Featured Artists

Alison Milyika (Tjulapi) Carroll was born in 1958 at the Ernabella Mission, now known as Pukatja Community. Alison Milyika is…

Pat Perrurle Ansell Dodds is an Arrernte and Anmatyerr woman and artist. Patricia was the winner of the 1990 NT…

The Uti Kulintjaku Watiku are a team of respected senior and younger Anangu (Aboriginal people) from across the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara…

Carol is an Arrernte teacher and linguist and a passionate advocate for FN education reform. She has worked in teaching…

Amanda Turner is an Arrernte woman from the Mpweringke Anapipe region. Amanda is a locally recognised artist with strong skills…

Werte, my name is Shirley Kngwarraye Turner. I am from Anapipe, Sandy Bore Outstation, which is about 85km northeast of…

Alex Barwick is a senior radio broadcaster and Drive Presenter for the ABC in Alice Springs. She has worked for…

Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet and artist from South Australia whose work has been published and celebrated around…

(A)manda Parkinson is a multi-award winning photojournalist, who uses a combination of listening and consent methodoligies to amplify the Territory’s…

Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s…

The men of Alherramp are proud to demonstrate their unique songs and dances. The men have been working hard to…

Barbara began teaching in 1981 and after graduating from the Batchelor Institute teacher education program became a senior teacher and…

Betty Sweetlove is a playwright and performer based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Recent writing and dramaturgy credits include Odyssey for…

Billy-Ray Belcourt (he/him) is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for his…

Chris Flynn is the author of three novels, the most recent of which, Mammoth, was shortlisted for the Indie Book…

Christopher Brocklebank lives in Alice Springs. He studied Classical Guitar at the Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide University. This was followed…

Christopher Raja was born in Calcutta. He is the author of a memoir, Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story (UQP,…

Dani Powell grew up in Meanjin/Brisbane. She has lived in Mparntwe/ Alice Springs for the past twenty years and directed…

Dave Clark is a writer-poet with CFS, living in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). He works as a counsellor, creating space for…

Doris Stuart Kngwarreye’s family have lived alongside the Todd River for countless generations. She is an Mparntwe-arenye woman. Apmereke artweye…

Eleanor Hogan is a literary non-fiction writer and independent researcher whose writing draws on her experience of Central Australia. She…

Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh (South East Queensland) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry,…

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Erica Wagner is an artist, publisher and creative consultant to storytellers. Her collages are inspired by the natural world and are…

Gabrielle Wang is an author and illustrator born in Melbourne of Chinese heritage. Her maternal great great grandfather came to…

Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs. In 1982 she won a…

Glen Hunting is a writer from Perth, Western Australia (Boorloo, Whadjuk Noongar boodja), now living in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). He…

Based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, stArts with D is a disability-led performance ensemble who collaborate, create and present original works celebrating…

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark…

Jo Yang was born and raised in Naarm/Melbourne and now based in Tennant Creek (Warumungu country), Jo Yang is a…

Johanna Bell is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans poetry, picture books, podcasts, audio, live storytelling and community arts. In…

Dr John Kean has published extensively on Indigenous art and the representation of nature in Australian museums. He is a…

Dr Josie Douglas (PhD) has thirty years’ experience working across sectors to make a difference in people’s lives. She is…

Jude Lovell is a first generation Australian and an academic practitioner with a background in public arts and arts in…

Kanakiya Myra Taylor was born in the Australian Inland Mission Hospital in Oodnadatta in 1932 and grew up living in…

Kate Rendell is the Development Manager at Magabala Books in Rubibi (Broome), on Yawuru Country. She is the editor of…

Kathleen Kemarre Wallace is an Eastern Arrernte elder, artist and educator with a 45 plus year career as a cultural…

Associate Professor Kathryn Gilbey is an Alyawarr scholar and the Executive Dean at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education. The…

Dr Kelly Lee Hickey is an award-winning artist, educator and researcher. She builds connections between people, place and critters through…

Kerry O’Brien is one of Australia’s most respected journalists with six Walkley Awards including the Gold Walkley and the Walkley…

Kieran Finnane is an author, journalist and arts writer. After arts and film studies in Sydney and Paris, and early…

Kim Mahood is a writer, artist and mapmaker. She has written two non-fiction books, Craft for a Dry Lake and…

Kodivine sings you sideways. Their songs might be sweetly serenading or sourly spat back at the cosmos. Kodivine writes the…

Kumalie (Rosalie) Riley is an Arrernte woman from Tyuretye/Mparntwe (Alice Springs) with spiritual affiliations and connections to the land, hereditary…

With Aboriginal and New Zealand heritage they have the saltwater, the red dirt and long white cloud in their veins.…

Leni Shilton is a poet and educator. Leni grew up in Papua New Guinea and Melbourne and lived in Mparntwe…

Linda Rive grew up on Royal farms belonging to the Queen, in Cornwall, UK. She came to Australia in 1974…

Dr Lisa Stefanoff is an Mparntwe/Alice Springs-based writer, social researcher, award-winning media/arts producer, curator and mother of young children who…

Louise Omer is a writer born on Kaurna Country with words published in The Guardian, The Australian, The Saturday Paper…

Maria Taylor is an investigative journalist and author, who latest book is Injustice – hidden in plain sight, the war on…

Mary Anne Butler’s plays have won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier’s Drama Award, Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize…

Mary has researched and documented Warlpiri language since 1975. From 1975 to 1993 she was employed by the NT Department…

Meg Mooney fell in love with the desert country as a geologist. She has lived in central Australia for 36…

Tjakamarra came into manhood at Papunya during the 1970s. He is closely related to several of the artists who pioneered…

Peter Latz has lived and worked in Central Australia all of his life. He is a plant ecologist and ethno-botanist,…

Rachael McGuirk is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has a Masters of Publishing and Communications and has worked…

Rachel began her film career at the original CAAMA studio south of the Gap. Thirty years on, her work includes…

Renee McBryde is a writer, social worker and mother of four young children. For more than twenty years she has…

Author/artist, Rod Moss has lived in Alice Springs since 1984 during which time his art has promoted conversation between First…

Samantha Campbell grew up in the Northern Territory and currently lives in Alice Springs. She is descended from the Dagoman…

Sean Guy is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter with a passion for storytelling in all its forms. As of…

Steve Hodder Watt is a Lardil man from Mornington Island, Queensland. A writer and performer, Steve performed in the Red…

SezzaJai is a word smith, bee keeper and mystery navigator. They have translated an epistemology of bee behaviour into human…

Steve Morton is an Honorary Professorial Fellow with Charles Darwin University in Alice Springs. He is an ecologist who studied…

Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm. Her latest poetry collection is Gentle Creatures (Vagabond Press, 2023). Her work…

Sylvia Purrurle Neale is an Eastern Arrernte woman born in Alice Springs. She is a grandmother and a great-grandmother. Her…

Tanya Heaslip was raised on a cattle station north of Alice Springs during the 1960s-70s. She learnt about the outside…

Terri-ann White has published her fiction and non-fiction since the late 1980s, taught writing in the community and universities, and…

Thomas Mayo is a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait Islander man. He is the National Indigenous Officer of…

Uti Kulintjaku is an award-winning initiative of the NPY Women’s Council Ngangkari program that supports mental health literacy. Led by…

Veronica Perrurle Dobson AM is a teacher of Arrernte language and culture, a botanist and ecologist. She co-authored the Eastern…

Victoria Alondra is a multidisciplinary mother and artist whose work explores the intersections of joy and resistance, identity, displacement, violence…

Watson Corby was born in Papunya in 1973, son of founding Papunya Tula painter David Corby Tjapaltjarri and grandson of…

Central Australian-based cellist and songstress X A V I A creates lush, indie electronic folk, blending swirling strings, and earthy…

On completion of her education at Yirrara college in Alice Springs in 1979 Yamurna began working at Yuendumu school as…

Yumna Kassab is the author of The House of Youssef, Australiana and The Lovers. She has been listed for the Stella,…