Kirli Saunders (OAM), is a proud Gunai Woman with Dharawal, Biripi, Yuin & Gundungurra ties. She is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and consultant. Kirli was the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year (2020). In 2022, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her contribution to the arts, particularly literature. Her celebrated books include The Incredible Freedom Machines (Scholastic, 2018), Kindred (Magabala, 2019), Bindi (Magabala, 2020), Our Dreaming (Scholastic, 2022), Returning (Magabala, 2023) and The Land Recalls You (Scholastic, 2024). Among other awards, her books have been widely recognised in the Prime Minister’s & Premier’s literary awards in NSW, QLD, VIC & WA. Kirli’s writing features in magazines and journals, including Vogue, Overland, Kill Your Darlings and as public art with AESOP and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria. Her debut play, directed by Shari Sebbens, Going Home was supported by Playwriting Australia (2022) and is under a second development.”

Judith Nangala Crispin is an award-winning poet, academic and visual artist of Indigenous and mixed descent, living on unceded Yuin Country. She traces her lineage to Bpangerang people of the Murray River. Judith has spent two decades working with the Warlpiri people in the Northern Tanami, with whom she has forged lifelong ties. She is a proud member of the First Nations Australia Writing Network. Judith holds a PhD in Music from The Australian National University and a Doctor of Arts in Poetry from The University of Sydney. She has published three books Pillars of the Temple, The Myrrh-Bearers, and The Lumen Seed. Her verse novel The Dingo’s Noctuary will be published in 2024. Her recent prizes include the 2020 Blake Prize for Poetry and the 2023 Sunshine Coast Art Prize. Her work has been shortlisted for the 2024 Peter Porter Prize, the 2024 Alpine Poetry Fellowship, the 2023 Luma Recontres Book Prize, the 2023 Red Room Poetry Prize, the 2023 Milburn Art Prize, and the 2023 Ravenswood Art Prize. Judith’s poem ‘Voyage Through the Universe Via Katherine’, will be deposited on the Moon in 2024, as part of NASA’s Lunar Codex.

Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. Currently the ABC’s editor of Indigenous Radio, he also presents Radio National’s program The Art Show – hailed by the judges as “an outstanding contribution to arts journalism”. His first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works, won the Indigenous Writing Prize at the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Rachel is an experienced arts leader, art historian, and head curator with extensive experience working with international museums and cultural institutions. Prior to her appointment at Bundanon, Rachel was the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia and has presented exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the USA, and Canada. She speaks widely on the arts and culture, including TEDx, sits on editorial and advisory panels for industry and government, is the author of multiple award-winning artist monographs, and is an international juror for art awards in Asia and Europe.

Jerome Comisari, Bundanon’s Cultural Liasion Manager, is a Wiradjuri man from the Riverina who grew up on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. He has a passion for the arts and has championed the work and practice of many First Nations creatives and cultural practitioners. Previously Jerome held various jobs at the ABC, including with Radio National’s Indigenous Arts and Culture program, Awaye!.