West Space Team

Joanna Kitto, Director

Joanna Kitto 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 Melbourne and Adelaide and contributes to national publications and discussions. Joanna co-founded independent arts writing platform fine print, and is Deputy Co-Chair of Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia.

Tahmina Maskinyar, Curator

Tahmina Maskinyar is an arts worker and writer 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 and her writing has been published nationally.

Ronen Jafari, Administrator

Ronen Jafari is an arts worker and artist focused on exploring the social, political and individual power of food a focus on sustainability through culinary practices. With training in business and finance, Ronen also works at Liquid Architecture and sits on steering committee of TBC Gallery.

Benjamin Baker, Gabriela Renee, Gallery Assistants

Zamara Zamara, Installation

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.

Alicia Frankovich

Born in Aotearoa, Alicia Frankovich is an artist known for performances, sculptures, videos that engage living human and non-human entities to reveal the limits of how we understand notions of nature. Alicia has presented widely nationally and internationally, including at Starkwhite, Auckland; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

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.

Eugenia Lim

Eugenia Lim is an artist working across body, lens, social and spatial practice. Eugenia explores the way national identities, migration and capital cut, divide and bond our interdependent world. She has shown across the Tate Modern, London; Recontemporary, Turin; Kassel Dokfest; MCA, Sydney; ACCA, Melbourne; FACT, Liverpool, and EXiS, Seoul. Eugenia is one of 10 international directors selected for the 2024 Berlinale Talents Short Form Station.

James Nguyen

James Nguyen is an artist working across documentary, installation and performance. He often collaborates with family and peers to examine the politics of art, self-representation and decolonising strategies in diasporic practice. James has presented across Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, 2014; The National: Australian Art Now at the MCA, Sydney; Re-Tuning with Victoria Pham, Sydney Opera House, 2022; and Open Glossary, ACCA, 2023.

Jahkarli Romanis

Jahkarli Romanis is an artist, researcher, and curator. Her practice is intertwined with her identity as a proud Pitta Pitta woman and explores the complexities of her lived experience and the ongoing impact of colonisation in Australia. Jahkarli holds a PhD from Monash University's Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab.

Artist Committee

Aida Azin, Joshua Pether, Sarah Poulgrain, Kaspar Schmidt Mumm

Volunteers

Afifah Tasya, Asha Barr, Annabel Brown, Henry Buick, Fortuna Hsu, Wendy Li, Keiran Molaeb, Joy Zhou, Sadaf Zekaria