Ruby Allegra

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Ruby Allegra is a white queertrans, autistic, disabled artist working on Kaurna Land. They are a self-taught multidisciplinary artist with a deep love for the colour pink. They began their professional practice as a makeup artist. Their deep understanding of colour theory, developed in art classes and at school, helped them to refine their colour blending, mixing and coordinating. Ruby’s art expanded during this time, and they revisited their earlier passions of watercolour and pencil portraiture.                                              

Over the last couple of years Ruby’s work has developed an abstract style, incorporating new mediums and technology. Their art has crossed over into politics, advocacy and activism, which remains a large and important part of their current practice. Ruby has engaged in mentorship, workshops, art classes, zines and poetry, with accessibility of art at the forefront of all their thinking, planning, creating and sharing of works. This is something they are looking forward to pushing further over the coming years.     

Janette Gay

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Janette uses video, photography, paper based works, paintings, paper sculpture, and glass etching to abstract and interpret shapes from the environment. Recently she has concentrated more on works on paper series that abstract the rural, maritime and built environment.  The Port Adelaide buildings plus extended periods of sailing are strong references.  Her practice has also involved exploring the confined inner city space as part of her installation work utilising video projections of her photographs of environments onto objects.

Since graduating from the National Art School (NAS) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2014 she has had regular exhibitions in Sydney, Adelaide, regional SA and NSW. Her exhibitions have been held at artist-run spaces, commercial and community galleries, including West Gallery, Worth Gallery, Fleurieu Arthouse, Adelaide Oval, Airspace, Marrickville, 107 Projects, Redfern, Sydney College of the Arts; The Strand and in regional NSW.

Tricia Kumnick

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Tricia worked as a layout design artist in advertising agencies for approximately 10 years and as a media executive for radio and publishing, she has always painted and experimented with drawing. She also made professional costume and set designs for the Elder Conservatorium and continued with night classes at the North Adelaide School of Art with awards in Life Drawing and Fashion Drawing. In 1997, she undertook and completed my Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) and was an artist in residence at University of SA.

She has been actively exhibiting throughout Adelaide and won first prize in the Australian Spirituality Exhibition. In 2001-06 she was a studio residence at Blyth St Studio and painted large canvases with other experimental works on paper that included sound imaging.
From 2006, she worked in her private studio and completed many investigational works with natural ochres and paints from the South Coast, South Australia, where she has a strong affinity. She has recently commenced a new body of work on fractals including canvases inspired by the seascape surrounds of Port Adelaide.

Rosina Possingham

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Rosina Possingham is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer and photographer who values collaborative environments where ideas and conceptual thinking are shared, evolving her practice to incorporate consistent youth and community workshops and art projects. Rosina is motivated to challenge, observe and rediscover the way people connect with and through landscape, community, and place. She completed her Masters of Visual Art and Design at University of South Australia in 2016 and has since formed a base of freelance clients, specialising in design and photography for art based projects.

Rosina Possingham and Brianna Speight recently built a collaborative practice. This started with a three-month Artist-in-Residence program at Sauerbier House Culture Exchange, Port Noarlunga SA. Here they developed their first project ZINC, building and exchanging visual language with graphic elements, high energy stylised installations and open community engaged work ethic. ZINC was exhibited with Sauerbier House Culture Exchange and PraxisARTSPACE Gallery in 2020. Rosina has also exhibited at Carclew, Floating Goose Gallery and SASA Gallery.

Andrea Przygonski

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Andrea Przygonski is an Adelaide-based artist and curator whose practice intersects print, installation, light, sound, textiles and sculpture. She trained at Adelaide Central School of Art, AC Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of SA. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Master of Visual Arts.

Andrea has a broad exhibition history and most recently held solo exhibitions Transfiguring the Terrain at SASA Gallery, followed by Chi-Town Chronicles, a survey of her Chicago-inspired work at praxis ARTSPACE. Her work is held by the Art Gallery of SA, State Library of Victoria, Brooklyn Art Library, University of Adelaide and Burnie Regional Gallery and has been selected for numerous award exhibitions including Print Council of Australia Print Commission, Fremantle Print Award and Australian Print Triennial Print Award. Her practice as been supported through scholarships and grants from ArtsSA grants, Australian Postgraduate Award, SAIC New Artist Society Scholarship, Leroy Neiman Foundation Scholarship (OxBox School of Art), Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, NAVA/Janet Holmes Court Artists' Grant and two Helpmann Academy Mentorships.

Henry Wolff

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Henry Wolff is an artist, arts administrator, design consultant and graphic designer practicing in Adelaide on Kaurna Country. Their creative origins are grounded in fashion design, having worked as a designer on two global brands. Henry continues to consult and work with local designers. They are also engaged as a freelance graphic designer by brands, artists, stylists and a variety of organisations. As an artist Henry’s practice explores the complexity of human connection. They work in a socially responsive manner and investigate how we navigate vulnerability and identity through collective and familial support. Using performance, video and photography they engage these concerns throughout their emerging practice.

Henry is a Carclew Fellow undertaking a mentorship with leading Australian artists Hoda Afshar and Eugenia Lim. They have performed at the Art Gallery of South Australia with Melbourne collective APHIDS for the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres, worked alongside Eugenia Lim and APHIDS’s on Easy Rider creative development at MPavilion, and has exhibited works in galleries, public spaces and online across South Australia and nationally.

Dominic Guerrara

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Dominic Guerrera is an Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian person – living on Kaurna Yarta. Dominic has primarily worked in Aboriginal health as a Health educator in the area of sexual health, harm reduction and health promotion. 

As an artist, he creates work as a poet, writer, photographer, screen printer and podcaster. Dominic’s writing has been published in Granta Magazine, Cordite Review, Fine Print Magazine and Non-Compliant Magazine and performed at Adelaide Writers Week, Draw Your (S)words and JLK Festival. His poem ‘unwelcome to country’ was the winner of the 2021 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigneous Poetry Prize. As creator and host of The ASH Podcast, Dominic explored ideas of Aboriginal sexuality and sexual health with co-host Sasha Smith. 

With a focus on social justice and exploring Aboriginal lived experiences, Dominic has curated two art exhibitions for Nexus Arts, circles to us (2020) and Staunch (2022) which also featured in Tarnanthi Festival. 

Dominic’s work explores themes of Aboriginal culture, social justice and aims for Aboriginal liberation.