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). Joanna contributes to national publications, books and discussions and, understanding the significance writing about art holds to the vitality of its creation, Joanna co-founded arts writing platform fine print.

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.

Zamara Zamara, Exhibition Technician

Benjamin Baker, Gallery Assistant

Volunteers, Interns & Mentees

Ingrid Hollis, Caitlin Howden, Niosha Khademideljou, Naimo Omar, Khashayar Salmanzadeh, Mellyn Sun, Joy Zhou

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, Fundraising

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.

Alicia Frankovich, Artist Representative

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.

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, an Indigenous research lab at Monash University.

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