An.Other Collective is a community of female Muslim makers, artists, and designers spanning from Sydney and Melbourne.

The collective is an open platform that gathers and weaves the diverse perspectives of individuals and communities to dissolve colonial barriers and reductive misconceptions on matters associated with faith, politics, identity, art and culture.

This is achieved through the collective’s interdisciplinary blend of curatorial strategies and artistic expressions where the instrumental role of domesticity in public life acts as a center stage for new forms of spiritual preservation, collective thought and transcultural coexistence.

@an.othercollective

Ellamay Khongroj Fitzgerald (she/her) is an artist based on Yugambeh Country. Her lens based practice spans across photography, video and new media with an ongoing exploration into her dual Australian and Thai heritage. Ellamay’s work is largely influenced by her lived experiences growing up mixed-race on the Gold Coast and perceptions of culture, identity and place as a second generation Asian Australian.

ellamayphoto.com

Support for a Gold Coast-based artist to participate in Kickstart by Next Wave has been made possible through the City of Gold Coast Arts and Culture Unit and Generate GC. Generate GC is a City of Gold Coast initiative produced by Situate Art in Festivals.

Georgia Lucy is a multidisciplinary artist whose output is both personal and culturally critical. Her art re-uses and re-incorporates, using existing materials and forms to engage with humour, communities, and the transformative potential of risk.

Georgia Lucy works and lives on unceded Palawa lands.
Georgia Lucy drives a toyota starlet and plays footy with the Dodges Ferry Sharks.

georgialucy.com

Jayda Wilson is a proud Gugada and Wirangu emerging artist living and working on unceded Kaurna Yarta. Wilson’s practice is a journey to reclaiming their mother tongue through the (re)telling of family history with their visual practice acting as a site for (re)memory and (re)archiving. By working in mediums of sound and print they ground themselves culturally and affirm sovereignty through Gugada and Wirangu wangga, embedded in country on the Far West Coast of South Australia.

@jyduhh

Jen Datu (they/them) is an Australian-Filipinx early career artist living and working on Whadjuk Noongar country. Their interdisciplinary practice draws on their personal experiences and everyday observations to question underlying structures of hierarchy, power dynamics and hidden trauma. Interested in the contrasting play of materiality, their work highlights repetitive dismantling and subversion as methods of sustained and intuitive self-healing.

@jen.com.au

Rachel Morley is an artist and arts worker based in Wyndham (VIC). Through analogue photography and photo-collage, her practice explores relationships to place and the construction of memory. Drawing on experiences of insecure housing, her recent photographic projects reflect on how power and inequality is created both within the rental market and through urban planning in Melbourne’s outer western suburbs.

rachelmorley.net

Rachel’s participation in the Kickstart program is supported by City of Wyndham.

Rarriwuy is a director, writer & producer.
Director’s attachment for THE OFFICE (eps 5 & 6) for Bunya Productions. Directed Black Table Talk (feature documentary in development).
Directed comedy web series Hairy Mary’s.
Writer/translator: Counting & Cracking (Belvoir), Bloodland (Sydney Theatre Company), Shadow King (Malthouse Theatre)

@rarriwuyhick

Sophie Dumaresq, is an interdisciplinary artist who brings perspectives of absurdity, queerness and humour to creative and critical robotics. Working across photography, video installation, sculpture and performance, her work explores what it is to try and share joy, love, laughter and communicate in a universe filled with beings whose brains, existence and or bodies are built inherently differently to that of your own.

sophiedumaresq.com