West Space Team

Joanna Kitto, Director

Joanna Kitto (director@westspace.org.au) is an arts worker and writer focused on refining her inclusive, receptive and personalised approach to contemporary art presentation. She has held curatorial and leadership positions across Naarm (Melbourne) and Tarntanya (Adelaide) and contributes to national publications, books and discussions. With an understanding of the vitality that writing about art holds to its creation, in 2014 Joanna co-founded arts writing platform fine print, presenting experimental and critical discussions online and in shared public spaces.

Tahmina Maskinyar, Curator

Tahmina Maskinyar (tahmina@westspace.org.au) is an arts worker and writer. Born in Kabul and raised near the Djarlgarro Beelier (Canning River) on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, she is committed to amplifying the existing capacities of others and aims to facilitate space for creative practice to flourish and intersect with critical discourse. Her experience spans academia, not-for-profits, volunteer boards, and government, with writing published nation-wide.

Gabriela Renee Williams, Gallery Coordinator

Gabriela Renee Williams (gabriela@westspace.org.au) is an artist and arts worker cultivating meaningful relationships within artistic communities, driven by spaces that nurture artists and operate as sites of care, exchange and shared growth. As an active member of the arts community, Gabriela also holds a position at Incinerator and serves as a board member at TCB Gallery.

Exhibition Technicians

Zamara Zamara (Lead), Vinny Bartels

Gallery Assistants

Benjamin Baker (Saturdays)

Volunteers, Intern & Mentees

Ingrid Hollis, Niosha Khademideljou, Bri Lee, Naimo Omar, Millie Pilditch, Khashayar Salmanzadeh, Mellyn Sun

Board

Rosemary Willink, Chair

Rosemary Willink is an experienced creative industries executive, with expertise in strategy and program development, governance and digital. She is a non-executive director of Canstar, Australia’s largest comparison website helping consumers make better financial decisions.

Sid Smith, Treasurer

Sid Smith is an experienced chartered accountant and creative industry executive specialising in capital management, strategic planning and financial transformation. His current role is in the live music industry with previous positions across performing arts, publishing and broadcasting.

Jack Howes

Jack Howes is a development executive with expertise in partnerships, strategy, and evaluation. He currently works with a social enterprise in the youth homelessness sector.

Alexandra George

Alexandra George is a lawyer and AACTA Award-nominated film producer. Prioritising depth and impact, she collaborates with awarded artists, directors and writers to produce major visual works across Australia's cultural and film sectors. Similarly, her legal advocacy focuses on corporate and government accountability, and providing access to justice for mass wrongs.

Eugenia Lim, Artist Representative

Eugenia Lim is an artist of Chinese-Singaporean ancestry who works across body, lens, social and spatial practice to explore how migration and capital cut, divide and bond our interdependent world. An ongoing strand of practice considers work, collectivity, technology and ethics—and art and capital as strange bedfellows. Often a performer within her own works, Lim invents personas to explore the tensions of the individual within society—the alienation and belonging in a globalised world.

James Nguyen, Artist Representative

James Nguyen’s interdisciplinary practice moves between live and online performance, video, drawing and installation. He often makes work in collaboration with family and friends, inviting them to respond to specific sites using readily available materials. Research and conversation play key roles in his practice, which examines strategies of decolonisation while interrogating the politics of family history, displacement and diaspora.

Jahkarli Romanis, Artist Representative

Jahkarli Romanis's artistic practice is inextricably intertwined with her identity as a Pitta Pitta woman and aims to subvert and disrupt colonial approaches to image making and photography. Romanis’ research and arts practice is heavily informed by her family oral histories and photographic archives. She holds a PhD from the Wominjeka Djeembana, Monash University's Indigenous research lab.

Past West Space Board Members

Alica Frankovich, Bala Starr, Paris Lettau, Kim Phan, Melissa Loughnan, Nicholas Modrzewski, Nurin Veis, Kerrie Poliness, Joan Spiller, Tony Nagle, Sofi Basseghi, Sean Dockray, Tamsen Hopkinson, Padraig Donnelly, Jacqueline Doughty, Jan Bryant, Lou Hubbard, Charlie Sofo, Katie Lee, Cheree Tucker, Bill Gillies, Lyndal Walker, Terri Bird, Dominic Redfern, Evan Lowenstein, Brad Haylock, Stuart Geddes, Debra Main, Philip Samartzis, Rachel Young, Katarina Paseta, Ash Keating, Patrick Pound, Penelope Aitken, Cherie McNair, Cass Matthews, Arlo Mountford, Brett Jones, Matthew Self, Suzie Attiwill, Veronica Kent

Artist Committee

Leyla Stevens 

Leyla Stevens is an Australian-Balinese artist who works predominantly within an expanded documentary and lens-based practice. Her work is informed by ongoing engagements with storied places, archives, cultural geographies and performance lineages through a transcultural lens. Stevens' research-lead practice is centred on collaborative engagements with place and communities, and the recuperation of counter-histories within dominant narratives.

Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson

Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson is an award-winning Iranian-Australian director, video artist, and researcher. Her practice spans the moving image, virtual reality, immersive installations and cine-theatre, with a focus on poetic cinematic storytelling. Her film work explores inherited memory, and displacement, inviting audiences to reflect, witness and participate.

Darcy McConnell (ENOKi)

ENOKi is a proud Djaara, Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Gunai/Kurnai artist living and creating on Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne). In their practice they explore Blakness and Queerness with bright vibrant colours inspired by Pop-Art and Native Flora. ENOKi currently works from the Collingwood Yards studios, directly next door to the West Space Studio.

Coby Ann Edgar

Coby Ann Edgar is a queer multi-racial (Gulumoerrigin (Larrakia) / Jingili / Filipino / Chinese / Irish / Scottish / English) First Nations curator, writer and presenter living and working on unceded Gadigal land in Redfern, Sydney. With over 15 years' experience in government positions across education, galleries, and museums, in 2025 Edgar transitioned to independent work to focus on building her consultancy company Driftwood Consultancy.

Previous Artist Committee Members

Aida Azin, Kaspar Schmidt-Mumm, Joshua Pether, Sarah Poulgrain, Tristen Harwood, Jahkarli Romanis, Kate ten Buuren, Mark Shorter, Saskia Doherty, Amrita Hepi, Samira Farah, Sophie Cassar, James Nguyen, Ashley Perry, Pip Wallis, Sophia Cai, Avni Dauti

2026 Supporters

West Space is empowered by a generous group of individuals who invest in our programs and ensure our sustainable future.

Inaugural Studio Patrons, $10,000

Melissa Loughnan & Simon Griffiths

Commission Supporters, $2,000+

Anonymous

Offsite Supporters, $1,000+

Joan Spiller & Philip Yetton, Bala Starr

Performance Supporters, $500+

Shelley McSpedden

Discussion Supporters, $200+

Akira Akira, Khaled Chamma, David Howes, Alicia Frankovich, Amrit Gill, Emily Sexton, Sid Smith, Ruth Trenerry, Anonymous

Free Entry Supporters, $50+

Nicholas Cooper, Rayleen Forester, Lea Rose, Amelia Wallin, Kelsey Woods, Anonymous

Supporters, $20+

Liz Nowell, Anonymous x2

Khaled Chamma: Fireplace Supporters, funding acquisition

Ruth Trenerry, Joan Spiller, Lea Rose, Joanna Kitto, Rosemary Willink

Spilt Milk (and hard honey) Supporters, funding artist travel

Sabrina Baker, Glenn Barkley, Johanna Bear, Lucinda Bennett, Tom Blake, Khaled Chamma, Bonnie Cleeland, Megan Cope, Lolani Dalosa, Chanel Duff, Nina Dyer, Nadeem Eshraghi, Luz-Eliana Folau-Brown, Heather L Galbraith, Briony Galligan, Anna Gardner, Jane Groufsky, Saarah Hanif, Elise Harmsen, Chevron Hassett, Biljana Jancic, Joanna Kitto, Tessa Laird, Shivanjani Lal, Jenna Lee, Yuna Lee, Andrea Low, Danae Malo, Katharine Atafu-Mayo, Gloriana Meyers, Lucy Meyle, Anastasia Neil, Samoana Nokise, Breana Nuku Towers, Nanette Orly, Melanie Oliver, Jacqui O’Shea, Emily Parr, Leitu Parsons, Sophie Penkethman-Young, April Phillips, Karla Pringle, Natasha Ratuva, Emily Sexton, Kevin Shen, Keith Smith, Talia Smith, Joan Spiller, Leyla Stevens, Zina Swanson, Nikolai Talamahina, Mel Tangaere, Piupiu Maya Turei, Trish Tupou, Alice Vaea, Taja Vaetoru, Kasi Valu, Nia Vavao, Jane Wallace, Tim Riley Walsh, Ellanor Webb, Benjamin Work, Caroline Wylds, Penelope Aitken, Edith Amituanai, Eleanor Amor, Te Ara, Lemau Creative, Anonymous x8

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