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Courtney Collins is a writer/producer living in the remote Indigenous community of Ngukurr and Katherine. Her first novel, The Burial, was shortlisted for numerous prizes including the NSW Premier’s Award and The Stella Prize. Published in 10 countries, it is being adapted as a feature film. In 2017, Courtney started Ngukurr Story Project supporting local Indigenous people to tell the stories they want to tell in the language they want to tell it in. Recently, she has written a web series set in Tibet and the NT. Her second novel is due to be published in 2020.

  • Sancintya Mohini Simpson (QLD)

    1. Shanthiroad India

    Creative Exchange is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland

Sancintya Mohini Simpson's practice examines the complexities of racial and migratory experiences within Australia. Informed by her heritage as a First-Generation Australian of Indian and Anglo-Celtic descent, Simpson's work often focuses on her own family and community’s experiences–unravelling the untold stories of an existence on the periphery. Currently her work focuses on uncovering her familial history of Indian indenture in South Africa. Through painting, photography, video, performance, prose, and sound, Simpson’s work creates conversations and tells stories to critique contemporary Australian culture, and colonisations problematic histories.

  • Tammy Brennan (QLD)

    1. Shanthiroad India

    Creative Exchange is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland

Tammy Brennan is an artist who creates and produces contemporary cross-artform works using text, music, movement, performance and site. Her practice centres on making connections with people that spark innovative exchange and interdisciplinary encounters to provoke dialogue, action, and reflection between the performer and spectator nexus. Tammy's work confronts systemic global socio-political problems, probing abuses of power, culture and contemporary issues such as human rights violations, gender violence, conflict and trauma. Shattering ideas around victim/survivor stereotyping, she addresses narrative passivity, representations and reclamation of power to reshape the human condition.