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Coby Ann Edgar is a Larrakia, Jingili, Anglo, Filipino, queer, cis-woman from Darwin. She is currently the curator of Strategic Projects, First Nations at the Powerhouse Museum. With over 10 years’ experience working in government positions across education, galleries, and museums she is invested in how First Nations and non-First Nations people work together across industries, especially the arts sector. 

Dallas Gold was born in Sydney 1956.  He became involved in the creative side of the hospitality industry in Newcastle in the 1980s and earned a reputation for good food and innovative menus at various new style café/restaurants.  He then studied Visual Arts at Newcastle University in 1991 and at Charles Darwin University in 1992 and 1993. He held his first solo painting exhibition titled ‘Cornucopia’ at Lindsay St Café in Darwin in 1993 and then continued practising as a visual artist, making work for several exhibitions and commissions until opening an art gallery in Darwin in 2001 called Raft Artspace.  This gallery was opened with the encouragement of artist friend and mentor Peter Adsett and named in honour of Ian Fairweather’s legendary raft journey.  Subsequently Dallas, as the director of RAFT Artspace, facilitated more than 150 exhibitions before relocating to Alice Springs in 2010.  At the new Raft Artspace in Alice Springs he continues his commitment to respond to Indigenous Art as a movement and to show it as contemporary art. 

Elverina Johnson (Bunya Badjil – good woman) is a Kunganji Gurugulu Woman of Yarrabah on her Grandfather’s lineage and Idinji Gimuy on her Grandmother’s lineage. She is a direct descendant of King Menmuny of the Gunganji Nation of Yarrabah and a direct descendant of King Yinnie of Cairns. Receiving the 2017 National NAIDOC Artist of the Year award, she is a highly respected advocate for the Yarrabah community. Her creative talents span the spectrum of visual and performing arts. She has been involved in the arts industry for over 30 years as a singer, songwriter, playwright, actor and visual artist. Elverina is the founder and manager of the Indigenous owned, Dirringhi Aboriginal Arts and Craft Gallery at Yarrabah. Dirringhi is a community-based social enterprise which supports local artists and craftspeople in Yarrabah to sustain their cultural traditions and earn income from their work. In her visual arts practice, Elverina works across painting, textiles, fibre and photography to depict the natural abundance and beauty of Yarrabah’s land and sea environment. Her work expresses a deep and innate understanding of Country and honours the traditions and stories belonging to her culture and ancestral homelands.  

James Tylor is an Australian contemporary multi-disciplinary visual artist whose practice explores Australian environment, culture and social history. These mediums include photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, sound, scents and food. He explores Australian cultural representations through the perspectives of his multicultural heritage that comprises Nunga (Kaurna), Māori (Te Arawa) and European (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Norwegian) ancestry. 

Tylor’s work focuses largely on the history of 19th century Australia and its continual effect on present day issues surrounding cultural identity and the environment. His research, writing and artistic practice has focused most specifically on Kaurna indigenous culture from the Adelaide Plains region of South Australia and more broadly European colonial history in Southern Australia. His practice also explores Australian indigenous plants and the environmental landscape of Southern Australia.