KIN: Art + Ecology in Western Australia Authors: Further Information

Sandra Wooltorton is a Professor and Senior Research Fellow with the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Broome Campus. She is a trans-disciplinary researcher, with a background in cultural geography and education, and a deep interest in applying Aboriginal philosophy to generate solutions to problems of society and environment.

Prof. Anne Poelina, PhD, PhD, MA, MEd, MPH&TM, Chair of Indigenous Knowledges and Senior Research Fellow Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia, is a Kimberley, Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous woman; Chair, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, an active community leader, human and earth rights advocate, and filmmaker.

Emeritus Professor Dr Len Collard is a Whadjuk Nyungar elder and respected Traditional Owner of the Perth Metropolitan area and surrounding lands, rivers, swamps, ocean and culture. Dr Collard has a background in literature and communications, with research interests in Aboriginal Studies, including Nyungar interpretive histories and Nyungar theoretical and applied practical research models.

Emilia Galatis a writer, curator and arts business development specialist with over 17 years’ experience working between urban and remote areas. She graduated UWA with a degree in archaeology and art history (hons) with a dissertation in Gwion rock art. Emilia grew up on Whadjuk Country with Greek and Italian migrant grandparents.

Lakshmi Kanchi is an emerging Indian-Australian poet. Her writing anatomises the complex linkages between language, culture, and perception. Author of “Lakesong”, a debut poetry collection published by Centre for Stories (Western Australia) & Red River Press (New Delhi), Lakshmi won the 2023 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize and the 2021 Pocketry Prize, and was the Inaugural Poet-in-Residence at The Wetlands Centre Cockburn (2022-23).

Kathryn Gledhill Tucker- Nyungar technologist, writer, digital rights activist living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar with a creative practice that explores the intersection of activism, science-fiction, and technology in imagining radical futures and ushering them into existence.

Kelly Fliedner- Boorloo-based writer and curator interested in the convergence of critical and creative discourses surrounding contemporary art, and how to respond to local practice and politics. She is the Collections Officer and Art Consultant for the Australian Government’s Artbank initiative in Western Australia.

Daniel Jan Martin is an environmental planner and designer working in south west Australia on Noongar Country. He is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at The University of Western Australia. His practice explores ways of designing and planning with water systems and ecosystems. A passion for environmental communication drives his work — to share, translate and advocate.

Rosamund Brennan is a freelance writer and editor with an interest in creativity and culture, travel, social issues and psychology. Her work has appeared in a range of Australian and international publications.

Dr Perdita Phillips is an Australian artist with a wide-ranging and experimental conceptual practice. She works in mixed media installation, environmental projects, sound, sculpture, photography and drawing. Whilst materially diverse, underlying themes of ecological processes and a commitment to a resensitisation to the physical environment, are apparent.

Dr Annette Nykiel is an interdisciplinary artist/researcher geoscientist background informs her sustainable slow maker. A fibre/textile artist and arts worker, she creates natural bush dyed and hand stitched textiles and vessels from repurposed cloth, earth and windfall.

Dr Nien Schwarz is a visual artist, activist & writer focusing on environmental artSince 1981 she's cooked for geoscience mapping expeditions across the Canadian arctic and outback Western Australia. For 18 years she taught at Edith Cowan University where she ‘nourished’ environmental art. Cultural geography and geoscience inform her diverse artworks that prompt questions about where we are, who we are, and what sustains us.

Grace Connors is an artist, writer and curator living in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). She completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) in 2016, and her practice draws from post humanist studies and cyber feminism to look critically toward systems of control, our relationships to technology and to each other. Connors is presently co-founder and Chair of Cool Change.