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 and discussions and is a co-founder of independent arts writing platform fine print.

Tahmina Maskinyar, Curator

Tahmina Maskinyar (tahmina@westspace.org.au) 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 arts sector experience spans academia, not-for-profits, volunteer boards, and government, and her writing has been published nationally.

Gallery Assistants

Gabriela Renee, Benjamin Baker, Vinny Bartels

Exhibition Technician

Zamara Zamara

Artist Committee

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

Volunteers & Interns

Sophie Hansen, Ingrid Hollis, Khashayar Salmanzadeh, Joy Zhou

Mentorship Program

Niosha Khademideljou, Naimo Omar, Mellyn Sun

News

In February 2026, West Space says “see ya upstairs” to Ronen Jafari as he commences his new role as co-Director with Rohan Rebeiro at Liquid Architecture. Ronen joined West Space in March 2023 and we are very sad to say goodbye but deeply excited to witness his spirit and capacity in shaping the future of LA.

For those of you who have had the pleasure of meeting Ronen you will be aware of his quick to tease nature that allows no room for retaliation because he then shakes things up with his deep generosity. Ronen has brought so much heart to West Space and strengthened the organisation across the years in the role of Administrator with a side of everything else you could possibly think of. He has been chef, in house illustrator of cats, provided curatorial and programming direction, been tech wizard, and install saviour, interlocutor with the Collingwood Yards community and too much more to list here.

“West Space wouldn't be where we are now without Ronen. From his first day, I have been learning from him and always new he was on a path to leadership. We couldn't be more proud of this next step in Ronen’s career and will forever be his cheerleaders.” — Joanna Kitto

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 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

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

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.

Supporters

Inaugural Studio Supporters, $10,000

Melissa Loughnan & Simon Griffiths

Commission Supporters, $5,000+

Joan Spiller & Philip Yetton
Rosemary Willink

Performance Supporters, $2,500+

Bala Starr

Offsite Supporters, $1,000+

Ellen Koshland
Ruth Trenerry

Window Supporters, $500+

Georgie Cleary
Alicia Frankovich
Melissa Keys
Shelley McSpedden
James Nguyen
Paris Lettau
Eugenia Lim
Leon van Schaik
Sid Smith

Discussion Supporters, $250+

Akira Akira
Khaled Chamma
Philip Kitto
Sim Luttin
Nicholas Mangan
Alia McBride
Kade McDonald
James McGrath
Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse

Free Entry Supporters, $100+

Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Matthew Austin, Kate Beynon, Celia Dottore, MJ Flamiano, Elyse Goldfinch, Shelley Lasica, Helena Newton-Brown, Phuong Ngo, Basim Magdy, Gillian Mercer, Roberta Joy Rich, Mikala Tai, Amelia Wallin, Azza Zein

Supporters, up to $99

Michelle Antoinette, Aida Azin, Brittany Barnes, Kate Bonney, Ellen Bradley, Jacqui Burnes, Arini Byng, Maryanne Coutts, Laura Couttie, Zoltan Fecso, Elisha Fitri, Gregory Giannis, Helen Grogan, Sebastian Henry-Jones, Deanna Hitti, Gabriela Holland, Helen Hughes, Harriet Hurley, Luke Duncan King, Katrin Koenning, Shivanjani Lal, Morgan Little, Tahmina Maskinyar, Anna McDermott, Kyle Mcintyre, Christine McKervey, Georgia Mulholland, Jackie Miller, Catherine Ortega-Sandow, Jessica Olivieri, Emma O'Neill, Amy Prcevich, Audrey Pfister, Aurelia Pichay, Tara Prowse, Madeline Reece, Carmen Reid, Eleanor Rieniets, Mikhail Rodrick, Lea Rose, Sarah Rose, Louana Sainsbury, Fatma El Samad, Safa El Samad, Jacqui Shelton, Amy Spiers, Grace Tan, Jessica Tanto, wani toaishara, Truc Truong, Narelle White, Anonymous x 6