In 2016 Atlanta received Artshouse CultureLab for I CON and Death of Affect. In 2017 she was commissioned for the inaugural biennale The National Exhibition and more recently Atlanta presented Body of Work at Performance Space New York. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
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| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Danièle Hromek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0903.jpg | Danièle Hromek. | Danièle Hromek is a spatial designer and artist, fusing design elements with installations and sculptural form. Her work derives from her cultural and experiential heritage, often considering the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country, and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle is a lecturer and researcher considering how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to substantially affect Indigenous rights and culture within an institution. Danièle’s research contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, Dream and contest their spaces. It rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice; in doing so, it considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Tien Huynh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC06670-edited.jpg | Dr Tien Huynh. | Dr Tien Huynh is a teacher, researcher, nature lover and superstar of STEMM. She is a senior lecturer at RMIT University specialising in medicinal plants, environmental sustainability, smart materials and much more. Tien is interested in making the world a brighter, cleaner and healthier place. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Dr Watts | Dr Watts is a strategic thinker, advocate, a public speaker and a Public Health Expert and a leader in women’s health, gender health and international health. Her expertise includes: women’s health, social inclusion, chronic disease prevention and management, health promotion, migrant and refugee health, strategic planning and health policy as well as curriculum development and teaching research methods. Dr Watts was appointed by the Department of Health to the reference group responsible for the implementation of the first Victorian Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan for the state. She served on the Federal Government Reference Group for the FGM Prevention Plan. Dr Watts is a Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission; Deputy Chair, Board of Directors at Women’s Health West, a former Board Director at Western Health and currently serves on the Board of AMES Australia. Dr Watts Chairs the African Diaspora Women Summit Committee. Dr Watts is Director of Akirteh Institute of African of African Studies at Melbourne Polytechnic. Dr Watts is a respected public speaker, strategic thinker and academic with local and global networks. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Emily Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_EW_GerardLokic.jpg | Emily Wong. Photo by Gerard Lokic. | Emily Wong is the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia magazine and a sessional lecturer, studio leader and tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Her interests include cities and their social and physical infrastructures and participatory mapping. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
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| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
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| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Four Pillars Gin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Four-Pillars-Gin.jpg | Photo courtesy of Four Pillars Gin. | Four Pillars was established by Cameron, Matt and Stuart, who sold their first batch of Rare Dry Gin through a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible in late 2013 to a very enthusiastic group of gin-lovers. Since that time, they've brought a modern Australian sensibility to the process of distilling gin. From Rare Dry Gin to Barrel Aged Gin to Navy Strength Gin to Orange Marmalade (made with the oranges that make the gin) and Four Pillars’ special Christmas Gin (made with star anise, cinnamon, juniper, coriander and angelica), everything Four Pillars does is designed to elevate the craft. Four Pillars is available in great bars, great restaurants and great retailers around Australia and in a number of countries around the world (including Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore). Four Pillars Gin is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Galambo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/galambo2.jpg | Galambo. | Folk investigator and sound originator Galambo weaves electronic dance music for moving bodies. Expect town square dance rooted deep in the bass and rhythms of the Abya Yala. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
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| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| La Trobe University Centre for the Study of the Inland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TDSvLWZTUqp9Z9grcR5v_Whats-Left-Farina-SA-by-Clare-Wright.jpg | 'What's Left, Farina SA' by Clare Wright. | How do we live with significant environmental change – and how do we adapt? That’s one of the crucial questions at the heart of La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland. Inland is both a place and an idea; in the Australian imaginary, the space of the inland has been really powerful in shaping a sense of who we are as Australians. Particularly for Indigenous Australians, the inland is a place of identity and movement. The Centre has a broad focus on inland Australia and specifically on the Murray Darling Basin, which maps La Trobe’s unique geographical footprint, and matches the Centre's research focus areas: water; landscape and land use; pastoralism and agriculture; settlement and mobilities; resource extraction; and climate and environmental change. As the Centre's Director Professor Katie Holmes explains, "Environmental change creates profound challenges for us as a community and big challenges require more than one disciplinary approach and solution." The Centre for the Study of the Inland aims to be an integral part of the process of understanding the complexities of living with profound change. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lisa Currie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AuthorPhoto_NickDale.jpg | Lisa Currie. Photo by Nick Dale. | Lisa Currie is an artist and author of several books for creative self-reflection including The Positivity Kit and The Scribble Diary. Her newest book, Notes to Self: a self-care journal, will be released in 2019 by Penguin Random House. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
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| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Neil Cabatingan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/neil.jpg | Neil Cabatingan. | Neil Cabatingan is a Filipino electronic music producer. He produces and DJs under the alias Yumgod and his work covers footwork, hip-hop and electronic music. Neil is the producer for Auckland-based rap collective Fanau Spa and co-runs Tracks and Sound Volumes, an online platform for electronic dance music. Outside of production, Neil is member of Sound School, a community electronic music school running free workshop programs in Narrm. His debut EP, Barrio Trax, is available on tsv.world Neil will be in DJ teacher to the Mi Gente DJ crew! | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
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| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
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| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Peter Symes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Peter-Symes.jpg | Peter Symes. | Peter Symes is a Global Gardens of Peace director and the Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with wide-ranging expertise in large living landscapes, including over twenty-five years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in plant biosecurity, soil health, integrated water management, plant selection methodologies and design of plant environments. Peter has been heavily involved in projects such as the $AU1.7 million Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and the $AU6.5 million Working Wetlands project. He is also one of the lead authors in the development of the world-leading Landscape Succession Strategy which aims to guide the transition of the heritage Melbourne Gardens into the climate conditions of 2090. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
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| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Robin Penty | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Robin-Penty-cropped-1.jpg | Robin Penty. | Robin Penty is the executive director of Engagement and Impact at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Over a career-spanning three decades in the arts and culture, not-for-profit, higher learning and public sectors, Robin’s role is to ensure the Gardens and its visitors thrive as an open and inclusive place where important stories are told and memories made. Robin’s background includes roles as a director of programs, business development and marketing executive, cultural programmer, executive producer, qualitative researcher, strategic consultant and skilled facilitator. She has held leadership and executive positions for diverse organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Drug Foundation, The Smith Family and the University of Melbourne. Early in her career, Robin worked professionally as a choreographer and dance educator. Her perspectives on place and country are deeply grounded in knowledge of how humans move through and sense public space, as well as experiences from Canada, where she was born. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rohan Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rory-Rohan-Rudely-Interrupted.jpg | Rory Burnside and Rohan Brooks. | Rohan Brooks has been a professional musician for thirty-five years, performing all over the world with Melbourne rock band The Anyones, touring with Jet, The Killers, Morrissey, You Am I—the list goes on. In 2005 Rohan met Rory Burnside in 2006 they started the group Rudely Interrupted. In the twelve years they've worked together, Rudely Interrupted have released five studio records, toured internationally fourteen times, including to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Singapore and NZ. Rohan has produced, managed and booked the band to the dizzy heights of some of the biggest stages in the world, including the United Nations in 2008. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Sir Nicholas Serota CH | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NS-cropped-1.png | Sir Nicholas Serota CH. |
Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | ||
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | Library at MPavilion 2018 | |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | Library at MPavilion 2018 |
| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| A-SPACE | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASPACE_SHOOT-55.jpg | A—SPACE. | A-SPACE is a meditation studio that helps people around the world feel more present and compassionate with themselves and others. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Alex Cullen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_AC_LindaTegg.jpg | Alex Cullen. Photo by Linda Tegg. | Alex Cullen is a human geographer whose research focuses on the politics of socio-environmental relations, livelihoods, participatory mapping and identity. His research in Timor-Leste investigates the impacts experienced by customary communities through conservation processes. Alex currently lectures at the University in Melbourne in the School of Geography. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Atlanta Eke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atlanta-Eke_Tim-Birnie.jpg | Atlanta Eke is a dancer and choreographer working internationally. In 2010 Atlanta was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient mentored by artist Sarah Michelson. She has performed with and for Sidney Leoni, Marten Spangberg, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Joan Jonas, Christine de Schmitt and Jan Ritesmas among others and participated in the Allianz-The Agora Project (Performing Arts Forum), France. Atlanta was the winner of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award, received Next Wave Kickstart in 2011, was the Dancehouse Housemate resident and an ArtStart Grant recipient. She has shown works at Next Wave Festival, ACCA, Spring1883, Chunky Move, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Dance Massive Festival, MONA FOMA, DARK MOFO, MDT Stockholm, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Fierce Festival Birmingham, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie Paris, Adelaide Festival to name a few. In 2016 Atlanta received Artshouse CultureLab for I CON and Death of Affect. In 2017 she was commissioned for the inaugural biennale The National Exhibition and more recently Atlanta presented Body of Work at Performance Space New York. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
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| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Danièle Hromek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0903.jpg | Danièle Hromek. | Danièle Hromek is a spatial designer and artist, fusing design elements with installations and sculptural form. Her work derives from her cultural and experiential heritage, often considering the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country, and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle is a lecturer and researcher considering how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to substantially affect Indigenous rights and culture within an institution. Danièle’s research contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, Dream and contest their spaces. It rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice; in doing so, it considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Tien Huynh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC06670-edited.jpg | Dr Tien Huynh. | Dr Tien Huynh is a teacher, researcher, nature lover and superstar of STEMM. She is a senior lecturer at RMIT University specialising in medicinal plants, environmental sustainability, smart materials and much more. Tien is interested in making the world a brighter, cleaner and healthier place. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Dr Watts | Dr Watts is a strategic thinker, advocate, a public speaker and a Public Health Expert and a leader in women’s health, gender health and international health. Her expertise includes: women’s health, social inclusion, chronic disease prevention and management, health promotion, migrant and refugee health, strategic planning and health policy as well as curriculum development and teaching research methods. Dr Watts was appointed by the Department of Health to the reference group responsible for the implementation of the first Victorian Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan for the state. She served on the Federal Government Reference Group for the FGM Prevention Plan. Dr Watts is a Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission; Deputy Chair, Board of Directors at Women’s Health West, a former Board Director at Western Health and currently serves on the Board of AMES Australia. Dr Watts Chairs the African Diaspora Women Summit Committee. Dr Watts is Director of Akirteh Institute of African of African Studies at Melbourne Polytechnic. Dr Watts is a respected public speaker, strategic thinker and academic with local and global networks. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Emily Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_EW_GerardLokic.jpg | Emily Wong. Photo by Gerard Lokic. | Emily Wong is the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia magazine and a sessional lecturer, studio leader and tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Her interests include cities and their social and physical infrastructures and participatory mapping. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
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| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
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| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Four Pillars Gin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Four-Pillars-Gin.jpg | Photo courtesy of Four Pillars Gin. | Four Pillars was established by Cameron, Matt and Stuart, who sold their first batch of Rare Dry Gin through a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible in late 2013 to a very enthusiastic group of gin-lovers. Since that time, they've brought a modern Australian sensibility to the process of distilling gin. From Rare Dry Gin to Barrel Aged Gin to Navy Strength Gin to Orange Marmalade (made with the oranges that make the gin) and Four Pillars’ special Christmas Gin (made with star anise, cinnamon, juniper, coriander and angelica), everything Four Pillars does is designed to elevate the craft. Four Pillars is available in great bars, great restaurants and great retailers around Australia and in a number of countries around the world (including Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore). Four Pillars Gin is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Galambo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/galambo2.jpg | Galambo. | Folk investigator and sound originator Galambo weaves electronic dance music for moving bodies. Expect town square dance rooted deep in the bass and rhythms of the Abya Yala. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
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| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| La Trobe University Centre for the Study of the Inland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TDSvLWZTUqp9Z9grcR5v_Whats-Left-Farina-SA-by-Clare-Wright.jpg | 'What's Left, Farina SA' by Clare Wright. | How do we live with significant environmental change – and how do we adapt? That’s one of the crucial questions at the heart of La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland. Inland is both a place and an idea; in the Australian imaginary, the space of the inland has been really powerful in shaping a sense of who we are as Australians. Particularly for Indigenous Australians, the inland is a place of identity and movement. The Centre has a broad focus on inland Australia and specifically on the Murray Darling Basin, which maps La Trobe’s unique geographical footprint, and matches the Centre's research focus areas: water; landscape and land use; pastoralism and agriculture; settlement and mobilities; resource extraction; and climate and environmental change. As the Centre's Director Professor Katie Holmes explains, "Environmental change creates profound challenges for us as a community and big challenges require more than one disciplinary approach and solution." The Centre for the Study of the Inland aims to be an integral part of the process of understanding the complexities of living with profound change. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lisa Currie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AuthorPhoto_NickDale.jpg | Lisa Currie. Photo by Nick Dale. | Lisa Currie is an artist and author of several books for creative self-reflection including The Positivity Kit and The Scribble Diary. Her newest book, Notes to Self: a self-care journal, will be released in 2019 by Penguin Random House. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
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| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Neil Cabatingan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/neil.jpg | Neil Cabatingan. | Neil Cabatingan is a Filipino electronic music producer. He produces and DJs under the alias Yumgod and his work covers footwork, hip-hop and electronic music. Neil is the producer for Auckland-based rap collective Fanau Spa and co-runs Tracks and Sound Volumes, an online platform for electronic dance music. Outside of production, Neil is member of Sound School, a community electronic music school running free workshop programs in Narrm. His debut EP, Barrio Trax, is available on tsv.world Neil will be in DJ teacher to the Mi Gente DJ crew! | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
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| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
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| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Peter Symes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Peter-Symes.jpg | Peter Symes. | Peter Symes is a Global Gardens of Peace director and the Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with wide-ranging expertise in large living landscapes, including over twenty-five years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in plant biosecurity, soil health, integrated water management, plant selection methodologies and design of plant environments. Peter has been heavily involved in projects such as the $AU1.7 million Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and the $AU6.5 million Working Wetlands project. He is also one of the lead authors in the development of the world-leading Landscape Succession Strategy which aims to guide the transition of the heritage Melbourne Gardens into the climate conditions of 2090. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
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| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Robin Penty | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Robin-Penty-cropped-1.jpg | Robin Penty. | Robin Penty is the executive director of Engagement and Impact at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Over a career-spanning three decades in the arts and culture, not-for-profit, higher learning and public sectors, Robin’s role is to ensure the Gardens and its visitors thrive as an open and inclusive place where important stories are told and memories made. Robin’s background includes roles as a director of programs, business development and marketing executive, cultural programmer, executive producer, qualitative researcher, strategic consultant and skilled facilitator. She has held leadership and executive positions for diverse organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Drug Foundation, The Smith Family and the University of Melbourne. Early in her career, Robin worked professionally as a choreographer and dance educator. Her perspectives on place and country are deeply grounded in knowledge of how humans move through and sense public space, as well as experiences from Canada, where she was born. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rohan Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rory-Rohan-Rudely-Interrupted.jpg | Rory Burnside and Rohan Brooks. | Rohan Brooks has been a professional musician for thirty-five years, performing all over the world with Melbourne rock band The Anyones, touring with Jet, The Killers, Morrissey, You Am I—the list goes on. In 2005 Rohan met Rory Burnside in 2006 they started the group Rudely Interrupted. In the twelve years they've worked together, Rudely Interrupted have released five studio records, toured internationally fourteen times, including to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Singapore and NZ. Rohan has produced, managed and booked the band to the dizzy heights of some of the biggest stages in the world, including the United Nations in 2008. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
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Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | MPavilion Kiosk | ||
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | MPavilion Kiosk | |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | MPavilion Kiosk |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | Wayfinding and wellbeing |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | Wayfinding and wellbeing |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | Wayfinding and wellbeing |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | Wayfinding and wellbeing | |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | Wayfinding and wellbeing |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | Wayfinding and wellbeing | |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | Wayfinding and wellbeing | |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | Wayfinding and wellbeing | |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | Wayfinding and wellbeing | |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | Wayfinding and wellbeing |
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | Virtual morality: Ethics in the design of virtual worlds |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Virginia Trioli in conversation with Carme Pinós and Naomi Milgrom AO |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | Virginia Trioli in conversation with Carme Pinós and Naomi Milgrom AO |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | Virginia Trioli in conversation with Carme Pinós and Naomi Milgrom AO |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | Victorian Guitar Orchestra presents ‘Resonance 2.0.1.8’ |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | Unreal spaces: World-building and videogames |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
Unreal spaces: World-building and videogames |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | Unreal spaces: World-building and videogames | ||
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | The Signal Curators launch ‘Layers’ |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | The Letter String Quartet open rehearsal: ‘Urban Songs’ |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | The future is gender-neutral design | |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | The future is gender-neutral design | |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | The future is gender-neutral design |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | The future is gender-neutral design |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | The future is gender-neutral design |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | The future is gender-neutral design |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | The future is gender-neutral design |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | The future is gender-neutral design | |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | The future is gender-neutral design | |
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | The future is gender-neutral design | |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | The future is gender-neutral design | |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | Stories at MPavilion with State Library Victoria |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | Side project lessons: How to start and sustain your creative project |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | Side project lessons: How to start and sustain your creative project | |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | Side project lessons: How to start and sustain your creative project |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | Side project lessons: How to start and sustain your creative project |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | SensiLab presents ‘Big Earth listening’ |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | Science Gallery Melbourne presents ‘Perfectionisms: Pressure to be perfect’ |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | Science Gallery Melbourne presents ‘Perfectionisms: Pressure to be perfect’ |
| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | Science Gallery Melbourne presents ‘Perfectionisms: Pressure to be perfect’ |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
Science Gallery Melbourne presents ‘Perfectionisms: Pressure to be perfect’ |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | Science Gallery Melbourne presents ‘Perfectionisms: Pressure to be perfect’ |
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | Science Gallery Melbourne presents ‘Perfectionisms: Pressure to be perfect’ |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | Science Gallery Melbourne presents ‘Perfectionisms: Pressure to be perfect’ |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | RMIT Master of Fashion (Design) graduate showcase |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | RMIT Master of Fashion (Design) graduate showcase |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | RMIT Master of Fashion (Design) graduate showcase |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | RMIT Master of Fashion (Design) graduate showcase |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | RMIT Interior Design presents ‘Interiorizt experiments: Series 2’ |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | Risk, irreverence and refrain in the public sphere |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | Reimagining urban infrastructure for smart cities |
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | Reimagining urban infrastructure for smart cities |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | Reimagining urban infrastructure for smart cities |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | Reimagining urban infrastructure for smart cities |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | Rambla de Melbourne |
| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| A-SPACE | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASPACE_SHOOT-55.jpg | A—SPACE. | A-SPACE is a meditation studio that helps people around the world feel more present and compassionate with themselves and others. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Alex Cullen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_AC_LindaTegg.jpg | Alex Cullen. Photo by Linda Tegg. | Alex Cullen is a human geographer whose research focuses on the politics of socio-environmental relations, livelihoods, participatory mapping and identity. His research in Timor-Leste investigates the impacts experienced by customary communities through conservation processes. Alex currently lectures at the University in Melbourne in the School of Geography. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Atlanta Eke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atlanta-Eke_Tim-Birnie.jpg | Atlanta Eke is a dancer and choreographer working internationally. In 2010 Atlanta was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient mentored by artist Sarah Michelson. She has performed with and for Sidney Leoni, Marten Spangberg, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Joan Jonas, Christine de Schmitt and Jan Ritesmas among others and participated in the Allianz-The Agora Project (Performing Arts Forum), France. Atlanta was the winner of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award, received Next Wave Kickstart in 2011, was the Dancehouse Housemate resident and an ArtStart Grant recipient. She has shown works at Next Wave Festival, ACCA, Spring1883, Chunky Move, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Dance Massive Festival, MONA FOMA, DARK MOFO, MDT Stockholm, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Fierce Festival Birmingham, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie Paris, Adelaide Festival to name a few. In 2016 Atlanta received Artshouse CultureLab for I CON and Death of Affect. In 2017 she was commissioned for the inaugural biennale The National Exhibition and more recently Atlanta presented Body of Work at Performance Space New York. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
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| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Danièle Hromek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0903.jpg | Danièle Hromek. | Danièle Hromek is a spatial designer and artist, fusing design elements with installations and sculptural form. Her work derives from her cultural and experiential heritage, often considering the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country, and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle is a lecturer and researcher considering how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to substantially affect Indigenous rights and culture within an institution. Danièle’s research contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, Dream and contest their spaces. It rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice; in doing so, it considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Tien Huynh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC06670-edited.jpg | Dr Tien Huynh. | Dr Tien Huynh is a teacher, researcher, nature lover and superstar of STEMM. She is a senior lecturer at RMIT University specialising in medicinal plants, environmental sustainability, smart materials and much more. Tien is interested in making the world a brighter, cleaner and healthier place. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Dr Watts | Dr Watts is a strategic thinker, advocate, a public speaker and a Public Health Expert and a leader in women’s health, gender health and international health. Her expertise includes: women’s health, social inclusion, chronic disease prevention and management, health promotion, migrant and refugee health, strategic planning and health policy as well as curriculum development and teaching research methods. Dr Watts was appointed by the Department of Health to the reference group responsible for the implementation of the first Victorian Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan for the state. She served on the Federal Government Reference Group for the FGM Prevention Plan. Dr Watts is a Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission; Deputy Chair, Board of Directors at Women’s Health West, a former Board Director at Western Health and currently serves on the Board of AMES Australia. Dr Watts Chairs the African Diaspora Women Summit Committee. Dr Watts is Director of Akirteh Institute of African of African Studies at Melbourne Polytechnic. Dr Watts is a respected public speaker, strategic thinker and academic with local and global networks. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Emily Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_EW_GerardLokic.jpg | Emily Wong. Photo by Gerard Lokic. | Emily Wong is the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia magazine and a sessional lecturer, studio leader and tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Her interests include cities and their social and physical infrastructures and participatory mapping. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
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| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
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| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Four Pillars Gin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Four-Pillars-Gin.jpg | Photo courtesy of Four Pillars Gin. | Four Pillars was established by Cameron, Matt and Stuart, who sold their first batch of Rare Dry Gin through a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible in late 2013 to a very enthusiastic group of gin-lovers. Since that time, they've brought a modern Australian sensibility to the process of distilling gin. From Rare Dry Gin to Barrel Aged Gin to Navy Strength Gin to Orange Marmalade (made with the oranges that make the gin) and Four Pillars’ special Christmas Gin (made with star anise, cinnamon, juniper, coriander and angelica), everything Four Pillars does is designed to elevate the craft. Four Pillars is available in great bars, great restaurants and great retailers around Australia and in a number of countries around the world (including Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore). Four Pillars Gin is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Galambo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/galambo2.jpg | Galambo. | Folk investigator and sound originator Galambo weaves electronic dance music for moving bodies. Expect town square dance rooted deep in the bass and rhythms of the Abya Yala. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
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| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| La Trobe University Centre for the Study of the Inland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TDSvLWZTUqp9Z9grcR5v_Whats-Left-Farina-SA-by-Clare-Wright.jpg | 'What's Left, Farina SA' by Clare Wright. | How do we live with significant environmental change – and how do we adapt? That’s one of the crucial questions at the heart of La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland. Inland is both a place and an idea; in the Australian imaginary, the space of the inland has been really powerful in shaping a sense of who we are as Australians. Particularly for Indigenous Australians, the inland is a place of identity and movement. The Centre has a broad focus on inland Australia and specifically on the Murray Darling Basin, which maps La Trobe’s unique geographical footprint, and matches the Centre's research focus areas: water; landscape and land use; pastoralism and agriculture; settlement and mobilities; resource extraction; and climate and environmental change. As the Centre's Director Professor Katie Holmes explains, "Environmental change creates profound challenges for us as a community and big challenges require more than one disciplinary approach and solution." The Centre for the Study of the Inland aims to be an integral part of the process of understanding the complexities of living with profound change. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lisa Currie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AuthorPhoto_NickDale.jpg | Lisa Currie. Photo by Nick Dale. | Lisa Currie is an artist and author of several books for creative self-reflection including The Positivity Kit and The Scribble Diary. Her newest book, Notes to Self: a self-care journal, will be released in 2019 by Penguin Random House. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
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| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Neil Cabatingan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/neil.jpg | Neil Cabatingan. | Neil Cabatingan is a Filipino electronic music producer. He produces and DJs under the alias Yumgod and his work covers footwork, hip-hop and electronic music. Neil is the producer for Auckland-based rap collective Fanau Spa and co-runs Tracks and Sound Volumes, an online platform for electronic dance music. Outside of production, Neil is member of Sound School, a community electronic music school running free workshop programs in Narrm. His debut EP, Barrio Trax, is available on tsv.world Neil will be in DJ teacher to the Mi Gente DJ crew! | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
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| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
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| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Peter Symes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Peter-Symes.jpg | Peter Symes. | Peter Symes is a Global Gardens of Peace director and the Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with wide-ranging expertise in large living landscapes, including over twenty-five years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in plant biosecurity, soil health, integrated water management, plant selection methodologies and design of plant environments. Peter has been heavily involved in projects such as the $AU1.7 million Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and the $AU6.5 million Working Wetlands project. He is also one of the lead authors in the development of the world-leading Landscape Succession Strategy which aims to guide the transition of the heritage Melbourne Gardens into the climate conditions of 2090. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
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| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Robin Penty | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Robin-Penty-cropped-1.jpg | Robin Penty. | Robin Penty is the executive director of Engagement and Impact at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Over a career-spanning three decades in the arts and culture, not-for-profit, higher learning and public sectors, Robin’s role is to ensure the Gardens and its visitors thrive as an open and inclusive place where important stories are told and memories made. Robin’s background includes roles as a director of programs, business development and marketing executive, cultural programmer, executive producer, qualitative researcher, strategic consultant and skilled facilitator. She has held leadership and executive positions for diverse organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Drug Foundation, The Smith Family and the University of Melbourne. Early in her career, Robin worked professionally as a choreographer and dance educator. Her perspectives on place and country are deeply grounded in knowledge of how humans move through and sense public space, as well as experiences from Canada, where she was born. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rohan Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rory-Rohan-Rudely-Interrupted.jpg | Rory Burnside and Rohan Brooks. | Rohan Brooks has been a professional musician for thirty-five years, performing all over the world with Melbourne rock band The Anyones, touring with Jet, The Killers, Morrissey, You Am I—the list goes on. In 2005 Rohan met Rory Burnside in 2006 they started the group Rudely Interrupted. In the twelve years they've worked together, Rudely Interrupted have released five studio records, toured internationally fourteen times, including to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Singapore and NZ. Rohan has produced, managed and booked the band to the dizzy heights of some of the biggest stages in the world, including the United Nations in 2008. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Sir Nicholas Serota CH | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NS-cropped-1.png | Sir Nicholas Serota CH. |
Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | ||
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE | |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | Quiet Mornings with A-SPACE |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | Public art field guide |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | Public art field guide | |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | Public art field guide |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | Public art field guide | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | Public art field guide |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | Polito: ‘A crimson audiovisual landscape’ |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | Polito: ‘A crimson audiovisual landscape’ |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | Polito: ‘A crimson audiovisual landscape’ |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | Polito: ‘A crimson audiovisual landscape’ |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | Playable Streets presents ‘The Plants’ |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | Playable Streets presents ‘The Plants’ |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | Playable Streets presents ‘The Plants’ |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | PIA, AIA and AILA present ‘The missing middle’ |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | PIA, AIA and AILA present ‘The missing middle’ |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | PIA, AIA and AILA present ‘The missing middle’ |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | PIA, AIA and AILA present ‘The missing middle’ |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Parlour in conversation: Carme Pinós and Kerstin Thompson |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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Parlour in conversation: Carme Pinós and Kerstin Thompson |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | Parlour in conversation: Carme Pinós and Kerstin Thompson |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | One year of YES celebration with JOY 94.9 |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | One year of YES celebration with JOY 94.9 | ||
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | One year of YES celebration with JOY 94.9 |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | ‘Meet the Instruments’ with Upwind! Education Program | |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | New Palm Court Orchestra presents ‘Buninyong Maestros’ |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #2’ |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | Multicultural Arts Victoria presents ‘State of Culture #1’ |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
MTC at MPavilion |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | MTC at MPavilion |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | MTC at MPavilion |
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | MTC at MPavilion |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | MPavilion: Behind the scenes |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | MPavilion: Behind the scenes |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | MPavilion: Behind the scenes |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | MPavilion: Behind the scenes |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | MPavilion writer in residence: Maddee Clark |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | Morning yoga with Happy Melon |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | Morning yoga with Happy Melon | |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | MONOGRAPH art lovers book club |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | MONOGRAPH art lovers book club |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | MONOGRAPH art lovers book club |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | MONOGRAPH art lovers book club |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | Monash University XYX Lab presents ‘Learning from SHEcity’ |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | Monash University XYX Lab presents ‘Learning from SHEcity’ |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | Monash University XYX Lab presents ‘Learning from SHEcity’ |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | Mi Gente (My People) Sound System Party |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | Mi Gente (My People) Sound System Party | |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | Mi Gente (My People) Sound System Party | |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | Mi Gente (My People) Sound System Party |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Melbourne Festival presents ‘The land on which we stand’ |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | Melbourne Festival presents ‘The land on which we stand’ |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | Melbourne Festival presents ‘The land on which we stand’ |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Melbourne Festival presents ‘Our Place, Our Home’ |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | Marshall McGuire recital |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | Mapping Melbourne presents SA the Collective |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Mapping Melbourne presents SA the Collective |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | Mapping Melbourne presents SA the Collective |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Mapping Melbourne 2018 launch |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | Mapping Melbourne 2018 launch |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | Mapping Melbourne 2018 launch |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | Mapping Melbourne 2018 launch |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | Mapping Melbourne 2018 launch |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | Mama Alto |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | In these critical times |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | Identity in density |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | Identity in density |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | Identity in density |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | Identity in density |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | Identity in density |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | Identity in density |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | Hope St Radio live from MPavilion |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | Hope St Radio live from MPavilion |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | HERitage: How women have shaped Melbourne’s cultural landscape |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | HERitage: How women have shaped Melbourne’s cultural landscape |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | HERitage: How women have shaped Melbourne’s cultural landscape |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | HERitage: How women have shaped Melbourne’s cultural landscape |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | HERitage: How women have shaped Melbourne’s cultural landscape |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | Heide presents ‘Mirka Mora-inspired doll workshop’ |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | Global Gardens of Peace presents ‘Bringing a garden to Gaza’ |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | Global Gardens of Peace presents ‘Bringing a garden to Gaza’ |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | Global Gardens of Peace presents ‘Bringing a garden to Gaza’ |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | Global Gardens of Peace presents ‘Bringing a garden to Gaza’ |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | Global Gardens of Peace presents ‘Bringing a garden to Gaza’ |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion |
| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion |
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | FOREGROUND | |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | FOREGROUND |
| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | FOREGROUND |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | FOREGROUND |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | FOREGROUND |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | FOREGROUND |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | FOREGROUND |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | FOREGROUND |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
Fixperts community engagement design intervention |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | Fixperts community engagement design intervention |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | FiX 002 with VCA students |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | Esther Stewart installation: ‘Fold, Play’ |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | Dog walking adventures in the city with Tom + Captain |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | Design your own pavilion with OoPLA |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | Conversations of light | |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | Conversations of light | ||
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | Conversations of light | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | Conversations of light |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Contemporary yoga with Chunky Move |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Complete beginner contemporary dance class with Chunky Move |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | Community Hubs family picnic |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | Community Hubs family picnic |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | Club Kids Music Academy |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | Citizen-led, government dread: Why is it so hard to get civic-minded projects happening? |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | Citizen-led, government dread: Why is it so hard to get civic-minded projects happening? |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | Citizen-led, government dread: Why is it so hard to get civic-minded projects happening? |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | Citizen-led, government dread: Why is it so hard to get civic-minded projects happening? |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | Citizen-led, government dread: Why is it so hard to get civic-minded projects happening? |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | Circus play in the park with Westside Circus |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | Chunky Move presents ‘You’re only as good as your last work’ | |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Chunky Move presents ‘You’re only as good as your last work’ |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | Chunky Move presents ‘You’re only as good as your last work’ |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | Chunky Move presents ‘You’re only as good as your last work’ |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | Chunky Move presents ‘You’re only as good as your last work’ |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | Chunky Move presents ‘The body as architecture’ |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | Chunky Move presents ‘The body as architecture’ |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | Chunky Move presents ‘The body as architecture’ |
| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | Chunky Move presents ‘The body as architecture’ |
| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | Christopher Boots Halloween Ball 2018 |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | Changing architecture for a changing city |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | Carme Pinós opening lecture |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | Carme Pinós opening lecture | ||
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | BLAKitecture: Women’s business |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | BLAKitecture: Women’s business |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | BLAKitecture: Women’s business |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | BLAKitecture: Women’s business |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | BLAKitecture: Memorialisation |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | BLAKitecture: Memorialisation | |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | BLAKitecture: Memorialisation |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | BLAKitecture: Looking backwards, looking forwards |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | BLAKitecture: Looking backwards, looking forwards |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | BLAKitecture: Indigenising procurement |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | BLAKitecture: Indigenising procurement |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | BLAKitecture: Indigenising procurement |
| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | BLAKitecture: Indigenising procurement |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | BLAKitecture: Indigenising procurement |
| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | BLAKitecture: Indigenising education |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | BLAKitecture: Indigenising education | ||
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | BLAKitecture: Indigenising education |
| 30/70 | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/302F70-credit-Maddie-Stephenson.jpg | 30/70. | Melbourne's 30/70 is a cosmic mélange of boom-bap dynamics, neo-soul harmonies and jazz-funk licks, all steeped in a deep spiritual tradition, reaching from Alice Coltrane to Kamasi Washington. Despite their influences coming from across the Pacific, the 30/70 sound is unmistakably Melbourne and for anyone admiring the scene from afar, it would seem fair to wonder if there was something in the water. 30/70 are the latest collective to emerge from this buzzing soul scene. Working closely with Paul Bender of Hiatus Kaiyote and Jamil Zacharia to produce their latest record, the sound is a sublime statement; at once a cry for help and a call to arms, it balances delicate poetry and potent aggression with ease, all of this done with a beguiling pop sensibility. Lovingly referred to as a community rather than a band, 30/70 is, at its core, a quintet made up of Allysha Joy, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Horatio Luna, Thhomas and Chaser that swells up to a nine-piece ensemble when the music calls for it; forever delivering their signature hypnotic groove. | BLAKitecture |
| A-SPACE | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ASPACE_SHOOT-55.jpg | A—SPACE. | A-SPACE is a meditation studio that helps people around the world feel more present and compassionate with themselves and others. | BLAKitecture |
| A+ | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-11.31.48-am.png | Photo courtesy of Monika Fikerle_ | A+ are a four-piece outfit featuring members of The Ancients, School Damage and B.C. Inspired by D.I.Y., punk and shoegaze, their dynamic sound is characterised by shared vocal duties, switched instruments, and ethereal waves of guitar producing adventurous melodies that weave and wander. | BLAKitecture |
| Abodo Wood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dalefield-House-med-res-resized.jpg | Dalefield House. Photo courtesy of Abodo Wood. | Abodo Wood crafts timbers with lasting beauty that are safe for people and the environment. Many exterior timbers are harvested from unsustainable old-growth forests, or are treated with harmful chemicals. Abodo's timbers stand the test of time; they are beautiful, durable and sustainable. | BLAKitecture |
| ACE Contractors Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Making-of-M-Pavilion.jpg | ACE Contractors onsite during the construction of MPavilion 2018. Photo courtesy of ACE Contractors Group. | ACE Landscape Services is a part of ACE Contractors Group, a Melbourne-based construction company providing services in landscape, civil, infrastructure, water, and electrical. Their landscape team has extensive experience in the safe and punctual delivery of signature commercial landscape projects in the public realm. Ensuring the safety of all client, public and construction workers through careful management of construction works within fully operational facilities is their first and foremost priority. Through the development, implementation and monitoring of safety, environment, access and construction methodologies, ACE Landscape Services delivers whole project solutions in challenging real-world environments. | BLAKitecture |
| Adrian Eagle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Adrian-Eagle-Press-1-e1537320333636.jpg | Adrian Eagle. | A soulful singer-songwriter born and raised in Adelaide, Adrian Eagle vocalises over reggae, soul, hip-hop and acoustic-flavoured beats. Adrian shares his journey of overcoming suicidal mental health issues and weighing a life-threatening 270kg when he was seventeen years old in the hope to help other kids battling mental health issues with his message of self-love and positivity. Adrian Eagle’s debut EP is projected to be released late 2018 and has been supported through MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program with mentor Skomes. | BLAKitecture |
| Adrian Gray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Adrian-Gray.jpg | Adrian Gray. | Adrian Gray is the manager of Urban Design at Brimbank City Council and the current Victorian state president for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. He was the inaugural Chair of Greening The West from 2013-2015. Adrian has been a landscape architect since 1995 working initially in the private sector internationally and in Melbourne. He moved into public practice in 2002 and since 2008 he has been leading a major transformation of the public realm in Brimbank. | BLAKitecture |
| Ajak Kwai | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-5.47.00-pm.png | Ajak’s music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky afro-beats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. | BLAKitecture | |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | BLAKitecture |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | BLAKitecture |
| Alex Cullen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_AC_LindaTegg.jpg | Alex Cullen. Photo by Linda Tegg. | Alex Cullen is a human geographer whose research focuses on the politics of socio-environmental relations, livelihoods, participatory mapping and identity. His research in Timor-Leste investigates the impacts experienced by customary communities through conservation processes. Alex currently lectures at the University in Melbourne in the School of Geography. | BLAKitecture |
| Alice Heyward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180808-CB-1147-min.jpg | Photo by Chloe Bellemere | Alice Heyward is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, she has presented her work at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award, 2016), Murray White Room, Sophiensaele in Tanztage 2017 (Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival 2018, Bus Projects and The Watermill Center (USA), and collaborates regularly in the work of other artists as a dancer and performer. | BLAKitecture |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | BLAKitecture |
| Allara Briggs-Pattison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Allara-Briggs-Pattison-CR-Lauren-Connelly.jpg | Allara Briggs-Pattison. Photo by Lauren Connelly. | Allara Briggs-Pattison, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, has an enchanting glow when she performs. Equipped with a loop station, electric bass, double bass and bright spirit, Allara performs her solo sounds. She pulls across strings to resonate dark frequencies forming emotive compositions. With orchestral bowed harmonies mixed with electronic beats and traditional clap sticks, her sound is unique. Inspired by hip-hop, neo-soul, blues and reggae, Allara is developing a storytelling nature, taking the listener on a journey reflected by her passions while encouraging cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. | BLAKitecture |
| Alli Edwards | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Learning-from-SHEcity_Image-courtesy-of-SHEcity-1.png | Image courtesy of XYX Lab. | Delighting in blurring the lines between work and play, Alli Edwards’s research explores methods for creating inclusive, energetic workshop experiences and examining the contributions of this dynamic towards collaborative creation. Her educational practice centres around challenging students' ideas of failure and experimentation in the design process in hopes that her students can tackle the challenges that face contemporary designers—and have a little fun while doing so. | BLAKitecture |
| AM:PM.RC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ItsARunCrewThing01.jpg | AM:PM.RC. | AM:PM.RC is a run crew that’s part of the #BridgeTheGap movement, founded by Run.Dem.Crew (LDN) and The Bridge Runners (NYC). Made up of a diverse and creative bunch of people, AM:PM.RC runs together for many reasons: to make and grow friendships, smash food, party, collaborate on creative ideas, run for wellness or aim for personal bests—always giving it their all. ‘Strength to strength’ is a big part of the AM:PM.RC ethos, growing as a crew by supporting and helping each other through everything they do. Style is also a big part of it, but it doesn’t matter what you wear or how you wear it—it’s just about the people. Performance is a key factor for some members, and AM:PM.RC does strive to improve and train hard, but mostly it’s all about building community and family, and bringing positive change through running. | BLAKitecture |
| Amadou Suso | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amadou-Suso_small-1.jpg | Amadou Suso. | The phenomenally talented Amadou Suso is a master of the kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, and is also a direct descendent of the world’s first kora player, Koriang Musa Suso. As a music maker, or ‘jali’ by birthright, Amadou embodies the griot traditions of the Mandinka of West Africa. Known widely as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora’, Amadou fulfils his ancestral duties to share the culture of his people through an intoxicating contemporary mastery of the African harp. | BLAKitecture |
| Amanda-Agnes Nichols | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mandy-Nichols-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Amanda-Agnes Nichols. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Amanda-Agnes Nichols has forged a career creating characters by producing costumes for their wardrobes. Prior to commencing her Masters of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Mandy has worked as a costume cutter with film credits including Baz Luhrmann's Australia and The Great Gatsby and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, within these collaborating with fashion brands such as Prada, Ferragamo and emerging designer Craig Green. In 2015 Mandy received the Churchill Fellowship to further develop expertise in corsetry and couture technique, upon completion taking up a position within the Parisian ateliers of Givenchy and Schiaparelli. Mandy's unique training within these worlds of feature film costume and haute couture have developed a multilayered practice that interrogates the complex connections and intentions between them. | BLAKitecture |
| Amrita Hepi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISA_3557.jpg | Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She has worked with leading Australian dance companies Force Majeure, Marrugeku and OCHRES and toured work nationally and internationally through Europe and the U.S.A - she trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre New York. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people's choice award for the Keir Choreographic award commission and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30. Amrita has also worked in various commercial capacities and has been commissioned by ASOS UK to create and choreograph film works, given TED X talks at the Sydney Opera house and has been featured globally in Vouge USA, TeenVouge USA, Nowness, Instyle, Harpers Bazar and PAPER US. An artist with a broad global reach and following, Amrita combines her interest in advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice. | BLAKitecture | |
| Amy Dunstan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/15P0692-copy.jpg | Amy Dunstan. | Amy Dunstan is a much loved Melbourne yoga teacher and yoga lead at Happy Melon, the one-of-its-kind mind and body studio. While Amy first discovered yoga living in Byron Bay in her early twenties, it wasn't until 2015 that Amy decided to quit her full time corporate career and pursue teaching full time. Since then Amy has become a familiar face teaching for Happy Melon around Melbourne and offers yoga in a way that is nurturing and accessible for everyone. | BLAKitecture |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | BLAKitecture |
| Amy Spiers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Field_Guide_Amy_Spiers_CR_Penny-Stephens.jpg | Amy Spiers. Photo by Penny Stephens. | Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher. Amy makes art both collaboratively with Catherine Ryan, and as a solo artist. Her socially-engaged, critical art practice focuses on the creation of live performances, participatory situations and multi-artform installations for both site-specific and gallery contexts. Through her work she aims to prompt questions and debate about the present social order—particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are not confronted. Amy has presented numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, most recently at Monash University Museum of Art, the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA festival (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. | BLAKitecture |
| Andrew Laidlaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Andrew-Laidlaw.jpg | Andrew Laidlaw. | Andrew Laidlaw is a Global Gardens of Peace director and Landscape Architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he is responsible for the design and implementation of an extensive range of landscape projects. His achievements include the award winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (2004), Guilfoyle’s Volcano Project (2010) and the rejuvenation of the Fern Gully (2013). His design work has won a number of awards including Best New Tourist Attraction for Victoria and Landscape of the Year in 2005. Andrew has also taught at post-graduate, degree and certificate levels in horticulture and landscape design and currently lectures at Melbourne University in the post-graduate certificate of Landscape design. He was a regular gardening commentator on ABC 774 for ten years and has made numerous television presentations. Andrew is passionate about his role as principal landscape designer for Global Gardens of Peace. Its philosophy is that "gardens are forever" and its belief is that gardens are the centre for which to build a community around. | BLAKitecture |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | BLAKitecture |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | BLAKitecture |
| Angela Bailey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ange-photo-1.jpg | Angela Bailey is a curator and photographic artist whose practice is informed from the perspective of the community and the cultural. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director of the Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival in the late 1990s – all have contributed to her ongoing participation in promoting and interpreting our rich and diverse histories by creating exhibitions, installations, discourse and public programs of engagement. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography and has work in numerous significant public collections. In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions as part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne and earlier this year curated WE ARE HERE at the State Library of Victoria, which presented contemporary artists exploring their queer cultural heritage and engaging with the collections of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and State Library Victoria. She has a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts, a Masters of Art Curatorship and is President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. | BLAKitecture | |
| Ani Lamont | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/12313581_10153160675805863_7161916084007542156_n1.jpg | Ani Lamont. | Ani Lamont is a violence prevention specialist. She is the director of Policy and Communications for The Equality Institute. Prior to this she worked in Rwanda on the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, which ran a magazine and radio program made by and for girls. At the global level she worked for the UK Department for International Development’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women program, and for the United Nations Partners for Prevention program in Asia and the Pacific. | BLAKitecture |
| Ann Ferguson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ann-portrait-with-houses.jpg | Ann Ferguson. | Ann Ferguson is a ceramic artist living and working in Central Victoria. She has charted her unusual career between the creative expression of her own ideas and those of many children, women and men with whom she has collaborated. Trained as an early childhood professional, Ann has developed many innovative programs in which clay is used as the primary medium to connect people with their environment. In July 2018, Ann designed and led a major community project for early-years families in Maryborough, a project for the Regional Centre for Culture. It takes a child to grow a village engaged many families in ceramic workshops and culminated an interactive installation featured in the Central Goldfields Art gallery in August. Ann’s’ own artistic practice has developed broadly with commissions and awards for both large scale works and installations of very small intimate pieces. In many of these works she presents multiple opportunities for interactivity. Ann has been recognised for her artworks. She won the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund Ceramics Award at the Shepparton Regional gallery for her work Fire and Fruit. Her ceramic sculpture, Par Avion, won the prestigious Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary Acquisitive Award in 2009. | BLAKitecture |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | BLAKitecture |
| Annette Krauss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annette-Krauss-headshot.jpg | Annette Krauss’s practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through different media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects resurrect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice. Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a post-doctorate position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. | BLAKitecture | |
| Annika Kristensen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-1-1.jpg | Annika Kristensen. | Annika Kristensen is senior curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), where she has curated recent exhibitions including Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (with Max Delany, 2018); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (with Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, 2017–18); Greater Together (2017); Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific (with Max Delany, 2017); Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future (2016); NEW16 (2016); Painting. More Painting (with Max Delany and Hannah Mathews, 2016); and The Biography of Things (with Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, 2015). Previously the exhibition and project coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency to Tokyo in 2014. She holds a MSc in Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Arts/Communications from the University of Western Australia. | BLAKitecture |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | BLAKitecture |
| Aphids | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aphids_015-Edit-2_BryonyJackson_LoRes.jpg | Aphids. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Collaborative, artist led and driven by a passionate belief in the social role of art, Aphids investigates what is current and urgent in contemporary culture. These projects are formally promiscuous and experimental, often using performance, critical dialogue and encounters in the public realm. From 2019 Aphids will be led by co-directors Mish Grigor, Eugenia Lim and Lara Thoms, driven by a feminist methodology in which collaboration, deep listening and radical leadership is key. | BLAKitecture |
| Arabella Frahn-Starkie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13329347_10154252702652718_2023933057556045906_o.jpg | Arabella Frahn-Starkie. | Arabella Frahn-Starkie is an emerging artist focusing on dance and the body as a choreographic tool. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2016 from the Victorian College of the Arts. Arabella is driven to use the body in her work, as she believes that at the junction of the artwork, audience and artist, is a sentient and volatile body. Her practice includes predominantly performing and embodying the work of other artists. Arabella has worked with choreographers Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna and Rebecca Jensen, and visual artists David Rosetzky, Emma Collard, and Katie Lee most recently, whose processes and individual emphases on the use of the body in their work have influenced how she approaches working with the body. In creating her own work, Arabella often collaborates with artists from music, film and visual arts backgrounds, letting the processes inherent to these neighbouring forms influence her own making. | BLAKitecture |
| Aram Khalkhali | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AramPic.jpg | Aram Khalkhali. | Aram Khalkhali is an Iranian dancer and choreographer. In 2001, Aram was the first woman from the Middle East to be given a scholarship from Unesco to attend a short choreography course in India and after finishing an MA degree from Tehran University tutored in Performance at the Art University of Tehran, also researching performance and Iranian dance. Aram's professional experience in Iran involves theatre, television and dance instruction. She has worked closely with the Leymer Iran Folk group, and her international performances range from the Global Village Festival in Dubai 2012, Dance Over the Elbrus in Russia 2014, Calabria Festival in Italy 2015, Mitheu Festival in Spain 2016, the Montignac Festival in France 2016, at which Aram was awarded first prize from amongst 400 professional dancers, and the Qatar Festival 2017. Aram immigrated to Australia in December 2017 and, now based in Melbourne, has performed twice for Multicultural Arts Victoria. Aram is an instructor in Whirling—miniature Iranian folk dance like and teaches basic ballet for children. She is a member of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia and Multicultural Arts Victoria. | BLAKitecture |
| ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-11.49.29-am-copy.jpg | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS) is a collaboration of scientists, art and design specialists and social scientists from five Australian universities. The majority of the research at the CBNS is undertaken at those five universities and enhanced through CBNS partners, linking with other experts nationally and from around the world. The aim of the CBNS is to interrogate the bio-nano interface to better predict, control and visualise the myriad of interactions that occur between nanomaterials and complex biological environments. The CBNS believes it has a responsibility to share what it learns with the general public and as such has a strong emphasis on sharing research through outreach events. | BLAKitecture | |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | BLAKitecture |
| Aretha Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Aretha-brown.png | Aretha Brown is an Indigenous Artist and Activist, who made headlines following her speeches at both the 2017 and 2018 Invasion Day Protests in Melbourne. In 2017 Aretha was also elected the first female Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. Aretha describes her activism and art, as means of giving herself a context in which to live, Aretha is also inspired by her home in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs and her journey as a queer teenager. | BLAKitecture | |
| Arts Project Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Arts-Project-Australia-Image-2-1.jpg | Photo courtesy of Arts Project Australia. | Arts Project Australia is a leading studio and gallery supporting artists with an intellectual disability, promoting their work and advocating their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Based in Northcote, the studio is known globally as an innovative centre for excellence. APA's artists have been included in exhibitions across the world and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Each week, 144 artists attend the studio where they develop their practice while being supported by professional staff. Arts Project Australia is a space where feedback, guidance and critical advice encourage every artist to find their voice. | BLAKitecture |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | BLAKitecture |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | BLAKitecture |
| Associate Professor Alan Duffy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alan-Duffy-1.jpg | Associate Professor Alan Duffy. | Associate Professor Alan Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. His research involves creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter. Alan then tries to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine. When not exploring simulated universes, you can find him explaining science on ABC breakfast TV, Catalyst and Ten’s The Project. | BLAKitecture |
| Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jazz-Lab-27.jpg | Associate Professor Robert Burke and Professor Tony Gould. | Tony Gould is currently an adjunct Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University supervising higher degree students and involved in practical performance. He is active as a composer, receiving commissions for small and large scale works, and also as a performer in collaborations with leading improvisers in Melbourne. Robert Burke is convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University. An improvising musician, Robert has performed and composed on over 300 recordings and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and USA over the last thirty-five years. | BLAKitecture |
| Atlanta Eke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atlanta-Eke_Tim-Birnie.jpg | Atlanta Eke is a dancer and choreographer working internationally. In 2010 Atlanta was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient mentored by artist Sarah Michelson. She has performed with and for Sidney Leoni, Marten Spangberg, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Joan Jonas, Christine de Schmitt and Jan Ritesmas among others and participated in the Allianz-The Agora Project (Performing Arts Forum), France. Atlanta was the winner of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award, received Next Wave Kickstart in 2011, was the Dancehouse Housemate resident and an ArtStart Grant recipient. She has shown works at Next Wave Festival, ACCA, Spring1883, Chunky Move, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Dance Massive Festival, MONA FOMA, DARK MOFO, MDT Stockholm, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Fierce Festival Birmingham, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie Paris, Adelaide Festival to name a few. In 2016 Atlanta received Artshouse CultureLab for I CON and Death of Affect. In 2017 she was commissioned for the inaugural biennale The National Exhibition and more recently Atlanta presented Body of Work at Performance Space New York. | BLAKitecture | |
| Aunty Kerrie Doyle | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Aunty-Kerrie-Doyle.jpg | Aunty Kerrie Doyle. | Aunty Kerrie Doyle the Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and the Coordinator of Indigenous Health for the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT. Her areas of expertise are Indigenous health, mental health and cultural proficiency. Aunty Kerrie is a Winninninni woman who grew up on Darkinjung country in New South Wales, where she witnessed the need for better community health services first-hand. She was among the first cohort of Aboriginal people to graduate from the University of Oxford, and has played a role in the World Health Organisation’s Global Burden of Disease project, working with the University of Washington. | BLAKitecture |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | BLAKitecture |
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | BLAKitecture |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | BLAKitecture |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | BLAKitecture |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| Baby Blue | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/000029.jpg | Baby Blue. | You’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Blue have been around for longer than two years given their prolificacy in the Melbourne music scene. Having quickly become a staple of the local scene through their relentless gigging, the band, centred around Rhea Caldwell, have been turning heads with their infectious melodies and live show which is a joy to behold. Lead singer and songwriter Rhea Caldwell performs with an ease few can claim to possess, tapping into sounds of '60s surf rock with a sprinkling of Americana and indie pop. The result is charming and considered concoction from an exciting new talent to watch. Topics dissected in a Baby Blue song range from non-committal romances to self-improvement, all delivered through Caldwell’s refreshing sincerity. Alleviated from the project’s humble folk beginnings, the force of the band is evidenced through sparkling backing vocals, flourishes of guitar and Caldwell’s breezy yet impactful vocals. Each song takes the listener on a journey, striking the perfect balance between satisfaction and wanting to hear more. | BLAKitecture |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | BLAKitecture |
| Bates Smart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/M11447_N388_medium.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bates Smart. | Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia. With a staff of more than 300 people across Melbourne and Sydney, Bates Smart create award-winning projects that transform the fabric of a city and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Recent work in Victoria includes the design of The Club Stand for Victoria Racing Club, The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston, Bendigo Hospital, and 35 Spring Street. Interstate work includes 25 King (Brisbane), Opal Tower (Sydney), Intercontinental Hotel (Sydney), Atelier (Canberra) and Canberra Airport Hotel. | BLAKitecture |
| bebé | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bebé-credit-Anastasia-Muna.jpeg | Bebé. Photo by Anastasia Muna. | Bebé (aka Nicole Jones) is a 3RRR FM and Hope St Radio broadcaster. She's spent the past year performing at Daydreams, Honcho Disko, Melbourne Museum's Nocturnal, Dark Mofo and A Weekend With Festival. Join bebé at MPavilion's Friday Night Fiestas on Friday 14 December for her lovingly curated mix of cosmic disco and esoteric house. | BLAKitecture |
| Beci Orpin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gorman-BeciOrpin-AmeliaStanwix-HighRes-20.jpg | Photo by Amelia Stanwix | Beci Orpin is a creative practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work occupies a space between illustration, design and craft. Beci has run a freelance studio for over 20 years, catering to a wide range of clients, as well as exhibiting her work both locally and internationally. She has authored four D.I.Y books and one children’s title. Her work is described as colourful, graphic, bold, feminine and dream-like. | BLAKitecture |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | BLAKitecture |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | BLAKitecture |
| Ben Landau | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ben_landau_portrait.jpg | Ben Landau. | Ben Landau’s practice spans art and design. He uses design research to analyse systems, and artistic methodologies to tamper with them. Ben constructs experiences, objects and performances which are interactive or invite the audience to participate. | BLAKitecture |
| BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BenFugee.jpg | BenFugee. | This band is newly created with BenFugee and Aleesha Jasmine coming together to mix their individual musical knowledge to create an indie pop-rock sound combining guitar, keyboard, vocals, electronic sounds and a loop pedal. BenFugee is from Iran and now lives in Melbourne as a refugee. He plays guitar, keyboard and is the band's lead singer. Aleesha Jasmine is from Melbourne and plays the keyboard while singing back-up vocals. The band's main influences are Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. BenFugee is soon to release an album, which Aleesha Jasmine will feature on. BenFugee & Aleesha Jasmine are currently participating in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program, alongside mentor Arik Blum, to produce their first single. | BLAKitecture |
| Benjamin Garg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Masters-1001-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg | Benjamin Garg. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Benjamin Garg hails from the small town of Mudki in Punjab, India. His fashion practice revolves around an interest in traditional Indian textiles, particularly those of the Punjab and Rajasthan region. Through utilising and developing upon these textiles, Benjamin reconsiders the traditional context and often quite specific applications. His unique approach to colour, layering and silhouette stem from his belief in clothing as a joyous expression with strong links to other traditional Indian artistic expressions such as dance, theatre and music. Before undertaking his Master of Fashion (Design) at RMIT, Benjamin undertook his Bachelor of Fashion in India at INIFD and a foundation course at MIT Institute of Design. He has worked in Indian education sector as academic manager at INIFD CORPORATE and as a stylist in India’s The Lifestyle Journalist. | BLAKitecture |
| Benjamin Law | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BEN-LAW-COL-1.jpg | Benjamin Law. | Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter, who holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. In 2017, Benjamin was commissioned as part of MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program. He is the author of two books, The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), both of which have been nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Together with his sister Michelle and illustrator Oslo Davis, Benjamin has also co-authored the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014). The television adaptation of The Family Law, created and written by Benjamin, screened on SBS in 2016 and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Television Comedy Series. Benjamin was part of the writing team of recent Network Ten drama Sisters, now streaming on Netflix. |
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| Benjamin Solah | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/37583243_1087998424690288_5972020543254167552_o-1.jpg | Benjamin Solah is a spoken word artist, organiser, promoter, videographer, curator and editor. He is the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word and one of the current co-producers of Slamalamadingdong. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Write About Now and has appeared on stages from Melbourne to the United States. | BLAKitecture | |
| Betsy-Sue Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Betsy_Sue-Clarke.jpg | Betsy-Sue Clarke. | Betsy-Sue Clarke is a landscape designer and director of Dirtscape Dreaming. Betsy-Sue's holistic approach to creating gardens is informed by a diverse background and inquisitive open mind, and has led her to develop unique expertise in connecting people to nature at a deep emotional, spiritual and healing level. Her business of eighteen years, Dirtscape Dreaming, has celebrated gold, silver, bronze and Comeadow Design awards at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, design excellence awards from industry organisations and much loved gardens opened through Garden DesignFest. Betsy-Sue's passion has led to projects including being part of the design team for Global Gardens of Peace working on the Garden of Hope in Gaza, the new meditation gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and working with children of asylum seekers and refugees in Broadmeadows. Frequently published in magazines and sought for public speaking, Betsy-Sue shares her passion for building community, wellness and healing through Nature based projects with an openness that is remembered. | BLAKitecture |
| Big Rig | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-10-08_Bec_Rigby_02_web-1.jpg | Bec Rigby. | Big Rig, also known as Bec Rigby, was a part of Melbourne band the Harpoons for around a decade, and has been a guest with many other local folks. Fully self-taught, she always sings from the heart, and it shows. Bec is also involved in community music, organising camps and leading choirs. As a DJ, Bec is always trying to conjure up that pure joy that comes from bringing people together with music. | BLAKitecture |
| Blair Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BSMITH_head-shot_low-res.jpg | Blair Smith is an architect practicing within Victoria and Western Australia and a Tutor at Melbourne School of Design. His current project work is informed by the visceral act of drawing, tempering the relationship between the poetics and pragmatics of architecture. Before establishing his own design studio, Blair worked in some of Australia’s most reputed practices and has contributed to a number of projects awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. | BLAKitecture | |
| Blanche Alexander | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/photocredit-Victoria-Zschommler.jpg | Blanch Alexander. Photo by Victoria Zschommler. | Blanche Alexander started practicing yoga eight years ago and really dived deep into a consistent practice a few years later. She has been teaching and assisting in Melbourne since 2014 and contributes to training programs for new teachers. In her classes she encourages curiosity of alignment, intentional movement and nurtures a students understanding of their own practice. | BLAKitecture |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | BLAKitecture |
| Bricky B | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bricky-B-CR-Liz-Arcus-Photography.jpg | Bricky B. Photo by Liz Arcus Photography. | Bricky B (aka Brady Jones) is a Yorta Yorta man born and raised in Goulburn Valley, Shepparton. As an Indigenous hip-hop/spoken word artist, his art is a reflection of his reality. Bricky B has performed extensively around Shepparton at local festivals and events and participated in several MAV projects and events including a recent spoken word collaboration with DRMNGNOW, responding to the work of visual artist Raquel Ormella at SAM. | BLAKitecture |
| Brow Books | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/going_postal_MPavilion-1.jpg | 'Going Postal: More Than Yes or No' published by Brow Books. Image courtesy of Brow Books. | Brow Books, a small book publishing house that sits within the not-for-profit literary organisation TLB Society Inc, was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability. The team behind Brow Books believes that these authors and books are critical additions to our society and should be given the mainstream platform, and also believes that they have commercial viability if a new model of publishing is adopted—one that is smaller and leaner, and one that uses not-for-profit structure and processes to find sustainability. | BLAKitecture |
| Burundian Drummers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tambours-du-Burundi-2.jpg | The Burundian Drumming Group is a team of males from Burundian background whose aim is to stay together to break isolation, enjoy their culture and teach it to the youngest, and share their cultural heritage with the wider Australian community. The Burundian Drumming Group in Melbourne started in 2007. The drum plays an important part in Burundi. It was the symbol of power for the kings .The drum was played to announce that the king was getting up in the morning or going to bed at night, or to announce his arrival when he was visiting a territory of his kingdom. If during war the enemy took the king’s drum, that meant that the king was defeated / had lost and had either to surrender or flee. Today, in Burundi the drum is still played at national happy events such as Independence Day or when welcoming state visitors. | BLAKitecture | |
| Cameron Bishop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cameron-Bishop-1-1.jpg | Dr Cameron Bishop. | Cameron Bishop (PhD) is an artist, writer and curator lecturing in Art and Performance at Deakin University. As a curator he has helped initiate a number of public art projects including Treatment (2015/17) at the Western Treatment Plant; Sounding Histories at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne with Annie Wilson; and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project with architectural and creative arts researchers, and leading Australian artists to explore and activate spaces left behind by de-industrialisation. As the recipient of a number of grants, awards and commissions he has been acknowledged for his community-focused approach to public art. All of his work explores the shifting nature of the term public, ideas around place-making, and the body’s appearance and experience as a political, private, and social entity. To this end he has published writing in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues while addressing these issues in the artwork he makes, often in collaboration with the artist and engineer, Simon Reis. With David Cross, he has worked on consultancy projects including the Metro Tunnel Creative Strategy, which saw them team with Claire Doherty from the UK-based Public Art Commissioning agency, Situations. Cameron is a senior academic at Deakin University where recently, with David Cross, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow, he helped establish the Public Art Commission, a strategic research initiative in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. | BLAKitecture |
| Campbell Walshe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cam-Walshe.jpeg | Campbell Walshe | With significant start-up experience as an entrepreneur commercialising Australian health technology in the US, Campbell Walshe is passionate about growing the startup ecosystem. Cam started as director of MAP: Melbourne Accelerator Program—one of Australia's leading programs of its kind—in July this year, bringing to the role over a decade's experience in helping high-growth businesses develop and execute comprehensive strategies to the role. Cam is also co-founder of Pitchblak which offers crucial support to startups in the first 12-18 months of their journeys and is a member of the JAR Aerospace Advisory Board. | BLAKitecture |
| Candice Raeburn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpeedDate_CandiceRaeburn_PhotoCandiceRaeburn.jpg | Candice Raeburn. | Growing up in regional Victoria, Candice Raeburn moved to Melbourne to study Applied Science at RMIT University. Completing her degree in 2010, she began working in the education space, teaching at public high schools in Fukushima, Japan. Inspired by her evacuation from the nuclear fallout zone, Candice founded an honours research project in nuclear waste bioremediation, seeking to decontaminate soil using radiation-resistant bacteria. Post-graduation, Candice worked in the pharmaceutical industry in quality control, recombinant biopharmaceutical production and facility start-up; and later as an Australian volunteer for international development in a hospital laboratory in Vanuatu. Candice has recently finished her Masters in neurodegeneration, biochemistry and genetic engineering at the University of Melbourne. She works at Engineers Without Borders Australia on the organisation and delivery of international human-centred design immersive experiences for young engineers. She is continually involved with a range of STE(A)M initiatives, including the new Science Gallery Melbourne, which seeks to break down barriers between science, art and the public. Candice is an inaugural Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassador. | BLAKitecture |
| Carlo Ratti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/carlo-ratti-558x372.jpg | Carlo Ratti. | Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, inventor, educator and activist, is author of the book Open Source Architecture. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy and now has a branch in New York City, United States. Since 2009, Carlo has been a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos and is currently serving as co-chair of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Architecture (and IT) at Cambridge University, England and has over 500 publications. Esquire magazine included him among the “2008 Best and Brightest”, Forbes among the “Names You Need to Know” of 2011, Wired in “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. | BLAKitecture |
| Carlos Uxo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Carlos_Uxo-1-1.png | Carlos Uxo. | Born in the south of Spain, Carlos Uxo grew up in Madrid, where he completed a Licenciatura (five-year degree) in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense, 1985-1990). After completing the (then compulsory) military service, Carlos became a Spanish Lector, first at the Correspondence School (Wellington, New Zealand, 1992), and then at La Trobe University (Melbourne, 1993-1996). At La Trobe he completed an MA by research on Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite, and, most importantly, he realised he wanted to be an academic. Carlos then went to Dublin City University (1997-2002), where he rediscovered his passion for all things Cuban, and started a PhD completed back at La Trobe (2002-2013). Thanks to a number of grants, Carlos was able to travel to Havana four times while writing his PhD, which would eventually be published as a monograph. In July 2013 Carlos joined Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. | BLAKitecture |
| Carme Pinós | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CPinos_Feb18_lowres.jpg | Carme Pinós. Photo by Wayne Taylor. | Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Carme works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans everything from large urban developments, to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture and to city making. Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Carme is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley CED for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture. Carme Pinós is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| Carmel Wade | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carmel-Wade_BW-1.jpg | Carmel Wade. | Carmel Wade is a New Zealand architect, specialising in educational design and currently working at Stephenson & Turner in Christchurch. As part of the Canterbury earthquake rebuild, Carmel was involved with the Vodafone InnoV8 Building, which was an anchor project in the rebuild. Carmel was the construction phase project architect who led the team to deliver a green-star-rated design. This building was an exciting opportunity to see sustainable principles employed in practice. Building on this experience, Carmel is exploring ways of combining regenerative and sustainable design in her future projects. As a leading member of Learning Environments Australasia in New Zealand, Carmel’s main focus is on improving the educational experience for students and schools affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Engaging with local communities and their cultural narratives through the design process has been both a rewarding and positive outcome for the schools. Carmel is committed to ensuring that architecture responds positively to its time and place, through authentic cultural expression, and includes creative design that bring joy to the spaces we inhabit. | BLAKitecture |
| Caroline Clements | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1U5A6564.jpg | Caroline Clements. | Caroline Clements is a writer, editor and producer. She was the founding editor of Broadsheet, Australia’s leading independent city guide, and has since held various roles in the media company, working on brand publishing projects such as cookbooks and pop-up restaurants. In November 2018, Caroline released a book called Places We Swim, which she wrote with her partner Dillon Seitchik-Reardon, documenting the best places to swim in Australia. They spent a year travelling around the country researching and writing the book. Caroline currently lives in Sydney and works in Partnerships at Carriageworks. | BLAKitecture |
| Carolyn D’Cruz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/facebook_photo.jpg | Carolyn D'Cruz is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in the Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies Program. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and co-editor for After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation | BLAKitecture | |
| Carroll Go-Sam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2_CarrollGoSam.jpg | Carroll Go-Sam. | Carroll Go-Sam (B. Arch. Hons) is an Indigenous graduate in architecture, lecturer and researcher currently in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Carroll is a descendant of Dyirbal peoples from the Herbert and Tully River basins from Gumbilbarra Country, North Queensland. She is closely affiliated with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC, UQ) and is currently a research fellow within Indigenous Design Place (IDP), a cross-faculty strategic research initiative funded by UQ. Carroll is currently involved with the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and has written an entry on the Australian Exhibition theme of 'REPAIR', led by Baracco + Wright architects. Carroll is an invited participant of the Indigenous designers exhibition, hosted at the Koori Heritage Trust, titled 'Blak Design Matters', curated by Jefa Greenaway. | BLAKitecture |
| Caseaux O.S.L.O | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Socrates1_Credits_GiannaRizzo_.jpg | Photo by Gianna Rizzo. | Caseaux O.S.L.O is comprised of Melbourne born and raised producer SKOMES and MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, a California-born Australian resident. Since 2015, the pair have played extensively throughout Melbourne, supporting the likes of Stones Throw Records, Black Milk, Rapper Big Pooh, AFTA-1, 30/70, Mndsgn, Ivan Ave and more. Their sound is a culmination of their shared love for jazz, soul and hip hop in the vein of groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the late '90s/early 2000s Rawkus era. In 2017, building on previous successes, the duo went on to press their debut EP on a double vinyl limited edition including the Static Methods REPLAYS EP featuring new collaborations with 30/70, Billy Davis, Amadou Suso (The Senegambian Jazz Band), Chicken Wishbone, ESESE and more. Released under the Foreign Brothers label and thanks to the help of Creative Victoria, the double EP benefited from extended airplay across Australia while generating interest for the band overseas. Now gearing towards a Japanese and European tour, while working on upcoming new mixtape and full LP, the duo have solidified their place as one of Australia’s premier and most promising live hip hop acts. | BLAKitecture |
| Cassandra Chilton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cassandra-Chilton-HSL.jpg | Cassandra Chilton. | Cassandra is a landscape architect and a Principal at Rush Wright Associates, as well as a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Molly O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | BLAKitecture |
| Cassie Hansen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cassie-Hansen.png | Cassie Hansen is editor of Artichoke magazine. She has a degree in creative industries, majoring in journalism and creative writing. Cassie has written for a range of publications, including Houses, Landscape Architecture Australia and Kitchens + Bathrooms. Before moving to Melbourne and joining the Architecture Media team, Cassie worked in Brisbane managing the editorial and design of more than ten business-to-business magazines. | BLAKitecture | |
| Cayn Borthwick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Glen_Walton.jpg | Cayn Borthwick photo by Glen Walton. | Cayn Borthwick is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and teacher whose practice is concerned with the intersection of music, art, technology and humanity. His diverse output includes work for chamber ensemble, choir, soloists, bands and EDM with a particular focus on musical cross-pollination. Cayn has composed extensively for short film, advertising, art installations and contemporary music. Cayn's compositions have been performed in Australia and internationally. His distinctive compositions are a fusion of elements from the art music and popular music traditions, pushing tonal limitations, cyclic structures, environment samples and synthesis. Cayn has been the recipient of the Cassidy Bequest Scholarship and the Beleura Sir George Talis Award. In 2014, he travelled to Los Angeles and New York for intensive workshops with Martin Bresnick and film composer Christopher Young, sponsored by the Global Atelier Award. He is currently researching for his Master of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is the lead composer at interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. He teaches harmony at the VCA and woodwind/composition in the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne. His debut solo album will be released early in 2019. | BLAKitecture |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | BLAKitecture |
| Centre for Workplace Leadership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOW_2016.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Centre for Workplace Leadership. | The Centre for Workplace Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, creates, sources and shares critical research and information to help professionals and organisations become better leaders, uncovering innovative approaches to the way they do their work. Established in 2013, the CWL is dedicated to rigorous research into leadership, directly helping to improve the quality of Australian workplaces, working with private enterprise, SMEs, entrepreneurs and government to create productive, innovative and competitive outcomes. The Centre's flagship event, the Future of Work: People, Performance, Innovation has become one of Australia's leading events on the future of work, leadership and workplace culture, combining the industry leaders with the brightest of academic minds from Australia and abroad. | BLAKitecture |
| Centre of Visual Art|CoVA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Old-Cities_KateDaw_ED.png | 'Old names for old cities', 2013, by Kate Daw. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. | The Centre of Visual Art|CoVA is the University of Melbourne’s new home of advanced visual arts research, fostering innovative practices, collaborative projects and fertile exchanges across various university facilities and with industry partners. CoVA will push the boundaries of art making, art writing and exhibition curating and design, with public programs that encourage engagement and insight, and a commitment to truly placing art and artists at the foreground of discussion and debate. Applying new knowledges while forging global connections from within Australia and the Asia Pacific region, CoVA will contribute to fundamental discussions in art and design practice and theory, art history and writing, curating and cultural collaborations. | BLAKitecture |
| Charles Williams | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_Indigenising-Procurement_Charles-Williams.jpg | Charles Williams. | Charles Williams is a proud Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta, Gunai and Gunditjmara man who has worked hard to engage Aboriginal communities in active participation in economic development, self-determination and the advocacy for Aboriginal social justice and human rights. He has been recognised for his work in developing best practice in Aboriginal employment programs, organisational development and change and racism awareness facilitation to support corporate business in developing RAP's and community partnerships. Charles is the director of Narrun-Milloo Consulting and a recent graduate of the Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Master class with Melbourne Business School (MBS). | BLAKitecture |
| Chels Marshall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-2.png | Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology & environmental planning, design and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects, applied marine research and studies in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management, research, environmental compliance, incident control, response and operational systems, project management, species management, permits and compliance, program and managing contracts, tenders, and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has had representation of Australian, United States and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years, with involvement in the development of national and international policy and strategic documents, and delivering applied and practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation issues. Chels designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues. Designed and co-ordinated successful Aboriginal community facilitation processes for preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents for negotiations with the NSW, SA and Commonwealth Governments. Designed and implemented Aboriginal Community Ranger programs and volunteers Ranger programs. Effective and positive liaison with senior NSW and Federal Government officers and Ministers. | BLAKitecture | |
| Chook Race | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chook-Race.jpg | Chook Race. | Chook Race are Matthew, Rob, Tam and Ange. They are from Melbourne, Australia. They play guitar music of the heartfelt wobble pop variety. Their songs have an urgent simplicity, lathered in bright tones and even brighter hooks. | BLAKitecture |
| Chris Cochius | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/uploaded_Chris-Cochius-headshot-1.jpg | Chris Cochius. | Chris Cochius studied Environmental Design, followed by Interior Design in Adelaide. In 1982 she worked briefly with artist Kay Lawrence on a tapestry for the Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh before commencing work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 1983. From 1986-87 she was employed by the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the UK to weave a tapestry designed by British artist Henry Moore. Chris has led many projects at the ATW, including Forest Noise (2005) designed by Singapore artist Ian Woo; Research and respond (2007) by Merrin Eirth for the Royal Melbourne Hospital; The Visitor (2008) by Jon Cattapan for Xavier College; Melbourne, Fireand Water-moths, swamps and lava flows of the Hamilton Region (2010) by John Wolseley for the Hamilton Art Gallery, and Allegro (2011) by Yvonne Audette for the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. She was part of the duo that made history by translating an original artwork by HRH Prince of Wales, Rufiji River from Mbuyuni Camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzaniainto a unique tapestry in 2014. More recently, Chris has led Catching Breath (2014) designed by Brook Andrew, currently on display in the Singapore High Commission; Avenue of Remembrance (2015) designed by Imants Tillers; Gordian Knot (2016) designed by Keith Tyson—a circular tapestry, with many textural elements, now hanging in the State Library of Victoria; and Treasure Hunt (2017) designed by Guan Wei. Chris was also part of the team weaving on Perspectives on a Flat Surface (2016) designed by John Wardle Architects and winner of the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2016; Listen, to the Sound of Plants (2017) designed by Janet Laurence, and Morning Star (2017) designed by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green for the Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretteneux, France. | BLAKitecture |
| Christine Phillips | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Phillips.jpg | Christine Phillips. | Christine Phillips is an architect, lecturer, writer and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Christine is actively involved in bringing architecture to the public realm through her ongoing contribution to media, publications, exhibitions and practice. Christine is a director of OoPLA and Senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University. She hosted RRR’s weekly radio show ‘The Architects’ for five years, interviewing a range of esteemed international and local guests and has written for magazines like Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Australia and Steel Profile. As a steering group leader of RMIT’s Architecture and Urban Design Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Committee, Christine is passionate about providing design students with a transformative educational experience grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and reconciliation. |
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| Christopher Boots | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CB-Halloween_CR_JohnTsiavis.jpg | Photo by John Tsiavis. | Christopher Boots is a Melbourne-based industrial designer driven by a love of nature and light with a commitment to nothing short of excellence. Christopher launched his design studio in 2011 and since then the business has grown from a 'one-man show' to a team of twenty-six staff. Christopher's extensive travel, research and training in the arts and design fields inform every project, providing lighting pieces with narratives of understated luxury. New methods and material exploration continue daily in Christopher's Fitzroy studio, using a broad variety of techniques with a diverse team of artisans, amongst them glass blowers, copper smiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters. An amalgamation of tradition and cutting edge materials with various techniques result in bespoke handcrafted lighting, allowing an outlet to this unique designer’s creative vision. | BLAKitecture |
| Christopher Sanderson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-11.16.44-am.png | Christopher Sanderson. | Christopher Sanderson is co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events and LS:N Global Trend Briefings, which he co-presents with the team in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and across the globe. Clients who have booked one of his inspirational keynotes include Kering, the European Travel Commission, Retail Week, Selfridges, QIC, M&S, Chanel, Harrods, Aldo, H&M, General Motors, BBDO, Design Hotels, Conde Nast Media and Omnicom. In 2012 Chris presented Channel 4 TV’s five part series, Home of the Future. In 2014 he and his team created Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, an exploration into the world of personalisation in scent, which won Retail Week’s Best Pop Up and Overall Winner of the 2014 Retail Week Awards. He is a SuperBoard member of The British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust. | BLAKitecture |
| Chunky Move | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NGV-Triennial-EXTRA-Eugene-Hyland-27.jpg | Photo by Eugene Hyland. | Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance. The company's work is diverse in form and content encompassing productions for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Driven by an investigation into the multifaceted possibilities of the body and its relationship to place, context and environment, Chunky Move continuously strives to explore the many possibilities of contemporary dance through cross-genre collaborations and cultural exchange. | BLAKitecture |
| Ciro Márquez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ciro-Marquez-in-Shanghai-metro.jpg | Ciro Márquez. | Born in Spain, Ciro Márquez received his Masters in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1999 he established the mmmm… group, an artist team that works on public and participative art. Mmmm... projects include the 'Amazon virus', awarded for production in the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Vida 5.0 by the Telefónica Foundation in 2002; Telemadre.com, a social exchange model and seminar study case at the Media Anthropology Network, EASA; Dinero para leer, a project for the Instituto Cervantes exhibited in New York, Beijing and Canberra; Orquesta dispersa, commissioned by the Victoria-Gasteiz City Council; Meeting Bowls, an installation that took place in Times Square, New York in 2011; and BUS, a permanent public art work in Baltimore since 2014, both resulting from international competitions. In 2017, mmmm… staged their action Human Rabbits in Melbourne, as part of a retrospective of their work at RMIT Gallery. The action saw fifty people walking the streets and laneways of the city wearing large cardboard rabbit-heads on their shoulders. Currently a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Ciro has taught in China, South Korea and Spain. | BLAKitecture |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | BLAKitecture |
| Claudy Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC05311.jpg | Claudy Knight. | Claudy Knight is a Melbourne-based eclectic electronic duo consisting of Adrien Harris (composer/engineer) and Claudette Justice-Allen (songwriter/vocalist). The two draw their influences from the golden era of R&B and soul of the '60s, '90s pop and hip-hop, as well as the current LA beat scene and neo-soul movement. Their sound is smooth, intelligent and eloquent, riding in nostalgia yet pushing the sonic boundaries forward. Adrien always creates a beautiful balance between vintage and futuristic sounds along side Claudette's stunningly soulful raspy voice. The duo have been writing music over the last five years in their hometown, but their latest EP, which is yet to be realised on Gold Point Records, was written while residing in London. London's energy is present here and many sounds throughout the EP are reminiscent of the city's diverse and driven genres. | BLAKitecture |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | BLAKitecture |
| Code Like a Girl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CodeLikeaGirlCollaborator.png | Photo courtesy of Code Like a Girl. | Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise committed to liberating the talents of women and girls. Founded by Vanessa Doake and Ally Watson in Melbourne, Code Like a Girl runs a range of services including community events, educational workshops and an internship program across Australia to provide women and girls with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding. Why tech? Code Like a Girl knows that technology is a big part of building the world of the future and believes there's a need for diversity of experiences, perspectives and stories to build a world that is more empathetic, innovative and equal. | BLAKitecture |
| Collectivity Talks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC_VAMFF_100.jpg | Photo courtesy of Collectivity Talks. | Collectivity Talks is a discussion series that brings together change makers from architecture and design, property and the built environment, arts and culture, and luxury to consider themes shaping the world around us. Launched as part of Open House Melbourne's 2018 program, Collectivity Talks are staged by Communications Collective, a full-service agency that strives to be culturally aware, creatively inclined, business minded and results driven. Communications Collective works with clients around the country from its offices in Melbourne and Sydney. | BLAKitecture |
| Community Hubs Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Small-International-Womens-Day-Dinner-March-2018-0E1A0900.jpg | Community Hubs International Women's Day 2018 dinner. | Community Hubs Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation that helps build social cohesion. Community hubs serve as gateways that connect families with each other, with their school and with existing services. Dozens of community hubs operate under the national Community Hubs program, recognised as a leading model to engage and support migrant women with young children. | BLAKitecture |
| Cookin’ On 3 Burners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.16.44-am.png | Australia’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners serve up the finest deep funk, raw soul and boogaloo! Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st century. In 2016, Cookin’ On 3 Burners collaborated with French electronic producer Kungs on a reworking of This Girl. The track saw substantial chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Europe, and being the most Shazamed dance track of 2016 in the world. In their 22nd year in 2019, Cookin’ On 3 Burners have just dropped a brand new studio album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, featuring collaborations with Kaiit, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Fallon Williams and more. If you haven’t seen Cookin’ On 3 Burners live, you’re in for a treat. | BLAKitecture | |
| Cool Out Sun | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-Culture-Music-1_CR-TBC.jpg | Cool Out Sun. | Cool Out Sun is a creative collective from tastemakers House Of Beige, having their first live appearance in 2017 as part of MAV’s Remastered Myths program. A collaboration of four drum-centric artists who love melody, Cool Out Sun is comprised of Sensible J (the producer and other half of Remi), Lamine Sonko (creator and lead of The African Intelligence), Nui Moon (Future Roots and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra) and N’fa Jones (House of Beige and 1200 Techniques). Cool Out Sun make Afro percussive, hip-hop-infused music designed for deep listening, emotive escape and dance floor fiasco. | BLAKitecture |
| Courtney Carthy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InflatableRegatta_CR_CourtneyCarthy.png | Courtney Carthy. | Courtney Carthy lives in Melbourne by way of rural New Zealand. Courtney recently finished a near-decade-long stint working at the ABC and has taken on independent projects, including Inflatable Regatta. Inflatable Regatta started as a fun and cheap afternoon out on the Yarra River and became an annual boating event for thousands after it opened up to the public. Through this event Courtney has joined the Yarra Riverkeepers and Yarra River Business Associations while helping to activate the river where possible. Day to day, Courtney runs a creative audio company and ad agency. | BLAKitecture |
| Crying on the Eastern Freeway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©-Crying-on-EF.jpg | Crying on the Eastern Freeway | Crying on the Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne choir made up of a community of kind souls who come together to share and sing. | BLAKitecture |
| CultureLink Singapore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CultureLink-Image-no-text.jpg | Image courtesy of CultureLink Singapore. | CultureLink Singapore is a multi-dimensional producing, management and consulting agency dedicated to connecting ideas, people and places across cultures and continents. Engaging in creative content, artist tours, festivals, cultural exchange and training, CultureLink collaborates with a range of arts institutions and organisations to deliver bespoke propositions on the global stage. | BLAKitecture |
| Dale Hardiman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DaleHardiman_PhotoByKristofferPaulsen.jpg | Dale Hardiman. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer and the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones and collaborative project Friends & Associates. Dale has also previously worked as 1-OK CLUB and LAB DE STU. Dale’s practice simultaneously focuses on items of mass production for Dowel Jones, and singular works under his own name. His theoretical enquiry into design explores the localisation of the production of objects and is manifested in his chosen materials and overall practice. Dale has won numerous awards globally for various projects and has pieces in multiple Australian galleries permanent collections. | BLAKitecture |
| Dale Packard | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dale-Packard-1.jpg | Dale Packard. | From an upbringing of banjos, folk festivals and family bands, Dale Packard has spent most of the last ten years touring the world with many of Australia’s most successful bands as a musician, tour manager and sound engineer. Passionate about the performing arts, Dale has also had an impressive career working for Regional Arts Victoria coordinating events around Australia connecting artists with new audiences and opportunities. Now a father, Dale has turned his attention to his latest project: Club Kids Music Academy. Celebrating the joy of music, he invites children into often off-limits adult world of electronic music and allows them to explore and learn about the ways we create and experience music in the modern age. | BLAKitecture |
| Dale Simpson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dale-Simpson.jpg | Dale Simpson. | Dale Simpson is a director and founding partner of Perrett Simpson, a structural and civil engineering consultancy company. Dale has been continuously involved in the design, documentation and supervision of buildings for over forty years. His experience includes documenting numerous award-winning architectural buildings, as well as commercial/industrial structures, community and educational buildings and heritage listed buildings. Along with his active involvement in Perrett Simpson, Dale has been continuously involved in professional industry development; past secretary and vice president of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, assisted on the interview panel for the I.E (Aust) prospective member applications, and annually involved with tutoring architectural students at RMIT and Melbourne University. Dale is a highly regarded engineer in the industry who welcomes any new design challenge and the opportunity to share his wealth of building and engineering knowledge with others. | BLAKitecture |
| Dan Giovannoni | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dan-Giovannoni-COL.jpg | Dan Giovannoni. | Dan Giovannoni has been writing plays for adults and children since his graduation from NIDA in 2010. Most recently his adaptation of Merciless Gods, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, played to critical acclaim in Melbourne and will go on to have a season at Griffin Theatre in Sydney later this year. His play Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories won the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s presentation in 2016 and was also nominated for Best New Australian work. His Red Stitch commission, Jurassica, played to sold out houses in 2015 and won him a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage. He has also written for ensembles, such as with Cut Snake and The Myth Project: Twin for independent theatre company Arthur. Dan is an MTC NEXT STAGE Writer in Residence. | BLAKitecture |
| Dana Hutchins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dana-Hutchins.jpg | Dana Hutchins is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. With almost 15 years’ experience as an interior designer, Hutchins’ portfolio of projects at Technē include the MRC Medallion Bar, a workplace for Deka and the Hotel Esplanade (The Espy) in St Kilda. Her role at Technē now sits within the practice’s workplace division with her experience in designing hospitality spaces adding an extra dimension that can be brought into her workplace projects. | BLAKitecture | |
| Daniel Jenatsch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/danieljenatsch.jpg | Daniel Jenatsch. | Daniel Jenatsch makes multidisciplinary work that encompasses installation, video, performance, sound and music. Much of his work explores the interstices between affect and information by combining hyper-detailed soundscapes and music with video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio and experimental opera. Daniel's works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Athens Biennale, Next Wave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt. | BLAKitecture |
| Danièle Hromek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0903.jpg | Danièle Hromek. | Danièle Hromek is a spatial designer and artist, fusing design elements with installations and sculptural form. Her work derives from her cultural and experiential heritage, often considering the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country, and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle is a lecturer and researcher considering how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to substantially affect Indigenous rights and culture within an institution. Danièle’s research contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, Dream and contest their spaces. It rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice; in doing so, it considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective. | BLAKitecture |
| Danielle Storm | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_DanielleStorm_PhotoCourtesyofDanielleStorm_.jpg | Danielle Storm. | Industrial designer Danielle Storm founded Design by Storm as a boundary-defying furniture design studio, devoted to weaving together experimental forms, functions and technological augmentation. Design by Storm thrives on challenging the impossible—the studio nurtures creations with months of R&D, making sure there is always one more colour, angle or mystery to discover. Danielle also teaches at RMIT, and holds a Masters in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she won the Bel Geddes Innovation award for ‘PYXO’, a responsive robotic side table. | BLAKitecture |
| Danny Lacy | Danny Lacy is senior curator at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Danny completed a MA (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2004 and over the past fifteen years has maintained an active curatorial practice. During his career, Danny has worked in some of the leading art spaces in Melbourne, most recently as director of West Space, and previously as curator at Shepparton Art Museum, program administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, installation and project co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and gallery assistant at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2015 he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency in Singapore. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Darren Vukasinovic | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Darren-Vukasinovic_CR_Darren-Vukasinovic.jpg | Darren Vukasinovic. | Darren Vukasinovic draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enterprise digital, filmmaking and tech startups, gaining a set of skills that enable him to wholly grasp the convergence of media that VR/AR/MR represents. His journey as a pre-internet early adopter and technologist has led to the founding of Ignition Immersive, a studio forged by the potential of VR, AR and MR. Darren’s fundamental passion is the incredible potential these new technologies offer in narrative and audience experience. | BLAKitecture |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dave-Martin.jpg | It has long been clear that Dave Martin, Co-Founder and Director of The Sociable Weaver Group is here, in this world and the building industry, to uplift the game and challenge the status quo. With a passion for high quality, responsible and sustainable design and construction, Dave wanted to take things further to really make a difference to the industry and the world. The Sociable Weaver Group is the culmination of a lifetime spent innovating and imagining what a truly sustainable construction industry could be. Dave's experimental approach to the construction industry sees the Sociable Weaver Group constantly pushing back against traditional stereotypes and re-writing the rule book on what makes a happy and healthy building site (and office). | BLAKitecture | |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | BLAKitecture |
| David Cross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Cross.jpg | David Cross. | David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. In 2007 he founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of groundbreaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand in 2008–2009. He was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania. He was deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Board in 2015–2016 and a former arts-sector advisor for Creative New Zealand. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Art and Performance at Deakin University where he recently developed Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant. He has published extensively on public and contemporary art. David's practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, he often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. As a curator, David developed with Claire Doherty the One Day Sculpture project across New Zealand in 2008 and 2009,Iteration : again : 13 public art projects across Tasmania in 2011 andTreatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant in 2015. | BLAKitecture |
| David Fitzsimmons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/david-fitzsimmons.jpg | David Fitzsimmons. | David Fitzsimmons is an artist, public art advocate/project manager, and a former architect. In his current role as a project lead in the City of Melbourne’s Creative Urban Places team, his focus is on evolving new lines of creative inquiry which both complement the city's urban design aspirations and extrude project contexts to explore and celebrate our multi-dimensional relationships with place and site. Bringing a depth of insight into the mindset of creative practitioners and experience with both the limitations and rigours of fast-track design projects, he aims to safeguard the difficult passage of bold and challenging creative ideas through to their full realisation in the public realm. Through his role he supports critical examination of the city and its processes and is inspired by projects which challenge audience perceptions and proffer transformative experiences through creative public engagement. | BLAKitecture |
| David Giles-Kaye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/David-Giles-Kaye-_-AFC.jpg | David Giles-Kaye. | David Giles-Kaye is CEO of the Australian Fashion Council. The AFC is a not for profit membership body, existing to promote the growth of the textile & fashion industry in Australia, with members drawn from across value chain. AFC Curated is a unique program from the AFC, built to support our local labels on their journey to become robust and sustainable businesses. As part of the program, labels participate in direct industry mentoring, a series of business development workshops and retail activations. | BLAKitecture |
| David Poulton | David Poulton's practice has an emphasis on conceptual exploration, materiality, construction techniques and detailing. The strategy of using the full-scale prototype as a design tool is an imperative part of his practice. The specific interest David has is in material, its reaction to light, and its capacity to radiate is indicative of the process. David has a wide range of design and hands-on construction experience; from residential to large-scale commercial projects; from retail and restaurant design; from furniture, object design and exhibition installations to urban planning. David is a winner of numerous awards in residential, commercial and lighting. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Daymon Greulich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SoutheastSpokenWord_DaymonGreulich_BrendanBonsack.jpg | Daymon Greulich, aka ‘Hunch’ explores boundaries through spoken word with rambunctious rantings of insight, self loathing and self acceptance. Known for his signature syncopated style and twisted lyrics, he searches for humour and meaning in the dark recesses of the human condition. He’s obsessed with electronic music because he’s actually a robot, but he’s trying hard to be human. | BLAKitecture | |
| Deanne Butterworth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/©Christine-Francis_DeanneButterworth.jpg | Photo by Christine Francis. | Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer and been working professionally since 1994. Throughout 2017-2019 she is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. Her practice is informed by the dynamics of how people work together with their bodies while accessing different energies and memories often in relation to the space they occupy. Her work has been shown for Next Wave Festival, NGV Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne Fringe, Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Hong Kong Fringe (with Jo Lloyd), PAF France, West Space plus more. She has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Tim Darbyshire, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Brooke Stamp, amongst others. Recent work includes FURNITUREGertrude Contemporary (2018); Remaking Dubbing, Gertrude Glasshouse, (2018);Moving Mapping, workshop- NGV Triennial Extra, (2018);choreographer and performer for Linda Tegg's Groundvideo,Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Gret, For a Moment, Gertrude Contemporary, (2017); Re-enactments(Artist-in-Residence)Boyd Studio Southbank (2016); Interlude, Spring 1883 Hotel Windsor (2016), Two Parts of Easy Action, The Substation (2016). She has performed in the work of artists Belle Bassin, Damiano Bertoli, Bridie Lunney, David Rosetzky, Sally Smart, Linda Tegg, and Justene Williams. Recent collaborative works and work for others include CUTOUT(ACCA)&Overture(Artshouse)Jo Lloyd (2018); Replay-Ezster Salamon, Keir Choreographic Award Public Program (2018); The Body Appears, performance in video- Evelyn Ida Morris (2018); Behaviour Part 7- Shelley Lasica (2018); Vanishing Point-Shian Law, Dance Massive 2017; All Our Dreams Come True- with Jo Lloyd, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2016) & M Pavilion (2018); How Choreography Works, (with Shelley Lasica &Jo Lloyd), West Space (2015) & Art Gallery NSW for 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016); Regarding Yesterday- Adva Zakai, Slopes, Melbourne (2014); Solos for other People-Shelley Lasica, Dance Massive (2015); Intermission-Maria Hassabi, ACCA (2014). | BLAKitecture |
| Deep Soulful Sweats | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180825-GregoryLorenzutti-DSS-0695.jpg | Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti. | Deep Soulful Sweats is a unique participatory event, founded on the winter solstice 2014 by Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken. The project brings people together in a physical and energetic exchange through dance, ritual and spontaneous choreography, working across art, community, socially engaged practice and experimental collaboration. Deep Soulful Sweats has presented at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland (2018), MEL&NYC (Séance for Post-Modern Dance, 2018), Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (Imbosco, 2018), Brisbane Festival (Galaxy Stomp, 2016), Art Play Melbourne Fringe (Fountain of Youth, 2017), City of Melbourne’s Sunset Series (curated by Amrita Hepi, 2017), PICA/Perth Fringe (Fantasy Light Yoga, 2017), Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy (Peaks of Phantasm, 2014), Festival of Live Art (Pulse Rejuvenation Module, 2014), Dark MOFO (Deep Sleep, 2015 and Rebirth, 2014). In 2018, DSS is supported by City of Melbourne to host regular events across Melbourne in various venues. Each event follows a framework but is uniquely tailored to the context, time of year and relevant astrological events. Together with a range of the country’s finest DJs as well as a rotating cast of Elemental Leaders and special guest performers, Deep Soulful Sweats have grown a loyal following in Melbourne and around the country. | BLAKitecture |
| Div Pillay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Div-Pillay.jpg | Div Pillay. | Div Pillay is a strategic champion of diversity and inclusion. As CEO and co-founder of MindTribes, she shows that there is a business imperative to cultural inclusion; MindTribes works with Australian and multinational corporations to culturally align staff and tracks performance improvement across twelve months. Div is also the co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women, a social enterprise working to advance culturally different corporate women. She has a personal touchpoint with this, both struggling and thriving with her cultural and gender diversity. Prior to founding MindTribes, Div spent fourteen years in people and culture roles in the BPO industry working across South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and the Philippines. She has authentically and successfully transformed her brand from a senior employee to a CEO and Co-Founder of a business that has gone from idea to execution to commercialisation. Div also has a strong social justice approach, serving as a Plan International Ambassador and giving ten percent of MindTribes revenue to the organisation's Because I Am A Girl campaign. Her most recent appointment to the Board of STREAT is a culmination of her passion for youth, access to food, employability and the large number of refugees and migrants who find themselves in this plight. | BLAKitecture |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | BLAKitecture | |
| DJ Sezzo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Princess-1999.jpg | DJ Sezzo. | Club renegade and Precog curator DJ Sezzo will be on the decks looking after your ears at Universal:A place for everyone at MPavilion. Having played every major art gallery on the East Coast, DJ Sezzo has been everywhere of late, invited to play Dark Mofo and supporting Charli XCX and Cher—Sezzo is a rare delight with well-developed sensibilities in both pop and experimental domains. She'll be bringing her signature genre-fluid, fun mixing style twisting together UK garage, deconstructed club-left sounds, techno and Cardi B edits for a hell of a ride. | BLAKitecture |
| DJ Tilly Perry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DJ-TILLY-PERRY.jpg | DJ Tilly Perry. | DJ Tilly Perry returns to MPavilion for an evening of joie de vivre, bringing with her an array of 45s and special cuts. | BLAKitecture |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | BLAKitecture |
| Donna Stolzenberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/donna-2.jpg | Donna Stolzenberg. | Donna Stolzenberg is a charity founder with a twenty-year background working with and caring for people experiencing homelessness. Donna has a passion for supporting women and children escaping domestic abuse and those with significant barriers to stable accommodation and employment. Donna is the founder and CEO of Melbourne Homeless Collective and National Homeless Collective. Both organisations support not only individuals sleeping rough, but also provide support to other established organisations and charities assisting the nations homeless. Donna is a keen advocate of human rights, especially for those who cannot act on their own behalf, such as those with disabilities and mental health issues. Donna regularly speaks on community radio, to schools, corporate organisations and community groups about homelessness and the issues faced by those living the experience. Her passion is myth busting and dispelling some of the common misconceptions surrounding homelessness, its causes and effects. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Catherine Strong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CS-photo-1.jpg | Dr Catherine Strong. | Dr Catherine Strong is the program manager of the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne. Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Celestina Sagazio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cheltenham-Pioneer-Cemetery-Commemoration-240-of-366-1.jpg | Dr Celestina Sagazio. | Dr Celestina Sagazio is historian and manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. She previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for twenty-six years. She is the author and editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Danny Butt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Danny-Butt.jpg | Dr Danny Butt. | Dr Danny Butt is the associate director (research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book, Artistic Research in the Future Academy, was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the Critical Studies program at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). Danny works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time, whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of Indigenous self-determination. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr David Irving | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DavidIrving-2018_06-05_0117-1.jpg | Dr David Irving. | Dr David Irving is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. A passionate performer on baroque violin, he has worked with numerous early music groups in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, and The Early Opera Company. David studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and undertook graduate studies in musicology at the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge. His complete recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664) is released in October by Obsidian Records. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Elizabeth Churchill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ElizabethChurchill906.jpg | Dr Elizabeth Churchill | Currently a director of User Experience at Google, Dr Elizabeth Churchill is an applied social scientist working in the areas of human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, mobile/ubiquitous computing and social media. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts. She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools, applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. She has been instrumental in the creation of innovative technologies, as well as contributing to academic research through her publications in theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Elizabeth was formerly director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California. Prior to eBay, she held a number of positions in top research organisations: she was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research; a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California; and a senior research scientist at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto where she led the Social Computing Group. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Emma O’Brien | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dr-OBrien-3.jpg | Dr Emma O'Brien. | Dr Emma O’Brien OAM is an internationally renowned innovator in the role of music in wellbeing; specialising in facilitating the creation of original songs with individuals and communities. She is a singer, performer, music therapist, composer, researcher and entrepreneur. Emma is the founder and ongoing lead of the music therapy service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Emma was named in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 provocative, passionate and powerful people of 2012. Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for her service to community health through music therapy programs. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Emma Rush | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ER_outside_headshot_Mar_2010.jpg | Dr Emma Rush. | Dr Emma Rush is a philosopher who teaches ethics for creative industries at Charles Sturt University. Emma researches and teaches across a range of topics in professional and applied ethics. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Fleur Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_FleurWatson_PhotoByTobiasTitz_.jpg | Dr Fleur Watson. Photo by Tobias Titz. | Dr Fleur Watson is a curator and maker of exhibitions, programs and books. She is executive curator for the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries, a new public space for contemporary art, design and architecture that will open in early 2019. Since 2013, Fleur has co-curated the exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub, a project space dedicated to communicating design ideas through the lens of practice-based research. For Design Hub, Fleur has developed and co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions including Las Vegas Studio (2014); The Future is Here (2015), Occupied (2016), High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion (2017), David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence (2017) and, most recently, Workaround (2018). In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture curator for the large-scale survey exhibition Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was managing editor of MONUMENT magazine (2001–2007), editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered / Rehearsed (2012) and co-editor of AD: Pavilions, Pop-ups and Parasols (2015). Fleur is currently working on a new publication on contemporary curatorial practice for the UK publisher Routledge and due for release in mid-2019. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Glenda Caldwell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glenda-Caldwell.jpg | Dr Glenda Caldwell. | Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a senior lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is the associate director of the QUT Design Lab and leads the Design for Communities and Resilient Futures Research Program. Embracing trans-disciplinary approaches from architecture, interaction design, human computer interaction and robotics, Glenda explores the intersection and translation of physical and digital media in creative processes. Currently she is collaborating with UAP (Urban Art Projects) and RMIT on the IMCRC project 'Design Robotics for Mass Customization Manufacturing'. Glenda is the author of numerous publications in the areas of media architecture, community engagement, and urban informatics. Her research has informed policy development, urban master plans, and the adoption of design-led manufacturing capabilities in Queensland. She is an active researcher in the Urban Informatics and the Design Robotics research groups at QUT. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Isun Kazerani | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Isun-Kazerani-Mpavilion.jpg | Dr Isun Kazerani. | Dr Isun Kazerani is a practice-based researcher and guest lecturer in Architecture. She received her PhD in 2017 in Architecture from Melbourne University, looking at the relationship between the design strategy and human embodied sensorial and cultural experience. She is the author of a book chapter and multiple academic journal articles and been involved in teaching and research at Melbourne, Swinburne, Monash and Deakin University. Isun is particularly interested in the cross section of academia and practice. In her research on “Integrative Housing; Home, work and wellness”, she has been investigating methods of incorporating measures of wellbeing in the design of residential building, particularly affordable housing. This practice-based research aims at bringing awareness about the importance of mindfulness and physical movement in the architectural design of small apartment buildings. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Jessamy Gleeson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jessamy-45.jpg | Dr Jessamy Gleeson. | Dr Jessamy Gleeson recently completed a PhD at Swinburne University, with a specific focus on feminist activism in online environments. Outside of this, she runs her own business as an organiser and manager—Jessamy works alongside independent artists, musicians, and writers to organise and schedule their specific projects and workloads. Jessamy is also a passionate activist, having previously contributed her time to campaigns and events such as SlutWalk Melbourne, Girls On Film Festival, the #ourparks rally and Reclaim Princes Park vigil, and Melbourne's Women's March. She has appeared at the Australian International Documentary Festival, the Feminist Writer's Festival, and the Cyber Health and Safety Summit, and her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains magazine, Spook magazine and Archer magazine. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kate-R-Goldie-2899-Edit-2.jpg | Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie. | Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator, keynote speaker and explainer of the future. She has spoken at top academic and industry conferences, and recently completed an Australia-wide speaking tour, hosted by the Australian Computer Society, where she spoke about the importance of playfulness, compassion and diversity in preparing for the future.
Kate’s award-winning mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) games have been played all over the world, including at the National Theatre (London), Toronto International Film Festival and IndieCade (San Francisco). She is also the Founder of Playup Perth, a social night hosted by Spacecubed (Perth’s largest coworking hub) which connects the public with the local latest games and creative innovations. Running since 2013, the event has been instrumental in building and activating WA’s games industry. Kate has won multiple international awards for her work and is one of MCV Pacific’s 30 most influential women in games for three years running. This year she was named as one of the 40 under 40 in Western Australia. |
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| Dr Kelly Greenop | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BLAKitecture_KG_Alana_McTiernan.jpg | Dr Kelly Greenop. Photo by Alana McTiernan. | Dr Kelly Greenop is has worked, collaborated and researched with Indigenous people about their architecture, places and Country since 1997. She is a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Architecture and is one of four editors of the Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018), an international collection of thirty-four chapters on contemporary architecture by, for and about Indigenous people. Kelly has researched Indigenous peoples' household cultural needs, experiences of crowding, place attachment and the meaning of Country in urban Indigenous settings, and embedded this into her architecture teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and conducts research within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Kirsten Ellis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kirsten_Ellis_MPavillion.jpg | Dr Kirsten Ellis. | Dr Kirsten Ellis is enthusiastic about using technology to create a more inclusive society. She brings together technology and creativity to produce innovative solutions to real world problems. Her research interests include human computer interaction where she utilises her experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people to advance the field of inclusive technologies. Kirsten's research includes: technology for teaching sign language using the Kinect to provide feedback to learners; attention training for children with intellectual disabilities; fatigue management for cancer survivors and collecting clinical data for bipolar diagnosis. In addition, she likes to play with eTextiles and call it research into innovative technologies. This play is use to develop tangible objects that can be used to create authentic learning experiences such as simulations. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Linny Kimly Phuong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FullSizeRender-1.jpg | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. | Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is the founder and chair of The Water Well Project, a not-for-profit organisation, made up of volunteer doctors and allied health professionals, which delivers interactive health sessions to migrants, refugees and asylum seeker communities throughout Victoria. By improving their health literacy, the aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of these groups by empowering them to seek health care when they need it, and to engage more effectively with the Australian healthcare system. To date, The Water Well Project has delivered more than 500 health education sessions with the support of volunteers, public donations and grants. It is estimated that these sessions have reached over 4,500 individuals with flow-on effects to their family and friends. The Water Well Project was proud to be recent recipients for the Melbourne Award for community contribution to multiculturalism. In addition to her voluntary work with The Water Well Project, she is an Infectious Diseases and General Paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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| Dr Margaret Osborne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dr-Margaret-Osborne-Hi-Res.jpg | Dr Margaret Osborne. | Dr Margaret Osborne draws from her own experiences with debilitating performance anxiety as a developing musician to fuel her passion in academic and clinical work. Margaret examines strategies to manage anxiety and maximise performance potential across artistic and other disciplines. As a lecturer in Music (Performance Science) and Psychology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she has published numerous papers on performance anxiety, including perfectionism, and developed and coordinated three new undergraduate and Master’s level subjects in musicians' health, optimal and peak performance under pressure. She is also a registered psychologist and former president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Nicole Kalms | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Portrait-KALMS.jpg | Dr Nicole Kalms. | Dr Nicole Kalms is the founding director of the XYX Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. The XYX Lab leads national research in urban space and gender. As director, Dr Kalms is investigating significant research projects which examine sexual violence in urban space. Dr Kalms’ monograph Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism (Routledge, 2017) examines sexualized representation and precincts in neoliberal cities. Dr Nicole Kalms and XYX Lab member Dr Gene Bawden exhibited Just So F**king Beautiful at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Time–Space–Existence exhibition. Dr Kalms regularly writes for a diverse non-academic audience, and is frequently invited to speak to the public about sexuality and urban space at major national and international cultural institutions. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Nigel Taylor | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nigel-Taylor-ESM.jpg | Nigel has been CEO of Life Saving Victoria (and prior to its creation - Surf Life Saving Victoria) for 25 years. He was instrumental in creating LSV's - Guidelines for the Lifesaving Facility of the Future document. This document introduced a commitment by LSV to open and welcoming facilities that were designed to fit comfortably and respectfully into their local coastal environments. In his time as CEO, the organisation has grown its membership to now number more than 34,000. In 2018/19 it is budgeting for a turnover of $21m. LSV provides services and programs that address all aquatic environments in terms of increasing participation in a safe and enjoyable manner. His doctoral thesis addressed the matter of community responsibilities and organisation in a devolved government environment. LSV, being a working example of how this concept can play out in a real time scenario. He has a strong personal commitment to thinking about the notion of access to and use of our bluespace environments. This thinking takes account of Victoria's expanding population, the communities desire to hold gatherings in unique natural settings, the need to uphold high standards of OH&S and the desire to make the experience a memorable and satisfying one for all parties. | BLAKitecture | |
| Dr Olivia Guntarik | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Olivia-Guntarik_unknown.jpg | Dr Olivia Guntarik | Dr Olivia Guntarik is Associate Professor at RMIT University, specialising in site-specific work involving mobile apps and location-based media where content is designed to be experienced onsite. She is involved in a range of place-mapping projects and creates cultural (walking, cycling and driving) touring apps with schools, museums and community groups. Her cultural apps draw on the latest developments in games, augmented and virtual reality applications. Her place mapping projects aim to evoke the invisible or less apparent features of the landscape, including heritage concerns, environmental challenges, and Indigenous sites of significance. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Peter van der Kamp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DC34945_Peter-van-der-Kamp_45652_535.jpg | Dr Peter van der Kamp. | Dr Peter van der Kamp’s main research interests lie in the field of integrable systems, a broad area at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is mainly concerned with algebraic and geometric properties of nonlinear differential equations and difference equations. He loves to share his enthusiasm for mathematics, and is always exploring colourful ways of representing its inherent beauty. Peter is a father of four, a keen runner and bass player, and works for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Stephanie Liddicoat | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephanie-Liddicoat_CR_Ivan-Ocampo-1.jpg | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat. | Dr Stephanie Liddicoat is a research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are at the nexus of architecture and health, and include how the built environment can support wellbeing within hospital settings, and the role of design practice in mental health service environments. Stephanie’s recent research explores the mental health service user perceptions of built environments and implications for design. She is also interested in participatory research methodologies, and furthering the field of evidence based design, through research and community engagement projects. Stephanie utilises emerging digital design and visualisation technologies in her research and teaching. Key to this is the recognition of how emerging technologies such as virtual reality, gaming, prototyping and mass customisation will impact not just design but also research processes (particularly participatory research processes). | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Steven Baker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Steven-Baker_CR_Steven-Baker.jpg | Dr Steven Baker. | Dr Steven Baker is a research fellow at the Microsoft Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne. His research interests centre around how technology can be used to support social change and benefit disadvantaged groups. Steven’s doctoral research centred on the use of tablet computers by older adults who had histories of homelessness, social isolation and complex needs. This interest in older adults and technology extends to recent work as part of the Ageing and Avatars ARC Discovery project. This work has focussed on how social virtual reality and avatars can enable older adults to participate in meaningful social activities. In addition to his work with older adults, Steven is also involved in projects assessing the potential of virtual reality to support people living with a disability, assessing assistive technology use by blind and visually impaired adults in the workplace, and the use of echolocation to navigate virtual worlds. Steven combines his academic interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) with professional experience as a social worker. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Terence Chong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Terence-Chong_CR_Terence-Chong.jpg | Dr Terence Chong. | Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting. Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Tien Huynh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSC06670-edited.jpg | Dr Tien Huynh. | Dr Tien Huynh is a teacher, researcher, nature lover and superstar of STEMM. She is a senior lecturer at RMIT University specialising in medicinal plants, environmental sustainability, smart materials and much more. Tien is interested in making the world a brighter, cleaner and healthier place. | BLAKitecture |
| Dr Watts | Dr Watts is a strategic thinker, advocate, a public speaker and a Public Health Expert and a leader in women’s health, gender health and international health. Her expertise includes: women’s health, social inclusion, chronic disease prevention and management, health promotion, migrant and refugee health, strategic planning and health policy as well as curriculum development and teaching research methods. Dr Watts was appointed by the Department of Health to the reference group responsible for the implementation of the first Victorian Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan for the state. She served on the Federal Government Reference Group for the FGM Prevention Plan. Dr Watts is a Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission; Deputy Chair, Board of Directors at Women’s Health West, a former Board Director at Western Health and currently serves on the Board of AMES Australia. Dr Watts Chairs the African Diaspora Women Summit Committee. Dr Watts is Director of Akirteh Institute of African of African Studies at Melbourne Polytechnic. Dr Watts is a respected public speaker, strategic thinker and academic with local and global networks. | BLAKitecture | ||
| DRMNGNOW | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DRMINGNOW.png | DRMNGNOW | DRMNGNOW is a Yorta Yorta independent artist who has built a loyal following in the underground of Naarm (Melbourne) since first stepping onto stages in 2015. DRMNGNOW brings a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist, poet, keeper of song and cultural performer. Known for his experimental beats-driven sounds fusing Indigenous singing, live instrumentation and hip-hop into paradigm-challenging, decolonising poetry, his songs are built of soul and ambient electronic textures. Most recently, DRMNGNOW has released the potent singles 'Australia Does Not Exist' and the trap-infused 'Indigenous land', both tracks receiving critical praise locally and globally. DRMNGNOW has been working with MAV to develop the inaugural 2018 MAV Songwriters’ Camp for emerging Pacific, Aboriginal and African Australian young artists, and was supported by MAV to deliver a pilot Indigenous Music Development Program for young Aboriginal men in Mooroopna. DRMNGNOW is currently working on his debut album. | BLAKitecture |
| Eine Kleine Wind | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EKW_10_1.jpg | Eine Kleine Wind (EKW) exists for the purpose of making fine quality chamber music while bringing wind instruments to centre stage. The name Eine Kleine Wind or ‘a little wind ensemble’ is a take on Mozart’s famous composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) which was the first piece arranged for this ensemble. Our base ensemble consists of oboe (Rachel Curkpatrick), horn (Rosie Savage) and bassoon (Emma Morrison) and with this trio EKW has developed the ‘Upwind! Education Program’ with the aim to inspire students to take up learning these lesser known instruments. This program has been successful in inspiring young people to become engaged in music and also to help school music programs to build numbers on these instruments. The unique instrumentation is refreshing and audiences at EKW public concerts find it interesting to have a chance to see these instruments in a chamber music setting compared to the distance of an orchestra. In addition to our public concerts and education program, EKW provides music for private events, ceremonies and corporate functions. | BLAKitecture | |
| Elena Pereyra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-5.png | Elena is a registered architect working in a small private practice and is a specialist in environmentally and socially sustainable design. She is the Chair of Cohousing Australia, a Regenerative Development Practitioner and has worked with Transition Maribyrnong and other community groups to build community cohesion, participatory process, collaborative decision making, and socially and environmentally literate communities. Elena has an architectural anthropology approach to urban space and interventions, and an ecological and systems thinking approach to site analysis and stakeholder engagement. | BLAKitecture | |
| Elia Nurvista | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EliaNurvista_CR_WhiteboardJournal.jpg | Elia Nurvista. Photo courtesy of Whiteboard Journal. | Elia Nurvista is an Indonesian artist whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms—from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes—are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. Elia initiated and has run Bakudapan since 2015, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects. Within this collective, she and other member do cross-references research and practice about food that have trajectory between other disciplines such ethnography, gastronomy, art and botany. | BLAKitecture |
| Eliana Horn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ElianaMPAV.jpg | Eliana Horn. | Eliana is a secondary school Philosophy teacher and freelance writer. She facilitates discussions on ‘the good life’, the moral value of food and the ethics of virtual worlds.To this effect, she is interested in exploring how virtual reality can be used (and abused) in Humanities classrooms. Recently Eliana has written on how wellbeing is maintained through shared spaces in Taiwan and through ‘Eurotrash’ aesthetics in Athens and on a personal note, through the social clubs of the inner northern suburbs. As a graduate teacher herself, she has been collecting anecdotal experiences of graduate teacher wellbeing, delving into the reasons behind high dropout rate of new teachers. She enjoys the occasional game of squash and is passionate about making school a place that students want to be at, even on Monday mornings. | BLAKitecture |
| Elizabeth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-2.45.11-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Pete Dillon | Elizabeth Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Mitchell is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-pop group, Totally Mild. Mitchell penned the critically acclaimed debut Totally Mild album Down Time using her life experiences of burgeoning sexuality, youth and mental illness, Mitchell sings with an angelic voice that encapsulates both hope and tragedy. Mitchell’s music teases out thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, Mitchell’ s voice is crystal clear and it weaves through her immaculately considered instrumental arrangements. Mitchell has been firmly cemented in Melbourne’s music community for 7 years, touring extensively locally and internationally, notably throughout Europe and UK. | BLAKitecture |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | BLAKitecture |
| Ellaswood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/facebook_photo-1.jpg | Ellaswood. | A 24-year-old person who enjoys saying words rhythmically over melodic sounds—also known as freestyle rap—Ellaswood explores mental health through improvisation and expression. | BLAKitecture |
| Ellen Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Next-Wave-Artist-Intensive-lo-res-113.jpg | Ellen Davies. | Ellen Davies is an independent contemporary dancer, performer, and artist. Ellen graduated with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, and has since performed with choreographers including Angela Goh, Shelley Lasica, Atlanta Eke, Phillip Adams BalletLab, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Hilton, Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law and Chloe Chignell. Ellen has presented her own works in Next Wave Festival (Future City Inflatable with Alice Heyward, 2018); Melbourne Fringe Festival (Demystification Baby with Megan Payne, 2017); at Counihan Gallery Brunswick (You are just you for Dance Speaks, 2017); TCB Art Inc (Power Studies with Megan Payne, 2017), and Sister Gallery (Who speaks for a community? curated by Bella Hone-Saunders, 2017). Ellen's practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Ausdance through a DAIR residency at Frankston Arts Centre, Lucy Guerin Inc, West Space, and the Moonee Valley City Council. In 2018, Ellen is recipient of a danceWEB scholarship to participate in the Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna, under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. Ellen has written about her art practice for the Countess Report, This Container, and in the Writing on Dance workshop with Claudia La Rocco, Dance Massive 2017. | BLAKitecture |
| Ellen Jacobsen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC05553.jpg | Ellen Jacobsen is the Social Impact Manager at HoMie - a streetwear label social enterprise that exists to support young people experiencing homelessness and hardship. HoMie’s mission is to build confidence and job skills for young people and create unique pathways out of homelessness. In her role at HoMie, Ellen is responsible for the HoMie VIP days, where young people experiencing homelessness can have a dignified, free shopping experience and pamper day at the HoMie flagship store in Fitzroy. Ellen also manages the HoMie Pathway Alliance which encompasses a paid, retail internship for young people experiencing homelessness to gain supported work experience. At the core of this work is a unique, empathic and positive approach, as well as an unwavering belief in young people. Before her work with HoMie began four years ago, Ellen studied Philosophy at the University of Wollongong and continues to work on the side as a fashion stylist. | BLAKitecture | |
| Emerald | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Emerald1.jpg | Broadcaster & Producer of Tomorrow Never Knows on 3RRR FM, emerald has spent the past year DJing regularly at venues around Melbourne and featuring on lineups such as Golden Plains, The Outpost, Peel Street Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Yours & Mine, High-Mids and The Grace Darling Hotel. emerald's sets explore techno breaks, new wave synth, tribal chug, cosmic disco heat and deep house party rhythms, guaranteed to get your fingers clicking and feet tapping. | BLAKitecture | |
| Emily Mottram | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Emily-Mottram.jpg | Emily Mottram. | Emily Mottram is the executive director of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Inner Melbourne team. Emily holds a Master of Urban Regeneration, has worked for place based partnerships in the UK and had a key role in the development of Plan Melbourne 2013. She has years of experience in community infrastructure delivery and inner city renewal projects. Her focus in the VPA is on supporting the continued evolution of inner Melbourne. | BLAKitecture |
| Emily Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OneSquareMetre_EW_GerardLokic.jpg | Emily Wong. Photo by Gerard Lokic. | Emily Wong is the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia magazine and a sessional lecturer, studio leader and tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Her interests include cities and their social and physical infrastructures and participatory mapping. | BLAKitecture |
| Emma King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emma-King.jpg | Emma King. | Emma King is originally from WA, having moved to Melbourne to pursue AFLW football at Collingwood. She was taken as a marquee player and played seasons 2017-18 with Collingwood, and has now moved to North Melbourne, ahead of 2019 season. Emma has played football all her life, starting at Auskick at aged seven, and playing all the way up until U14s with the boys. She moved over to the women’s league from fourteen years old until now. Emma started playing football because she wanted to do everything her brother did. |
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| Emma Telfer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emma-Tlefer.jpg | Emma Telfer. | Emma Telfer is the creative director of Open House Melbourne, and like the organisation, she champions the city of Melbourne through its built environment. Open House Melbourne promotes the value of good design, architecture, planning and preservation. Emma is also a founding partner of the Office For Good Design, a unique curatorial group that works with private organisations and major cultural institutions to realise their interest in design, architecture, and the broader creative industries. | BLAKitecture |
| Engineers Without Borders Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engineers-Without-Borders-STEM-Workshop_CR_Jeff-McAllister.jpg | Photo by Jeff McAllister. | Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is a member-based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Through partnership and collaboration, EWB has focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for over fifteen years. EWB's vision is that everyone has access to the engineering knowledge and resources required to lead a life of opportunity, free from poverty. The EWB School Outreach program sends teams of trained EWB volunteers into schools to run creative, hands-on workshops designed to open young people’s minds to the challenges facing developing countries. They also highlight inspiring career options available to engineers and technical professionals and the power of humanitarian engineering to create positive change. | BLAKitecture |
| Erica McCalman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erica-MCCalman.jpg | Erica McCalman is a producer of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. She is currently the Creative Producer of Next Wave, an artist development organisation and biennial festival based in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to delivering the festival program with Director Georgie Meagher, Erica curated Ritual: a series of 16 ritual offerings from cross-art form and emerging artists conducted each sunset of Next Wave Festival 2018. Previously she has worked with Sydney companies Legs on the Wall, Performance Space, Sydney Festival and Performing Lines as a producer managing projects and programs locally and nationally. Internationally she has worked with artists from Korea, Timor Leste and Aotearoa as well as for the British Council managing the ACCELERATE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership programme. In 2016 she was the recipient of the George Fairfax Memorial Award for Excellence which allowed her to travel to the UK to research contemporary arts practice within live art organisations, theatres and festivals. Erica has participated in many First Nations dialogues within Australia and sits on the boards of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Theatre Network Australia and the independent theatre judging panel for the Green Room Awards. As a private consultant she has taught and mentored First Nations artists and producers for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals. | BLAKitecture | |
| Erin Nowak | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Nowak-Picture1.png | Erin Nowak. | Erin Nowak has always had a keen interest in nature, with an ambitious interest in freshwater and coastal environments. She loves discovering what creatures call these habitats home and how this information can be used as environmental indicators of health. As a program facilitator with Bug Blitz, Erin has shared her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for science, water testing, macroinvertebrates and marine invertebrates in over one hundred field events throughout various Victorian habitats. She emphasises the importance in educating our children about biodiversity, so that they develop an understanding and respect for our natural environment. Erin has experience educating children at the Marine Discovery Centre in Queenscliff; developed educational resources for dune care on the North Coast; holds an Advanced Diploma in Natural Resource Management (specialising in Aquatic Science) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Swinburne University. | BLAKitecture |
| Esther Anatolitis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavilion_Esther-Anatolitis-c-Photo-by-Sarah-Walker.jpeg | Esther Anatolitis. Photo by Sarah Walker. | Esther Anatolitis is executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and deputy chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts. A writer, critic and facilitator, her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. With Dr Hélène Frichot she co-curated Architecture+Philosophy for ten years, and has taught into the studio program at RMIT Architecture & Design. At MPavilion, Esther has co-facilitated MPavilion 2016 and 2017’s Independent Convergence, as well as leading MPavilion 2017's opening event Grandstanding: A Reconfigurable Future. | BLAKitecture |
| Esther Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Esther-Lloyd-Bio-Picture.jpg | Esther Lloyd. | Esther Lloyd is a freelance communicator, writer, researcher and educator with a background in science and journalism. She has an obsession for learning new things and a passion for passing this on—from environmental studies, human physiology, and sociology to Australian Indigenous issues and beyond. Esther has been a project officer for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, spent time as a media and communications intern at Melbourne University’s Bio21 Institute, and contracted as a seasonal teaching associate for Federation University and Learn Experience Access Professionals (LEAP) events. She also collaborated with Monash University in establishing their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), ‘How to Survive on Mars: The Science behind the Human Exploration of Mars’. Esther often partners with Bug Blitz, an innovative and holistic education program that enhances student appreciation and engagement with biodiversity. She is currently completing her Masters in Science Communication. | BLAKitecture |
| Esther Stewart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CR_AlanWeedon_EstherStewartGC-000036.jpg | Esther Stewart. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Esther Stewart creates paintings and installations that examine the endless possibilities offered by the visual language of architecture, design and geometry. In her hands, the axioms of Euclidian geometry result in new and utopian interiors that are both impenetrable and inviting. Esther’s practice makes use of paintings, carpets, flags, screens and sculptures in her construction of architectural experience, establishing a space between form and function, art and design. In 2015, Italian designer Valentino engaged Esther to collaborate on the translation of her paintings into the Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 menswear collection. This very successful collaboration illustrates Esther’s ability to push boundaries and play sophisticated games with the elastic relationship between art and design. In 2016, Esther was commissioned to produce a new wall painting at Bendigo Hospital, which made use of her hard-edged painting compositions to recontextualise the interior architecture of the building. Esther subsequently completed another ambitious wall mural as part of a major residential redevelopment in Sydney in 2017. Esther completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she now lectures in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and exhibited new work in a solo presentation with them at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). In 2016, Stewart was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. | BLAKitecture |
| Eugenia Flynn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Eugenia-Flynn-Photo-Credit-Ahmed-Sabra.jpg | Eugenia Flynn. Photo by Ahmed Sabra. | Eugenia Flynn is a writer, arts worker and community organiser. She runs the blog Black Thoughts Live Here and her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely. Eugenia identifies as Aboriginal, Chinese and Muslim, working within her multiple communities to create change through art, literature and community development. | BLAKitecture |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | BLAKitecture |
| Fábio Duarte | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fábio-Duarte.jpg | Fábio Duarte. | Fábio Duarte, PhD, is a urban planner and research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, and consultant on planning and mobility for the World Bank. | BLAKitecture |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | BLAKitecture |
| Felicity Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9W9A3862_edited.jpg | Felicity Watson. | Felicity Watson has been with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) since 2013, and has more than fifteen years of experience in public history, heritage management and advocacy. She is passionate about connecting people, places and stories to bring our heritage to life, and protect it for future generations to enjoy. | BLAKitecture |
| Finnian Langham | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MPav-Headshot.jpg | Finnian Langham. | Finnian Langham is a composer, producer and performer based in Melbourne. He has written the scores for numerous short films (The Forgotten Children, The Last Man), theatre works (The Pillowman, The Dark Room, Dogshrine), and video games (INFRA), as well as composing for dance works and commercials. As a drummer and percussionist he has performed with Uncle Bobby, Wrocław and Juice Webster, and was a part of Uncle Bobby’s Found Sounds, which was performed as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. Finnian is a member of improvisational techno duo Polito, who have have performed at Strawberry Fields in 2017, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2018. As Tony Chocoloney, Finnian produces left-field disco with a cosmic tinge, which he performs in both DJ sets and as part of his live show. His first EP under this alias is expected in November 2018 from the Florida-based label Whiskey Disco. | BLAKitecture |
| Fiona Gillmore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fiona-BW-72dpi.jpg | Fiona is the Creative Director at ID LAB. She has been working as a designer and creative director for nearly eight years, after working in and teaching fine art for seven years previously. Her previous role was as Creative Director at Brand Works, an interior and design studio specialising in hospitality. Most of Fiona’s recent work has been in the graphic design area, but her fine art background is in video, installation and sculpture. She loves projects that give her a chance to combine everything she has learned over the years, and where she can sink her teeth into new and creative concepts. | BLAKitecture | |
| FiX | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FiX_CR_Lisa-Radford.jpg | FiX collective. Photo by Lisa Radford. | FiX is a collective made up of artists whom are students, alumni or artists practicing outside of the Victorian College of the Arts. The collective includes Zara Sullivan, Gabrielle Nehrybecki, Kirby Casilli, Penny Walker-Keefe, April Chandler, Jemi Gale, Rumer, Benjamin Baker, Christopher LG Hill, Alice Watson, Veronica Charmont, Anna Savage, Rachel Button, Agnes Whalen and Christian Mannling | BLAKitecture |
| Fixperts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fixperts.png | Image courtesy of Fixperts. | Fixperts is a global, award-winning learning program that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process, students develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration. Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies. |
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| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | BLAKitecture |
| Four Pillars Gin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Four-Pillars-Gin.jpg | Photo courtesy of Four Pillars Gin. | Four Pillars was established by Cameron, Matt and Stuart, who sold their first batch of Rare Dry Gin through a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible in late 2013 to a very enthusiastic group of gin-lovers. Since that time, they've brought a modern Australian sensibility to the process of distilling gin. From Rare Dry Gin to Barrel Aged Gin to Navy Strength Gin to Orange Marmalade (made with the oranges that make the gin) and Four Pillars’ special Christmas Gin (made with star anise, cinnamon, juniper, coriander and angelica), everything Four Pillars does is designed to elevate the craft. Four Pillars is available in great bars, great restaurants and great retailers around Australia and in a number of countries around the world (including Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore). Four Pillars Gin is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| Francoise Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Francoise.jpg | Francoise Lane. | Francoise Lane is a Torres Strait Islander woman whose maternal family are from Hammond Island. Together with architect Andrew Lane they are Indij Design, a one-hundred-percent Indigenous-owned architectural and interior design practice based in Cairns and operating since 2011. Francoise was the interior designer on Synapse Warner Street Cairns, an eight-bed-supported accommodation facility for individuals with acquired brain injury. Her methodology focused on stimulating sensory memory recollection through the use of colour, textures and smells which the landscape designers adopted. She has led engagement with traditional owner groups on State and Local Government, and non government organisations in relation to built environment projects. Francoise believes that a public project can be greatly enriched with the inclusion of Traditional Owners from the brief-development stage who live and breath connection to place, Country and ancestors. Such collaborations provide opportunities for Reconciliation through the built environment and two-way learning between client, designers and Traditional Owners. In 2013 Francoise developed Indij Prints inspired by her connection to the Torres Strait Islands. Her prints have been applied to lamp shades, fashion and soft furnishings. | BLAKitecture |
| Gabi Ngcobo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gabi-Ngcoba_Working-with-the-unknown_Photographer-Masimba-Sasa.jpg | Gabi Ngcobo. | Gabi Ngcobo is the curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14). NGO focusses on processes of self-organisation that take place outside of predetermined structures, definitions, contexts, or forms. CHR responded to the demands of the moment through an exploration of how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art. Recently, Gabi co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], which took place in 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil and A Labour of Love at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015/16), and which subsequently travelled to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2017. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her writings have been published in various catalogues, books, and journals. She currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Berlin. | BLAKitecture |
| Gabriella Gulacsi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gabriella-Gulacsi.jpg | Gabriella Gulacsi is a senior associate at Technē Architecture + Interior Design. She has over 15 years’ experience in the commercial and workplace sector, and fosters long-term client relationships. Her portfolio of work includes the interior fit out for Westpac’s Melbourne HQ, projects in the Asia Pacific region for CPA Australia, The Beauty EDU Beauty Bar and campus at David Jones, Paco’s Tacos and Jimmy Grants Deluxe at Eastland. | BLAKitecture | |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | BLAKitecture |
| Galambo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/galambo2.jpg | Galambo. | Folk investigator and sound originator Galambo weaves electronic dance music for moving bodies. Expect town square dance rooted deep in the bass and rhythms of the Abya Yala. | BLAKitecture |
| Gary Chan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Gary-Chan-1.jpg | Gary Chan. | Gary Chan is the Global Gardens of Peace secretary, secretary of Bicycles for Humanity and a board member of Magnet Galleries. He is a highly skilled professional with substantial expertise in international relations, cross-cultural engagement and strategic network development and design. Gary holds BSc (Hons) and over thirty years of experience in working across a variety of industries including community development Infrastructure, education and government relations both in Australia and worldwide. Gary provides significant support for Indigenous empowerment in Australia and numerous community development projects across Oceania, South East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Nations, EU-designate countries, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. | BLAKitecture |
| Gas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gas.jpg | Gas. | Gas is the solo project of Sydney-based artist and musician Del Lumanta (Video Ezy, Steam Vent, Skyline, Basic Human). Their most recent work, Ebb of Image, explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Ebb of Image is out now through Tenth Court Records. | BLAKitecture |
| Gemma Leigh Dodds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gemma-Profile-Shot-1.jpg | Gemma Leigh Dodds. | Gemma Leigh Dodds is a senior human rights and discrimination lawyer, with experience in strategic litigation and advocacy, class actions and novel duty of care cases. Previously, Gemma was also a judge’s associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, spending time in both the common law division and Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in the legalities and intersection of mental health, crime, memory and trauma in closed environments, and has been interviewed by ABC and community radio regarding criminal record discrimination and her experience handling compensation claims for asylum seekers. More recently, Gemma has been involved in cases regarding disability access and discrimination. Gemma volunteers her time with a number of organisations, including with Behind the Wire, and helped organise the Reclaim Princes Park vigil. She also co-founded the Rights Advocacy Project for Liberty Victoria; a twelve-month program to train and provide mentorship to up-and-coming human rights activists and lawyers. She also enjoys puns and will offer them whenever they are not required. | BLAKitecture |
| Geoffrey Watson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/portrait.jpg | Geoffrey Watson. | For more information on Geoffrey Watson please refer to their website. | BLAKitecture |
| George McEncroe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GEORGIE-4989.jpg | George McEncroe. | George McEncroe is the founder and CEO of Shebah, the all-women rideshare. Shebah is changing the lives of drivers, all of whom are women and all of whom experience flexibility, a solid income, and a collective purpose of women's empowerment. Shebah inspires passengers to demand safety as a necessity, not just a nice-to-have. George is unafraid to do the work involved in getting women half the seats at the table—because one for the sake of ‘diversity’ just isn’t good enough. At MPavillion, George will talk disrupting the status quo, women's empowerment, and claiming space that never made women feel like active participants, but rather, an afterthought. She will stress the importance of structuring the world with all genders in mind. | BLAKitecture |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | BLAKitecture |
| Gideon Obarzanek | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GideonO_MTALKS_ChunkyMove_Collaborator-1.jpg | Gideon Obarzanek. | Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was artistic associate with the Melbourne Festival, 2015–17, co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA) 2015–17, and is currently chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and artistic director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NY, Venice Dance Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed his first play, I Want to Dance Better at Parties. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary screen version with Mathew Bate, winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Recent creations include There’s Definitely a Prince Involved for the Australian Ballet, L’Chaim for the Sydney Dance Company and Stuck in the Middle With You the first virtual reality film commissioned by the Australian Centre of Moving Image. In 2017 Gideon co-created Attractor with fellow choreographer Lucy Guerin, commissioned by Dancenorth Australia and co-produced by Asia TOPA, WOMADelaide and Brisbane Festival. He also stage-directed Bangsokol—A requiem for Cambodia, which premiered at the 2017 Melbourne Festival and later at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York. | BLAKitecture |
| Gilbert Rochecouste | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gilbert-Rochecouste.jpg | Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in Placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of Placemakers, researchers and designers. | BLAKitecture | |
| Glen Walton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Plants_CR_Andy_Drewitt.jpg | Glen Walton. Photo by Andy Drewitt. | Glen Walton is one of Australia’s leading artists exploring cutting-edge and genre-defying performance, interaction and community engagement. Glen is a performer, writer, theatre maker, visual artist, musician, interaction designer and digital instrument maker, having developed his distinctive style in both theatrical and musical creations. Glen is the founder and artistic director of interactive digital arts company Playable Streets. The mission of Playable Streets is to create interactive, musical play spaces that encourage strangers to become musical collaborators. Glen is also a founding member of The Suitcase Royale Theatre Company, whose unique blend of music and 'Australian Gothic' narratives has accrued much critical acclaim worldwide. Since 2010 Walton has been working with Polyglot Theatre as performer, musician, puppet maker and collaborator touring extensively nationally and internationally on all of Polyglot’s flagship shows. Glen has recently completed a Masters degree at the University of Technology, Sydney (part of the Creativity and Cognition Studio), studying interactive touch-based musical installations. | BLAKitecture |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Gonzalo Ortega | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gonzalo-Ortega.jpg | Gonzalo Ortega. | Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living. | BLAKitecture |
| Gordon Koang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gordon-Koang.jpg | Gordon Koang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Gordon Koang Duoth is a Neur speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend of traditional Neur rhythms and original compositions in English, Arabic, and his native language, Neur. Having recently arrived in Australia seeking refuge from a country torn by civil war, Gordon and Paul are attempting to raise funds and awareness in attempt to rejoin the rest of their family and settle safely in Australia. Musicians of a world-class standard, Gordon and Paul have previously toured throughout Europe and North America, performing to sell-out crowds. They are currently waiting approval of permanent residency in Australia, which will allow them to once again travel and perform around the world. | BLAKitecture |
| Gretchen Coombs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gretchen-coombs-1.jpeg | Gretchen Coombs. | Gretchen Coombs is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. Her writing on socially engaged art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Eyeline as well as academic journals. Gretchen runs writing workshops (Writing the Social) for artists who want to learn more about ethnographic and creative methods for their social practice. Gretchen's most recent work navigates a spectrum where at one end she works closely with artists as part of her ethnographic research, and on the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art. The results of this journey will be an intimate and academic; personal and public creative ethnography: The Lure of the Social: encounters with contemporary artists (Intellect Ltd, 2019). | BLAKitecture |
| Grimshaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Open-House-Melbourne-x-Grimshaw-Slide-Night-at-MPavilion_Michael-Kai.jpg | Photo by Michael Kai. | Grimshaw is a global architectural firm committed to collaboration and design excellence. Grimshaw's practice strives to synthesise design, function and context, focuses on intelligent use of materials and new technologies, and seeks to collaborate with our clients and consultants to create buildings that enhance their settings and the experience of the people who use them. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers a wide breadth of sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards, including the 2018 AJ100 International Practice of the Year Award and the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw has been proudly contributing to the transformation of Melbourne’s built environment since 2002 when it was invited to lead the design for Southern Cross Station in collaboration with a local practice. Its now 100-strong Melbourne studio works on a range of projects, incorporating the learnings from our global portfolio with a local knowledge of culture, environment and economy to deliver world-class locally focused projects that are designed to utilise the planet’s resources responsibly. Grimshaw's studio culture supports Grimshaw’s core ideals of exploration, collaboration, ingenuity, sustainability, and an equitable and inspiring working environment for all our staff. | BLAKitecture |
| Groove Therapy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Groove-Therapy-Teen-Workshop_Lanie-de-Castro.jpg | Groove Therapy. | Groove Therapy holds its signature sell-out beginner dance classes for adults across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Each class follows the same premise: non-dance-studio vibes, with dim lights, no mirrors and a community feel. Lanie de Castro, resident Groove Therapist, is one of Melbourne's homegrown street dancers and choreographers. She started dancing at thirteen; her roots began with dance KSTAR and Beatphonik, renowned award-winning crews. Lanie's style is fluid, groovy and energised, influenced by her training across LA and Asia. | BLAKitecture |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | BLAKitecture | |
| Hannah Barry | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hannah-Barry-photographer-credit-Nick-Seaton.jpg | Hannah Barry. Photo by Nick Seaton. | Hannah Barry is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. She is on the board of Artangel, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group, the Foundling Museum Exhibitions advisory group, the Serpentine Future Contemporaries committee, a member of the Mayor of London's Night Time Commission and was founding co-chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas. The rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park are home to not-for-profit organisation Bold Tendencies, which is unique in terms of the rich mix of what it does, and where and how it does it. For more than a decade, Bold Tendencies has transformed its car park home with a program of contemporary art, orchestral music (hosting the BBC Proms with The Multi-Story Orchestra in 2016 and 2017), opera, dance and architectural projects including Frank’s Cafe and the Straw Auditorium designed by Practice Architecture, Simon Whybray’s pink staircase and Cooke Fawcett’s Peckham Observatory. Bold Tendencies animates its program and the site for schools, families and the neighbourhood through standalone education and community initiatives that take culture and civic values seriously. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than 1.9 million visitors so far and celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city. In the autumn of 2017 Southwark Council ended years of uncertainty, confirming Bold Tendencies’ future in the car park building with the offer of a new long-term lease. Completing a twelfth summer season in 2018, for which the organisation commissioned ten new site-specific works, along with major special projects with Sharon Eyal and her L-E-V dance company, opera director Polly Graham and artist and designer Es Devlin, quantum physicist and author Carlo Rovelli and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the project had 155,631 visitors in nineteen weeks open to the public. | BLAKitecture |
| Happy Melon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ba54828671aa-HM_RECEPTION_2-1.jpg | These days we’re more likely to recharge our devices than recharge ourselves. Happy Melon, a first-of-its kind mind and body studio that blends mindfulness with movement, wants to change that. The people behind Happy Melon believe a powerful combination of mental and physical practices is the answer to living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Happy Melon offers group yoga, pilates, fitness and meditation classes alongside physiotherapy, clinical pilates, massage and naturopathy treatments. | BLAKitecture | |
| Hector Jonges | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hector-Jonges-Photo-01.jpg | Hector Jonges. | Hector Jonges is a graduated architect and engineer who initiated his carrier in Spain as a designer in public and private sectors. Nowadays, he has seven years of international experience, working across four different countries, including Australia, where he moved three years ago. He personal and professional qualifications, allowed him to work in well known cities as Barcelona, Hangzhou, Singapore or Melbourne. Hector's career as an architect has been focus in transportation, mainly in Metro projects, designing underground stations and viability studies for new Metro lines. He was involved in Singaporean Thompson East Coast Line, a twenty-eight billion project, currently under construction, which links city and Changi Airport crossing by the East coast of the island. Also in Singapore, he was leading the designing team for Cross Island Line, a future metro line for Singapore to link east, city and west. A massive infrastructure project, where the designing team proposed thirty-seven new stations with heavy impact in the city urban fabric. In Melbourne he was leading the designing team for the Station Library Metro project, for the duration of reference design phase. After that, he has been working in commercial, and infrastructure projects, also located in Melbourne, with a big impact in the urban context. | BLAKitecture |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MWORKSHOPS-X-HEIDEDECORATE-YOUR-MIRKA-INSPIRED-DOLL.Heide-III-exterior-Photo-John-Gollings.jpg | Heide III exterior. Photo by John Gollings. | Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1934 as the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed, and has since evolved into one of Australia's most unique destinations for modern contemporary art. The Reeds promoted and encouraged successive generations of artists, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman-some of Australia's most famous painters. Today at Heide, the Reeds' legacy is honoured with a variety of changing exhibitions that draw on the museum's modernist history and it founders' philosophy of supporting innovative contemporary art. Located just twenty minutes from the city, Heide boasts sixteen acres of beautiful parkland, five exhibition spaces housed in buildings of architectural significance, two historic kitchen gardens, a sculpture park and the Heide Store. | BLAKitecture |
| Helen Marcou | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image1-1.jpeg | Helen Marcou. | Helen Marcou has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. She is the co-founder of grassroots movement SLAM and Bakehouse Studios. She is an inductee to the Victorian Women's honour roll for her contribution to the arts. A curator, producer, speaker and agitator. | BLAKitecture |
| Hilary Glow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hilary-Glow.jpg | Hilary Glow. | Hilary Glow is Associate Professor at Deakin University, director of the Arts and Cultural Management program and co-founder (with Dr Katya Johanson) of Cultural Impact Projects. Her research is in the areas of arts and cultural impact, audience engagement, evaluation processes for arts organisations, the impact of arts programs on people’s views of cultural diversity, barriers to arts attendance, and audience measures of artistic quality. She has conducted research in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Creative Victoria, VicHealth, the Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and various local governments. From 2012 to 2014, she was founder and director of the Arts Participation Incubator (API). With seed funding from Deakin University, the API incubated projects—including peer-to-peer skills development, research forums, and open conferences for artists, managers and innovators in the arts and cultural sector—to enhance knowledge and skills around arts participation, and to explore the fruitful ground between the arts sector and social innovation. Hilary is currently president of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognising outstanding achievements in productions from cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, theatre, music theatre, and opera. | BLAKitecture |
| Hillary Goldsmith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PolitoXVisualDisplay_CR_Jeff-Busby-1.jpg | Hillary Goldsmith. Photo by Jeff Busby. | Hillary Goldsmith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2016. Hillary has performed in works by Rebecca Jensen (Pose Band, Deep Sea Dancers), Emma Riches (Everything is Nothing is Permitted) and Siobhan Mckenna (Utterance). Utterance won awards in Melbourne Fringe Festival for Best Dance and the BalletLab Temperance Hall Award, which has allowed the work to go into further development in 2018. In 2018, Hillary is involved in ongoing work with Siobhan Mckenna, Jude Walton and Jo Lloyd and will be presenting work in collaboration with Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Polito in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Hillary has presented her own work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, West Projections Festival and exhibitions at the Substation. | BLAKitecture |
| Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Friday-Morning-Flo_CR_Hip-Hop-Yoga-Brunswick.jpg | Photo courtesy of Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick. | At Hip Hop Yoga Brunswick, the classes are strong and uplifting and cater for all levels. The Brunswick studio is home to a fun and inviting community of hip-hop yogis who meet up, flow to smooth hip-hop and R&B tracks, breath and sweat the worries away. Join the studio and move, sweat and flow! | BLAKitecture |
| Honor Eastly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Honor-Eastly-profile-pic-medium.jpg | Honor Eastly. | Honor Eastly is a writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. She is the co-founder of The Big Feels Club, a social experiment in connecting people with big feelings, and creator of No Feeling is Final, a narrative memoir podcast about suicide with the ABC. She is also the creator of cult-hit podcast Being Honest With my Ex ,and the #1 iTunes Starving Artist podcast. Honor's biggest claim to fame is that time Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black) told her "Thank you for existing" after reading an article about her on i-D. | BLAKitecture |
| Hope St Radio | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hope-St-CollageFINAL.jpg | The Hope St Radio community. Image courtesy of Hope St Radio. | Not your average background noise. In a world of hashtags, algorithms and "cafe chill", radio as a voice is more important than ever. Hope St Radio promotes active listening in a culture that thrives on passivity. Bringing together the finest local and international talent, this online radio platform allows absolute freedom to an eclectic and wonderful community of selectors. Theirs is a devotion to an art form that evaporates, telling stories in sound. | BLAKitecture |
| Housing Choices Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavilion-shot.jpg | Image courtesy of Housing Choices Australia. | For over thirty years, Housing Choices Australia, and the component organisations that merged to create it in 2008, has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians by providing access to high quality, stable and affordable housing. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a regulated, not-for-profit, commercially competent property development and management group. Housing Choices currently owns and manages over 4,700 affordable houses and apartments across Australia, home to over 5,500 vulnerable Australians, more than half of those in Melbourne. At a time of unprecedented housing stress, Housing Choices is more focused than ever on its stated vision—to build and manage more houses—so that everyone, including those on low incomes and those living with a disability, can realise their ideal home. Home means a stable and affordable place to live, where people can to plan for their future and live the best possible life. | BLAKitecture |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | BLAKitecture |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | BLAKitecture |
| Hyphen-Labs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hyphen-labs_carmen_ashley_ece-small.jpg | Hyphen-Labs. | Hyphen-Labs is an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through global vision and unique perspectives, Hyphen-Labs is driven to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design. In the process it challenges conventions and stimulates conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the centre of evolving narratives. | BLAKitecture |
| Ian McDougall | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ian-McDougall-photographer-Ben-Tolé_LR.jpg | Photo courtesy of Ben-Tolé | Ian is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture. He is recognised internationally for his design work, and has been a passionate teacher and writer on architecture and cities for three decades. His highest profile projects include the Melbourne Recital Centre, MTC Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall Redevelopment, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre and Shrine of Remembrance Redevelopment. He is also an adjunct professor of architecture at RMIT and the University of Adelaide, and a former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. In 2016, Ian won the Gold Medal, the highest accolade awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects. He shares this honour with ARM Founding Directors Howard Raggatt and Stephen Ashton. In 2001, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian architecture. Ian is a major supporter of the Melbourne arts community. He has sat on the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Company. He is also a founder and convenor of the Dancing Architects philanthropy group. | BLAKitecture |
| Ian Strange | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thebodyasarchi_CR_Jessie-English.jpg | Ian Strange. Photo by Jessie English. | Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home. His practice includes creating large-scale multifaceted community projects and exhibitions resulting in photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archiving projects. He is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions and photographic works. Ian's work sits in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Canterbury Museum. | BLAKitecture |
| Iceclaw | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ARQUITECTONIC_CR_ClaudiaMulder.jpeg | Photo by Claudia Maulder. | Iceclaw were born from a sub-glacial fissure on the Leopold and Astrid coast of Antarctica in 2011. They began finding their direction in the blinding whiteness using the distinct howls of the icy Antarctic winds to create an accurate mental design of the surrounding terrains. Iceclaw have spent their years following the wind calls to many sacred and spiritual realms on earth, witnessing, sampling, examining and analysing. The knowledge they gather from these experiences is then presented as improvised sonic waveforms and blazing lights, allowing the audience the requisite conditions to delineate and explore these places and ideas for themselves as iceclaw had done in the Antarctic many years ago. Although electronics, vocals and guitars form a staple instrumentation, iceclaw’s Nick Lane (This Is Your Captain Speaking) and John Koutsogiannis (duckjuggler) will utilise any sounds necessary to communicate coordinates and transfigure reality. | BLAKitecture |
| IchikawaEdward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joshua-Anita.jpg | Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward. | IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, established in 2017 and based in Naarm Melbourne. The artists' practice span mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, photography and creative writing. Both artists are completing their final year of study in the Sculpture and Spatial department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout the process of art-making, the artists are conscious of and prioritise themes such as queerness, the marginalised experience, othered bodies and accessibility. It is the artists' intention to demonstrate works that speak to non-hegemonic notions of the body, the body’s intimacy with space, the body’s interaction with architecture; including and more specifically the architecture of the object the body exists within or upon; questioning how our bodies rely on or subvert architectures, and what common frictions queer/othered/dis- abled bodies encounter today. These intentions are realised through the subversion societal norms, stereotypes and common vernacular; as these are witnessed as the tools of erasure for those whom find themselves marginalised from dominant societal discourse. IchikawaEdward adopts a vast range of material and process that employs new technologies and fabrication systems, in efforts to achieve a nuanced materiality that operates both poetically and politically. | BLAKitecture |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | BLAKitecture |
| Inés Benavente-Molina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ines-Benavente-Photo-1.jpeg | Inés Benavente-Molina. | Inés Benavente-Molina is a Spanish architect and town planner who studied at ETSAM, Technical Uni-versity of Madrid, Spain. With more than twenty years of international experience, her passion for architecture has shaped a career, which seeks to maintain a balance between quality, creativity and sustainability. For the last four years, Inés has worked across Australia. Prior to joining HDR as design lead/associate, Inés had her own practice in Spain, where she led urban planning reconfiguration projects in Segovia, Spain, a World Heritage city by UNESCO. Ines’s experience combines the rehabilitation of historical cities with the planning of new neighbour-hoods. She passionately believes in balancing conservation and revitalisation to adapt the physical existing urban structures into a vibrant cities with contemporary patterns of living. Between 2014 and 2015, Inés worked in the masterplanning of Redstone Town Centre in Sunbury, Victoria, and currently is leading the redevelopment of Eastwood Town Centre in New South Wales. Inés is the delegate in Australia for the Spanish Institute of Architects, the Madrid Chamber and the Architectural Activities Coordinator at the Cátedra Cervantes, of the Instituto Cervantes. In 2017 Inés co-chaired the '40 days of Spanish Architecture in Australia’, bringing the Unfinished exhibition—2016 Awarded Golden Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale— to the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. | BLAKitecture |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | BLAKitecture |
| Jacinta Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jacinta-Parsons.jpeg | Jacinta Parsons. | Jacinta is the assistant music director at Double J/ABC Local Radio and works with the Double J team to program music for the Local Radio network across Australia and is the host of The New Music Show. Jacinta began broadcasting at 3RRR in 2007, hosting a number of programs throughout her eight years at the station including their flagship breakfast program Breakfasters and Detour, where she interviewed academics, doctors, authors, and philosophers among others who shared their stories of identity, gender and discovery. Jacinta regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour on ABC's 774. |
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| Jacob Coppedge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jacob.png | Jacob Coppedge. | Jacob Coppedge is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creating work that primarily exists as mix-media illustrations as well as text based, performance and intersecting drawing sculptures. Though emotive means, they explore the intersections of life from both a personal and outer view perspective, with themes of queer gender, race, space and time at the forefront of their scope. | BLAKitecture |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | BLAKitecture |
| James Horton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/James-Horton_CR_James-Horton.jpg | James Horton. | James Horton is the founder and CEO of datanomics, a data innovation business focused on the development of data sharing platforms across industry, public and research settings. He also listens, thinks, speaks and does on matters related to data ethics, dignity, and data governance. An accidental pioneer of the federal government data warehousing in the early 1990s, James has since been actively involved in information and data strategy across public and private sectors, and the wider Asia Pacific region. He is a member of PM&C's Open Government Forum, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), and Board Member of Internet Australia. | BLAKitecture |
| Jan van Schaik | Jan van Schaik is an architect, a researcher, a director of MvS Architects, a co-director of Future Tense, and a masters degree/post-professional PhD supervisor at RMIT University Architecture and Urban Design. He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning prototypical public and residential buildings, leading innovative research projects, and supporting contemporary arts organisations through patronage and governance. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | BLAKitecture |
| Jason Twill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-1.png | With a career spanning over 18 years in sustainable property development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His development experience includes delivery of green mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, execution of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease Property, Australia. Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in alternative workplace & housing models for cities. Its work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and art of city making. In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and green building economics. He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance and originator of the Economics of Change project. Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, was named a 2015 and 2017 Next City Global Urban Vanguard and is an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia. | BLAKitecture | |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | BLAKitecture |
| Jean Darling | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jean-Darling.jpg | Jean Darling. | Jean Darling is the founder of Commune + Co, which has moved from traditional architectural practice into placemaking and social architecture with a focus on ageing in place, socio-demographic integration, deliberative engagement, alternative housing models and regenerative design to inform community led architecture and property development. Jean utilises holistic design thinking and a human-centred, facilitative approach to people, spaces and spatial programming. Jean is also co-founder of Yimby VIC, an advocacy for Better Development Outcomes, and is a current member of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC) with Project for Public Spaces. Yimby VIC says "yes in my backyard" to good development that makes for better living. As the voice of good development, Yimby VIC aims to bring back balance to the urban policy debate, so often dominated by the the negative NIMBY ("not in my backyard") narrative. Yimby VIC recognises that development brings positive economic benefits through investment and job creation. | BLAKitecture |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | BLAKitecture |
| Jeni Paay | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/jenipaayMPav.jpg | Jeni Paay. | Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in 'Future Spaces for Living', and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in 'User Experience Design for Services'. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years. Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide. | BLAKitecture |
| Jennifer Loveless | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jennifer-Loveless_1.jpg | Jennifer Loveless. | Jennifer Loveless is undoubtedly one of Melbourne's most prolific and hardworking DJs. Most often operating in the territory of house, her sets effortlessly move into techno and beyond, sculpting dance floors and melting hearts. She has supported heavy hitters like Steffi (Ostgut Ton), Wata Igarashi (Midgar Records), and DJ Sprinkles (Comatose Recordings)—playing at major festivals and headlining countless clubs. She is also the presenter of Weatherall, a monthly show on Melbourne’s Skylab Radio, a member of Cool Room, and has recently entered the realm of live music with performances supporting Ciel (CAN) and Hakobune (JAP). Her interests lie in sound, the ocean, and journalistic poetry. | BLAKitecture |
| Jeremy Kleeman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeremy-Kleeman-small.jpg | Jeremy Kleeman. | Bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Opera Performance). He is also a graduate of Victorian Opera's Developing Artist Program, and was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust on the Joseph Sambrook Scholarship. Notable career highlights include touring nationally as Magus in Musica Viva/Victorian Opera’s Voyage to the Moon, a role for which Jeremy received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations; creating the role of Toby Raven in the world premiere of George Palmer’s operatic adaptation of Cloudstreet for State Opera of South Australia, and portraying at different times both Collatinus and Lucretia in Kip William’s daring production of The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and Dark Mofo Festival. Jeremy has also appeared with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Canberra’s Handel in the Theatre, and on the concert platform most recently with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir. | BLAKitecture |
| Jeremy McLeod | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/3_h05irc.jpeg | Jeremy McLeod | Jeremy McLeod is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture for all scale projects. Breathe Architecture has been focusing on sustainable urbanisation and in particular have been investigating how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melburnians. Breathe were the instigators of The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by architects. Jeremy believes that architects, through collaboration, can drive real positive change in this city we call home. | BLAKitecture |
| Jesse Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0F220D48-71FE-4AAD-91E2-42741402FC65.jpeg | Jesse Chrisan. | Jesse Chrisan is an Melbourne-born artist of Greek and Indian heritage. She is intrigued by the power found within storytelling to allow both individuals and communities to honour their past, find direction in their present, and shape their futures. Jesse is passionate about creating work that is accessible to not only other artists, but the broader community. In 2018, Jesse co-wrote, assistant-directed, and performed in Figment, a collaborative production with Vision Australia and Monash University. She is currently developing The Mayfly Project, a performance inspired by the stories of families living with a child under palliative care. | BLAKitecture |
| Jessica Hitchcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jess-Hitchcock.jpeg | Jessica Hitchcock. | Jessica Hitchcock has established herself firmly in the Australian creative community through her collaborations with Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project and Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera. At MPavilion, Jessica will be performing music from her very first EP of original music being released in May 2019. | BLAKitecture |
| Jewel Box Performances | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/music-box-by-Luiz-Jorge-Arista.jpg | Photo by Luiz Jorge Arista. | Jewel Box Performances is led by Melbourne-based, New York-raised performance arts enthusiast David Gonzalez. The project is inspired by a number of performances seen around Australia and New Zealand in which artists get up close and personal with their audiences. David's interest in how an artist can enhance a space and how a space can enhance art and a love of cabaret, circus and small scale theatre have led to the birth of Jewel Box Performances. David brings top artistic talent to unexpected venues around Melbourne this summer, including MPavilion 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| Jill Garner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jill-Garner_CR_Eamon-Gallagher-Photography-1.jpg | Jill Garner. Photo by Eamon Gallagher Photography. | Jill Garner took the helm of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in 2015, stepping into the role as a public advocate for architecture and design after more than twenty years practice. As an architect, her practice—Garner Davis—has received numerous industry awards for delivering sensitive, crafted public and private work. As a design advisor and advocate in government, she strongly promotes the value of contextual, integrated design thinking and a collaborative approach across design disciplines. Jill has taught at both RMIT and Melbourne University in design, theory and contemporary history; she is one of the first graduates of the innovative practice based Masters by Design at RMIT; she is a past board member and examiner for the Architects Registration Board Victoria; she chairs the national Committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. | BLAKitecture |
| Jim Antonopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JimAntonopoulos-1.jpg | Jim Antonopoulos. | Jim Antonopoulos is an advocate for purposeful business, emerging technology and innovation. He has had over twenty-five years experience in understanding how people interact with brands, culture and technology. As the owner of Tank he infuses the business and its culture with a culture of developing meaningful work. A proud B Corporate leader and advocate for business to be a force for good, Jim has worked directly with leadership teams around Australia managing change, building brand strategy, cultivating cultures of innovation and nurturing creative leadership. Jim is also the author of the successful Strategy Masterclass and The Business of Creativity, key resources for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. | BLAKitecture |
| Jinghua Qian | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jinghua_CR_CoreyGreen.jpg | Image courtesy of Corey Green | Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, poet and provocateur living in the Kulin nations. Whether on the page, stage, or airwaves, Jinghua interrogates the power of unbelonging: as a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as the long answer to a short question. Ey has written about labour movement history for Right Now, performed dirges of diasporic grief in a seafarers’ church for Going Down Swinging, and made multilingual queer radio for 3CR. In Shanghai, as a reporter and later Head of News at English-language media outlet Sixth Tone from 2016 to 2018, Jinghua shaped the publication’s coverage of contemporary China. Eir work as a writer and editor was recognised by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards in 2017 and 2018. Jinghua's words have also appeared in The Guardian, Overland, Peril, Cordite, Autostraddle, and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. | BLAKitecture |
| Jo Lloyd | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/youreonlyasgoodas_image-supplied-by-artist.png | Jo Lloyd. | Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented her work in gallery spaces and theatres in Japan, New York, Hong Kong, Dance Massive, the Melbourne Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA. In 2016 Jo was the resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc. Jo recently presented CUTOUT in the Melbourne Festival, at ACCA and premiered her new work, OVERTURE, at Arts House. Other major projects include Mermermer with Nicola Gunn, Chunky Move, Next Move commission 2016 (Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations), Confusion for Three (Arts House, 2015) and choreography for Nicola Gunn's Piece For Person And Ghetto Blaster (Dance Massive 2017). Jo has worked with Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Shian Law, Tina Havelock Stevens, David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. Jo was the recipient of two Asialink residencies (Japan) and the Dancehouse Housemate 2008. She recently received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship, a Creators Fund Fellowship form Creative Victoria and is a resident artist at The Substation. | BLAKitecture |
| Jo Pugh | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MPav_Jo.jpg | Jo Pugh. | Jo Pugh is a Fijian-Indian writer, editor and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work explores and centres queerness, brownness and marginalisation and has appeared in Visible Ink and the Where Are You From? project. They are a recipient of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and the Assistant Editor of un Magazine. Jo exhibited work at Brunswick Street Gallery and Tinning Street Studios this year. | BLAKitecture |
| Jock Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unnamed.jpg | Jock is a registered landscape architect with expertise in community engagement and Indigenous-led research. He is actively engaged with industry and community nationally and internationally through an academic practice in the landscape architecture programs at RMIT University. Nationally, his work has received industry award recognition and is regularly invited to contribute to professional discourse through leading journals including Landscape Architecture Australia, Foreground and The Conversation as well as providing critical commentary to a broader public audience through local and national media. His research and teaching are focussed around the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape through the western edge of the Murray-Darling Basin and the development of Indigenous-led frameworks through which to approach these concepts. | BLAKitecture | |
| John Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_John-Brooks.jpg | John Brooks. | John Brooks is a Melbourne-based artist working through weaving, video, soft sculpture and drawing. He holds a Diploma of Art: Studio Textiles and an Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development from RMIT, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University. Recent exhibitions include the third Tamworth Textile Triennial at Tamworth Regional Gallery, Every Second Feels Like a Century at West Space and Materiality at Town Hall Gallery. John has also been artist in residence at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Icelandic Textile Centre in 2016. | BLAKitecture |
| John Caldow | John Caldow. | John Caldow has been program director for Bug Blitz Trust since 2008. In that time, Bug Blitz has implemented some 350 biodiversity-focused field events around Victoria. John achieved a PhD in Environmental Education from Monash University for his thesis, titled Connecting Biodiversity Field Studies with Classroom Curriculum: Understanding Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Perspectives. John’s particular area of interest is terrestrial-invertebrates, with spiders being his favourite group to study. He is interested in the amazing diversity of life; the roles biodiversity plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems and how we can reconnect children with nature through outdoor field learning. | BLAKitecture | |
| John Rayner | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_John-Rayner.jpg | John Rayner. | Associate Professor John Rayner is director of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Burnley campus, John’s research and teaching is focused around the design and use of plants in the landscape, particularly green roofs and walls, climbing and ground cover plants, children’s gardens and therapeutic landscapes. John is also a passionate educator and keen gardener. Together with his wife Michelle, he gardens a one-hectare property in the Dandenong Ranges. | BLAKitecture |
| Jonathan Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jonathan-Holloway-credit-Sarah-Walker-Photography-2.jpg | Jonathan Holloway. Photo by Sarah Walker Photography. | Jonathan Holloway joined Melbourne International Arts Festival as artistic director in 2015. Previously he spent four years as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, which opened with a spectacular that saw 30,000 people dance in the streets as angels and two tonnes of feathers descended from the sky, and culminated with the Australian exclusive presentation of Royal de Luxe’s The Giants, one of the largest arts events ever seen in Australia, playing to audiences of 1.4 million people over three days. Between these times he commissioned and world premiered Philip Glass’s final three etudes, and presented the first Australian performances of the Berliner Ensemble, Ennio Morricone and Macklemore. Jonathan came to Australia after six years as artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and from 1997 to 2004 established and headed the National Theatre’s events department, founding and directing their Watch This Space Festival. In 2003 was creative director of Elemental, a large-scale theatre, music and spectacle event at Chalon-sur-Saône festival in France. Jonathan started out as a theatre director (working under the name Jack Holloway), including co-writing/directing Robin Hood for the National Theatre in London. | BLAKitecture |
| Jonathan Homsey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan.jpeg | Jonathan Homsey. | Jonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where he is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (BA Dance) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (MA Arts Management with Distinction). His choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context with works such as the award-winning Together As One (Arts House, Melbourne Fringe 2013) to an interdisciplinary practice in galleries and public spaces from Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne) to 107 Projects (Sydney) and Design Festa Gallery (Tokyo). Jonathan’s practice post-graduation has led him to work with street dance and conceptual art. From Circus Oz to national tours for Australian pop star George Maple and indie sensations Haiku Hands, Jonathan’s choreographic practice goes beyond genre lines.In addition, Jonathan is passionate about community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. His most recent work Mx.Red amalgamates all his passions for social engagement and conceptual art with the creation of fourteen art installations and workshops as part of the Festival of Live Art in 2018. He is spending 2019 in intensive creative research about connecting diasporas through movement as part of the Creator's Fund. | BLAKitecture |
| Joshua Lynch | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Profile-Pic.jpg | Joshua Lynch. | Joshua Lynch is an experience designer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder of A—SPACE, a meditation studio that helps people become more calm, connected and compassionate with themselves and others. His work is focussed on designing for meaningful experiences that can shift how we see ourselves and the world around us. | BLAKitecture |
| JOY 94.9 | JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities listened to by 470,000 people in Melbourne and more online. The station provides over 450 free Community Service Announcements on behalf of organisations that serve and support our community. The station is fuelled by the dedication of almost 300 volunteers and only a handful of paid core staff. JOY 94.9 is proudly self-funded through sponsorship and most importantly membership and donations. JOY 94.9 is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Jude Chrisan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0491.jpg | Jude Chrisan. | Jude Chrisan is an aspiring fifteen-year-old writer and poet, and is a dedicated juggler. He is the creator of 'joetry' (a hybrid of poetry and juggling). Jude's poetry usually talks about changing perspectives and outlooks on multiple different topics, and speaks about current issues. Jude aims to become a published author and well-known writer, and to show young people what a fun and powerful way poetry is to express yourself. When Jude isn't writing or juggling, you'll most likely find him skating around his hometown of Cranbourne with his juggling props in his backpack. | BLAKitecture |
| Julian Burnside AO QC | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JB-by-BJ.jpg | Julian Burnside AO QC. | Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister based in Melbourne, specialising in commercial litigation. Julian joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the “Cash for Comment” inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. Julian is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts, and collects contemporary paintings and sculptures, and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, a not-for-profit arts and performance venue in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was formerly the Chair of Chamber Music Australia. Julian is the author of a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching (Scribe, 2004) and Watching Brief (Scribe, 2007) a collection of his essays and speeches about the justice system and human rights. In 2003, he compiled a book of letters, From Nothing to Zero (Lonely Planet) written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He also wrote Matilda and the Dragon, a children’s book published by Allen & Unwin in 1991. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe, 2017). In 2004, Julian was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, going on to receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2014. He is married to artist Kate Durham. | BLAKitecture |
| Juliana Engberg | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-.jpg | Juliana Engberg. | Juliana Engberg is an award-winning and internationally recognised curator, cultural producer and writer. She has recently been announced as Curator of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. Juliana was the program director for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 in Denmark. She has a reputation for creating groundbreaking, compelling and engaging multi-form festivals, visual arts projects, commissions, events and public engagement programs. Juliana is a professorial fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and an adjunct professor at RMIT in the Faculty of Architecture and Design. | BLAKitecture |
| Julie Bukari Jones | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Julie-Clarke-Jones.jpg | Julie Bukari Jones. | Julie Bukari Jones (Webb) is a Dharug woman of fresh and saltwater connections. She is a descendant and Traditional Custodian of the Blacktown Native Institute (BNI) land . Julie works professionally as an educator, artist, event co-ordinator, consultant, mentor and is a trained dancer in both Traditional and Contemporary genres. As a knowledge holder of Dharug story and cultural history, she advises organisations/companies on protocols and perspectives whilst strongly promoting Cultural awareness and self-determination. Former Chairperson at Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, she is often requested at major events and as a speaker in both the private and public sectors. Julie is a tireless advocate for the BNI and is passionate about respectful memorialisation of Dharug heritage and space through promotion and understanding of her people, language and culture. | BLAKitecture |
| Justin Ray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1.png | Justin is a creative, collaborative urban design leader with broad, national and international experience across projects ranging from city centre urban renewal through to the masterplanning of major new towns. He works with multi-disciplined teams and stakeholder groups to transform cities into places that inspire and connect people. As a member of the Living Futures Institute and past member of the Property Council of Victoria's Sustainable Building Committee, he is also a passionate advocate for improving the envioronmental performance of cities and transforming human behaviour through biophilic design. Justin often works at the intersection of government, industry and community helping unlock sustainable value for all stakeholders. By drawing on skills in human-centred design, placemaking, co-design and stakeholder engagement he helps teams to 'think both big and small' and to design cities through a user-experience lens. He studied urban design in London and landscape architecture in Brisbane. Justin is recognised for bringing insight, energy and imagination to every project. | BLAKitecture | |
| Justine Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRelay_Clark_CR_JacquieManning.jpg | Photo by Jacquie Manning. | Justine is an architectural editor, writer and commentator. She is co-founder of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and a strong advocate for equity in architecture. Justine was editor of Architecture Australia—the journal of record of Australian architecture—from 2003 to 2011, and is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. | BLAKitecture |
| Kaare Krokene | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Identity-in-Density_CR_Kaare-Krokene.jpg | Kaare Krokene. | Kaare Krokene is an architect at Snøhetta, a Norwegian integrated design practice of architecture, landscape, interiors, graphic and brand design, with offices in Oslo and New York and studios in Los Angeles, Innsbruck and Adelaide. Snøhetta thrives on rich collaborations to push their thinking. A continuous state of reinvention, driven by their partners in the process, is essential to their work. Kaare worked on a variety of projects in his native Norway before moving to Australia, where he is the managing director for Snøhetta's Australasian studio. Snøhetta Studio Adelaide is currently involved in numerous projects both in and outside the Australasian region. | BLAKitecture |
| Kalala X Iki San | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Iki-Mononoke.jpg | Iki San and Kalala. | Kalala and Iki San have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Kalala is a Naarm-based artist who has performed on stages in Aotearoa, the USA and now Australia, adding jazz and soul influences to a lyrical tapestry of emotional intellect, understanding of self, love and land. Iki San is a singer-songwriter, fashion stylist and dancer based in Naarm. Born in Tonga and raised in Aotearoa, Iki’s music soft-speaks into your soul strings in melodies you didn’t know you needed to hear. | BLAKitecture |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | BLAKitecture |
| Katherine Sainsbery | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/KS-Cropped-1.jpg | Katherine Sainsbery. | Katherine Sainsbery is a registered architect with over ten years industry experience. In 2016 she established Pop Architecture with Justine Brennan. Their work is driven by a rigorous process which distils response to site, materiality, structural expression and landscape integration into considered architectural form. Prior to forming Pop, Katherine worked as a project architect for many years at Wood / Marsh Architecture and Lyons, where she gained expertise in large-scale infrastructure urban design, residential architecture as well as in the education and scientific research sectors. Katherine enjoys the combination of creativity and practical problem solving which architecture offers. She is driven by the challenges and opportunities presented by each new project with regard to site, brief and collaboration with other disciplines. | BLAKitecture |
| Katherine Seaton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seaton_crop_ltu.jpg | Katherine Seaton. | Katherine Seaton is a mathematician, educator and fibre artist. She enjoys finding connections between mathematics and the arts, and works with teachers and school groups as well the students at La Trobe University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. | BLAKitecture |
| Katrina Jojkity | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Melbourne-Fashion-Showcase-BoDW-2018-Hong-Kong-_Katrinajojkity.jpg | Katrina Jojkity. | With over twenty years of fashion business and entrepreneurial experience worldwide, Katrina Jojkity has set up many successful innovative media and fashion businesses around the world. Currently Katrina is heading the creative industries department at Kangan Institute and Bendigo TAFE. In addition to fashion design and marketing qualifications, Katrina has a PhD in media and communication based on how e-retailers can best use branded video content to inform or increase sales leads. | BLAKitecture |
| Katy Morrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Katy-Morrison.jpeg | Katy Morrison. | Katy Morrison is the co-founder of VRTOV, an award-winning virtual reality production studio. Katy produced the virtual reality experiences The Turning Forest (2016) and Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (2016), both commissioned by the BBC, A Thin Black Line (2017) for SBS Australia and The Unknown Patient (2018). Katy’s VR work has been recognised by the Webby Awards, Google Play Awards, and TVB Europe Awards and shown in festivals including Sundance, Sheffield, Tribeca, Venice, IDFA and Cinekid. Prior to running VRTOV, Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary TV. | BLAKitecture |
| Katya Johanson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/katya-johanson-headshot.jpg | Katya Johanson. | Katya Johanson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University and co-founder of Public Art Commission. Katya has co-led (with Hilary Glow) the development of Cultural Impact Projects, which responded to a need for rigorous, comprehensive and critical evaluations in the Victorian arts and cultural sector. CIP projects include an evaluation of VicHealth’s 'Arts about Us' strategy to build public appreciation of cultural diversity (2013–2015), a study of the impact of the Culture Counts measurement tool on Victorian arts organisations for Creative Victoria (2016), a three-part review of the inaugural Asia TOPA festival (2017), and an assessment of the impact of the Venice Biennale on Australia’s participating artists and the profile of the national arts sector (current). She has also worked with local councils to identify the impact of gentrification on the metropolitan arts economy, barriers to arts participation and the artistic impact of socially engaged arts on artists’ practice. Katya works in the Art and Performance group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and is currently associate dean, Partnerships and International in the Faculty of Arts and Education. | BLAKitecture |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | BLAKitecture |
| Kerstin Thompson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DMS4236_sml-1.jpg | Kerstin Thompson. Photo by Dianna Snape. | Kerstin Thompson is principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor of Design in Architecture at VUW (NZ) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and its education Kerstin was elevated to Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2017. KTA’s practice focuses on architecture as a civic endeavor, with an emphasis on the user experience and enjoyment of place.
Current and recent significant projects include The Stables, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music VCA, The University of Melbourne; Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Riversdale Creative Learning Centre, Accommodation and Gallery for Bundanon Trust; 100 Queen Street, Melbourne tower and precinct redevelopment for GPT Group; and a number of exemplar multiple and single residential projects.
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| Kieran Wong | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kieran-Wong.jpg | Kieran Wong. | Kieran Wong co-founded Fremantle-based practice CODA in 1997 and joined COX as a Director after the two studios merged in 2017. Kieran’s portfolio of projects includes urban design, educational and public buildings that have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects across multiple categories. He has also been the recipient of an Australian Award for Urban Design and an International Award for Public Participation. Kieran is a regular contributor to design studios at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and has served on several professional advisory boards and juries. In 2012, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University focusing on the influence design-led thinking can have on Australia’s housing market. Kieran is currently working on Groote Eylandt to deliver a range of community infrastructure and housing projects that seek to improve the quality of life for local Indigenous communities. In May 2018, Kieran wrote an article for The Conversation entitled, ‘We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap,’ in which he argued for the mandating of evidence-based design guidelines and the adoption of proven mainstream housing models to deliver the best results for our First Peoples. | BLAKitecture |
| Kim Teo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KimTeo.jpg | Kim Teo. | Kim Teo is co-founder and head of ventures with Pitchblak, helping entrepreneurs to navigate the first two years of their journeys. Kim's excitement, drive and passion comes from opportunities to work on big ideas with amazing people. When this happens there is no distinction between work and 'a life'. Kim always has an audiobook or podcast playing, gets a kick out of spotting and seizing opportunities, says what she does and does what she says, is straight up respectful and an ENTP—extrovert, intuitive, thinking, prospecting. | BLAKitecture |
| Kiri Delly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Portrait-K.-Delly-2000px.jpg | Kiri Delly. | Kiri Delly is the Associate Dean—Industry Engagement for the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Her role is responsible for facilitating opportunities between the university and all aspects of the fashion and textile industry, both within Australia and internationally. Kiri works with all industry areas, from design and manufacturing to retail, to develop capabilities and connections that address the needs of today and the opportunities for the future. | BLAKitecture |
| Kitiya Palaskas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kitiya-Palaskas-Press-Shot-c-Mark-Lobo.jpg | Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker with a multi-disciplinary practice. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, and is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people. Through her online project Real Talk, Kitiya shares original articles, inspiring and empowering resources and honest stories from the creative community. | BLAKitecture | |
| Kris Daff | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kris-Daff.jpg | Kris Daff. | Kris Daff is managing director of Assemble and Make Ventures (MAKE). He has over fifteen years industry experience and is an innovative operator in the real estate and property development market in Australia. Kris has extensive experience in development and financial structuring across all industry sectors with a focus on residential development. He holds a dual degree from the University of Melbourne and has completed executive training at Harvard Business School. In 2018, the team at Assemble and MAKE launched the Assemble Model, a new pathway to home ownership. The Assemble Model is the culmination of three years of research by MAKE, both locally and overseas, applying these learnings to the Australian context. The model aims to address the fundamental desire for the majority of Australians to own their own home and is a direct response to multi-level government policies on housing affordability. Kris has deep experience in alternative housing models focused on improving affordability in the Australian context and supports a number of not-for-profit housing initiatives. | BLAKitecture |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | BLAKitecture |
| L&NDLESS | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LNDLESS_GroupPhoto_300dpi_2018.jpg | L&NDLESS. | L&NDLESS is an interdisciplinary collective creating immersive, experiential encounters through durational performance, installation, ritual, and text. Exploring the application of critical theory to embodied practices, L&NDLESS represents the juncture of individual and collective enquiry of its members, Devika Bilimoria, Luna Mrozik-Gawler and Nithya Iyer. Considering themes of intra-action, The Mesh, eco-philosophy and psycho-spatial relationships, L&NDLESS investigate the urgent need for interdisciplinary solutions to a global culture of crisis. Following a series of successful collaborations, L&NDLESS was established in early 2018 and will be launched with the performance of H:O:M:E as part of Mapping Melbourne 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| La Trobe University Centre for the Study of the Inland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TDSvLWZTUqp9Z9grcR5v_Whats-Left-Farina-SA-by-Clare-Wright.jpg | 'What's Left, Farina SA' by Clare Wright. | How do we live with significant environmental change – and how do we adapt? That’s one of the crucial questions at the heart of La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland. Inland is both a place and an idea; in the Australian imaginary, the space of the inland has been really powerful in shaping a sense of who we are as Australians. Particularly for Indigenous Australians, the inland is a place of identity and movement. The Centre has a broad focus on inland Australia and specifically on the Murray Darling Basin, which maps La Trobe’s unique geographical footprint, and matches the Centre's research focus areas: water; landscape and land use; pastoralism and agriculture; settlement and mobilities; resource extraction; and climate and environmental change. As the Centre's Director Professor Katie Holmes explains, "Environmental change creates profound challenges for us as a community and big challenges require more than one disciplinary approach and solution." The Centre for the Study of the Inland aims to be an integral part of the process of understanding the complexities of living with profound change. | BLAKitecture |
| Larry Parsons | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Larry-Parsons-Photo.jpg | Larry Parson. | Larry Parsons has over thirty years’ experience in planning and architecture. He has worked in both public and private sectors, in Melbourne, the UK, Oman and Spain and has extensive experience in urban renewal, master planning and precinct planning. Larry has successfully managed his own private architectural practice in Spain as well as heading the Urban Design Units at both the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria, where he managed the Minister for Planning’s significant development approvals portfolio and the 2016 Central City Built Form Review. At Ethos Urban, Larry leads a range of urban design and planning projects for both private and institutional clients. | BLAKitecture |
| Laura Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BLAKitecture_Womens-Business_Laura-Brown.png | Laura Brown. | Laura Brown is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Melbourne studying Architecture and Construction. Laura is a proud Muruwari woman from northern New South Wales with a great appreciation for the built environment and how Indigenous culture plays a role in developing Australia. | BLAKitecture |
| Laura Murray | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_Laura-Murray.jpg | Laura Murray. | Laura Murray is director of Planning at Ethos Urban and current Planning Institute Australia Victoria president. Laura has a breadth of experience in both statutory and strategic planning for public and private sector clients, including several years working for local government. Having worked on major development projects all over Australia, Laura has detailed knowledge of planning systems and legislation in all states and territories. Laura's expertise encompasses large-scale, complex projects across a wide range of sectors, including high-density mixed-use, multi-unit residential, national retail and petroleum rollouts, fast food developments, heritage sites, retirement living developments and waste recovery centres. | BLAKitecture |
| Lauren Urquhart | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image1-2.jpeg | Lauren Urquhart. | Lauren Urquhart studied Law and Theatre before a chance encounter with sociologist Bruno Latour in Paris changed everything, allowing her to segue intersections of performance, environmentalism, spirituality and healing technologies. Lauren most recently lived in an Ashram for twelve months and is currently studying Kundalini Yogic Science as taught by Yogi Bhajan and holds certification in Hatha Yoga. | BLAKitecture |
| Lay The Mystic X Pookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lay-the-Mystic.jpg | Lay The Mystic and Pookie. | Lay The Mystic and Pookie have collaborated to create a track with mentorship of Syrene Favero in MAV’s 2018 Visible Music Mentoring Program. Growing up, Pookie was sustained on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B and dancehall. Her inherent musicality was further nurtured by her brother’s love of sound and motion. This influence built the foundation for her artistry today. Often recognised for her cameos in music and promotional videos by some of Australia’s most prolific artists, Pookie has appeared alongside Sampa The Great, Remi and Kaiit to name a few. Her own career as an artist has seen her perform in Black Sonic Futures at Arts House for the Festival of Live Art; the Emerging Writers' Festival closing party as a part of Still Nomads; and in Sudo Girls Talk by Our Voices Inc. Stimulated by uncustomary sound, Pookie’s live performances induce a trance-like state. She explores topics of race, violence and femininity, using the zealous energy in production and performance. Pookie disguises the reality of her lyrics by creating a parallel to the life she lives as an East African woman with an Australian upbringing. Lay The Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and performance artist based in Naarm. Lay blends music, poetry and varying other artistic mediums to create a performance space that is both magnetic and utterly unique. | BLAKitecture |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | BLAKitecture |
| Leanne Zilka | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zilka_colour.jpg | Leanne Zilka. | Leanne Zilka is the director of ZILKA Studio, known for innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Leanne's intelligent approach to sensitive siting strategies, development of responsive form and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context, as well as material and formal response to site. The work of ZILKA Studio combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive. Leanne has worked on a broad range of programs including institutional, cultural, and residential design. Recent work includes MPavilion 2018 with Estudio Carme Pinós, PleatPod at RMIT University, Refurbishments at RMIT Brunswick and city campuses, and competitions entries that all seek to complement and enhance the users experience. ZILKA Studio has been widely published, received commendations for competition entries, won awards recognising her residential work and recently been invited to talk at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the ADR conference in Sydney. | BLAKitecture |
| Leona Holloway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Leona-sensilab-landscape.jpg | Leona Holloway. | Leona Holloway is a research assistant for Monash University's Inclusive Technologies group. Drawing her experience in braille and tactile graphics production, she is conducting a project on the use of 3D printing for access to graphics by touch. Leona is also an avid textiles crafter and has answered many questions from strangers on trains about what she knitting/sewing/crocheting today. | BLAKitecture |
| Lidia Thorpe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lidia-Thorpe.jpg | Lidia Thorpe. | Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri Country in South Preston in Melbourne’s north. She’s a community worker, mother and Greens member for the Legislative Assembly for Northcote. After leaving school at fourteen and furthering her education at Preston and Epping TAFEs, Lidia has become a public education advocate and sits on the Smith Family’s National Advisory Board. She was also the chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia received the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award in 2008 and was appointed to the Bairnsdale Regional Health Board and the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust managing the training centre. And as an environmentalist, Lidia led a successful campaign against the eastern gas pipeline to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. Lidia is Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee, founding member of the First Nations Sports Foundation and an inaugural member of the First Nations Renewable Energy Alliance and also currently serves as honorary CEO of the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group. Lidia was a delegate to the recent national Constitutional Recognition deliberations in Uluru and presents nationally to highlight the need for a respectful and meaningful dialogue for TREATY. Within the Greens, she is a Darebin Greens member and founding member of the Australian Greens’ Blak Greens interim working group. She has worked in both health and education policy research. | BLAKitecture |
| Lila Neugebauer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lilaneugebauer.jpg | Lila Neugebauer. | Lila Neugebauer is an Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award-winning director. Recent credits include Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and The Aliens, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution and 4000 Miles, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking, Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker, and Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru. Lila is a an alumna of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; a former Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. | BLAKitecture |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | BLAKitecture |
| Lisa Currie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AuthorPhoto_NickDale.jpg | Lisa Currie. Photo by Nick Dale. | Lisa Currie is an artist and author of several books for creative self-reflection including The Positivity Kit and The Scribble Diary. Her newest book, Notes to Self: a self-care journal, will be released in 2019 by Penguin Random House. | BLAKitecture |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | BLAKitecture |
| Littlefoot & Co. | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JoshandEden.jpg | Littlefoot & Co. is an event based organisation, which provides creative spaces for people to connect, learn, have fun and grow. It was co-founded by brother and sister duo Josh and Eden Carell in 2015 and has now grown into an organisation with a dedicated and passionate committee and extended community. | BLAKitecture | |
| Lord Mayor Sally Capp | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lord-Mayor-Sally-Capp-2.jpg | Lord Mayor Sally Capp. | Sally Capp was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018—the first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor in the Council’s 176-year history. Sally has also served as Victoria’s Agent-General in the UK, Europe and Israel; CEO for the Committee for Melbourne, and Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. A passionate Magpies supporter, Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC in 2004. The Lord Mayor is involved in a number of charities, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and is Patron of the Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation. Tackling homelessness and housing are among her main priorities, as well as working closely with the community to ensure we are able to maximise a great opportunity to grow our city together as we enter an historic era of population growth. | BLAKitecture |
| Louise Adler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LA-pic-20173.jpg | Louise Adler. | Louise Adler is the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing and has recently been elected to the IPA's Freedom to Publish committee. She was president of the Australian Publishers Association from 2012 to mid-2018. From 2014 to 2017 she chaired the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. During 2015 she chaired the Victorian Government’s creative industry strategy taskforce. From 2010 to 2013, Louise was deputy chair of the federal government convened Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She served on the Monash University Council from 1999 until 2013, the Melbourne International Festival from 2005 to 2013 and was Chair of the MLC Board from 2009 to 2015. | BLAKitecture |
| Louise Curtin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1108-1-e1544413537877.jpg | Louise Curtin has been a teacher for thirty-three years. She has worked with blind children for twenty-seven of these in the RVIB school, then as a visiting teacher of children with vision loss, and recently as the coordinator of the Feelix Library at Vision Australia. Louise began the Feelix library in 2002. It provides picture books and tactile books with other hands on materials to increase the meaning of the story. The aim of the Feelix Library is to have braille and tactile formats in children's hands as early as possible to enhance literacy skills. She uses a collage type approach to the tactile books including braille graphics where possible. Story events are incorporated as part of the Feelix Library so that children can have the real experience of the story. Louise is a passionate advocate for accessible mediums that allow people with vision loss more information about the world. | BLAKitecture | |
| Luca Lana | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LucaLana_Imageby_OttoIvor.jpg | Luca Lana. Photo by Otto Ivor. | Luca Lana is a practicing architect and researcher and founding director of Q_Studio. Q_Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design group that approaches the current conditions of queer space and the non-modern with an intent to foster an architecture that better reflects socially progressive theory and politics for the lived experience. Q_Studio aims to apply research to tangible works, built projects, architecture, film, tertiary education and public discussion. | BLAKitecture |
| Lucreccia Quintanilla | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ND-056-WE-Accession-180317-35371.jpg | Lucreccia Quintanilla. | Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, writer and a mother. She likes it when all these things get to come together! As part of her expansive and generous practice, Lucreccia organises events around music and community where everyone is welcome and is able to share together. She is interested in hosting events where culture as alive and organic and she likes to work collaboratively to achieve this. Lucreccia is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and her work has been shown internationally and around Australia. Most recent works include Barrio//Baryo at the Mechanics institute. | BLAKitecture |
| Lucy Guerin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lucy-Guerin.-Image-credit-Amber-HainesHaines-5046-1-1-1.jpg | Lucy Guerin. Photo by Amber Haines. | Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Lucy moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Weather (2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016), Attractor (2017) and Split (2017). Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Rambert (London) among many others. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography. | BLAKitecture |
| Ly Hoàng Ly | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ly-Hoang-Ly_CR_TRAN-THE-PHONG.jpg | Ly Hoàng Ly. Photo by Tran The Phong. | Ly Hoàng Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, installation and public art. She studied painting in Vietnam, later earning an MFA in Art in Studio (sculpture) through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Fulbright Scholarship. She also works as an editor of Youth Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City. Ly is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance. Her installations incorporate a level of performance or activation between subjects and objects that unlock sensual affects in the human-materiality nexus. Ly’s previous works make bodily references to women’s cultural experiences of maternity and ministrations as well as highlight human emotions and our relationship to place and nature. Since 2011, Ly has explored the relationship of freedom and surveillance, inherited trauma, the ephemeral materiality of memory, the dislocation and the importance of community and human connection. Her art raises questions about the general human conditions, the critical states of society, and our shared issues of migration and immigration. It speaks not only on a personal level, but also on a global scale: of (mis)understandings and (mis)placement, of (trans)forming identity and being rootless, of adaptation and acceptance, of division and union, and of being human. | BLAKitecture |
| Lydia Connolly-Hiatt | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LydiaConnolly-Hiatt.jpg | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt. | Lydia Connolly-Hiatt is a freelance contemporary dance maker and performer currently working in Melbourne. In 2015, Lydia graduated from Unitec (Auckland, NZ) with a BPSA, majoring in contemporary dance. After receiving Ausdance’s DAIR residency at Melbourne City Ballet and Dancehouse’s Quick Response Space Grant in 2017, Lydia performed her solo, Precarious Skin, in Auckland Fringe and as part of her show with Talia Rothstein, Damn Good Smoke, at Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray, Melbourne. In 2017, Fabricate toured to Wellington, Dunedin and Sydney Fringe, a show co-choreographed and performed by Lydia with Cushla Roughan, Caitlin Davey, Reece Adams and Terry Morrison. Fabricate was awarded Best Dance of Dunedin Fringe and the Sydney Fringe Touring Award from Wellington Fringe. Lydia has worked with various Melbourne dance makers and visual artists, including Geoffrey Watson, Zoe Bastin, Amos Gebhardt, Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies, and Shelley Lasica. She worked with Lasica on The Design Plot at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, 2017, and performed her work Behaviour 7 at Union House at University of Melbourne, 2018. Lydia also performed Future City Inflatable by Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward as part of Next Wave Festival 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| Lynda Roberts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lynda_Roberts_Credit_Kristoffer_Paulsen.jpg | Lynda Roberts. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. | Lynda Roberts is principle of Public Assembly, a creative studio exploring the social dynamics of public space. An artist and enabler, her practice operates at the intersection of art, design and organisational systems. Lynda recently led the team at RMIT Creative and taught into the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Between 2014-17 Lynda was senior public art program manager at the City of Melbourne. In this role she developed Melbourne’s Public Art Framework and a suite of new projects including Test Sites and the Biennial Lab. She is currently researching how we make art public at Deakin University. | BLAKitecture |
| Lyno Vuth | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Vuth-Lyno.-Photo-by-Nick-Sells.jpg | Lyno Vuth. Photo by Nick Sells. | Lyno Vuth is an artist, curator and co-founding artistic director of Cambodia's Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, and production of social situations. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, supported by a Fulbright fellowship (2013–15). Lyno’s recent exhibitions include The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018), QAGOMA, Brisbane; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, Manila; Biennale of Sydney (2018) with Sa Sa Art Projects, the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Unsettled Assignments (2017) in collaboration with Sidd Perez, SIFA, Singapore. His curatorial projects include When the River Reverses (2017), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh; Oscillation (2016), the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Traversing Expanses (2014), SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh. | BLAKitecture |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | BLAKitecture |
| Maddison Miller | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bioimage.jpg | Maddison Miller. | Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and archaeologist at Heritage Victoria. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in design, urban research and architecture. Maddi is the co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Maddi is deeply committed to and actively involved in creating space for Aboriginal voices in place making through Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, of which she is a member. Maddi is a current participant in the Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women Leaders Program. | BLAKitecture |
| Madeleine Dore | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Photography-by-Prue-Aja.jpg | Madeleine Dore. Photo by Prue Aja. | Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and creator of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She's written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Womankind, Inc.com and more. In 2018, Madeleine founded the event series Side Project Sessions to help creatives get out of their own way and work on their labour of love. | BLAKitecture |
| Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MF-TH-headshot-Weekly-Ticket-Photo-by-Merophie-Carr.jpeg | Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Photo by Merophie Carr. | Longterm collaborators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. In 2017, their work Five Short Blasts was presented at Brighton Festival UK and at Theater der Welt, Hamburg. Their new work, Between 8 and 9, commissioned by Asia Topa and ChamberMade Opera, was presented at Castlemaine State Festival and Melbourne Recital Centre; and their sound/vibration work for Imagined Touch was presented at Sydney Festival. In October, their interactive public art work, the megaphone project, will be presented at Sonica in Glasgow, and in November, their new installation, The High Ground, will be presented at ArtsHouse Melbourne. For the last ten years, the duo has worked with Nottle Theatre Company, South Korea, presenting works in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. National and international commissions, presentations and partners include: Melbourne International Arts Festival; ArtsHouse; Brisbane Festival; Awesome Arts Festival, Perth; Darwin Festival; Sydney Opera House; Singapore Festival; Arko Theatre, Sth Korea; John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC: SBS, ABC, FOXTEL, Biwako Biennale,Japan: Four Winds Festival, Bermagui LEAF Festival, North Carolina at the site of Black Mountain College: ANTI Festival Finland:Ansan Festival, South Korea, Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea: Vltava River, Prague Quadrennial: Brighton Festival UK, ABC Radio National, Chunky Move. |
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| Madi Colville Walker | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Madi-Colville-Walker.jpg | Madi Colville Walker. | Hailing from Moama in southeast NSW, Madi Colville Walker is a young Yorta Yorta woman who has grown up surrounded by music. She is inspired by people she admires and looks up to, such as Archie Walker (Grandfather, Yorta Yorta Elder), award-winning artist Benny Walker and guitarist Uncle Rob Walker, who taught Madi to play guitar. These family members, along with all her extended family, encouraged Madi to write her own songs, armed with her guitar and a beautiful voice. In 2017, Madi attended CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music in Tamworth and in 2018 is one of fifteen emerging young artists attending the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp. | BLAKitecture |
| Mama Alto | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jewel-Box-Performances-Mama-Alto-Phot-by-Jacinta-Oaten.jpg | Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, and community activist. Drawing on legacies of vintage torch singers and her own identity as a queer person of colour, Mama Alto’s vocal and visual aesthetic transcend gender, disrupting and discomforting societal constructions of dichotomous boundaries. | BLAKitecture | |
| Maree Grenfell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/maree-facilitating-pic-close-up.jpg | Maree Grenfell. | For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne's Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne's first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels. A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent. | BLAKitecture |
| Marg D’Arcy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6710fbc1.jpeg | Marg D'Arcy studied Politics and Spanish at La Trobe University and later completed a Masters in Policy and Law. She coordinated a women's refuge in the 1980s, was on a committee that recommended the introduction of the Crimes Family Violence Act, and established the Family Violence Project office for Victoria Police in 1988-1993 for which she received a Chief Commissioner's certificate. In the 2000s she managed the Royal Women's Hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) and the statewide Sexual Assault Crisis line. D'Arcy was the Labor candidate for Kooyong at the 2016 Federal election. | BLAKitecture | |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | BLAKitecture |
| Marie Foulston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MarieFoulston_TomJamieson.jpg | Marie Foulston. Photo by Tom Jamieson. | Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She was lead curator on the V&A's headline exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective The Wild Rumpus. Marie has undertaken videogame events and installations in London, San Francisco, Austin and Toronto alongside partners that have included MoPOP, Art Gallery of Ontario and GDC. | BLAKitecture |
| Marija Janev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marija-Janev.jpg | Marija Janev. | Growing up in Macedonia, Marija Janev’s young life was surrounded by music. In the mid-1990s amidst political upheaval and war in the region, and with growing insecurity for their future, thirteen-year-old Marjia’s parents made the difficult decision to relocate to New Zealand. While she didn’t have language, Marija did have music, and it is through music she began to connect with her new home. This connection to language, place and identity through music sparked something powerful in Marija that she continues to hold on to: she made friends, formed bands, lay down roots and felt like she belonged. Fast-forward to 2018 and Marija has resettled again, this time in Melbourne. She has her own family, laid new roots, and is still moved by the transformative and therapeutic power of music. Marija’s conviction that music has the power to bring people together, to transcend divides in culture, religion and race, is at the heart of her songwriting. In 2018 Marija has participated in MAV’s Visible Music Mentoring Program to produce a beautiful new track, 'Awaken', with mentor Arik Blum. | BLAKitecture |
| Marilyne Nicholls | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.18.26-am.png | Marilyne Nicholls, born in Swan Hill and lived most of her life along the Murray River. She learnt the art of weaving and how to work with feathers to make feather flowers by her mother and grandmother. Over the years, Marilyne have run workshops with weaving and feathers, and recently won the three dimensional Koorie Heritage Trust Arts Award for her feathered necklace made from parrot feathers. With both weaving and feather flower crafting, Marilyne teaches tradition and cultural uses with a focus on environmental factors. Marilyne is a multi-clan Aboriginal woman with connections to the Murray River peoples and saltwater peoples of the Coorong Coast in South Australia. | BLAKitecture | |
| Marinos Drakopoulos | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_MarinosDrakopoulos_PhotoCourtesyofMarinosDrakopoulos-2.jpg | Marinos Drakopoulos. | Marinos Drakopoulos founded Marino Made in 2016, designing and making furniture and homewares. His work is a combination of both traditional craft and contemporary digital fabrication. Designs develop through a process of sketching, prototyping and refining. Every joint and detail are carefully considered so that each piece is beautiful and functional. | BLAKitecture |
| Mark Ayres | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-1.jpg | Mark leads the service design practice at Today—a strategic design agency created to have a positive impact on our world. He uses ethnographic research as the stimulus to help diverse teams solve complex problems. Mark has worked with a number of public and private organisations to improve the access to services such as adoption, financial hardship, workplace injury. | BLAKitecture | |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | BLAKitecture | |
| Marshall McGuire | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MarshallMcGuire_3103-photo-credit-Steven-Godbee.jpg | Marshall McGuire. Photo by Steven Godbee. | Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. He has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artist in residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has received three ARIA Award nominations, and received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of New Music. In 2018 Marshall is artist in residence at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, performs with ELISION in music by Liza Lim, numerous performances of Debussy’s harp works with ANAM and Orava Quartet, and directs performances with Ludovico’s Band as the Melbourne Recital Centre, including Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Marshall is currently director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and co-artistic director of Ludovico’s Band. | BLAKitecture |
| Martina Copley | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPH_Martina-Copley.jpg | Martina Copely. | Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Working in film and sound, drawing and installation, she is researching a PhD of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions and projects include No Notes: This is writing, an artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden at Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity at Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? at WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing at Melbourne School of Architecture and Design, as well as Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina lectures at LaTrobe College of Art and Design and is the gallery coordinator at BLINDSIDE Art Space. | BLAKitecture |
| Mat Pember | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MPavillion-Mat1_PhoebePowell.jpeg | Mat Pember. Photo by Phoebe Pember. | Mat Pember is Australia’s best selling gardening author and founder of Melbourne-based business Little Veggie Patch Co. After studying Commerce at University of Melbourne he headed overseas to realise a love for all things food and gardening, coming back to set up the business in 2008. Since writing his first title, How to Grow Food in Small Spaces, he has published a further five titles, the most recent title, Root to Bloom, looking at the nose to tail eating of plants. In 2012 Little Veggie Patch Co set up the Pop up Patch in Federation Square Melbourne, and for five years it worked alongside some of the cities best restaurants growing produce from a carpark rooftop. Mat is a father of two girls, Emiliana and Marlowe, and now lives in a city apartment, where he and his girls makes the most of every single plant while strictly controlling the caterpillar population. He is motivated by food, family and thoughtful living, and is still trying to strike a balance between efficient city life and a more rambling country existence. Mat believes that as our cities become more populated, the habit of people keeping their heads down and to themselves grows, which is why the food-growing experience is important in keeping communities alive. He hopes that one day soon, developers will start building more than just structures and cities will be full of rooftop gardens and neighbours comparing the size of their cucumbers and heat of their chillies. | BLAKitecture |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | BLAKitecture | ||
| McIntyre Partnership | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Peter_McIntyre_TR_-2016.jpg | Peter McIntyre. | Peter and Dione McIntyre have been practicing architecture in Melbourne since 1950 and have designed some of Australia’s most important modernist buildings. These include the Butterfly House (also known as the River House) 1953, the Olympic Pool (in collaboration with Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Bill Irwin) 1952. Peter McIntyre also directed the film Your House and Mine in 1960 with Robin Boyd. The McIntyre Partnership was originally started by Peter’s father and is soon to celebrate its centenary. Peter is still a practicing architect and has a great team working with him, who keep the practice fresh and exciting. | BLAKitecture |
| Megan Payne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Headshot.jpg | Megan Payne. | Megan Payne is a dancer, choreographer and writer living in Naarm. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013), they danced with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange at Larret Cultural-Centre (France), The Body Festival (Christchurch), for Reorienting the Post Colonial Symposium at Institute of PostColonial Studies and for Dance Remains at Monash University Museum of Art. Megan has co-authored work with Ellen Davies for Melbourne Fringe Festival, TCB Art Inc; with Leah Landau for Memphis Gardens; with Alice Heyward for FUR Hairdressing, Bus Projects in Lessons from Dancing, curated by Zoe Theodore; and TO DO/TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica. Megan also works in the processes of other artists including Shelley Lasica, Alice Heyward, Ellen Davies, Ivey Wawn, Arini Byng, Leah Landau and Sarah Aitkin. Their practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Foundation and Ausdance. Megan is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Their writing has appeared in Archer Magazine and This Container Zine. | BLAKitecture |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | BLAKitecture |
| Melbourne School of Design | The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, incorporating the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), is a creative and people-oriented built environment faculty at Australia’s leading research-intensive university, the University of Melbourne. MSD is passionate about activating the next generation of built environment professionals, providing a world-recognised education which inspires and enables graduates to create and influence our world. The School teaches across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. This mix of expertise enables MSD to prepare graduates to design solutions for an unpredictable future. MSD's staff and students are busy visualising exciting and relevant ways of programming our cities. Melbourne is a fantastic city in which to become and be an expert in the built environment professions. The School's lively culture of exploration manifests in classrooms, studios and research enquiry, complemented by lectures, forums and exhibitions. The University of Melbourne established an Architectural Atelier in 1919 and one of the first Bachelor degrees in Architecture in 1927. In 2019, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first architecture graduate with a year-long program of events, the BE:150. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Melbourne Theatre Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MTC-Southbank-Theatre.jpg | MTC Southbank Theatre. | Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive. For over sixty years the Company has created exceptional theatre, sharing the power of live storytelling with generations of Australians. | BLAKitecture |
| Melbourne University Publishing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Engberg-EnRoute.png | Image courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing. | Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing produces books that contribute to Australia’s political and cultural landscape. | BLAKitecture |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | BLAKitecture |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | BLAKitecture |
| Michael Lennon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael-L_2014-642-1.jpg | Michael Lennon. | Michael Lennon is managing director of the Housing Choices Australia Group of Companies. Michael has a twenty-five-plus-year international career in housing, planning and urban development. In his native Scotland as chief executive of the Glasgow Housing Association, he oversaw the largest housing stock transfer in Europe at that time. He served as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. In Australia he led the restructure of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Michael has advised and collaborated with governments at the highest levels, as well as industry and the University sectors. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and is an experienced Board Director and University Governor. Michael is currently the national chair of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), chair of the South Australian State Planning Commission and a Trustee of the South Australian HistoryTrust. | BLAKitecture |
| Michael McMaster | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-McMaster.jpg | Michael McMaster. | Michael McMaster is co-director of the House House studio, makers of Push Me Pull You and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Michael is also undertaking a PhD at RMIT, researching the position of videogames within art and design museums. He also works as a sessional tutor at RMIT, where he teaches game design practice to undergraduate students. | BLAKitecture |
| Michael Short | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-10.55.44-am.png | Michael Short has an extensive background in journalism, leadership and management. He is currently The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, a widely followed multimedia forum for ideas for change across a range of issues. The Zone runs in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s national suite of online news and current affairs websites and apps. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations and is a regular public speaker. Before launching The Zone, he was Editor, New Media at The Age, as well as regularly editing the newspaper and overseeing a third of its editorial staff. For four years from early 2005 he was executive editor of The Age’s Business section. He was a member of the editorial board for five years, until he moved from executive duties to establish The Zone. From late 2002, he was in charge of the Melbourne operations of The Australian Financial Review. For more than 25 years he has been involved in print and broadcast media as an executive editor, commentator, reporter and interviewer, including a two-year stint as chief political reporter of The ABC’s flagship current affairs program, The 7:30 Report. In 2002, he was invited to write and deliver a post-graduate course on journalism and media at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. From 1999 until early 2001, he was founding European chief executive of NewsAlert, a company that created real-time information channels of news and applications for websites. From 1997, he was multimedia director for Bloomberg News in Paris, where he coordinated the broadcast activities of the bureau and delivered live daily television analyses and studio interviews. Prior to that, Michael Short was founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Television, France. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with majors in economics, philosophy and commercial law. | BLAKitecture | |
| Mikey Young | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mikey-young-1.png | Mikey Young. | Melbourne producer Mikey Young is a founding member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lace Curtain, Ooga Boogas and the ear behind mixing and mastering numerous local releases. In 2017 Mikey released a solo synth album, Your Move, Vol. 1, and curated a compilation on Anthology Records, Follow the Sun, which unearthed hidden gems from Australia’s soft rock underground of the late ’60s and early ’70s. | BLAKitecture |
| Millie Cattlin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Millie-Cattlin.jpg | Millie Cattlin. | Millie Cattlin is an architect and design director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a creative practice she runs with Joseph Norster, working in the fields of architecture, design, curation, education and creative production. Currently the practice works across three project sites that are physically each quite different yet collectively underpinned by a research-led practice that seeks to collaborate, educate and experiment through design, architecture and construction. These Are The Projects We Do Together operates Testing Grounds, a State Government creative infrastructure and urban renewal project in Southbank Arts Precinct; Siteworks, a community and creative development site in Brunswick, and The Quarry, a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site. In establishing their practice, Millie and Joe developed many small-scale installation and event-based works. Eight years in, their practice is now responsible for operating significant cultural and community institutions that support hundreds of artists and students each year. Their work is predominantly self-initiated, which stems from a keen work ethic, a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity about the world. | BLAKitecture |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | BLAKitecture |
| Miranda Sparks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Miranda_Sparks_CR_Queerstories.png | Miranda Sparks is a non-binary trans woman and wearer of many hats; web author, sometimes comedienne, public speaker, but most notably a co-present on Joy 94.9's The Gender Agenda, Wednesdays at 8pm. She hails from Queensland, and hopes you don't hold that against her. | BLAKitecture | |
| Mirerva Holmes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mirerva-Headshot.jpg | Mirerva Holmes. | A Melburnian who has always lived on a waterway, Mirerva Holmes has spent many years working for government, major associations and within the major events sector. She can speak both to the government side, the client side and the community side. Most recently Mirerva specialised in city and social activation to drive domestic and international visitation by embracing a cities personality and its people. With a particular focus on activation and human-focussed design, she especially enjoys representing the character of the destinations, clients and their ideas. Mirerva is the vice president of the Yarra Pools and is passionate in working with her fellow pool gang and the community in making the river swimmable once again. | BLAKitecture |
| Mithu Sen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MS-Self-Portrait-2018_Mariusz-Forecki.png | Mithu Sen. | Mithu Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal, India. She completed her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to continue with a PG Programme from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2000–2001). Sen's practice stems from a conceptual and interactive background woven into drawing, poetry, moving images, installations, sculptures, sound and performances. Making “life” the medium of her practice, she pushes the limits of acceptable language, questioning our pre-codified hierarchical etiquettes in society within the politics of tabooed (cultural and gendered) identity, psycho-sexuality, radical hospitality and lingual anarchy. She has exhibited and performed widely at museums, institutions, galleries and biennales including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; TATE Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; MOMAT and Tenshin Museum, Japan; Peabody Essex Museum, USA; S.M.A.K Museum, Gent, Belgium; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Art Unlimited, Basel; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kochi Muziris Biennale, India; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Bozar Museum, Brussels; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Belgium; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Sen was the first Indian artist to receive the prestigious Skoda Award for Best Indian Contemporary Art in 2010, succeeded by the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art in Drawing in 2015, amongst numerous others. Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India. | BLAKitecture |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | BLAKitecture |
| Mixtape Fitness | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80s-boombox-2.jpg | Annabella Dickson. | Mixtape Fitness is created and taught by Annabella Dickson, who has a Bachelor in Dance and Performance Art and a Certificate III and IV in Fitness. Annabella has been teaching dance and dance fitness for almost ten years. She combines her love of dance mixed with over-the-top drama to create this unique style of classes! | BLAKitecture |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | BLAKitecture |
| Molly O’Shaughnessy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oTJQbspQKLyHJfoAvcAA_Molly-OShaughnessy-HSL.jpg | Molly O’Shaughnessy. | Molly O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Hotham Street Ladies, a group of four women who at one time lived in a share household in Collingwood, and still draw much inspiration from this household, including their love of food, dinner parties, domestic landscapes and sense of community. The Hotham Street Ladies’ work embraces the themes of food, fashion, feminism and craft; and how their collaborative participation in, and contemporising of, these activities creates their own distinct cultural community and connects to others. The Hotham Street Ladies combine innovation and contemporary critique with nostalgic or familiar elements that are accessible to a wide audience. The Hotham Street Ladies also include Cassandra Chilton, Sarah Parkes and Caroline Price. | BLAKitecture |
| Mona Ruijs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mona-1.jpeg | Mona Ruijs. | Mona Ruijs is the founder of Sound Interventions and a gong practitioner trained by the College of Sound Healing in Devon, UK. Mona completed a dissertation titled ‘Resonating gongs: The integration of gongs into sound therapy’ with the Music faculty at the London Metropolitan University and studied with grand gong master Don Conreaux. Mona facilitates sound baths and gong meditations in Melbourne. She currently works with a thirty-six-inch symphonic gong, thirty-two-inch mercury gong, twenty-two-inch Chinese sun gong, twenty-two-inch traditional Vietnamese gong, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, a shruti box, and other sound tools within her practice. | BLAKitecture |
| Monash University Department of Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Untitled-1.jpg | Vault, 2013. Experimental design-make workshop with Dr Philippe Block, director of the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich; James Bellamy, director of Re-vault; lecturer Tim Schork; Damon Van Horne; Grimshaw Architects and architecture students from MADA. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Monash University Department of Architecture is proud to support BLAKitecture: Women's business, in association with Parlour. | BLAKitecture |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | BLAKitecture |
| Monique Webber | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ChangingArchitectureforaChangingCity_CR_MoniqueWebber-1.jpg | Monique Webber. | Monique Webber is an academic teaching and writing about art, architecture, and design; and the recipient of the 2017/18 State Library of Victoria La Trobe Society Fellowship. Monique’s research centres on the reception of visual culture in the contemporary era. Alongside her academic research and publications, Monique also works in art journalism and academic community engagement. | BLAKitecture |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | BLAKitecture |
| Morgan Coleman | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MOR007.jpg | Morgan Coleman. | Morgan Coleman is the founder of Morgan Coleman Developments, a boutique property development company, and the CEO and founder of Vets On Call, a tech start-up redefining the veterinary industry. Previously, Morgan worked with property giant Lend Lease in development and construction management. He has extensive experience in procurement both as the procurer and the tenderer through his numerous business endeavours. | BLAKitecture |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yumi-Umiumare_Con-temporariTEA_Mapping-Melbourne_December-2017_-photo-by-Damian-W-Vincenzi.jpg | Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Damian W Vincenzi. | Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is a not-for-profit organisation that has evolved over four decades into one of Australia's most important bodies for development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression. Over one million participants each year are engaged in MAV’s innovative, educational and culturally rich program. MAV also provides crucial advice and significant initiatives for career development and creative capacity building for artists and communities from established and emerging backgrounds. The organisation provides expertise in audience development, community engagement and artistic excellence in CALD communities. | BLAKitecture |
| My Best Friend’s Wedding DJs | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHENA_SULLY_45.jpg | My Best Friend's Wedding DJs, Sheena and Sullivan. | Sullivan and Sheena—AKA My Best Friend's Wedding DJs—are a Melbourne-based queer DJ duo. Sullivan is a DJ and musician who has played at Dark MOFO, Mardi Gras, Brisbane Festival, ACMI and more. Sheena is a DJ and poet who has played at Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Camp Nong, Melbourne International Film Festival and more. | BLAKitecture |
| Mystery Guest | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jYY2YQUvQr2f2GzyNL4T_full_Mystery-Guest_CR_CaityCakeman.jpg | Mystery Guest. Photo by Caity Cakeman. | In infinite deferral of the band name to come, Mystery Guest is an electronic duo from Melbourne inspired by the greats of '90s synth pop. Their debut record is due for release in 2019 through Tenth Court. | BLAKitecture |
| MzRizk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MzRizkDj-1.jpg | Melbourne-based DJ, event curator and radio presenter, MzRizk, is renowned for her ongoing contributions to Melbourne’s rich cultural and music landscape. Her many projects are a distinct blend of music knowledge, creative diversity and cultural and community engagement. | BLAKitecture | |
| Naomi Milgrom AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Naomi-Milgrom-credit-Steven-Chee.jpg | Naomi Milgrom AO. Photo by Steven Chee. | Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space. | BLAKitecture |
| Nastaran Jafari | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GGoP_Nastaran-Jafari-1-1.jpg | Nastaran Jafari. | Nastaran Jafari currently works as a senior policy officer in the International Education Division at the Department of Education and Training. Her primary expertise is in providing education for children in the context of humanitarian crises. Originating from a persecuted minority and moving to Australian as a “stateless person”, she is passionate about gender empowerment, global citizenship education and applying emotional intelligence within humanitarian practices. Nastaran worked as Save the Children’s Education emergencies advisor in the Asia Pacific region, during which she worked alongside UNICEF, Ministries of Education and local communities on education policies and systems to ensure children can continue their schooling in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. Nastaran also worked as Save the Children’s education manager for the Syrian refugee and Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons crises based in Northern Iraq. In that role she managed education projects on peace education, child-friendly spaces, safe school construction and gender equality to support up to 200,000 children affected by the war. Prior to this, Nastaran worked as an advisor to the United Nations on the development and delivery of key humanitarian activities in the Pacific region and as Education Specialist for Educate A Child, contributing to the commitment of Her Highness of Qatar to provide education to ten million out of school children globally. | BLAKitecture |
| National Trust of Australia (Victoria) | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HERitage_CR_National-Trust-of-Australia-Victoria.jpg | Photo courtesy of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). | The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s largest community-based heritage advocacy organisation actively working towards conserving and protecting our heritage for future generations to enjoy. Our mission is to inspire the community to appreciate, conserve and celebrate its diverse natural, cultural, social and Indigenous heritage. | BLAKitecture |
| Neil Cabatingan | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/neil.jpg | Neil Cabatingan. | Neil Cabatingan is a Filipino electronic music producer. He produces and DJs under the alias Yumgod and his work covers footwork, hip-hop and electronic music. Neil is the producer for Auckland-based rap collective Fanau Spa and co-runs Tracks and Sound Volumes, an online platform for electronic dance music. Outside of production, Neil is member of Sound School, a community electronic music school running free workshop programs in Narrm. His debut EP, Barrio Trax, is available on tsv.world Neil will be in DJ teacher to the Mi Gente DJ crew! | BLAKitecture |
| Nerida Conisbee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Nerida-Consibee_REA-Group-Chief-Economist-2016.jpg | Nerida Conisbee. | Nerida Conisbee is the Chief Economist for REA Group and one of Australia’s leading property market experts. She has more than twenty years of property research experience throughout Asia Pacific covering both residential and commercial property markets. Prior to joining REA Group, Nerida held senior positions within commercial agencies and major consulting firms. Nerida appears regularly on Sky News, ABC and writes regular columns for The Australian. She also provides commentary and appears in a wide range of Australian and Asian media outlets including digital, print, television and radio. In addition to this, Nerida regularly presents on Australia’s property market at major industry forums including those run by the Property Council of Australia, Urban Development Institute of CoreNet Global and IPD. She is also an adviser on property market conditions to major Government bodies. Nerida holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and Masters of Commerce, majoring in Econometrics, from the University of Melbourne. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who of Australian Women” since its inaugural issue. | BLAKitecture |
| Nervegna Reed Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepTR05.jpg | Photo courtesy of Nervegna Reed Architecture. | Nervegna Reed Architecture is an award-winning design firm led by Toby Reed and Anna Nervegna that works across mediums centred on architectural design and discourse. As an extension to their architectural work in Australian and master planning in China, the practice often engages in various design activities such as video installation projects for the RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, the Melbourne Festival and The Singapore Festival. Nervegna Reed Architecture’s built projects such as the Arrow Studio and White House Prahran have been widely published around the globe. Their Precinct Energy Project (PEP Dandenong) led the way in local green energy production, powering Australia’s first precinct with cogeneration. | BLAKitecture |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | BLAKitecture |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | BLAKitecture |
| New Palm Court Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewPalmCourtOrchestra_CR_Zeljko-Matijevic.jpg | New Palm Court Orchestra's Gemma Turvey. Photo by Zeljko Matijevic. | The New Palm Court Orchestra (NPCO) is a passionate chamber ensemble, inspiring audiences by bridging musical traditions. Founded and led by pianist and composer Gemma Turvey, their performances combine her original compositions and arrangements, navigating jazz, classical and world influences with graceful ease. The NPCO is renowned for high-quality partnerships and is committed to showcasing the music of Australian composers. They have enjoyed collaborations with guest soloists including multi-Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (USA), Australian guitarist Doug de Vries, premiere vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne and countertenor Maximilian Riebl, with repeat standout performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Deakin Edge at Federation Square and the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. The NPCO champions music education and has delivered programs for composition and improvisation tuition to primary school children with inspiring results, including mostly recently premiering seventeen original compositions by students of Buninyong Primary School in regional Victoria. | BLAKitecture |
| NH Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Identity-in-Density_CR_NH-Architecture.jpg | Image courtesy of NH Architecture. | NH Architecture is a leading Australian design studio founded on the principles of collaboration and open debate. It provides the platform for clients, engineers, planners and the broader community to fully engage with the process of design. NH Architecture is leading the thinking towards integrated, flexible and resilient environments—an architecture capable of engaging with the complexities of the contemporary Australian city. | BLAKitecture |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | BLAKitecture |
| Nina Bennett | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UnrealSpaces_Nina-Bennett_TerryBurdackCR.jpg | Nina Bennett. Photo by Terry Burdack. | Nina Bennett is an artist and illustrator who has been quietly working on the award-winning Paperbark, a short and beautiful iOS game set in rural Victoria. Nina is best known for work as art director for Paperbark but started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her Bachelor of Games Design in early 2016, Nina went on to co found Paper House Games with fellow RMIT alumni. Paperbark was released mid 2018 and has won both an independent Freeplay award for Visual Excellence and more recently a developer award at the Australian Game Design Awards in October 2018. |
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| Noise In My Head | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25-MK-Record-_MG_3996.jpg | Michael Kucyk of Noise In My Head. | Noise In My Head is a freeform sonic excursion piloted by Michael Kucyk. From early beginnings as a long-running cult radio show on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, it has become a vital nexus in the Australia music scene, and now the identity expands as a DJ, two record labels, a publishing entity and party series. A proud advocate of our bourgeoning Australian scene and the rising artists within them, NIMH has brought together producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors from all over the world through his radio show, forming strong links between Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Canada, the US and beyond throughout the process. The carefully curated program quickly caught the eye of London online institution NTS, who invited Michael to continue his show on their global platform, presenting alongside Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet, Floating Points, Funkineven, Trevor Jackson, Dark Sky, Lee Gamble and Moxie. | BLAKitecture |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | BLAKitecture |
| Nuraini Juliastuti | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nuraini-Juliastuti-portrait.jpg | Nuraini Juliastuti is co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, established in 1999. Her research interests are situated between contemporary art production, digital culture, the making of commons, and performance of participation. Nuraini's research writings have been widely published in Indonesia and internationally. In collaboration with KUNCI, she has produced a body of research works, which use publication, exhibition/presentation, and gathering as modes of intellectual and political engagement. Nuraini has recently developed her own publication-based project titled Domestic Notes that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production. With Kunci, she is working on The School of Improper Education (2016–2019), which represents Kunci’s latest conceptualisation of alternative education, artistic practices, and social activism. | BLAKitecture | |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | BLAKitecture |
| OK EG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OKEG_MtNoorat2018KeelanOHehir-45.jpg | Photo courtesy of Keelan O'Hehir | OK EG, a project of Melbourne based producers Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson generates spaces between hypnotic polyrythms and lush ambiance by mixing experimental music and visual art. Taking an improvisational approach to live techno, they draw from natural textural soundscapes to speculate on rich sonic worlds of inhabitation. Their first release, Pebble Beach was mastered by Italian techno legend Neel and features recordings from their set at Dark Mofo festival. | BLAKitecture |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-10-at-10.16.20-am.png | One Fire Aboriginal Dance Company is one of the premier dance groups based in Melbourne, providing performances and workshops for over 20 years. Their performances include dance and didgeridoo playing. | BLAKitecture | |
| One Love Jump | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OLJ_2JPG.jpg | One Love Jump. | Founded in 2018, One Love Jump celebrates Melbourne’s diversity through community, fitness and play. We bring the simple act of skipping rope to public spaces. We believe in connecting strangers, strengthening communities and tapping into our innate desire for play—no matter our age or limitations. | BLAKitecture |
| OoPLA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OpenHAUS_CR_John-Gollings.jpg | OoPLA. Photo by John Gollings. | Tania Davidge and Christine Phillips collaborate as OoPLA. Although founded by architects, OoPLA is not a practice about buildings but rather a practice interested in a broader understanding of architecture. Through the creation of discussion forums, workshops, public art projects, exhibitions and architectural events, OoPLA aims to draw attention to the spaces we use every day and how these spaces impact our lives. Tania and Christine are architects, writers, artists and educators. As architects, Christine and Tania are interested in the potential that our urban environments hold and in using this potential to engage people in conversations about their communities and surroundings. In 2018 OoPLA was exhibited as part of the RMIT Design Hub exhibition Workaround: Women Design Action. OoPLA have previously exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture. Christine was one of the primary exhibitors, at the Formations exhibition, as a presenter for the RRR radio show The Architects. | BLAKitecture |
| Open House Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170729_Open-House-2017-Saturday_Simon-Shiff-21-lowres.jpg | Photo by Simon Shiff |
Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. It does this through the much-loved Open House Weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo, where tens of thousands of people come out to celebrate architecture and the city. Increasingly, Open House is tackling big city topics through major public talks, tours, and debates—it produces over fifty special events that are designed to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues for the city.
By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, we aim to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future. |
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| Orlando Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PlanningSafeCities_OrlandoHarrison.jpg | Orlando is a passionate advocate for great cities, and a ‘people-centric’ approach to urban design. He is a Registered Architect and Director of Tract Urban Design, and champions a design philosophy focusing on the character and sensibility of urban places and spaces, across public sector and private sector projects. Orlando brings a wider, cities-based perspective to urban design through project experience nationally across our capital cities and regional centres. He has presented and spoken at number of conferences and Seminars on urban design issues across Australian cities, including ‘The Missing Middle’ and sustainability within the urban environment. Orlando is currently pursuing the value of regenerative design to change Australian cities for the better. He retains a love of great architecture, and a passion for the way built structures and spaces can enrich and improve people’s lives. | BLAKitecture | |
| Oscar Key Sung | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oscar.png | Oscar Key Sung. | Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so palpable. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at South by South West as well as throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing music that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to his music is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you either dance insatiably or leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion. | BLAKitecture |
| Parlour: women, equity, architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ParlourSpringSalon_CR_PeterBennetts.jpg | Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation that works for gender equity in architecture and the built environment. Parlour is a ‘space to speak’, and encourages for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. | BLAKitecture |
| Pasefika Vitoria Choir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pasefika-Vitoria-Choir.jpg | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir. | The Pasefika Vitoria Choir is a mass choir formed by not-for-profit organisation PICAA (Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia). The choir was formed in 2016 and its primary objective is for Pasefika peoples to unite as one and showcase their talents through music as a choir group. Led by music director Rita Seumanutafa and Steve Tafea, the choir performs a mix of Pasefika songs and medleys that embody Samoan, Tongan, Rarotongan, Maori and Tokelauan languages—with many other Pasefika language songs to come in future performances. The choir's debut performance was at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016 for the Art of the Pacific exhibition. Since that debut, the Pasefika Vitoria have showcased their Pacific Island identity at the City of Melbourne's MOOMBA parade for two years running alongside other Pacific cultural groups such as Nuholani, Tama Tatau and The Fijian Community Association in Victoria. They feature as back-up vocals in Mojo Juju's tracks 'Cold Condition' and 'Native Tongue', and shared the stage with Mojo Juju for the Melbourne Festival in 2017 and at the Arts Centre in in August 2018 for the Mojo Juju: Native Tongue concert. In January 2018, the Pasefika Vitoria Choir collaborated with award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi at the Sugar Mountain Festival. The Pasefika Vitoria continue to serenade the wider community all around Victoria emanating the vibrance of Pasefika music for all to enjoy. | BLAKitecture |
| Paul Douglas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/F29AA8F9-41DC-4E1E-A91D-CDC305C5844C.jpeg | Paul Douglas. | Paul Douglas is MPavilion's Kiosk and site manager as well as our resident DJ. When behind the decks, Paulie plays an eclectic mix of soul and funk, bringing the vibes as well an excellent collection of jumpsuits and socks. | BLAKitecture |
| Paul Gorrie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/paulgorrie.jpg | Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man He is a DJ, a playwright, multi instrumentalist and producer. | BLAKitecture | |
| Permits | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_5486.jpg | Permits. | Featuring members of Chook Race, Dag, Pop Singles and The Shifters, Permits started as a means to document abandoned songs, left over from each member's various projects. The results so far have given birth to a sound that is as sweet as it is cynical. | BLAKitecture |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | BLAKitecture |
| Peter Symes | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Global-Gardens-of-Peace-Garden-of-Hope_Bringing-a-garden-to-Gaza_Peter-Symes.jpg | Peter Symes. | Peter Symes is a Global Gardens of Peace director and the Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with wide-ranging expertise in large living landscapes, including over twenty-five years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in plant biosecurity, soil health, integrated water management, plant selection methodologies and design of plant environments. Peter has been heavily involved in projects such as the $AU1.7 million Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and the $AU6.5 million Working Wetlands project. He is also one of the lead authors in the development of the world-leading Landscape Succession Strategy which aims to guide the transition of the heritage Melbourne Gardens into the climate conditions of 2090. | BLAKitecture |
| Philip Boon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PhilipBoonPortrait-2.jpg | Philip Boon. | Philip Boon stands with only an exceptional few in being able to capture the very essence of a client and represent them in such a way as to enhance their assets and render any perceived deficits invisible and irrelevant. He knows through experience and instinct how to create the optimal vision (for campaign or individual) and for this, he is widely recognised, respected and sought after. He epitomises the title ‘Style Impresario’. Philip's grounding in the fashion industry covers design, manufacture and retailing his own clothing label. He moved on to fashion buying, consulting, styling and strategic creative planning before emerging as one of Australia's leading and most innovative and intuitive creative directors. | BLAKitecture |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | BLAKitecture |
| Phoebe Whitman | Phoebe Whitman’s practice attends to surface through temporal, material and digital processes. She uses painting, sculpture and photography to approach various sites and situations. Through gentle processes of observation, framing, intervention, arrangement and (re)presentation an opening to imminent occurrences and potentialities with surface transpires. Phoebe is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD, titled Surface Encounter at RMIT University, in the School of Architecture & Urban Design. The research practice challenges prevailing perceptions of surface and proposes surface as a situation for potentiality, sensation and encounter. Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in 1999 and a BD Interior Design at RMIT in 2005. In 2008 Phoebe joined the Interior Design program at RMIT University as a full-time lecturer. Presently she coordinates the final year of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program; supervises final year students undertaking a self-directed major project and teaches Design Studio to second and third-year students. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Pia Cerveri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2035-e1539130640297.jpg | Pia Cerveri. | Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime ASU member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia is currently the co-lead of the Women's and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council. | BLAKitecture |
| Playable Streets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2017-09-11-at-4.31.13-pm.jpeg | Photo courtesy of Playable Streets. | Using the latest technologies available Playable Streets' connects people with their surroundings through the action of touch as strangers become musical collaborators. Artistic Director, Glen Walton leads a team of visual artists, designers, engineers and composers to create site specific installations that transform public space. Playable Streets have created a series of works that explore public collaboration and collective musical play. | BLAKitecture |
| Pro E | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pro-E-image-by-Jean-Michel-Batakane.jpg | Pro E. Photo by Jean Michel Batakane. | Pro E (aka Providence Delfina), is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents in Shepparton. He started writing lyrics to express the many things he has to say, his stories, his struggles, his dreams, and has recently started producing his own beats and instrumentals. Pro E loves old school hip hop most of all, but listens to all types of music including classical music. Despite growing up far away from his Burundian homeland, he has maintained a deep connection to his traditional roots, values and culture and is a regular performer with the St Paul’s African Gospel Choir and Burundian drumming ensemble in Shepparton. Pro E has been regularly participating in the Ignite Sound Project and is also an artist with local independent label EH Music. | BLAKitecture |
| Professor Dale Fisher | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dale-Fisher.jpg | Professor Dale Fisher. | Professor Dale Fisher has a passion for creating excellence in health research and care through advanced specialisation and the adoption of new technology and innovative ways of working, in partnership with the public and private sectors. Building iconic health services is her career ambition. Prior to joining Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as CEO, Australia's only hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education, Dale was chief executive of the Royal Women's Hospital where she led its redevelopment and relocation—the first public-private project for a tertiary hospital in the country. Appointed as a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in 2016, the next year she was awarded a Monash University Fellowship in recognition of the achievements she makes through her professional distinction and outstanding service. Dale was appointed as an honorary Professor in Public Health at Swinburne University earlier this year, and sits on the boards of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Committee for Melbourne and St Michaels Grammar School. A strong advocate for women’s health rights, Dale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Role in 2011, and in 2013 was named one the Australian Financial Review’s "100 women of influence". | BLAKitecture |
| Professor Donald Bates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Bates_portrait-3_2016_mid.jpg | Professor Donald Bates (LFRAIA; FRIBA) is the Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Engagement)for the Melbourne School of Design. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Bates graduated with a B.Arch from University of Houston, and has an M.Arch from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He founded and directed LoPSiA in France from 1990-94. In 1994, Prof Bates and Peter Davidson founded LAB Architecture Studio, and in 1997, LAB won the competition for Federation Square. LAB has designed a range of large-scale commercial, cultural, civic and residential projects, numerous master plans, with built works in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received numerous awards for these projects. Prof Bates has lectured at more than 240 schools of architecture, and has been published extensively in journals and magazines. He is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel, Chair of the University of Melbourne Design Advisory and Review Group, the Metro Rail Arts Advisory Panel, and has been a jury member or chair of more than 25 international architectural design competitions. | BLAKitecture | |
| Professor Harriet Edquist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20170704_RMIT_Design_Archives_Harriet_Edquist_008.jpg | Professor Harriet Edquist. | Professor Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History; Director, RMIT Design Archives; and a member of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. | BLAKitecture |
| Professor Ian de Vere | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ian-de-Vere.jpg | Professor Ian de Vere. | Professor Ian de Vere is an award-winning industrial designer with extensive industry experience in new product development (including electronic products, consumer products, and specialist medical equipment), design for the public domain, commercial furniture design and educational museum design for children. An experienced design educator, his teaching focuses on the development of curricula that responds to new patterns of professional design practice, with emphasis on creativity and innovation, ethical and sustainable practice, technical expertise and design entrepreneurship. He is keen to educate designers to contribute positively to global communities through a socially responsive approach. His research addresses social innovation and sustainability, and design pedagogy and curricula. | BLAKitecture |
| Professor Mark Burry AO | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mburry2000px_72dpi.jpg | Professor Mark Burry AO | Professor Mark Burry AO has been a senior architect and lead researcher at the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain and was awarded Australian Federation Fellowship in 2005. He is recognised internationally as a thought leader and researcher in the domain of future cities. Mark joined the Swinburne University of Technology from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Urban Futures. He was recognised in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list for his achievements and distinguished service in the field of architecture and is an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. | BLAKitecture |
| Professor Martyn Hook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Headshot.jpg | Professor Martyn Hook is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds the position of Dean at RMIT's School of Architecture & Urban Design and is Professor of Architecture. Martyn is a passionate advocate for a maintaining a strong and critical relationship between architectural practice and architectural education. In addition to his work at RMIT Martyn is a director of multi award winning iredale pedersen hook architects, a studio practice based in Melbourne and Perth dedicated to appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Martyn was the Founding Director of the RMIT Architecture & Design Postgraduate Program in Europe, Practice Research Symposium PRS_EU, which gathers a collection of European based practitioners to engage in research through design practice. He also contributed to the development of the PRS_Asia which commenced at RMIT Vietnam in 2012 |
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| Professor Natalie King | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Natalie_King_by_Kate_Ballis-2-1-1.jpg | Natalie King. Photo by Kate Ballis. | Professor Natalie King is an Australian curator and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art, realising landmark projects in India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Thailand and Vietnam. She is an Enterprise Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Currently, she is working towards curation of an exhibition at the Museum of Photography as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017, Natalie was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Natalie has conducted in-depth interviews with Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Candice Breitz, Joseph Kosuth, Destiny Deacon, Massimiliano Gioni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pipilotti Rist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Henson, Jitish Kallat, Hou Hanru and Cai Guo-Qiang amongst others. She is widely published in arts media including Flash Art International, Art and Australia and the ABC. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris and CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. | BLAKitecture |
| Professor Rob Adams AM | Professor Rob Adams AM is the director of City Design at the City of Melbourne and a member of the Urbanization Council of the World Economic Forum. Rob and his team have been the recipients of over 120 local, national and international awards including, on four occasions, receiving the Australian Award for Urban Design. Rob was also awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Architecture and Urban Design. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Professor Shitij Kapur | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shitij.jpg | Professor Shitij Kapur. | Professor Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom. Prior to his University of Melbourne appointment in October 2016, Shitij was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. | BLAKitecture |
| Prue Gilbert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prue-Gilbert.jpg | Prue Gilbert. | Prue Gilbert is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and mother empowering working parents across Australia. Marie Claire called her the "the anti-discrimination guru". Vogue named her a "game changer" and her business, Grace Papers, won the Australian Human Rights Business Award for addressing pregnancy-related discrimination. A lawyer by profession, Prue is part of a new breed, a generation of social entrepreneurs who are redefining how businesses drive social change. Integrating her vast legal, leadership and diversity experience, she co-founded Grace Papers to challenge traditional stereotypes and provide a platform to empower both working parents and their employers. Since launching Grace Papers in 2014, Prue and her team have supported expectant mothers and fathers to overcome gender stereotypes as well as discrimination faced in their workplaces during pregnancy, parental leave and returning to work. Prue is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a qualified executive coach, and has studied under The Empowerment Institute NYC to deepen her capacity to drive social change. She volunteers for the legal steering committee of NOW Australia and has been an influencer in driving gender equality through her role as Advisory Board Member for the AFL Players Association for the Women’s League. | BLAKitecture |
| Public Art Commission | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Techa-Noble-Treatment-2015.-Image-Jordan-Graham.jpg | 'Techa Noble, Treatment', 2015. Photo by Jordan Graham. | The Public Art Commission at Deakin University bring resources, experience and a diverse range of skills to the projects they work on—across art in public contexts, architecture, project management, commissioning, research and education, archival research, stakeholder engagement and inter-disciplinary creative projects. They have worked on numerous major public art initiatives including the 2015 and 2017 Treatment Public Art Projects at the Western Treatment Plant. The team, led by Professor David Cross and Associate Professor Katya Johanson, have extensive experience as artists, curators, writers, arts consultants, researchers and coordinators working in national and international contexts. Public Art Commission operates at a time when art produced outside of galleries, theatres and concert venues is continually expanding its significance and value. PAC responds to this and makes work at the intersection of the public and private spheres, when governments and organisations alike are seeking specialist knowledge to markedly improve community ties and the making of places. | BLAKitecture |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | BLAKitecture |
| Rachel Ang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MONOGRAPh-Rachel-Ang.jpg | Rachel Ang. | Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Scum and the Stella Prize. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for 2018. Rachel is a co-editor of Comic Sans, a new anthology of excellent Australian comics. She makes this with her friend Leah Jing McIntosh. She is also the art director of Pencilled In, a new magazine devoted to publishing and championing the work of Asian-Australian writers and artists. | BLAKitecture |
| Rachel Yang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RachelYang.jpg | Rachel Yang. | Investment manager at Giant Leap, Australia's first 100 percent impact venture capital fund, Rachel Yang is the first line of review for deals and undertakes due diligence, deal execution and management of Giant Leap's investment portfolio. Rachel has a background in management consulting and deal advisory/corporate finance. She is committed to using her experience to help people solve old social and environmental problems in new ways, and working with them to scale their positive social and environmental impact. | BLAKitecture |
| Raquel Solier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Raquel0088.jpg | Raquel Solier. | Raquel Solier is one of Australia's hottest most respected beat makers working both as a producer and musician. She has played Golden Plains with her groundbreaking sounds and toured all around the world as a drummer with different bands, including current band MOD CON. For Mi Gente, Raquel will be working on a new set of music to get all the gente big and small dancing into the afternoon! | BLAKitecture |
| Ras Jahknow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RasJahknowPic2.jpg | Ras Jahknow. | Ras Jahknow blazes new soul and fresh rhythms into what is described best as culturally rich, roots reggae music. Passionate vocals in English and Creole weave through the diverse native sounds from the African island nation of Cape Verde, Brazil, Tanzania and Mauritius to Australia. The band embodies a vision of unity, respect and peace, built on the foundation of irresistible, reggae rhythms. | BLAKitecture |
| Real Life | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RealLife_Launch_115.jpg | Ali Bird and Claire Feain of Real Life. | Real Life was launched in Melbourne in 2018 by Ali Bird and Claire Feain to support women to make real life connections and build a strong community. Real Life’s philosophy is that meeting people in real life builds stronger, more meaningful connections and adds to your sense of self worth rather than your net worth. Real Life is a collective with a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and skill sets. It hosts events on various topics under themes of wellbeing, productivity, career, motherhood and social connection. | BLAKitecture |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | BLAKitecture |
| Ricardo Alvarez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesus-Ricardo-Alvarez-Felix.png | Ricardo Alvarez. | Ricardo Alvarez is a PhD Candidate in the City Design and Development program at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab working on the design and digitization of future urban infrastructure systems. | BLAKitecture |
| RMIT Architecture | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RMIT_Hololens_collab_CR_CaitlynParry.jpg | RMIT Hololens. Photo by Caitlyn Parry. | RMIT Architecture is focused on ideas-led, venturous and design experimentation that aspires to contribute to the future of the discipline and an increasingly complex world. We are interested in experimentation and innovation but also ultimately the attempt at the realisation or buildability of that experimentation, its deep ties to the world around us and its contribution to contemporary questions and concerns. The school is focused on design with an international reputation for design excellence. We undertake research through design practice which is at the centre of our activities. Design practice research at RMIT is a longstanding activity and addition to our Bachelor and Masters programs, we also run a practice-based design PhD program in Australia, Asia and Europe. | BLAKitecture |
| RMIT Interior Design | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RMIT-Interior-Design_Georgina-Matherson.jpg | INDEX 2015 Graduate Exhibition. Photo by Georgina Matherson. | The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year degree, offered in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Since 1948, the program has engaged with the discipline of interior design as an idea-led practice that attends to the relation between people and environments across a range of scales, mediums and techniques. In the 21st century, the definition of ‘interior’ can no longer be equated to the inside of a building; conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social, economic and cultural forces. Students experiment with and project the future of interior design practice. | BLAKitecture |
| RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Designs-by-Zoe-Zou-Rachel-Louey-and-Jessica-Gregory-Bachelor-of-Fashion-Design-Honours-graduates-2017-backstage-at-Melbourne-Fashion-Week2017.-Photo-by-Lucas-Dawson..jpg | , backstage at Melbourne Fashion Week 2017. Designs by Zoe Zou, Rachel Louey and Jessica Gregory, Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours) graduates 2017. Photo by Lucas Dawson. | RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles is world renowned as a dynamic and progressive educational leader whose impact influences the future of fashion and textiles. Informed by global awareness and an astute knowledge of industry, RMIT’s Fashion and Textiles programs lead the way in creative and entrepreneurial practices. Staff are engaged as both practitioners and researchers, and are active as fashion and textile designers, curators, business innovators and leaders of industry. Their expertise and active engagement across all areas of fashion and textile design, technology and enterprise allows students to stay up-to-date with current sector needs throughout their studies, meaning that students graduate highly sought after by industry and can find positions in all areas of the global fashion and textiles supply chain. | BLAKitecture |
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | BLAKitecture | |
| Robert Downie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_1035.png | Robert Downie. | Robert Downie is a producer, sound designer and an artist. He has composed for and performed in contemporary dance works at Inner Varnika (2016), Strawberry Fields (2016) and Melbourne Fringe (2016, 2017), worked with collectives Munday and Youth Misinterpreted, composed scores for several short films including Nest (directed by Rex Kane-Hart, 2016) and Under The Table (directed by Max Walter, 2015), and a number of theatre shows including Matrophobia! at Adelaide Fringe in 2017. In 2017, Downie wrote a short graphic novel that is to be read while listening to an experimental album, and worked with an artist to make sound sculptures for a series of performances at Testing Grounds. Currently Downie is writing, recording and releasing an album every month. | BLAKitecture |
| Robin Penty | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Robin-Penty-cropped-1.jpg | Robin Penty. | Robin Penty is the executive director of Engagement and Impact at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Over a career-spanning three decades in the arts and culture, not-for-profit, higher learning and public sectors, Robin’s role is to ensure the Gardens and its visitors thrive as an open and inclusive place where important stories are told and memories made. Robin’s background includes roles as a director of programs, business development and marketing executive, cultural programmer, executive producer, qualitative researcher, strategic consultant and skilled facilitator. She has held leadership and executive positions for diverse organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Drug Foundation, The Smith Family and the University of Melbourne. Early in her career, Robin worked professionally as a choreographer and dance educator. Her perspectives on place and country are deeply grounded in knowledge of how humans move through and sense public space, as well as experiences from Canada, where she was born. | BLAKitecture |
| Rock Academy Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rock-Academy_CR_ChiZhang.jpg | Photo by Chi Zhang. | Rock Academy is a school holiday program that helps develop the skills of teen musicians. Forming bands, they are given guidance by some of Australia’s leading professional musicians, though not a class-based program; they spend all their time rocking at one of Australia's premier studios: Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. During the week-long program, Rock Academy students participate in a songwriting workshop and instrument workshops with specialist mentors. Mentors that have participated are among the cream of the crop of Australia’s musicians and include Phil Ceberano, Ash Davies, Nikki Nicholls (John Farnham, Kylie Minogue), Karina Utomo (High Tension), Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Justin Burford (End Of Fashion, Coco Blu), Finbar O’Hanlon (Jump Inc), Jimi Hocking (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Nick Barker, Ecca Vandal, Glenn Reither (Icehouse), Kate Ceberano and Monique Brumby, Cam MacKenzie (Mark Seymour & The Undertow), Ladyhood and Laura Davidson (AC/DShe, Bjorn Again), Dallas Frasca, Andy Sylvio (Pete Murray) and Aimee Francis. | BLAKitecture |
| Rohan Brooks | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rory-Rohan-Rudely-Interrupted.jpg | Rory Burnside and Rohan Brooks. | Rohan Brooks has been a professional musician for thirty-five years, performing all over the world with Melbourne rock band The Anyones, touring with Jet, The Killers, Morrissey, You Am I—the list goes on. In 2005 Rohan met Rory Burnside in 2006 they started the group Rudely Interrupted. In the twelve years they've worked together, Rudely Interrupted have released five studio records, toured internationally fourteen times, including to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, China, Singapore and NZ. Rohan has produced, managed and booked the band to the dizzy heights of some of the biggest stages in the world, including the United Nations in 2008. | BLAKitecture |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | BLAKitecture |
| Ronnen Goren | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ronnen_1218_BW_CROP-1.png | Ronnen Goren. | As a director and one of the founding partners of Studio Ongarato, Ronnen Goren leads strategic development, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in communications and strategy. Ronnen has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, which informs his unparalleled ability to unlock unique insights and offer a deeper understanding when it comes to melding brand strategy, communications and the built environment. Ronnen’s wide-ranging skillset helps to define the studio's considered and holistic approach to creatively solving its clients’ challenges. Ronnen has a personal passion for the food and beverage world, having come from a family of hospitality industry veterans. His vast experience and knowledge of the industry, both in Australia and Asia, has seen him lead the strategy for clients which include W Shanghai, Lane Crawford, QT Hotels, Jackalope Hotels and Melbourne’s GPO, to name but a few. Alongside Fabio Ongarato, Ronnen provides key leadership direction to the team to ensure that creative outcomes are innovative and holistically aligned with brand offerings and architectural intent. | BLAKitecture |
| Rory Hyde | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RoryHyde.jpg | Rory Hyde. | Rory Hyde is curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, where he also completed a PhD on emerging models of practice enabled by new technologies. He is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects. His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media. | BLAKitecture |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | BLAKitecture | |
| Rosie Jean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SaturdayYogaFlowRelease_CR_RobertoMalavisi.jpg | Rosie Jean. Photo by Roberto Malavesi. | Rosie Jean is a Melbourne-based yoga teacher and psychology student. She teaches at Power Living Fitzroy, Kindred Movement and runs unique yoga and meditation events in Melbourne. Her fascination of the connection between mind and body shines through in her classes. | BLAKitecture |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Rowan Quinn | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FutureGenderNeutralDesign_CR_RowanQuinn-1.jpg | Rowan Quinn is a 21-year-old writer and radio presenter for The Gender Agenda on JOY, with a background in transgender education and advocacy. Due to a habit of saying yes to things, he had filled many roles and tried many things over the years, including stage managing, voice acting, film making and public speaking. | BLAKitecture | |
| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | BLAKitecture |
| Rutika Parag Patki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rutika-Patki-2018-portrait-photographer-Phebe-Schmidt.jpg | Rutika Parag Patki. Photo by Phebe Schmidt. | Rutika Parag Patki's approach to design stems from a personal interest in conserving values and traditions of her beloved India and an overwhelming awareness of her own generation's rapid departure from these. Rather than dragging these traditions into her practice and the twenty-first century, Rutika dissects them and their multilayered functions, attempting to re-imagine within a contemporary context how they can sit within the way she perceives contemporary India. Rutika's current focus is the hand-me-down saris, passed through the beautiful matriarchs of her family. For Rutika, these saris embody so much of these traditions and values in a single piece of woven cloth. | BLAKitecture |
| Ryan Lee | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/39924009_1862820893801794_2781656215162191872_n.jpg | Ryan Lee. | Ryan Lee is a young aspiring poet. Having been in the community only a year, he is honing his craft to further progress into his love of poetry. | BLAKitecture |
| SA The Collective | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SA-Collective.jpg | SA Collective. Photo by Ng Yu Jing. | Singapore's SA the Collective presents a unique blend of sounds and sonic-inspired visuals that reflects a contemporary Southeast Asian sensibility. Growing up in post-colonial Singapore, the artists explore their identities through an inquiry into sound and visuals. They value being in the moment—fleeting; transcendent. They invite their audience to join them in this multi-sensory experience, immersing in collective time and space. | BLAKitecture |
| Sam Almaliki | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SamAlmaliki.jpg | Sam Almaliki. | Sam Almaliki is an experienced and strategically-focused business leader and board director with expertise in leading and advising on strategy, change and growth in sport, corporate, start-up, NFP and government sectors. Wiht an industry-proven combination of skills in strategic planning, operationsl execution and relationship building, Sam is at his best when he is collaborating with clients and leading teams to achieve business outcomes and supporting them to implement growth strategies. Sam is currently Cofounder and CEO of ConvX, a market leader in conveyancing, enabling quick and reliable property transfer. | BLAKitecture |
| Santilla Chingaipe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_8181.jpg | Santilla Chingaipe | Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Melbourne. She spent nearly a decade working for SBS World News which saw her report from across Africa and interview some of the continent’s most prominent leaders. Last year, Santilla presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date my Race. Her latest film, Black as Me, explores the perception of beauty and race in Australia. Santilla recently partnered with the Wheeler Centre to create and curate Australia’s first anti-racism festival, Not Racist, But... Santilla is currently developing several factual and narrative projects and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper. She is a member of the federal government’s advisory group on Australia-Africa relations. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. | BLAKitecture |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | BLAKitecture |
| Sarah Song | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Song-1.jpg | Sarah Song. | Sarah Song studied at the Melbourne School of Design, completing a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She is keenly interested in the subject of design as a form of knowledge and in particular the uniquely obscure nature behind a designer’s design process. Having worked in the industry for a number of years, Sarah now finds herself thoroughly immersed in teaching at her alma mater where her students are constantly interacting with different modes of technology to explore and negotiate their design agendas with the “wicked” nature of a design project. | BLAKitecture |
| Sarah Werkmeister | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Public-Art-Guide_Sarah-Werkmeister.jpg | Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based in Melbourne. She has written extensively and has regularly contributed to Art Asia Pacific and Art Guide Australia. She has worked with L'Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), both in relation to museum culture with a focus on Europe, and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can't Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She has lectured in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), tutored within BoVA CAIA at Griffith University, and worked in communications roles at YIRRAMBOI Festival, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. From 2008-2012 she co-directed Brisbane-based artist-run-initiative, The Wandering Room, and worked in community radio 4ZZZfm for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her research interest is in the transference of political, social and environmental urgency into the museum space, and the representation of nationhood in colonised countries, through government art collections and government-owned museums. | BLAKitecture | |
| Screamy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Syrene-Favero.jpg | Screamy. | A creative powerhouse, Syrene Favero—aka Screamy—has been heavily involved in the music industry for nearly twenty years across multiple genres. Studying performing arts in New Zealand then relocating to Melbourne to study a Bachelor of Music Business, she wears many hats from singer to writer, recording artist, music producer, as well as event management, artist development, film production and artistic direction. Thriving in the environments of collaborative projects and community-based movements and creative solutions, the story goes that Screamy pronounced her existence to Jerry Poon sometime in 2010 in common pursuit of magic-making. Add a rattle-reel of collabs and shows since then (Remi, RFYL, N’fa Jones, Sensible J & Dutch, Ginger, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cazeaux OSLO and Gaslamp Killer, to drop only a few names), The Operatives have become her most diverse and felicitous family. In 2018 Screamy has been mentoring and producing two new collaborations in MAV's Visible Music Mentoring Program. | BLAKitecture |
| Sello Molefi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.18.16-pm.png | SELLO MOLEFI is a Singer-Songwriter, Music Composer and Arts Leader from Kroonstad South Africa. Sello studies took place at FUBA Academy in Johannesburg and Wits University Music School. His career as a vocalist landed him a role in Disney’s The Lion King, which originally brought him to Australia in 2003. Sello then toured with the production to Shanghai, back to Johannesburg then onto the West End in London. In 2016 after finishing the contract Sello decided to go home to South Africa to fulfill a life long dream and open an Arts Centre, and so Bokamoso Arts Centre was born. He is an accomplished composer, working in both stage and screen and most significantly wrote the theme song for the movie Elephant Tales. Sello composed, directed and performed his original show ‘Mantswe’ at the 2009 Melbourne FringeFestival an his first EP ‘Mamelang’ came out in 2016. ‘Mamelang’ draws it's inspiration from the humble beginnings of Negro Spiritual hymns, choral, jazz spoken word and African Traditional Sounds. Sello is now back and on tour with MADIBA the Musical and working on his new EP. | BLAKitecture | |
| Semina | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Semina-photography-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Semina. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Being a Danish-speaking woman from Tanzania makes Semina Halfani no common soul. Known only as Semina, the singer's captivating voice has been described as having similarities to the great Dianh Washington. As a young girl growing up in Tanzania, Semina was born with the fire of dance and sound, seemingly learning to dance before she could walk. At eleven years old, her family migrated to aristocratic Denmark where Semina's life took a drastic turn. Placed into child care after a series of unfortunate events, she was in and out of foster care—by the age of fourteen, music and love found her in form of a family that didn’t suppress her desires for letting loose. Nurturing her yearning, Semina was introduced to various jazz musicians where there was free rein on experimentation of music, later landing her spots at various festivals in Copenhagen. Now a local of twenty-four years in Australia, dedicating her life to motherhood and caring for the elderly, Semina is ready to rekindle her spirits on the music scene. Having shared the stage with Papua New Guinean homegrown star Sir George Telek, Aussie favourites Waving, Not Drowning and the graceful Ajak Kwai, Semina is ready to blow you away with her captivating voice. As part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s annual program Visible, Semina’s single 'Dig Deeper' was released in 2017, boasting simple guitar riffs as she chants about lost love. | BLAKitecture |
| Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sene-Sefa-Lao-image-by-Anita-Larkin.jpg | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz. Photo by Anita Larkin. | Sene Smalley, Sefa Stewart & Silao Stanzlauz recently blew everyone away at the inaugural MAV Songwriters’ Camp with their incredible talent and creativity, not to mention their beautiful voices. With Samoan roots and musical influences as diverse as gospel, hip-hop, R&B and soul, they combine forces to create the smoothest harmonies and sweetest sounds coming out of Melbourne’s south-east. | BLAKitecture |
| SensiLab at Monash University | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0265_Sensilab_193.jpg | Photo courtesy of SensiLab. | SensiLab is a research lab at Monash University dedicated to the future of creative technology, how it changes us and how we can harness it. Established in 2015 by Professor Jon McCormack, the lab specialises in interdisciplinary research and public programs that link science, technology and the arts. | BLAKitecture |
| Shadowfax Wines | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shadowfax.jpg | Photo courtesy of Shadowfax. | Established in 1998, Shadowfax is a boutique winery located just thirty minutes from Melbourne, in the heart of Werribee Park. Dedicated to creating high-quality and handcrafted wines, Shadowfax's renowned varieties include Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Shiraz as well as a selection of highly limited, single-vineyard wines. Shadowfax is a major supporter of MPavilion 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| Shakira Hussein | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1shakira_2134.jpg | Shakira Hussein. | Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11. Her essays have been published in Meanjin, The Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. Shakira is a regular contributor to media outlets including Crikey, The Australian and ABC Online. | BLAKitecture |
| Shannon May Powell | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fullsizeoutput_17ff.jpeg | Shannon May Powell. | Shannon May Powell is a writer and photographer whose work explores sexuality and psychogeography, the meaningful interaction between people and place. Her work has been exhibited in group shows for the Berlin Feminist Film Week and Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Shannon's work also features in national and international publications such as Ain’t Bad Contemporary Photographic Journal, If You Leave, i-D Magazine, INDIE magazine, and Whitelies magazine where she contributes a regular column and image series. Shannon’s first book, The Anthropomorphism of Objects is a Form of Play, was developed in residence at Torna gallery and bookshop in Istanbul and distributed worldwide. In 2016, she held a solo show at the Honeymoon Suite in Melbourne. In 2017 she was an artist in residence at VAR program in California, where developed her recent body of work exploring ideas of body through a gender sensitive lens. The exhibition, titled The Offering of One’s Body as Extraneous Clothing, was exhibited at the Collingwood Arts Precinct. Having studied writing and philosophy at RMIT University, the curation of Shannon's work lends itself to storytelling. The nature of her approach is playful and aims to leave the perceiver thinking about social ideas beyond the aesthetic. | BLAKitecture |
| Shareena Clanton | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Shareena-Clanton-321012.jpg | Shareena Clanton. | Shareena Clanton studied the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2013, Shareena was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her performance in the ABC series Redfern Now. In 2011, she appeared in her first main stage theatre production, My Wonderful Day (directed by Anna Crawford) at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, for which she earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Other theatre credits include A Comedy of Errors and The Tempest with Shakespeare WA and McBeth for the MTC. Shareena also had a lead role in the highly acclaimed TV series Wentworth airing on Foxtel, playing Doreen Anderson. Her recent credits include ABC's Glitch and the BBC's The Cry. Shareena is a proud Indigenous woman from Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country) and an activist and human rights advocate. | BLAKitecture |
| Shay McMahon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/washington-Copy.jpg | Shay McMahon. | Shay McMahon is an Eora woman. Shay holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Planning from Deakin University. Shay has worked in Mexico City for Team730 and has assisted in the delivery of design projects around La Condesa in the south of Mexico City. Shay is currently working with GHD as an urban planner as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. | BLAKitecture |
| Signal Curators | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LAYERS_Jas_Shalimar.png | Image by Jas Shalimar. | The Signal Curators are a group of young artists meeting monthly to plan exhibitions, workshops and other projects. Spanning a diverse array of art forms and conceptual interests, the group collaborate on experimental and innovative art experiences. To date, they have realised collaborative zines, collections of instructionals, group exhibitions at Fort Delta and public events at MPavilion. The Curators also plan monthly speakers and occasional workshops for the program, and any art-interested young person is welcome to join the group for further projects and collaborations. | BLAKitecture |
| Simon Knott | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Simon-Knott.jpg | Simon Knott is a founding director of BKK Architects. Simon has extensive experience in Architecture and Urban Design on a broad range of projects for government, institutional, commercial, retail and residential clients. Beyond practice he has tutored design and technology subjects at RMIT and Monash Universities; Over 10 years he was the co-host of a weekly architectural program, ‘The Architects’ for radio station 3RRR; He has co-hosted radio and TV shows for the ABC; is an active AIA contributor; and has written for numerous Architectural publications. Simon and BKK have represented Australia at three successive Venice Biennales (2008, 2010 and 2012). |
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| Simon Tait | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/spatial_CR_SeanVagg.jpg | Simon Tait. | Through his work with Yamaha Music Australia, OpenLIVE and myriad artistic endeavours Simon Tait has explored the far reaches of the audio universe, traversing embedded DSP programming, custom-built headless cloud audio processing, FIR directivity synthesis, PCB design and kilometres of cable through dusty roof spaces. Yamaha's Commercial Audio team has combined their Active Field Control (AFC3) enhanced acoustics system with object-based WFS rendering to deliver Australia's first hybrid spatial audio system for the Yamaha Premium Piano Centre. | BLAKitecture |
| Simona Castricum | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SimonaCastricum_Credit-NaomiLeeBeveridge-2000.jpg | Simona Castricum is a musician and architecture academic from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD. candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores intersections of gender nonconformity and queerness in the architecture and public space. As a musician, Simona’s love of percussion and techno makes her one of Melbourne’s unique underground live performers and DJs, as well as a community radio broadcaster on PBS FM. Simona is active in gender diverse advocacy through her work as a freelance writer, a member of Music Victoria’s Women’s Advisory Panel and the Victorian Pride Centre’s Community Reference Group. | BLAKitecture | |
| Simone Gervasi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-3.png | Simone has worked with ICD Property for six years in the development team. As an active Development Manager, her experience ranges from land subdivision projects, to medium and large scale apartment buildings, as well as retail and hospitality. An integral member of the ICD team, Simone is passionate about property development and understanding how some cities just ‘work’. Simone believes property development is about much more than just constructing roads and buildings, and extends to creating communities that people love to live in. Understanding the role developers play in responsibly creating products that emphasise a ‘value to society’, her end goal is to be able to inform the industry that thriving communities and positive commercial outcomes can, in fact, co-exist. | BLAKitecture | |
| Sir Nicholas Serota CH | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NS-cropped-1.png | Sir Nicholas Serota CH. |
Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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| Sir Peter Cook | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1272065_Peter-Cook-1.jpg | Graduate of the Bournemouth College of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he has been a pivotal figure within the architectural world for 50 years. A founder of the Archigram Group who were jointly awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA in 2004. In 2007 he received a Knighthood for his services to architecture, in 2011 he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Lund. He is also a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His recent books are ‘Drawing – the motive force of Architecture (Wiley) ‘Peter Cook Architecture Workbook’ (Wiley) and a full catalogue of his work will be published by UCL press. Former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Bartlett, he is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule. He was Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. | BLAKitecture | |
| Skye Haldane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Skye-Haldane_Credit_David-Hannah.jpg | Skye Haldane. Photo by David Hannah. | Skye Haldane is an award-winning landscape architect who is passionate about creating and managing high quality public spaces; demonstrating how the design of a city can allow everyone to pursue their potential. Currently, Skye is the manager of design at City of Melbourne, leading the in-house team of globally recognised landscape architects, architects and industrial designers who deliver projects that shape Australia’s fastest growing city. Notable projects include the transformation of Southbank Boulevard by creating 2.5 hectares of new public space, and Natureplay at Royal Park—awarded Australia’s Best Playground in 2016. Prior to joining City of Melbourne, Skye was a principal in private practice, contributing to more than fifteen years’ experience in leading design for major capital works for key civic spaces, new city developments and significant infrastructure projects. | BLAKitecture |
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Soju-Gang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_7500-1.jpg | Soju-Gang. | No stranger to the Melbourne party scene, Soju-Gang is hard to miss, and her DJ flavour hard to resist. She spins a set as powerful and eclectic as her personal style. With deep roots in '80s and '90s hip-hop, R&B and everything party, Soju-Gang has a hard-hitting presence in the local scene, as is swiftly becoming synonymous with a jam-packed dance floor and night out so good, you won’t remember much. Soju-Gang has been busy this past while, performing sets at Sugar Mountain festival, NAIDOC Week and Listen Out festival, and will play next year’s Groovin The Moo. She currently boasts two residencies at Melbourne party institutions—CBD’s Ferdydurke, and Fitzroy’s home of rap and hip-hop, Laundry Bar, where she’s a tasty ingredient in their weekly parties and cornerstone of their Girls To The Front female hip-hop events. Soju is also a collaborator of Laundry’s newest monthly party, Umami, “A hot pot celebrating all the flavours Burn City has to offer, as well as our LGBTIQ & POC communities.” If you like your party infectious, unpredictable and turned all the way up, you’re gonna be down with Soju-Gang. | BLAKitecture |
| Soli Tesema | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nelson-Mandela-Gig-.jpg | Soli Tesema. | Melbourne based twenty-four-year-old artist Soli Tesema is of one the finest up and coming R&B acts the city has to offer. Heavily inspired by Gospel music, Soli's smooth and soulful tones have captivated audiences Australia wide. With her debut single due for release by December 2018, the glimmering career of this young Rnb songstress is one to watch. | BLAKitecture |
| Sophie Gannon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FringeFurnitureAsks_SophieGannon_PhotoCourtesyofSophieGannon.jpg | Sophie Gannon. | Sophie Gannon is director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art. In 2017 Sophie Gannon Gallery presented Designwork01, the first in an inaugural exhibition devoted to design. Designwork02 was part of Melbourne Design Week in 2018. Prior to establishing her gallery in Melbourne in 2006, Sophie worked at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane and at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Gannon serves on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Heide Foundation. Sophie represents thirty leading contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. | BLAKitecture |
| Sophie Miles | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sophie.jpg | Sophie Miles. | Sophie Miles is a kundalini yoga teacher, host of podcast The Witching Hour for LNWY and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring. Recently completing her kundalini training, Sophie is interested in how mantra chants and the sound current vibrations can facilitate healing in our minds, bodies and spirits. Mistletone is an independent label and touring company, established in 2006 by Sophie with her husband Ash, and based in Melbourne. Mistletone was launched into the world with the release of House Arrest by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, followed by Ariel’s first Australian tour. Since 2006, Mistletone has promoted over a hundred tours for artists such as Beach House, Kurt Vile, Toro y Moi, Parquet Courts, Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Mercury Rev, Connan Mockasin, The Julie Ruin, The Clean, Perfume Genius, Cass McCombs, Julia Holter, Dan Deacon, Holy F**k and many more. Mistletone works closely with such great Australian festivals as Meredith and Golden Plains, Laneway Festival, Falls and Southbound Festivals, Sydney Festival, Sugar Mountain, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Groovin The Moo, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMADelaide, Woodford and Perth International Arts Festival. | BLAKitecture |
| Sophie Patitsas | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sophie-Patitsas-Image.jpg | Sophie Patitsas. | Sophie Patitsas is principal adviser with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. Sophie started her career in architectural practice in Melbourne and Singapore before joining the public sector in Victoria as an urban designer. She has since established a reputation as a respected collaborator, leader, advocate and strategic adviser on architecture and urban design within government. Sophie maintains close links with industry and schools of architecture and urban design in Victoria and is the current chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee for the Masters of Urban Design. Sophie's focus is on building design capability and promoting the value of design excellence for its ability to create delight and enhance people's experience of place. | BLAKitecture |
| Sophie Ross | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sophie-Ross.jpg | Sophie Ross. | Sophie Ross is an actor, theatre maker and social change activist. Sophie has performed extensively in theatres across the country and internationally. She has appeared for Melbourne Theatre Company in What Rhymes with Cars & Girls, The Waiting Room, and Cock; for Malthouse Theatre in The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; for Sydney Theatre Company in Disgraced, Before/After, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, Money Shots, Vs Macbeth, Oresteia, Comedy of Errors, Leviathan, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Palace/Hip Hip Hooray, Woman in Mind, and Gross und Klein (including a European tour); for the Royal Court in Narrative; for B Sharp/Small Things in Ladybird; for Griffin in The Bleeding Tree and Stoning Mary; and for Arena in The Sleepover. On screen, Sophie has appeared in the feature films Closed for Winter, The Jammed, Sucker, and Criminal; as well as the television series Hunters, Casualty and All Saints. As a theatre maker and collaborator, Sophie has developed new work with some of Australia’s most urgent theatrical voices, including post, Version 1.0, The Border Project, Lally Katz, Hilary Bell, Kate Mulvany, Nicola Gunn, The Guerilla Museum and Clare Watson. Sophie is co-founder and co-director of Safe Theatres Australia, a company committed to creating theatrical workspaces that are free of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination; workspaces that are safe for everyone. Sophie co-manages an online publication and resource hub, Asylum Insight, which provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy within an international context, publishing quality content to encourage informed debate about asylum policy. An independent non-profit organisation, Asylum Insight is committed to the principles of international human rights law, independence, and informed public discourse. Sophie is a perfectionist. | BLAKitecture |
| Sose Fuamoli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sose-Fuamoli.jpeg | Sose Fuamoli. | Sose Fuamoli is a music journalist, editor, radio host and publicist. An ardent supporter of young writers and music professionals, she has been a champion of a more diverse Australian music culture, while also profiling and reviewing some of the world’s biggest music festivals and artists in the United States and Europe. Sose's writing credits include over eight years with The AU Review and contributions to the likes of Rolling Stone Australia, Beat Magazine and Stella Magazine. She is an Australian Music Prize judge, as well as having served on the judging committee for the South Australian Music Awards, NT Song of the Year and the ARIA Awards. |
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| Soukous Ba Congo | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-4.23.31-pm.png | King Bell with his dynamic dance band "King Bell and Soukous Ba Congo" captures the audience with his passion and the visual excitement of the dance. The infectious rhythms range from exciting high energy dance to the slower and more sensual rhumba rhythms of the traditional music and dance of Central Africa. With his sensual dancing and flamboyant personality, King Bell has played a central role in the popularisation of African music and dance in Australia. | BLAKitecture | |
| Spanish Architects Society | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Spanish-Architects-Society-SAS-TEAM-1.jpg | Spanish Architects Society members at MPavilion 2018. | The Spanish Architects Society in Australia is a platform that aims to encourage an active link between Spanish and Australian architecture and design. It is conceived as a two-way bridge, being a meeting point between professionals, academia, government and institutions of both countries, as a platform to foster networking and knowledge sharing between Spanish and Australian architects and designers. The Society also aims to improve the visibility of the creative capacity of Spanish professionals, in disciplines directly related to architecture: interior design, sustainability, building materials, construction solutions, furniture and product design, and real estate. | BLAKitecture |
| Spoonbill | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Spoonbill-blue-wall.jpg | Spoonbill—aka Jim Moynihan—is a multi-instrumentalist, industrial designer, songwriter, audio-engineer, sound designer and electronic music producer. His prolific output has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music and built a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured productions. Jim started with a love of the drums that progressively shifted to percussion, and finally bloomed into an internationally successful act pushing genre-bending electronic productions. He has played countless live shows across the world at clubs and festivals in Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Jim is a restless sonic author constantly defying genres and experimenting with the potential of the vast sonic canvas. He has carved a unique niche within contemporary electronic music, building a worldwide reputation for his idiosyncratic sound design and richly textured high production values. In 2015 Spoonbill won ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Tinkerbox and came runner up for ‘Producer of the Year’ at the UK Glitch Hop Awards. |
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| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | BLAKitecture |
| State Library Victoria | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State-Library-Victoria_Collab-image.jpg | Photo courtesy of State Library Victoria. | State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library. It is a vibrant and vital cultural centre for all Victorians to discover new worlds, learn, create and connect with their community. As part of the Library's commitment to continue to be a library for all, the Vision 2020 redevelopment project will see the refurbishment of the Library’s incomparable heritage spaces, creation of innovative new spaces for children and teenagers, and the reinvention of our services as we embrace new technologies and promote digital literacy and creativity for all Victorians. | BLAKitecture |
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | BLAKitecture | |
| Stephanie Andrews | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stephanie-Andrews-1.jpg | Stephanie Andrews. | Stephanie Andrews began as a 3D artist at Pixar and has had a genre-spanning career around the intersection of art and technology ever since. She is currently the industry fellow lecturer in Virtual Reality for the Digital Media department at the RMIT School of Design. She has worked extensively in 3D graphics production and development, including virtual reality, animation, motion capture, programming, and UX design. Stephanie has been a leader in curriculum innovation in 3D experimental art, including winning major grants for stereoscopic research at the University of Washington. She’s been exhibiting internationally as a professional artist for more than twenty years, her works exploring kinetic sculpture, holography, digital imaging, and lighting installation. As an entrepreneur, she has also founded 3D product design companies for the online metaverse Second Life, and provided leadership to 3D printing start-ups. Recently, she spent three years as creative director for the Melbourne-based VR/neuroscience company, Liminal, and is completing her PhD at RMIT. | BLAKitecture |
| Stephen Choi | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Picture1-4.png | Stephen is a UK-registered architect and Australian-educated Project Manager with an MA in Sustainability & Design. He has been in the building industry for 17 years, working across multiple sectors and scales to advance towards a better environment. Stephen co-founded not-for-profit environmental building and research organisation Architecture for Change in 2011, has taught at various levels from Master’s Degree level to unemployed people looking to enter the industry. He is the current Executive Director of the not-for-profit Living Future Institute of Australia, and the Living Building Challenge Manager for Frasers Property Australia on the Burwood Brickworks retail centre. | BLAKitecture | |
| Stephen Yuen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StephenYuen_CR_Stephen-Yuen.jpg | Stephen Yuen. | Stephen Yuen is a graduate of Architecture and digital designer who completed his Master of Architecture with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Stephen's Master thesis investigated the emerging medium of virtual reality spaces as a therapeutic tool to aid individuals with social anxiety. Stephen continues to explore the capabilities of virtual reality in reference to architecture and mental health, and is currently employed at Vincent Chrisp Architects. | BLAKitecture |
| Stork Theatre | Stork Theatre is a uniquely Melbourne institution. Since its first production in 1983 at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Stork Theatre has specialised in bringing great works of literature to the stage. Each season is anchored in a performance reading of one of the ancient epics. Over the years, Stork Theatre has challenged and charmed audiences through adaptations of works of Homer, Dostoevsky, Duras and Camus. Stork Theatre also established the biannual Homerfest and “Looking for Odysseus” travel tours. Stork Theatre’s latest production is a homeric marathon: The Odyssey told in full over twelve hours by thirty different performers. Homer’s classic adventure story will be presented from beginning to end for the first time ever in Australia. This production will be a world premier for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey—the first ever English translation by a woman. Wilson brings a fresh and unique perspective to this epic tale, foregrounding the many powerful and important women present in the text. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Studio Wonder | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pip-McCully-of-Studio-Wonder_Photographed-by-Paul-Barbera.jpg | Pip McCully. Photo by Paul Barbera. | Studio Wonder is an interior architecture and design practice led by Pip McCully. With a sensitivity to concepts of the everyday, the practice embraces principles of slow design, relationships with surface and space, material selection, intricate details and the wonder of atmosphere. Projects span single-dwelling residential, branded retail environments, exhibition and installation design. Collaboration and shared experience are key to the practice ideals and with a research focus, members of the team are sessional lecturers in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. | BLAKitecture |
| Su-Yiin Lai | Su-Yiin Lai is an architecture graduate whose practice floats somewhere within the intersections of architecture and games. Her work usually ends up taking the form of deceptively palatable dystopias that look at the physical artefacts of the digital. A research assistant at SensiLab, Su-Yiin works across a number of projects where she creates 3D assets to be used in the Unity game engine, as well as virtual reality experiences and animations. | BLAKitecture | ||
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | BLAKitecture |
| Swampland Magazine | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Weedon_SwamplandPress_HIRES-5950.jpg | Photo by Alan Weedon. | Swampland is a bi-annual print publication championing longform Australian music journalism and photography. Launched in 2016, Swampland is a place for Australian music stories that straddle all genres, ages and locations that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Over five issues, Swampland's contributors have asked intelligent questions about the music that is being made here, or has been made previously, and have wondered what that says about the larger context of who we are. Previous contributors include Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Doug Wallen, Prue Stent & Honey Long, Mclean Stephenson, Agnieszka Chabros and more. | BLAKitecture |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | BLAKitecture | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | BLAKitecture |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | BLAKitecture |
| TEAGAN | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TEAGAN.jpg | TEAGAN. | TEAGAN is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne. In mid-2017, she began producing music in her bedroom between working in a medical laboratory and studying biomedicine at university. A self-taught musician, TEAGAN writes, composes and produces all of her songs. Turning her passion for music into bold, layered pop tracks, her writing intimately portrays her life and those within it. Crossing her fingers, she sent her work to Australian rapper Joelistics. Those songs resulted in him putting her in touch with fellow producer Beatrice from Haiku Hands. With support from MAV, TEAGAN has continued to build on those emotionally rich lyrics and textured sounds and is now ready to release her own music into the world. | BLAKitecture |
| Tenth Court Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TenthCourt_CR_Innez-Tulloch.jpg | Tenth Court's Matthew Ford. Photo by Innez Tulloch. | Tenth Court is an independent record label based in Brisbane and Melbourne whose MO is to make available to the world the wealth of extraordinary underground talent inhabiting the Oceania. Tenth Court will be celebrating it's fifth year in 2019 beginning with an intimate show at MPavillion, featuring three of their favourite rostered artists from over the years. Also in 2019, Tenth Court will present Australian tours for beloved international David Nance Band (USA) and Maraudeur (EU), and will finish off the year with their third bi-whenever-they-can-spare-the-energy DIY festival, expanding the three-day festival from it's origins in QLD to NSW, VIC and SA. | BLAKitecture |
| The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ALQADIRImonira_AlienTechnology2014_001_detail.jpg | 'Alien Technology' (detail), 2014 by Monira Al Qadiri. Image courtesy of the artist and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. | The hugely ambitious Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series returns to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) this summer, bringing significant art from across the Asia Pacific to Brisbane. This free contemporary art exhibition presents a unique mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight, featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries. The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider how art reflects life and shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Alongside the exhibition will be a thought-provoking cinema program, academic symposium, creative hands-on experiences for kids, tours, programs and special events for all ages, kicking off with opening weekend festivities 24–25 November 2018. Visit APT9 from 24 November 2018 to 28 Aril 2019. | BLAKitecture |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | BLAKitecture |
| The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PhotoAdamR.Thomas.jpg | Photo by Adam R Thomas. | The Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) is one of eight research clusters at RMIT University. The Design and Creative Practice ECP focuses on ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. DCP researchers are inventive, playful, explorative and progressive in their approach to real-world problems that lie at the intersection of digital design, sustainability and material innovation. Focused on critical, agile and interdisciplinary practice-based research, this platform is committed to advancing social and digital innovation and alternative pathways for impact through collaboration. The cluster asks how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to reimagine a world that has equality, bio-diversity and sustainability at its core; and how to look at the models for conceptualising design and creativity as creating value for industry. | BLAKitecture |
| The Echoes Project | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EchoesProject_Seafarars-image-Photo-by-Max-Milne-and-Ria-Soemardjo-design-by-Janette-Hoe.jpg | Photo by Max Milne and Ria Soemardjo. Design by Janette Hoe | Ria Soemardjo, Janette Hoe and Pongjit (Jon) Saphakhun collaborate to create an ongoing exploration of contemporary rituals in response to urban sites in Australia. Based in Melbourne, their contemporary performance work draws deeply from their personal connections to Thai, Chinese and Indonesian ceremonial traditions. Featuring intricate rhythmic compositions inspired by the rich heritage of Indonesian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, performed by Ron Reeves and Matt Stonehouse, two of Australia’s foremost world music percussionists. | BLAKitecture |
| The Letter String Quartet | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TLSQ-Outside-photo-Anthony-Paine.jpg | The Letter String Quartet. Photo by Anthony Paine. | The Letter String Quartet is a unique ensemble of acclaimed musicians: Steph O'Hara, Lizzy Welsh, Zoë Barry and Biddy Connor. Each member of the quartet plays, sings, composes and curates for the ensemble, and together they commission and collaborate with local and international composers developing new works for string quartet that are post-classical, experimental and improvisatory. Recent collaborators include Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Gang of Youths, The Orbweavers, Wally Gunn (Aus/US), Bree van Reyk, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist, Alice Humphries, Richard J Frankland, Erik de Luca (US) and Evelyn Morris. TLSQ have performed in Next Wave Festival, Festival Of Live Art, Metropolis New Music Festival, and present concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. | BLAKitecture |
| The Northcote Penguins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Armani-Performance-Drawing.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Northcote Penguins. | As part of the Arts Project Australia studio, the Northcote Penguins are a specialised group of seven artists, which focus upon contemporary professional practice within the wider Australian and International art culture. | BLAKitecture |
| The Orbweavers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Orbweavers_CR_-Dan-Aulsebrook-1.jpg | The Orbweavers. Photo by Dan Aulsebrook. | The Orbweavers (songwriter, composer and visual artist Marita Dyson and songwriter, composer and producer Stuart Flanagan) have received national and international praise for their highly evocative works, most recently Deep Leads (out now on Mistletone Records). Many of their musical compositions and performances have been inspired by history, natural science, place and memory. They recently undertook a fellowship at State Library of Victoria researching Melbourne's waterways, the changes industrialisation brought to the local creek and river environments, and the life of the people who lived and worked along the banks of the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the Merri, Moonee Ponds, Laverton and Stony creeks. | BLAKitecture |
| The Rogue Academy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rogue-Academy.jpg | Amanda Shone and Fiona Lee. | The Rogue Academy is an art education and research agency that offers a number of social and participatory art projects that address wider contemporary issues in society. Beyond established institutions, museums and known pedagogies, The Rogue Academy seeks alternatives for the production of knowledge that change contexts, cross disciplines and seek new approaches for engaging within public space. Founded and run by artist and researcher Fiona Lee and artist and educator Amanda Shone, the academy aims to set in motion alternative thinking through the social and participatory space. The agency, and its series of programs, is driven by a combined interest in social art practice and participatory public art. Fiona Lee’s research and art practice has looked at conversational engagement in art—as a means to generate and rethink old habits and build knowledge. Her works are primarily event-based and dialogical. She currently lecturers at Deakin University, teaching across contemporary visual culture, public art and art education. Amanda Shone works as an artist and arts educator. With a focus on participatory art, Amanda’s solo and collaborative practice is multidisciplinary, based within sculptural installation. Interested in the idea that reality is contingent on the viewer, Amanda’s work explores the difference between actual experience and preconceived ideas. | BLAKitecture |
| The Royal Swazi Spa | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Royal-Swazi-Spa-bnw-lorez-1.jpg | The Royal Swazi Spa. | The Royal Swazi Spa perform South African heritage and original repertoire. For the 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations the band will focus on the work of giant Hugh Masekela to highlight his musical legacy and contribution to freedom in South Africa. The Royal Swazi Spa have performed in Australia since 2001 and have shared the stage with South African legends Barney Rachabane, Marcus Wyatt and Hugh Masekela, this music is fresh, triumphant and very much alive as a new African anthem. The group is currently promoting its album, African Puzzle. | BLAKitecture |
| The Wolf Rayets | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Sweet-Threats.jpg | The Wolf Rayets | The Wolf Rayets are a post-apocalyptic Gospel Electronica group from Brunswick. Built around the stylings of three singers and a DJ, The Wolf Rayets is the latest brain child of Joel Ma (Joelistics) and includes the highly esteemed talents of singers Hailey Craimer, Alyesha Mehta and Karen Taranto. Collectively, the members of The Wolf Rayets are an alt-right radio host's worst nightmare, covering a range of intersectional identities including Chinese Australian, Sri Lankan Australian, Indian Taiwanese and Filipino Australian. The Sound of The Wolf Rayets exists somewhere between Phil Spector girl groups from the '50s, The Wu Tang Clan and a heavenly choir. | BLAKitecture |
| Thigh Master | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thigh-Master.jpg | Thigh Master. | Having toured Europe earlier this year before recording for a new album, Melbourne-via-Brisbane band Thigh Master have played only a handful of local shows this year. Join them as they mosey into their first Melbourne summer at MPavilion with a bunch of new songs and their friends Permits. | BLAKitecture |
| Three Thousand Thieves | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TWE_threethousandthieves-1100x550-c-center.jpg | Photo courtesy of Three Thousand Thieves. | It's amazing how many passionate, artisan coffee roasters there are in Australia. People who have dedicated their lives to the nectar of the gods. The mission of Three Thousand Thieves is to help you discover them all. A coffee subscription service that curates and creates amazing coffee experiences every month, every thirty days Three Thousand Thieves features a new Australian roaster and their specially picked beans. TTT doesn't dictate which beans the roaster features—the membership is about discovery, allowing the roaster to bring you the beans they're loving at any particular moment in time. Sometimes a fruity filter roast, sometimes a delicious espresso blend, delivered to your home or office—or to your MPavilion! Three Thousand Thieves brings specialty coffee to MPavilion every season. Discover delicious flavours on your next visit. | BLAKitecture |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | BLAKitecture |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | BLAKitecture |
| Timmah Ball | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Timmah.jpg | Timmah Ball. | Timmah Ball is an urban planner, freelance writer and zine maker. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, un Magazine, The Westerly, Overland, The Lifted Brow online, Cordite and The Griffith Review. She recently co-produced Wild Tongue Zine volume 2 for Next Wave, exploring the issues of unpaid labour and unacknowledged class privilege in the arts. | BLAKitecture |
| Tom + Captain | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/113658-5701-TomCaptain-BrookJames-Small-44.jpg | Tom and Captain. Photo by Brook James. | Tom + Captain are a dog-walking adventure team that take dogs on adventures to places the owners don't have time to go, Monday to Friday. Think beach, bush, rivers and mud—all off-lead. They don't just walk dogs around the block, they take them on adventures. | BLAKitecture |
| Tract Consultants | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tract-roof-terrace_Nicole-England.jpg | Tract rooftop terrace. Photo by Nicole England. | Tract is a leading national planning and design practice uniting the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design, planning and 3D media. Tract works collaboratively to shape contemporary urban thinking and create great places that positively impact communities and ensure the health and prosperity of the natural urban environment. | BLAKitecture |
| Triana Hernandez | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TrianaHernandez_CRSheaKirk.jpg | Triana Hernandez. Photo by Shea Kirk. | Triana Hernandez is a music journalist, artist manager (Hexdebt) and arts/music consultant. Her written work often revolves around identity politics and its intersections with the music industry, providing a platform for socio-cultural conversations around race, gender and culture. Her work has been published in Swampland, i-D, Noisey and more. In 2018 she was awarded the Hot Desk grant and residency by The Wheeler Centre. | BLAKitecture |
| Tristen Harwood | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4574.jpg | Tristen Harwood. | Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher, now living in Naarm. | BLAKitecture |
| Troy Innocent | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Troy-Innocent.jpg | Troy Innocent. | Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the re-imagination and co-creation of cities. In 2017, Troy was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to ‘urban code-making’, a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Troy’s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has twenty-five years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over sixty exhibitions. | BLAKitecture |
| Turret Truck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Turret-Truck.jpg | Turret Truck was instigated by bass player Bill McDonald. Following a series of sketches for bass and software synths that Bill had developed in his studio, he sought out Dave Brown (guitar) and Philip Brophy (drums) to extend his tracks into a trio for live performance. For Turret Truck, Bill controls software synths while playing bass and effects simultaneously; Dave deploys a scintillating arsenal of spectral hyper-harmonizing guitar effects; and Philip plays a kit with two snares, two kicks, no hi-hat, and a battery of prepared cymbals—plus a pad triggering samples of this same prepared drum kit. The name "Turret Truck" refers to the three-wheeled vans driven wildly around Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Maybe that's what Turret Truck's music sounds like. | BLAKitecture | |
| Two Birds Brewing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Two-Birds-profile.jpg | Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen of Two Birds Brewing. | Two Birds Brewing is Australia’s first female-owned brewing company, driven by Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen. The Two Birds story began with a single beer back in 2011 and after seven years it has grown to a range of five beers brewed all year round. The Two Birds range is flavoursome, approachable and just a little bit fun, from the original Two Birds Golden to the Two Birds Pale, Two Birds Taco (the perfect accompaniment to a Mexican feast) and the passionfruit summer ale, Two Birds Passion Victim, as well as an ever-changing range of limited-release brews on tap and in bottles. The home of Two Birds Brewing, affectionately called ‘The Nest’, is located in Melbourne at 136 Hall Street, Spotswood and is an easy five minutes walk from Spotswood Train Station. | BLAKitecture |
| UAP | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/160530_rs_22.jpg | Photo courtesy of UAP. | UAP collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. It has studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai. UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. | BLAKitecture |
| UB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UB_Headshop_2.jpeg | UB. | UB is a visual artist and community arts practitioner. She has learnt many different forms of visual art skills, such as printmaking, installation, video and performances in Korea. Since moving to Australia, UB has been initiating and facilitating visual arts workshops and collaborative community arts projects. She has developed strategic partnerships with twenty local organisations who support multiculturalism and co-created artworks with over 1,000 participants in Victoria. Her latest work Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-o-meter set to full on. See it at Mapping Melbourne 2018. | BLAKitecture |
| Upulie Divisekera | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Upulie-Divisekera.jpeg | Upulie Divisekera. | Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is currently a doctoral student at Monash University and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and The Guardian and appeared on ABC TV's panel show Q and A, while also regularly contributing to ABC Radio National. In 2011, Upulie participated in and won the online science communication competition, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here'. She spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2012 on dinosaurs, curiosity and change in science. In 2013, Upulie was one of three co-founders of the Real Scientists project, a rotating-curator Twitter account where a different scientist is responsible for a week of science communication. Real Scientists looks to democratise access to science through live diarising of a scientist's day on Twitter, as well as demonstrating the diversity in the sector. Upulie also provides training for academics, postgrads, clinicians and humanities students in science communication. | BLAKitecture |
| Urban Art Projects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Future-of-Robotics-by-Anthony-Weate-1.jpg | Photo by Anthony Weate. | Urban Art Projects (UAP) collaborates with architects, artists and designers in delivering creative outcomes for the public realm. UAP engages in all aspects of the delivery process from commissioning, curatorial services and public art strategies through concept generation and design development into fabrication and installation. With studios and workshops in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York and global satellite hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, Melbourne and Dubai, UAP takes pride in embracing uncommon creativity and extending creative practice. UAP is also collaborating with the IMCRC, Queensland University of Technology and RMIT University to use innovative robotic vision systems and software user-interfaces for design-led manufacturing with its Design Robotics Hub. | BLAKitecture |
| Valanga Khoza | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/13S3335-Edit.jpg | Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflect the places he has been and the people he has touched throughout his journey across the world as a political refugee, finally settling in Australia.
Valanga and his band will take you on a journey from rich vocal harmonies, rhythmic guitar, traditional stick drums to the lilting tones of kalimba. The songs range from township jive to haunting traditionally inspired melodies. All songs composed by South African born Valanga, tell stories of the past and present, a journey reminding us of our shared humanity.
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| Vanessa Bird | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VB-Photo-2-Michael-Rayner-2017.jpg | Vanessa Bird. Photo by Michael Rayner. | Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding-winning practice Bird de la Coeur Architects with a strong interest in local context and experimental housing models. The practice specialises in housing, ranging from multi-residential housing, to social housing, aged care, and single houses. Vanessa is a national councillor, Australian Institute of Architects and the immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. She is a board member of Architecture Media and The Australian Institute of Architects. She regularly contributes to mainstream media and journals on the role architecture plays in ensuring our cities and towns are sustainable and enriching. Vanessa is a member of the AIA Victorian Honours Committee, and has represented the AIA on juries, industry task forces and on Course Accreditation panels for several universities. She is a mentor to a number of younger women practitioners. Vanessa was a made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2008. Bird de la Coeur Architects is a member of the ‘Dancing Architects’ patron’s circle of Melbourne Festival. | BLAKitecture |
| Vicky Featherston Tu | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VFT-Portrait.jpg | Vicky Featherston Tu. | Vicky Featherston Tu is a designer with a specialist interest in creating participatory public installations for people of all ages. With over a decade of experience in exhibition and interior design, including projects for major cultural institutions, Vicky understands how to create public experiences that engage visitors and brings this knowledge to her interactive installations. When not designing, Vicky enjoys listening to podcasts, finding unusual places in Melbourne to explore with her kids, and making modular origami. | BLAKitecture |
| Victorian Guitar Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MPavililonWeb_Resonance2018_CR_MGF_.jpg | Victorian Guitar Orchestra. Photo by MGF. | Formed in 2009 through the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria, the Victorian Guitar Orchestra (VGO) was originally a forum for classical guitarists from all backgrounds to enhance their ensemble skills and gain further performance experience. Under the direction of Benjamin Dix, of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the VGO has now fast established itself as Victoria’s leading amateur guitar orchestra, having performed at the Melbourne Guitar Maker’s Festival, Melbourne International Guitar Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre and with artists such as Z.O.O Duo and MGQ (Melbourne Guitar Quartet). Through a blend of contemporary works, unique arrangements of time-honoured favourites and modern Australian compositions, the VGO strive to showcase the voice of the guitar in a way that has never been heard before. | BLAKitecture |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | BLAKitecture |
| Vince The Kid | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vince-the-Kid-image-by-Liz-Arcus.jpg | Vince The Kid. Photo by Liz Arcus. | Congolese-born Vince The Kid, at only fifteen years old, is one of the freshest young hip-hop talents coming out of Shepparton in northeast Victoria. Just trying to catch a vibe, support the cause and share around the music fam, Vince The Kid is a busy young artist trying to balance school, soccer and music life. He has been participating in MAV and St Paul’s African House Ignite Sound Sessions project for the past year, and most recently has recorded a track with young Indigenous artist KIAN as well as playing support spots for Baker Boy on his current Australian tour. | BLAKitecture |
| Virginia Dowzer | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VIRGINIA-DOWZER-By-Bronwyn-Kidd-.jpg | Photo courtesy of Bronwyn Kidd. | Virginia Dowzer is an unorthodox curator who specialises in temporary fashion related exhibitions. Virginia champions the unexpected and finds links to fashion though the work of multidisciplinary artists, designers and makers. She believes that fashion is art yet clothing is not. Virginia's work for the Melbourne Fashion Showcase at BoDW 2018 in Hong Kong involves curating the work of forty Melbourne-based artists into an exhibition platforming leading jewellers, costume designers, fashion designers, articulation artists, shoe makers, textile designers and milliners. The title of her exhibition is WE ARE LUXURY and will open at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai from 1 December until 9 December. | BLAKitecture |
| Virginia Trioli | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Trioli-Virginia.jpg | Virginia Trioli. | Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought as a speaker and MC, and combines a rigorous interviewing style with an often wicked sense of humour. In 1995 Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour—the Walkley Award—for her business reporting; in 2001, she won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister Peter Reith, over the notorious children overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, the Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at The Age and The Bulletin. For eight years she hosted the drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts. She is a regular fill-in host on the ABC's Q&A. Virginia currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is married with three step-children, a six-year-old and one chocolate Labrador. | BLAKitecture |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | BLAKitecture |
| WAG | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Get_WAG_Candid_Christmas_146.jpg | Photo courtesy of WAG. | Let’s get real: doggos share 86% of our DNA, but to us, they’re 100% human. WAG is a different breed of treat giving dog owners peace of mind and dogs nothing but a piece of quality meat in the form of a grain-free and dog-owner-guilt-free, natural treat. No long labels. No mongrel ingredients. WAG is a little bit cheeky, but with no fillers or additives. | BLAKitecture |
| Waterfall Person | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waterfall-person-photographercredit-Marie-Eon.jpg | Waterfall Person is the solo project of Annabelle and her 1000 magic keyboards. Her debut album will be released in 2019. | BLAKitecture | |
| Westside Circus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WestsideCircus_CR_SamaraClifford.jpg | Westside Circus. | Circus is a vibrant, physical activity increasingly recognised for the physical literacy it develops in young minds and bodies. Westside Circus, Melbourne’s leading not-for-profit charitable organisation creating quality circus experiences for young people aged three to twenty-five, uses circus to foster positive relationships between participants, families and communities, and promote health and wellbeing. WSC is the only funded circus in Melbourne working with young people as its core business and actively reaching in to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Last year WSC travelled 25,000 kilometres to reach over 3000 individuals and provide 15,000 workshop experiences, including hosting 1200 workshops at its venue in Preston. The Circus works with an array of communities, including Jewish, Islamic and Christian, refugee and asylum seekers, CALD groups, families experiencing inter-generational poverty, young people living with disability and local families, schools and community groups. Young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not just at the centre of what WSC does, they are the reason it exists. WSC believes in their right to access and participate in healthy, creative activities and that this access builds success in later life through the development of creativity and imagination. | BLAKitecture |
| Willing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Universal_Willing_MikeyWhyte.jpeg | Willing. Photo by Mikey Whyte. | Willing creates manifesto pop. From horny house bangers to yearning torch songs, this is queer electronica for your sins. A washed-up love child of Liza Minelli and Frank Ocean, on the venn diagram of theatre and pop they are both in the middle and next door. You may have heard Willing play at Howler, the Gasometer, Boney, Hugs & Kisses, fortyfivedownstairs, the Butterfly Club and the Malthouse Theatre, or getting spins on JOY 94.9, 3RRR and SYN. | BLAKitecture |
| Yamaha Music Australia | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7459.jpg | Photo courtesy of Yamaha Music Australia. | Yamaha Music Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, and is the distributor for all Yamaha Pro Audio, Audio Visual and Musical Instrument products. | BLAKitecture |
| Yarra Pools | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/yarra-pools.jpg | Image courtesy of Yarra Pools and Studio Octopi. | Inspired by successful urban river swimming projects globally and here at home, Yarra Pools is a community-led proposal to re-introduce recreation and water-play to the lower Yarra River (Birrarung) and, in doing so, to transform an underused section of the iconic river’s northern bank into a thriving community facility. Yarra Pools propose an active and vibrant riverside precinct that is accessible to all, bringing people a perspective of the river not seen since the middle of last century. Yarra Pools aims to bring people back to the river by advocating a swimmable and therefore healthy waterway all while celebrating a unique site’s cultural history by incorporating community involvement through design and ongoing operation. Produced by a small team of passionate Melburnians, Yarra Pools is seeking support to advance the project through a community-led, multi-staged design and construction process. | BLAKitecture |
| Ziggy Johnston and Miles Johnston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Johnston-brothers.png | Ziggy and Miles Johnston. | Internationally award-winning duo Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who share a deep passion for music and their instrument, the classical guitar. Through their guitar playing, the duo will capture the music of Spanish composers, including Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados. | BLAKitecture |
| Zoe Condliffe | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/profile-pic-Copy.jpg | Zoe Condliffe. | Zoe Condliffe is an experienced facilitator, gender advocate, artist and social entrepreneur who has worked with Plan International Australia and XYX Lab on Free To Be as well as working with women to tell stories collectively as a way of healing from trauma and violence. She is CEO and founder of She’s A Crowd, a digital storytelling platform for women to share their stories. Zoe is a PhD candidate in the XYX Lab. | BLAKitecture |
| Boris Portnoy | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boris-Portnoy-by-Linsey-Rendell.jpg | Boris Portnoy. Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Boris Portnoy is the director of All Are Welcome bakery in Northcote. | Bee bread: Human bread made using honeybee food technology |
| Merchant Road | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BreadCommons_EthiopiaWorkshop2_LinseyRendell_06-2.jpg | Photo by Linsey Rendell. | Merchant Road is a Melbourne catering and events company committed to working towards creating a fairer, more equal society. Catering for weddings, corporate events, product launches and just about everything in between, Merchant Road provides opportunities for women from refugee backgrounds to become self-sufficient and feel a sense of belonging and connection to their new home. Their traineeships are a life-changing chance, enabling the women to gain vital skills, familiarise themselves with Australian workplace culture, improve their self-confidence and secure ongoing employment. | Bee bread: Human bread made using honeybee food technology |
| Nic Dowse | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nic-Dowse-by-Lee-Grant.jpg | Nic Dowse. Photo by Lee Grant. | Nic Dowse is the founder of the Honey Fingers studio, a creative and collective project that explores the connections between farming, food, art, history, design and education, whose work always revolves around bees. | Bee bread: Human bread made using honeybee food technology |
| Bedroom Suck Records | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsr_press_new.jpg | Bedroom Suck Records. | Bedroom Suck Records began in the steamy sharehouses of inner-suburban Brisbane, perched over the crazy hills and tropical growth of that remarkable town. It began out of pure need—as darkness settled over those hills, bands would gather and make their own fun, putting on incredible shows of energy and talent, playing only to each other and a few stray passersby. The music created at these house parties would float into the night and fade amongst the palm trees, never to be heard again. Eventually, someone decided to get it down on tape, and Bedroom Suck was born. Since then, BSR have been honoured to capture and share with the world work from the likes of Blank Realm, Totally Mild, Boomgates, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Terrible Truths, Lower Plenty and so many more. The label prides itself on calling this roster of artists a family, and treats each individual with as much love and respect as another. The Bedroom Suck family is a group of independent, like-minded artists sharing their music with a global audience. BSR strongly believes in creativity, honesty and innovation, and hope to foster a vibrant and welcoming music scene in everything we do. | Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Mindy Meng Wang x Sui Zhen’ |
| DJ Cookie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cookie_press.jpg | DJ Cookie is the moniker of Angela Schilling, a Thai-Australian artist and curator currently living in Adelaide. Having toured with bands such as Swimming, Quivers, Take Your Time and working with sound for the gallery and beyond in the past few years, she has been a resident DJ at Ferdydurke in Melbourne and Ancient World in Adelaide, playing parties and bars in between. Her true loves are soul, pop and RnB as well as garage and bass in the darker hours. | Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Mindy Meng Wang x Sui Zhen’ | |
| Mindy Meng Wang | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMGL7147.jpg | Mindy Meng Wang. Photo by Luke Byrne. | Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian musician, teacher and composer. Her cross-cultural life and professional experience create her unique style, which has been influenced by Chinese classical and western contemporary music. She excels in experimental and improvisation and her long-term vision is to create a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China. Mindy has studied a traditional instrument called the Guzheng in China with leading masters since the age of seven and started giving solo performances at the age of ten. She has been active in Australia since 2011. In 2015, Mindy collaborated with Shanghai sound artist MHP and premier dance company CHIUCOX for a sold out season of a contemporary dance show called “Do you speak Chinese” (Dance Massive 2015), which has been resident and developed in the Malthouse Melbourne, Footscray Arts Centre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and in Shanghai. In 2016, she was invited to perform with Regurgitator at NGV for the closing of the Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei exhibition. Mindy has performed at Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA, Port Ferry Festival and AsiaTOPA. | Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Mindy Meng Wang x Sui Zhen’ |
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | Bedroom Suck Records presents ‘Music in Exile: Mindy Meng Wang x Sui Zhen’ |
| Bakehouse Studios | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bakehouse_CR_Yana-Amur.jpg | Photo by Yana Amur. | From its humble beginnings down a bluestone lane in North Fitzroy to its landmark, award-winning spaces on Hoddle Street, Bakehouse Studios have been at the heart of Melbourne’s localand international music scenes for over 25 years. Around 400 musicians pass through Bakehouse every week, from solo singer-songwriters and kids having their first jam, to grassroots local regulars and an array of international touring artists as diverse as Tool, Missy Higgins, Olivia Newton-John, Beck, Ed Sheeran, the MC5, Cat Power, The Cat Empire, Vance Joy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Judas Priest, as well as Bakehouse favourites The Saints and The Drones. In October 2013, owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean received an overwhelming response to their tribute to Lou Reed through two giant posters on the front of their iconic studios. Since then, the wall has become a permanent exhibition space, viewed by up to one million motorists per week. The success of the public art project soon sparked a new idea for visual artists to reimagine Bakehouse’s interiors with immersive installations in the old rehearsal rooms, with these rooms now featuring the handiwork of artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Julia deVille, Mick Turner, Peter Milne and The Hotham Street Ladies. | Bakehouse sessions: Secret rehearsals |
| Don Letts | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Letts.jpg | Don Letts. Photo by David Crow. | Don Letts’s reputation has been firmly established in the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late '70s and well into the new millennium. He came to notoriety as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae in 1977. Using the DIY punk ethic, he made his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, in 1978, going on to direct over 400 music videos for a diverse range of artists from The Clash to Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs to Elvis Costello. In the mid-'80s he formed the group Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He directed the hit Jamaican film Dancehall Queen and films for Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Clash’s Westway to the World, for which he won a Grammy in 2003. Don continues to make films and DJs globally. In 2007 he released his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, and Headgear Films are currently finishing a film on the man himself. | Bakehouse sessions: Secret rehearsals |
| Kylie Auldist | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kylie-Auldist-credit-Cindy-Lever-2.jpg | Kylie Auldist. Photo by Cindy Lever. | Kylie Auldist is at centre stage of the funk, soul and disco scene in Australia. Described by The Music as “Melbourne’s high priestess of soul”, Kylie has a distinctive voice that can run the gamut from soaring vocal pyrotechnics to heart-wrenching tenderness, and her energy on stage is absolutely electric—with a huge dose of boogie power to boot. You are definitely invited to the party, but you had better be able to keep up! Kylie’s latest album, Family Tree, saw her shift in style to embrace her love of contemporary electronic dance music, and features influences from the hedonistic, golden age of disco, funk and boogie. | Bakehouse sessions: Secret rehearsals |
| On Diamond | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/On-Diamond-Press-Shot-One-Damian-Stephens-2018-10mb.jpg | On Diamond. Photo by Damian Stephens. | Combining the pop song form with an improvisatory freedom of expression, five piece On Diamond are a genre-breaking act lead by songwriter/vocalist Lisa Salvo. The band's energetic sound is made up of cascading melodies, unfettered effects and an interactive group dynamic. Born out of Lisa’s solo project, the band evolved into a more collaborative unit, moving further away from a conventional pop sound and into the avant-garde, while firmly anchored by incisive songwriting. On Diamond have released three singles, most recently 'How’, which has been turning heads in the lead up to the release of their debut album in April 2019 on Eastmint Records.
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| Rudely Interrupted | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rudely-large.jpg | Rudely Interrupted. | Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia’s most unique independent rock acts, touring and releasing their brand of pop-rock anthems across the globe since 2006. The group has independently achieved fourteen international tours in eleven countries, five studio releases, an award at Cannes Lions 2011 (for the film clip to their song Close My Eyes) and an AFI-nominated rock documentary. Rudely Interrupted have endured a few line-up changes, but the core creative force of Rory Burnside, Rohan brooks and the stage genius of Sam Beke have created a path for their critically acclaimed music to be seen and heard all over the world. In 2018, the band entered their twelfth year with a spanking new record, Love You Till I Die, touring the record to Germany, Sweden and Poland before embarking on an Australian run of shows. | Bakehouse sessions: Secret rehearsals |
| Sweet Whirl | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-9.11.17-am.png | Melbourne band Sweet Whirl is fronted by songwriter, instrumentalist and vocalist Esther Edquist, and hits a bittersweet balance between seductive musicality and poignant lyrical insight. Starting out as a solo project for bass and voice, Sweet Whirl's first release "O.K. Permanent Wave" was put out on cassette tape by Nice Music in 2016 and was the first release on the label to sell out two consecutive runs. In late 2017 the project expanded to a three-piece band for the recording of a suite of songs that will be released in early 2019. Work on a full length album is underway, and Sweet Whirl's current live performances reflect the energy of this exciting new project; each show explores a different version of known material, a playing with genre, a change in personnel or a change of pace. A consummate yet disarming showman, Edquist's live performances are integral to her songwriting process, and it's this which has characterised Sweet Whirl as truly generous, engaging and repeatable musical experience. | Bakehouse sessions: Secret rehearsals | |
| Systa BB | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Systa-bb-.jpg | Systa BB. | For the past twenty-six years, Systa BB has been producing and presenting radio, MCing and DJing, curating film and music festivals and sharing music that binds us. From her current radio show, The Good, the Dub and the Global, on 3RRR to lighting up the dance floor from Stonnington Jazz Festival to Jamaican Music and Food Festival, she brings community in all she does. Lee Scratch Perry, LKJ, Dub Syndicate, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti n Natacha Atlas are all artists Systa BB has played with, as well as appearing at many festivals and industry conferences, talking radio. Her current obsessions are preparing to MC her umpteenth year at WOMADelaide 2019, and Music Victoria Chair of the Global Genre Award Panel. She ain't done yet… | Bakehouse sessions: Secret rehearsals |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eliza-Scott.jpg | Australian Youth Orchestra's Eliza Scott. | The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians. Its training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia: from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged twelve to thirty. The AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, the AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-one international tours since its first in 1970. Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide. | Australian Youth Orchestra chamber players |
| Australian National Academy of Music | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ANAM2018_Mana-Ohashi_photo-by-Pia-Johnson_Cropped.jpg | Mana Ohashi. Photo by Pia Johnson. | The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the training of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through public performance in venues across Australia, sharing the stage with the world’s finest artists. With an outstanding track record of success, ANAM alumni work in orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, performing as soloists, contributing to educating the next generation of musicians, and winning major national and international awards. | Australian National Academy of Music presents Golden Gate Brass |
| Golden Gate Brass | Formed in 2017 at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Golden Gate Brass is an ensemble dedicated to providing high quality performances of brass repertoire. Its members are Michael Olsen and Fletcher Cox (trumpets), Aidan Gabriels (horn), Jackson Bankovic (trombone), and Jason Catchpowle (tuba). Golden Gate Brass have appeared in concert at ANAM, Four Winds, The Savage Club, The Brunswick Green and at the National Gallery of Victoria and have collaborated with Ad Lib Collective and the Corelia Quintet. Each member of the ensemble maintains an impressive career in their own right, having collectively appeared in every full-time professional orchestra in the country as well as in numerous other performances, festivals and competitions across Australia. Golden Gate Brass provide performances which are high energy, innovative and exciting. They have also shared their experience with younger musicians through their involvement at ANAM, UWA, Four Winds and South Coast Music Camp. Golden Gate Brass enjoy sharing their love of music with a younger audience and with those that may not have previously had opportunities to see a chamber ensemble perform. They are passionate about commissioning new works to augment the brass quintet repertoire and aim to bring high quality performances of brass quintet music to the public. | Australian National Academy of Music presents Golden Gate Brass | ||
| Australian Music Vault | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roger-Knox-in-Conversation-MPavilion-image-2000-wide-Collaborator-page-Image-courtesy-of-the-Australian-Music-Vault.jpg | Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Vault. | The Australian Music Vault is located at Arts Centre Melbourne and includes unique stories, archival footage, interactive experiences and iconic objects drawn from Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Australian Music Vault puts you up close with the best of the Australian music industry. | Australian Music Vault presents Roger Knox in song and story |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Annaliese Redlich | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annaliese-Redlich-MPavilion.jpg | Annaliese Redlich. | Known for her radio show Neon Sunset on 3RRR FM and DJing at events like Meredith Music Festival and St Jeromes Laneway Festival, Annaliese Redlich brings eclectic bedroom jams, luminous sounds, carpet stickers and non-genre specifics to Friday Night Fiestas at MPavilion. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Ben Keck | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-1.jpg | Ben Keck. Photo by Tom Ross. | Ben Keck is a director of Fieldwork, where he fulfils the business management role. Ben is also a strategy director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. While at university, a one-year exchange in Berlin opened Ben’s eyes to the potential of well-designed cities which sparked his interest in small footprint living, a movement which he hopes to contribute towards and advance in Melbourne, where he lives with his partner Chelsea, his son Reuben and daughter Cecilia. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Dave Martin | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Living-Closer-Together-Symposium_DaveMartin_Photo-by-Dan-Hocking_2000px-Landscape.jpg | Dave Martin. Photo by Dan Hocking. | After working for decades in the construction industry as a highly awarded builder, Dave Martin found his business soulmates in Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman of impact portfolio Small Giants. Together the trio have created The Sociable Weaver Group, a family of businesses to create positive impact across the built environment. Working in design and building, construction, joinery and development, Dave and his team are passionate about shifting the Australian dream to create homes that are healthier and more affordable for people and the planet. Some of the Group's recent project's include The 10 Star Home, Victoria's first ten-star home, and The Commons Hobart, a community-focused development in Tasmania. Dave believes that we should all be able to live in homes that nourish us physically and mentally, bring us closer to nature, to community and to self. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Dr Andrea Sharam | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomAlves.jpg | Dr Andrea Sharam. Photo by Tom Alves. | Dr Andrea Sharam is a senior lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. Andrea has extensive experience in social research on housing and homelessness, but is also highly experienced in other areas of social research including public policy and urban governance, with a focus on social and economic disadvantage. She has held roles in the community housing and homelessness sectors and was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland between 2004 and 2008 where she was an influential member of council’s Urban Planning Committee and held the portfolios for affordable housing and women. Her work over the past decade has raised the profile of single older women as a new cohort at risk of homelessness. Her highly innovative conceptual and theoretical work on housing as a matching market is a significant scholarly, public policy and practical contribution to improving housing affordability. It has resulted in for example the ground-breaking financing deal between not-for-profit housing provider Nightingale Housing Ltd and its social impact investors. Prior to RMIT University, Dr Sharam spent six years at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. She is currently a member of Strategy Board for the Melbourne Housing Exposition. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Eugenia Lim | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_BryonyJackson.jpg | Eugenia Lim. Photo by Bryony Jackson. | Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation to explore nationalism and stereotypes with a critical but humorous eye. Lim invents personas to explore alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed at the TATE Modern, Dark MOFO, ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, GOMA, ACMI, Asia TOPA, firstdraft, Artereal Gallery, FACT Liverpool and EXiS Seoul. She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre New York, Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio and the Robin Boyd Foundation. In 2019, Lim is included in The National 2019: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey of contemporary practice and is incoming co-director (with Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms) of experimental artistic company, Aphids. In 2018-20, she is a Gertrude Contemporary studio artist. In addition to her solo practice, collaboration and community are important to Lim’s work. Lim co-founded Channels Festival, was the founding editor (and current editor-at-large) of Assemble Papers and co-founded temporal art collective Tape Projects (2007–2013). Lim teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and sits on advisory committees for Testing Grounds and Creative Victoria’s Creative Spaces Working Group. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Mitra Anderson-Oliver | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_MitraAndersonOliver.jpg | Mitra Anderson-Oliver. | Mitra Anderson-Oliver has been working for over a decade as a policy adviser in urban planning, housing and environmental law. Also a board member of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-run studios in Collingwood, Melbourne, Mitra is interested in the politics of city building and the creative forces that drive it. Mitra has spent time working and studying in Lyon, France and Mumbai, India and has published several articles with Assemble Papers, including profiles of legendary architect and urbanist Jan Gehl; City of Melbourne’s “urban choreographer” Rob Adams and investigations into residential planning policy in Melbourne. Mitra has been involved in reform of apartment standards, planning legislation for affordable housing, and policy on urban renewal and enterprise precincts in Victoria. Mitra lives in an apartment with her partner and young child. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Monique Woodward | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_IsobelMoy.jpg | Monique Woodward. Photo by Isobel Moy. | Monique Woodward is co-founder of award-winning practice WOWOWA Architecture with Andre Bonnice and Scott Woodward, Small Practice Forum co-chair, EmAGN co-chair and representative on the Australian Institute of Architects Vic Chapter Council. Monique is this year’s Victorian Emerging Architect Prize recipient and recently joined the board of Yarra Pools, a non-for-profit organisation working towards a swimmable Yarra. In 2015, Monique won the National Dulux Study Tour Prize and is now working on Nightingale Village in Brunswick, seven architects with seven sites building seven communities. With a team of nine designing from a shopfront in Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, WOWOWA is passionate about creating meaningful, contemporary, idea-based spaces that are socially useful and publicly generous. Current clients include the Victorian School Building Authority, the University of Melbourne, Small Giants Developments and a collection of incredible families who know life's too short for boring spaces! | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Quino Holland | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss.jpg | Quino Holland. Photo by Tom Ross. | Quino Holland is a director of Fieldwork where he leads the architecture team. He is also a design director of Assemble, a residential property developer focused on improving housing affordability, and a co-founder of Assemble Papers, a weekly online and bi-annual print publication about the culture of living closer together. An award-winning architect with eighteen years experience in the industry, Quino has a keen interest in European-style apartment living, having spent three years living in a thirty-square-metre apartment in Copenhagen. Quino now resides in a matriarchal household with three strong females: Eugenia his wife, Ida his daughter and Chips the greyhound. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Sarah Lynn Rees | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sarah-Lynn-Rees.jpg | Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo by Alan Weedon. | Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Sui Zhen | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sui-Zhen-credit-Peter-Schmidt.jpg | Sui Zhen. | Sui Zhen is the alias of Melbourne-based artist Becky Sui Zhen. After EPs Female Basic and Body Reset , she released the dream-beat world of Secretly Susan in 2015, marking a return to more traditional vocal-led pop songs inspired by lover’s rock, dub lounge and bossanova synth pop. Sui Zhen is a versatile musician who has appeared most recently with heat-beat band NO ZU on vocals, as well as in a recent collaboration with Tornado Wallace on Today, a favourite on Double J that has piqued the attention of tastemakers worldwide. Secretly Susan was released through Remote Control Records, Two Syllable Records (USA) and a CD release in Japan with P-Vine Records with critical claim from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media. Fresh from performances at SXSW, Sugar Mountain Festival and an artist residency in Hokkaido, Japan, Sui Zhen is now developing her next album and persona. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Vlad Doudakliev | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogetherSymposium_CR_TomRoss-2.jpg | Vlad Doudakliev. Photo by Tom Ross. | Vlad Doudakliev is an architect at Fieldwork who since 2014 has worked on educational, commercial, cultural and multi-residential projects across a variety of scales around Australia. With a deep interest in the public role of architecture in shaping an individual’s experiences of spaces, Vlad explores these themes in his projects thorough rigorous research, user engagement, design expression and detailing. He is an advocate for the agency that architects must have in the discussions and actions involved in the shaping of our cities. Vlad has been an editor of Architect Victoria magazine (2014–2017), and PLACE magazine (2012–2013), exploring a range of themes in architecture and the urban environment, both through editorial and in collaboration with a variety of guest editors. Vlad is the leader of Fieldstudies, a research group within Fieldwork that has a mandate to explore the multifaceted issue of housing affordability within Australia. Within the scope of this research, he is currently teaching a Masters Architectural Design Studio at the University of Melbourne focusing on the opportunities of build-to-rent development model for an apartment building proposal for a site in Melbourne. He has previously also taught architectural history and theory at Monash University. | Assemble Papers presents ‘Living closer together: Symposium’ |
| Assemble Papers | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssemblePapersCollaborator_CR_JasmineFisher-3.jpg | Photo by Jasmine Fisher. | Assemble Papers is a weekly online and biannual print publication exploring small footprint living and the culture of living closer together. Based in Melbourne, Assemble Papers celebrates the local while taking a global perspective on art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Taking a slow approach to the internet, AP publishes a free weekly newsletter of city-centric content. Subscribe on their website and pick up a copy of the current issue at MPavilion all summer long! | Assemble Papers issue #10 launch: ‘Housing’ |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | Asialink Arts presents Melanie Lane |
| Melanie Lane | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melanie-Lane-headshot_credit_©BarbaraDietl.jpg | Melanie Lane. Photo by Barbara Dietl. | Melanie Lane is a choreographer and performer based between Berlin and Melbourne. As a performer she has worked with various companies and artists such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, Tino Seghal, Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move, performing worldwide. Since 2007, Melanie is artistic collaborator to Belgian dance company Kobalt Works | Arco Renz, collaborating on projects in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Indonesia. As a choreographer, Melanie has established a repertory of works performing in international festivals and theatres such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin amongst others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Lucy Guerin Studios, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig. | Asialink Arts presents Melanie Lane |
| Asialink Arts Global Project Space | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Skywalker-Beijing-4.jpeg | Skywalker Beijing. Photo courtesy of Asialink Arts. | Asialink Arts is central to Australia-Asia contemporary cultural engagement. Through a new initiative Global Project Space (GPS), it instigates collaborative and flexible partnerships, develops projects that produce new artistic works and deliver national and international outcomes for the Australian cultural sector. Fuelled by experimentation and driven by networks, GPS aims to be central to Australia-Asia creative engagement. | Asialink Arts presents Hugh Davies |
| Hugh Davies | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hugh-Davies-and-Omikuji-Puzzle-Cabinet.jpg | Hugh Davies. | Hugh Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and media researcher. In 2017 he was an Asialink creative exchange resident exploring, connecting and curating experimental and independent games in the Asia Pacific region. This project continues his fifteen-year practice using games as an artistic medium and six-year directorial involvement with the Freeplay Independent Games Festival. With creative output spanning sculpture, installation, image and video production, games and participatory practice, Hugh’s works as an artist and game designer have been presented in Europe the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In 2014, Hugh received his PhD from Monash University studying transmedia games and mixed reality experiences, and he continues research into expansive games that transcend traditional boundaries and expectations. | Asialink Arts presents Hugh Davies |
| Amy Muir | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MiddleCity_CR_PeterBennets.jpg | Amy Muir. Photo by Peter Bennetts. | Amy Muir is a director at Muir Architecture and brings over fifteen years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. Amy was appointed as the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter President on March and was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects 2016 National Emerging Architect Prize. | Architecture, design, gender and education |
| Clare Cousins | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blakitecture_Clare-Cousins_John-ORourke.jpg | Clare Cousins. Photo by John O'Rourke. | Clare Cousins Architects has evolved its core philosophy of quality, materiality and experiential architecture under the auspices of its founder. Establishing the practice in 2005, Clare Cousins has refined her approach to reflect the value she places on collaborative relationships with clients, builders and craftspeople, and the broader architecture profession, where she plays a significant role. Whether the projects are large, medium or small, judgement is applied to the fit between client and practice to ensure the best mutual outcomes are drawn from site, scheme and budget. Clare is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the current National President. She is an inaugural investor in Nightingale and is now undertaking her own Nightingale project, a socially, financially and ecologically sustainable multi-residential housing model where architects lead the project as both designer and developer. | Architecture, design, gender and education |
| Jefa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4330988-3x2-700x467.jpg | Jefa Greenaway. | Jefa Greenaway is currently a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, focussing on Indigenous curriculum development, and is also director of Greenaway Architects, a holistic design practice undertaking architectural, landscape, interior and urban design projects for private, commercial and educational clients. Jefa’s practice work includes such projects as the Koorie Heritage Trust, design principles for Aboriginal Housing Victoria and currently the Wilin Centre at the VCA and the New Student Precinct at the University of Melbourne. His project Ngarara Place is currently exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy. As founding chair of the not-for-profit advocacy group Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (IADV), member of the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (University of Melbourne), he seeks to amplify opportunities to embed Indigenous knowledge systems and design thinking within both practice and academia. Jefa has been a key contributor towards the International Indigenous Design Charter as both an executive committee member and regional ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance) and recently curated Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust. He is also an architectural commentator with a regular segment for ABC Radio 774 Melbourne. | Architecture, design, gender and education |
| Karen Alcock | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Karen-Alcock.jpg | Karen Alcock. | MAA is led by principal Karen Alcock. Karen places a strong emphasis on the critical role of design in architectural practice, in addition to a strong design focus, Karen also brings to the practice strengths in project delivery and practice management. Karen is actively involved in promoting the importance of design and architecture in the community. She is the Chair of The Melbourne University Architecture Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter Council. Karen was made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2016. | Architecture, design, gender and education |
| Matt Gibson | Matt Gibson brings wide and varied experience having worked within various architectural and interior design offices both in Australia and the UK before setting up his practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in 2003. Matt has an intimate experience of various project types including large scale institutional and commercial projects through to smaller scale retail, hospitality and residential design. MGA+D has produced numerous projects within the residential sector yet prides itself on being able to provide rigorously generated design solutions within a wide variety of project types and scales. The practice’s growth has been based on promoting the principles of innovation & collaboration whilst truly fusing the disciplines of Interior Design and Architecture within a medium-sized practice. MGA+D has received numerous local and international awards including most recently the AIA John George Knight award for Heritage Architecture in Victoria. Matt has been a guest tutor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University’s Schools of Architecture. Matt has sat as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects Awards Program, is a member of the AIA Victorian Chapter Council, a member of the AIA Victoria Awards Committee, the convenor of the AIA Victoria Medium Practice Forum, the chair of the AIA Victoria Practice of Architecture Committee and a member of the newly formed Robin Boyd Circle. | Architecture, design, gender and education | ||
| Rob McGauran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rob-McGauran-image.jpg | Rob is a founding director of MGS Architects and leads the masterplanning, design advocacy and urban design discipline in the practice. His particular areas of interest are around the themes of knowledge cities, inclusive cities, Sustainable Cities, Creative Cities and Connected Cities and the buildings and programs that support these themes. Completed projects include a portfolio of award winning Urban, Campus and Precinct renewals and Affordable Housing, Heritage Renewal, Mixed-use and Local Government projects. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Practice and Urban Design at Monash University and a board member of the Australia’s largest philanthropic community fund, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and was a Future Ambassador for Future Melbourne 2026, AA board Member of Housing Choices Australia and University Architect for Monash University. | Architecture, design, gender and education | |
| Ross Turnbull | Ross Turnbull is the executive officer of Working Heritage. Ross has a background in architecture and construction and over twenty-five years’ experience working across the fields of heritage conservation, project management and building construction in both the public and private sectors. Before joining Working Heritage, Ross worked for Root Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He has a particular interest in cities and urbanism with a focus on how cities can conserve and adapt their historic fabric to enable the economic development and social outcomes that are critical to urban life. | Architecture, design, gender and education | ||
| Sofie Kvist | As project manager at Gehl, Sofie Kvist has a focus on public realm strategies, urban transformation and public space design. She works with projects in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Latin America for both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organisations. Her educational background as an urban designer combined with her experience of working as a landscape architect provide Sofie with an ability to connect strategic urban design to physical design at eye level which is rooted in user-oriented design. Sofie is currently leading Gehl's efforts in Downtown Vancouver, a rapidly growing city much like Melbourne, and on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, where testing temporary installations and measuring their effect will assist with framing a people-centered vision for the future of the street. | Architecture, design, gender and education | ||
| Stefan Preuss | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stefan.jpg | Stefan was appointed Associate Victorian Government Architect in October 2016. He is a leading advocate of innovative design and sustainability in the built environment combining his experience in executive leadership with architectural practice and technical expertise in Australia and Europe. Stefan has taken a lead role in a number of award winning buildings and government programs, which foster better places for people, a healthier environment and better life cycle economics. Beyond his core roles Stefan has contributed significantly to the development and advocacy of key industry benchmarks in the built environment. These include the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) where Stefan served as National Steering Committee member for six years as well as Green Star, for which Stefan has also been an assessor and instructor. Internationally, Stefan represented Australia as the Executive Committee Member in the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Program between 2010 and 2016. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture as well as Environmental Design. | Architecture, design, gender and education | |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | Architecture, design, gender and education |
| The Australian Institute of Architects | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lyons_41X_JohnGollings.jpg | Australian Institute of Architects tower by Lyons. Photo by John Gollings. | The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession in Australia, representing 11,000 members, and works to improve built environments by promoting quality, responsible, sustainable design. The Victorian Chapter of the Institute consciously engages with various sectors of the industry in order to provide a varied set of views and expertise. By doing this, it widens the conversation and allows for a much broader audience to highlight challenges and common issues faced across industries. | Architecture, design, gender and education |
| Andy Fergus | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2187.jpg | Andy Fergus. | Andy Fergus is a design advocate at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and teaches at the Melbourne School of Design in the Masters of Architecture program. Andy's primary role comprises design negotiation on major projects and leads the development of design excellence policy in central Melbourne, including the recent Central Melbourne Design Guide. This advocacy and regulatory focus is balanced with a design advisory role for Nightingale Housing and an ongoing research focus on citizen led urban development models in Northern Europe. Andy's multidisciplinary background encompasses urban design, urban planning and architecture, reflecting experience and interest across all scales of the urban environment. With current and past roles in government, nonprofit, private sector urban design, architectural practice and activism, Andy brings a strong understanding of the value and limitations of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to urbanism. | Architecture is good for you |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | Architecture is good for you |
| Isabella Bower | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IsabellaBower-CR_JamesRafferty-02.jpg | Isabella Bower. Photo by James Rafferty. | Isabella Bower is a PhD candidate at Deakin University supported by the School of Architecture and Built Environment and the School of Psychology. Her research investigates the relationship between the design of the built environment and emotion. This involves creating and testing an evaluative framework for measuring correlates of neurophysiological response to design components of interior environments. Most recently she was awarded the inaugural John Paul Eberhard Fellowship by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego, United States. Whilst undertaking her PhD, Isabella works as a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and assists teaching Human Environments Relations, a postgraduate subject exploring environmental psychology in educational and health spaces. Isabella has also worked with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of Victoria, sits on the Victorian Chapter committee of Learning Environments Australasia and volunteers as a Family Support Officer with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds a B.Design(Arch), M.Arch and has undertaken PhD coursework with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. | Architecture is good for you |
| Linda Cheng | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20170926_81D3206-Linda-Cheng.jpg | Linda Cheng. | Linda Cheng is editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at University of Melbourne and trained as a student architect. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines. | Architecture is good for you |
| New Architects Melbourne | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAM22_Sharon-Crabb_13_2000px-wide-72dpi.jpg | Photo by Sharon Crabb. | New Architects Melbourne (NAM), is a volunteer-based initiative which seeks to foster and encourage up-and-coming architectural and design studios. Since 2011, NAM has provided a platform for professionals to present their story, vision and sensibilities in an informal environment in front of peers and enthusiasts alike. It provides exposure to a vibrant aspect of the local industry as well as building connections and networks between a diverse range of disciplines such as architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, photographers, architectural publishers and journalists. Since its inception, NAM has curated over twenty-five events, presented over eighty studios with a strong contingent of attendees of between seventy and 200 people consistently. These gatherings are held three to four times a year in various locations around Melbourne. NAM is active in participating in Melbourne-wide cultural initiatives, having hosted gatherings such as a panel discussion at MPavilion 2017 titled The multi-vocational architect, and was also part of NGV's Melbourne Design Week program in March 2018. NAM’s mission is to raise the confidence, competence, skill and profile of architects that all have talent and heart to make valuable contributions to our built environment and the local community. | Architecture is good for you |
| Tim Leslie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tim.jpg | Tim Leslie. | Tim Leslie is an experienced architect with two decades of experience working with some of Australia’s and the UK’s leading architectural practices. Joining Bates Smart in 2006, he was promoted as the Melbourne’s studio’s first studio director in 2013. Tim works across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on developing projects from conception to planning approval stage. He is highly regarded for his architectural integrity, leadership and tenacity. Notably, Tim was the director in charge for the competition winning Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, which is currently in documentation. He has also had instrumental roles on many key projects including the award-winning commercial tower at 171 Collins Street and neighbouring 161 Collins Street, the residential towers at 17 and 35 Spring Street, and both Bendigo and Cabrini Hospitals. In 2008, Tim founded Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit event promoting architecture and buildings of significance to the public. The original success of the event lies in part to Tim’s insight into architecture and how to communicate its worth to others. | Architecture is good for you |
| Arcadia Winds | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Arcadia-Winds.jpeg | Arcadia Winds. Photo by Cameron Jamieson. | Arcadia Winds are trailblazers for Australian wind music. Awarded a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music upon their formation in late 2013, they became Musica Viva Australia’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians from 2015 to 2017. They've taken their brand of energetic, joyful and spontaneous performance to stages across Australia; concert halls throughout mainland China; and listeners around the world through broadcasts of the BBC Proms Australia chamber music series. And they have revelled in musical partnerships with internationally renowned performers including the Australian String Quartet, and piano virtuosi Lambert Orkis, Paavali Jumppanen and Anna Goldsworthy. A desire to celebrate Australian music has led Arcadia Winds to commission works by composers such as Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams and Lachlan Skipworth. In 2017, they recorded Lachlan Skipworth’s Echoes and Lines on their debut self-titled EP, released in partnership with ABC Classics and Musica Viva. Equally focused on inspiring a love of wind music in the next generation, Arcadia Winds have recently developed an hour-long show for the Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) program. Titled The Air I Breathe, it will showcase the magical transformation of breath into music to thousands of schoolchildren from 2017 to 2020. | Arcadia Winds open rehearsal: ‘Australiana’ |
| Alice Skye | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Please-credit-Michelle-Grace-Hunder.jpg | Alice Skye. Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder. | Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians and now lives in Melbourne. Still inspired by her roots, Alice's songs sparkle with a sensitivity and maturity well beyond her years, accompanied by the gentle and hauntingly sparse melodies of a piano score. Alice’s voice is a combination of hopeful and haunting, naturally sweet and dreamingly narcotic. Her stripped back piano melodies elevate the gentle moodiness of her song writing, transforming her once bedroom scribblings into well-crafted and articulated lyrics on love, loss and life. Alice is the new kid on the block but has caught attention early with her acclaimed debut album, Friends With Feelings, which was released in April 2018. Honoured as the inaugural recipient of the First Peoples Emerging Artist Award on International Women’s Day, Alice is also a 2018 NIMA Award finalist. | Alice Skye and friends |
| Andy Butler | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BeyondDiversity_AndyButler_Credit-SneharghoGhosh.jpg | Andy Butler. Photo by Snehargho Ghosh. | Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. He interrogates structural racism in Australian culture and its institutions, and its effects on how we understand diversity, inclusion and belonging. His writing on art and politics has been published widely. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Farah Farouque | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3981C37E-E0A2-4812-8845-4697E397E1E4.jpeg | Farah Farouque. | Farah Farouque is board chair of The Social Studio, a social enterprise tapping into the design talents of people from refugee backgrounds. The Studio, based in Collingwood, includes a fashion school and clothing label and is a place of belonging and creative development for Melbourne’s emerging communities, especially young people. Farah became a founding board member of the organisation in 2009 when she was a senior journalist at The Age. She now shapes campaigns and public advocacy for the national anti-poverty group, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Farah, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka as a child, featured last year in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s campaign #25Muslim Women. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Gabrielle de Vietri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GabrielledeVietri_IntervalLectureSeries_CreditTimothyHillier.jpg | Gabrielle de Vietri. Photo by Timothy Hillier. | Gabrielle de Vietri is an artist and activist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is collaborative, conceptual and social, and has taken form as public interventions, community events, interactive performances, audio recordings, pedagogical systems, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, a time capsule, lectures and a garden. Gabrielle is a co-founding member of the Artists' Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers that makes collaborative public interventions around the intersection of politics, ethics and culture. Since 2012 she is co-director of A Centre for Everything, a curated series of collaborative pedagogical, political and creative events. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Hana Assafiri | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/9475302-16x9-large.jpg | Hana Assafiri. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities | |
| Imam Nur Warsame | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/nur-warsame_20180210_121747.jpg | Imam Nur Warsame. | Nur Warsame is an Imam based in Melbourne and an advocate for the rights of LGBTIQA+ Muslims. He obtained his religious qualifications in Egypt and memorized the Quran in South Africa, and has been active as an Imam in Australia since 2000. Nur is the founder of Marhaba Inc, an organization that focuses on the welfare of LGBT Muslims. He also conducts workshops and talks to LGBT groups nationally and internationally. Nur is in talks with philanthropists to secure a building in Melbourne and open Australia's first LGBT-friendly mosque. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Leah Jing | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Leah-Jing-McIntosh_by-Anne-Moffat.jpg | Leah Jing McIntosh. Photo by Anne | Leah Jing McIntosh is a writer and photographer from Melbourne. As the editor of Liminal magazine, she is passionate about interrogating and celebrating the Asian-Australian experience, and driving greater diversity in the Australian media landscape. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Maddee Clark | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180608_160812_608.jpg | Maddee Clark. | Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh writer, editor, and curator. They have been published by Overland, Artlink, Next Wave, and NITV and are one of Un Magazine‘s 2018 co-editors. Maddee is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, writing on Indigenous Futurism and race, and has taught and consulted across the university’s Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program for Indigenous students. Maddee works freelance across professional development for organisations such as Switchboard and Deakin University, where they recently held an Indigenous queer theory master class with graduate research students. As a curator, Maddee has worked with Incinerator Gallery and is currently curating a show aimed at queer and trans audiences with fellow writer and educator Neika Lehman for the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Maddee is MPavilion’s 2018 Writer in Residence. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Nevena Spirovska | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0019_19A-3-copy.jpg | Nevena Spirovska. | Arriving in Australia following the Yugoslav Wars, Nevena Spirovska is a political and social-change campaigner based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her activism is centred around homelessness advocacy, social justice and achieving equitable legislative reform. She works as a communications manager, campaign director, panelist and community volunteer. Nevena is vice president of National Homeless Collective, the charity that oversees the operations of Melbourne Period Project, Sleeping Bags for the Homelessness, Secret Women's Business, Plate Up Project and The School Project. She also co-facilitates and is the resident Social Impact Expert at Victoria University’s ‘Activator Program’. Previously, Nevena has worked for the Victorian Parliament and held executive positions within party politics. In 2018, she was selected as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Nevena campaigns for good, but hopes for better. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Norman Katende | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Norman-Katende.jpg | Norman Katende. | Arriving in Australia in 2017, Norman Katende is a Ugandan photojournalist and a former vice president for the Uganda Journalist Union (UJU). He has covered a series of international events including both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, plus the UN Summit and national elections. In 2016 he became the first Uganda Sports Press to cover three Olympic Games. Norman has won numerous awards, including the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year (Mohamed Amin Photographic Award), for his photo coverage of the 2010 Kampala bombing during a screening of a World Cup Soccer match in Uganda. Norman volunteers for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He is also working as a communications officer. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Rohini Kappadath | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rohini.jpg | Rohini Kappadath. | Rohini Kappadath is a corporate entrepreneur involved in establishing technology startups and other ventures for multinational companies and mid-sized firms. A savvy business woman and thought leader with over twenty-five years experience in working across Asian markets, Rohini is an advisor to businesses seeking to expand internationally and a contributor to boards. An innovative thinker and builder of enduring, collaborative relationships across the globe, she is the general manager of Melbourne's Immigration Museum, and is on the executive leadership team for Museums Victoria. Previously, Rohini was senior adviser at KPMG and managing director at SAS Institute India. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Stanislava Pinchuk | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stanislava-Pinchuk-at-Heide-photographed-by-Beth-Wilkinson-19-e1539571870863.jpg | Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo by Beth Wilkinson. | Working under the Miso moniker, Stanislava Pinchuk is a Ukrainian artist working with data mapping the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Her work tracks how landscape is changed by political events, and how ground retains memory in its contours as testament. | Beyond diversity: Creating global cities |
| Alan Pert | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/alan-pert-director-melbourne-school-of-design-300x200.jpg | Alan Pert. | Alan Pert was appointed director of Melbourne School of Design in 2012. The appointment followed six years as Professor of Architecture and director of Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Alan is also an acclaimed architect. As director of NORD (Northern Office for Research by Design) Alan aims to carry out practice-based research, analysing and forging propositions across writing, discourse, exhibitions, education and building. NORD was established to allow the practice of architecture and research to coexist. It is through the practice of architecture and design that NORD undertakes its research, often by using competitions and live projects as vehicles to develop and test ideas. Current projects include a major regeneration project for the ‘potteries’ in Stoke on Trent, England, a Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre and an eighteen-bed palliative care hospice in the UK. Alan is also a partner in the AHRC funded ‘Invisible College’ project, which brings together academics, policy makers, artists and local people to tackle issues of regeneration, conservation and education. Modelled on the experimental networks of the early scientific revolution, and Patrick Geddes summer schools in the late nineteenth century, the Invisible College aims to convene interested parties for a series of walks, activities and debates which will make proposals for the future of a controversial landscape and Heritage listed building. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Anthony Clarke | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Anthony-Clarke_Image-taken-by-Fraser-Marsden.jpg | Anthony Clarke. Photo by Fraser Marsden. | Anthony Clarke is the director of BLOXAS, a practice for empathic and experimental architecture. The approach of BLOXAS is led by research, experimentation and curiosity. These elements are inherent in its philosophy and drive an interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to the practice's curative understanding of individual and collective behaviour, sensory perception, physiology and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigates how people affect—and are at the effect of—its designs. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Celeste Carnegie | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-MPAV-1.jpg | Celeste Carnegie. | Celeste Carnegie is a Birrigubba, South Sea Islander woman from Far North Queensland and Indigenous STEAM program producer at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. She is passionate about creating opportunities surrounding digital technologies and creative solutions in the support of communities. As a young and focused Aboriginal woman, she endeavours to champion the ideas and build platforms for First Nations women and young people everywhere, building capability and confidence. Celeste is passionate about digital inclusion and empowering young people to achieve their goals in technology. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Jane Caught | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingCloserTogether_CR_EmileZile01.jpg | Jane Caught (far right) and the Sibling Architecture team. Photo by DLA-ALM. | Jane Caught is one of the founding members of Sibling Architecture and is currently involved in a range of community-based projects in both inner-city Melbourne and regional Australia. Sibling is a collaborative practice that works across a range of scales and sectors—but always with an emphasis on the civic. The practice has a research focus that considers how changing technologies and societal shifts affect the types of spaces and institutions we inhabit; the way people interact with them, and how they can be more inclusive. The social, for Sibling, is a sphere where different types of people and things come together and see themselves as part of something larger together—a project, a community—even if they are different ages, abilities, genders, classes, races, or however one identifies. Sibling recently undertook the live research project New Agency—Owning Your Future at the RMIT Design Hub, around the future of housing and aged care in Australia. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Jax Jacki Brown | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jax-Jacki-Brown-Photo-credit-Breeana-Dunbar1.jpg | Jax Jacki Brown. Photo by Breeana Dunbar. | Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator. Jax holds a BA in Cultural Studies and Communication where she examined the intersections between disability and LGBTIQ identities and their respective rights movements. She is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality, the Victorian Government's LGBTI taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. Jax is the co-producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed a disability performance troupe, and she teaches in disability at Victoria University. Through her presentations at conferences and universities Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Kerry Levier | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/453D3DA3-6A9C-49EC-9DD4-E70A0C7DDDA5.jpeg | Kerry Levier. | Kerry Levier works in education support and special needs across P-12 in public education. Kerry is a qualified creative arts therapist, completed clinical student practice in acute psychiatric inpatient units with adults, adolescents and children. She is a mother and grandmother. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Margherita Coppolino | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1380081_10152337532988712_174032944_n.jpg | Margherita Coppolino. | Margherita Coppolino is an inclusion consultant. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context. Margherita is a tertiary-qualified and industry accredited Trainer. During her career, she also has honed and developed specialist skills in project management, mediation, facilitation, recruitment, case management. Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat a several boards in executive and non-executive positions. She was elected as the president of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance in 2017. Previously, she held the position of chair on Arts Access Victoria and AFDO boards, and held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women With Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia. Margherita is first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time you will find Margherita taking photos, volunteering, playing Boccia, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting and chilling with friends. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Mark Smith | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mark-Smith_2_2015.jpg | Working across painting, ceramics, mixed media, video and soft sculpture, Mark Smith is an artist whose primarily figurative works are concerned with how the physicality of the body relates to human nature and the human condition. Mark Smith has been working in the Arts Project Australia studio since 2007. Exhibitions include Words Are… (solo) Jarmbi Gallery Upstairs, Burrinja, Upwey, 2014; Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2018; He has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, 2017; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. 2016; and My Puppet, My Secret Self, The Substation, Newport, 2012. In 2014 he self-published Alive, an auto-biographical reflection of his life. | Ageing, ableism and architecture | |
| Michael Camakaris | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael-Camakaris-1.jpg | Michael Camakaris. | Michael Camakaris is an emerging artist. His art practice draws inspiration from diverse subjects such as safari animals, the avian world, puppetry, portraiture and landscape. In Michael's hands, these eclectic subjects are imbued with drama, depth and intensity. Through abstraction, Michael's work utilises bold outlines, compelling contrasts and a rich colour palette. In his landscapes, he integrates organic and angular shapes, presenting confident, colourful environments with a tenacious structure and dynamism.With an occasional nod to cubism and surrealism, these works comment on industrialisation and the environment and at times offers a brewing sense of foreboding. Michael has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio since 2010, and presented his first solo exhibition, Five Bulls, No Bull, as part of the Shepparton Art Museum's Drawing Wall Commission in 2013. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, Nests at Northcity4; 2014 Belle Arti Prize at Chapman & Bailey Gallery; the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th anniversary; and the Linden Postcard exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Rose Redston | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FullSizeRender-1-1.jpg | Rose Redston is a retired nurse who enjoys life with her husband Roger between a house in Mornington and an apartment in the Arts Precinct in the heart of Melbourne. Rose trained as a nurse at University College Hospital in London, working on the 'Geriatric Ward' where she noticed that "the ability to return to a home without design for daily living forced most patients to take a place in a nursing home, separated from family and friends". Rose and Roger, a doctor, spent years working in Uganda, operating a family planning clinic and visiting clinics helping girls with vaginal and rectal fistulae caused by obstructed delivery. In Australia, Rose reared a large family and gained a double major degree in English and History from Monash. Rose and Roger ran a Protea plantation on the Mornington Peninsula after which they planted an olive grove. | Ageing, ableism and architecture | |
| Tania Davidge | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tania-Davidge.jpg | Tania Davidge. | Tania Davidge is an architect, artist, writer, researcher and educator. She has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and experience across architecture, public art, urban design and strategic design. As a director of the design and research practice OoPLA, Tania is interested in the relationship of people and communities to architecture, cities and public space. Her work focuses on the connection between people, place, spatial identity and built form. | Ageing, ableism and architecture |
| Australian Art Orchestra | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAO-2-MB.jpg | Australian Art Orchestra. | Founded in 1994, the Australian Art Orchestra is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Led by daring composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates music that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms. | Aftermath: A dawn happening |
| Aviva Endean | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aviva-2-MB.jpg | Aviva Endean. Photo by | Aviva Endean is a clarinet player, improviser, composer and performance-maker. Her work with sound spans a wide variety of performance contexts including experimental and improvised music, creating immersive sonic environments, new chamber music, band projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards and grants including the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowship, JUMP mentorship program, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling scholarship, the Willem Van Otterloo memorial award, the Atheneum prize for chamber music and the Lionel Gell Merit award. Her work has been nominated for the EG Music Awards ‘Best Avant-garde/Experimental act’ 2013, and the ARIA Awards' 'Best World Music Album’ 2014. Her debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes, is due to be released on acclaimed Norwegian label SOFA in late 2018. | Aftermath: A dawn happening |
| Georgina Darvidis | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgie-Darvidis-pic.jpg | Georgina Darvidis. | Georgina Darvidis is one of Melbourne’s most versatile and adventurous young artists. Beginning her musical study exploring theatre and classical vocal technique lead to major roles with The Melbourne Theatre Company and The Victorian Opera Company. After completing a Bachelor in Improvised music at The Victorian College of the Arts, she began to investigate more traditional jazz styles as well as free improvisation and cross disciplinary compositional forms. This lead to overseas study with acclaimed practitioners Shelley Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in 2013. Georgina’s recent projects include performing in the premiere original vocal theatre work Permission to Speak presented by Chamber Made, features with the Australian Arts Orchestra, guest artist with the Rubiks Collective and completing a collaborative commission with the Bennetts Lane Big Band and the Penny string quartet. | Aftermath: A dawn happening |
| Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Silverscreen_1.jpg | Photo courtesy of MUMA. | MUMA is a leading contemporary art museum, championing the important role art plays in shifting perspectives and creating new forms of engagement in the world. MUMA supports contemporary art and curatorial practices, through a dynamic program of commissioning, collecting, exhibition making and publishing, connecting art, audiences and ideas. | Aftermath: A dawn happening |
| Peter Knight | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Peter-2-MB.jpg | Peter Knight. | Australian trumpeter, composer and sound artist Peter Knight is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, integrating jazz, experimental and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. | Aftermath: A dawn happening |
| Tilman Robinson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tilman-2-MB.jpg | Tilman Robinson. | Tilman Robinson is one of the young leading lights of Australian music. A composer, producer and sound designer based in Melbourne he creates electro-acoustic music across a range of genres including classical minimalism, improvised, experimental, electronic and ambient musics. Academy trained in the fields of both classical and jazz composition, Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of sound. | Aftermath: A dawn happening |
| Alan Tran | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Alan-Tran_Photo-3.jpg | Alan Tran. | Alan Tran is a senior urban designer at AECOM and has a broad range of experience on infrastructure, urban renewal, and planning policy projects. He holds post-graduate Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning and has worked professionally in both disciplines. He has been an active member of the Victorian Young Planners Committee since 2016 and has led policy and advocacy submissions on transport, housing and urban design for the VYPs. | A revolutionary city, by Millennials |
| Ella Gauci-Seddon | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ella-gauci-seddon-719x480.jpg | Ella Gauci-Seddon. | Ella Gauci-Seddon is a landscape architect at Hassell Studio and works as a casual tutor in landscape architecture at RMIT and Monash University. She is also the chair of AILA Fresh Victoria, the student and graduate committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Ella strongly believes that to achieve positive outcomes it is integral to understand and work with existing site conditions and the community. Through teaching, working and research Ella has developed and explored an interest in designing landscapes that will be able to cope with and flourish in indeterminate and unpredictable future conditions. | A revolutionary city, by Millennials |
| Hugh Utting | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hugh-Utting-006.jpg | Hugh Utting. | Hugh Utting is an urban planner at GHD, a leading international engineering company, and president of the Victorian Young Planners. Since commencing with GHD in 2016, Hugh has worked on a variety of statutory, strategic and communication projects, including for the Level Crossing Removal Authority, North East Link and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Hugh holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the development of smart and inclusive cities through value capture and the provision of sustainable infrastructure. | A revolutionary city, by Millennials |
| Phoebe Harrison | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Phoebe_Harrison.png | Phoebe Harrison. | Phoebe Harrison is an urban and regional planner with over six years experience in statutory and strategic planning, and public engagement. She has worked in regional local government and the private sector, providing planning advice to State and local government. Phoebe has contributed to and led projects that assess the demand and supply of social infrastructure, open space and other public assets, climate change adaptation and housing change projects as well as structure planning and visual landscape significance studies. Phoebe has played a central role in the design and implementation of engagement strategies associated with many of these projects, both aimed at key stakeholders and the broader community. She holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate and committed planner whose key interests include consensus-based and multidisciplinary approaches to urban planning. | A revolutionary city, by Millennials |
| Victorian Young Planners | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Screen-Shot-2018-09-17-at-8.58.29-pm.png | Photo courtesy of Victorian Young Planners. | The Victorian Young Planners is the local professional and student body of Planning Institute of Australia. The VYP plays an active role in supporting positive policy and advocacy outcomes to enable sustainable, inclusive and equitable cities. The Committee helps guide students and young professionals in their role of creating better communities. | A revolutionary city, by Millennials |
| Lisa Greenaway | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LisaGreenaway_Photo_by_AnitaBanano.jpg | Lisa Greenaway. Photo by Anita Banano. | Lisa Greenaway is a sound artist and producer working in broadcast, live DJ performance and public installation. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the ABC and with a background of spoken word performance, creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmospheres using voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film. Working as DJ LAPKAT in Australia and Europe, Lisa mixes global rhythm and melody, multilingual poetry and story, collaborating with poets on spoken word, music and soundscape. LAPKAT presents the monthly podcast La Danza Poetica for Groovalizacion Radio (Europe) and Chimeres (Greece). Ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling and folk tradition informs all of Lisa’s work, alongside research into philosophies of deep listening, spatial sound design and sound meditation, with the aim to develop truly immersive and transformative listening experiences. In 2018 Lisa is in residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, working with the 4DSOUND system. | ||Reflections|| ritual by Lisa Greenaway |
| Rebecca Coates | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MPavilion_Rebecca-Coates-Nell2016-144-1.jpg | Rebecca Coates. | Rebecca Coates is director of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), a position she has held since 2015. Located in regional Victoria, SAM is recognised for its national collection of Australian ceramics and is currently working with architects Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new purpose built art museum to be completed in 2020. Rebecca has over twenty years professional art museum and gallery experience in both Australia and overseas, as a curator, writer and lecturer. Previous roles have included lecturer in art history and art curatorship, University of Melbourne; associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); the Melbourne International Arts Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the old ACCA, in its previous home in the Domain. Rebecca speaks and writes regularly on contemporary art and theory, curatorial practice, and art in the public realm, and has held a number of board and advisory roles, as chair of City of Melbourne’s Public Art Advisory panel, City of Stonnington, and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She was awarded a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2013. | ‘The art museum in flux’ Sir Nicholas Serota in conversation with Rebecca Coates |
| Sir Nicholas Serota CH | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NS-cropped-1.png | Sir Nicholas Serota CH. |
Sir Nicholas Serota CH is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC.
Sir Nicholas was director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film, and performance, as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was previously director of Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. At Tate his most recent curatorial projects have been a Gerhard Richter retrospective and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
At the Arts Council he has established the Durham Commission in collaboration with Durham University. The Commission will explore the benefits of creativity in education and the implications for the social mobility, sense of identity and confidence of young people. It will look at creativity across all subjects but will examine the particular contribution made to the development of young people through experience of the arts.
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‘The art museum in flux’ Sir Nicholas Serota in conversation with Rebecca Coates |
| Clem Bastow | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clem-Bastow_CR_John-Deer.jpg | Clem Bastow. Photo by John Deer. | Clem Bastow is an early career academic, screenwriter and award-winning cultural critic. Her work appears regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and The Guardian. In 2017 she wrote and co-presented the ABC First Run podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she produced Night Massacre, Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA/University of Melbourne, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem will be undertaking a practice-led PhD in action cinema in 2019 if nobody manages to stop her before then. | ‘(Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time’ book launch |
| Jadan Carroll | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jadan-Carroll-author-image-1.jpg | Jadan Carroll. | Jadan Carroll lives in Melbourne and has worked in music management, entertainment publicity, and festival programming and production for the past ten years. He does not own a dog. (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time is his first book and is out through Scribe. | ‘(Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time’ book launch |
| Molly Dyson | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/molly-temporary.jpeg | Molly Dyson. | Molly Dyson is an Australian illustrator based in Berlin. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, her work has been featured in publications including The Lifted Brow, Frankie, Vice and Merry Jane. | ‘(Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time’ book launch |
| Flamenco Fiesta Group | https://2018.mpavilion.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Spanish-Guitar-Flamenco-Dancer-Melbourne-Vic-2018-2.jpg | Flamenco Fiesta Group. | Flamenco Fiesta Group is a professional team of Spanish musicians and Flamenco dancers established in 2011 by accomplished performing artists and Melbourne entertainers. Led by couple Belinda and Paul Martin, the group creates a diverse and energetic Spanish music and dance floor show. | ¡Felices Fiestas! |