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 Naarm/Melbourne and Tarntanya/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. Read on about Tahmina in our News.

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

Three people on stage sitting on a couch with a projected image behind them. Man on the left of the couch is speaking to a seated crowd using a microphone.
Basim Magdy, Teresa Busuttil and Joanna Kitto at the 'Stranger than fiction' Symposium, August 2024, Collingwood Yards. Photography by Machiko Abe.

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.

Bala Starr, Deputy Chair

Bala Starr is an experienced arts leader and currently General Manager at ANKA, Darwin. Previously she was Director, La Trobe Art Institute; Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, steering programs that promoted inquiry and interrelations between Asian and international art practices; Senior Curator, Ian Potter Museum of Art; and Melbourne International Biennial. Bala advocates for independent artists and curators, intergenerational exchange and overlooked practices.

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.

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.

Kim Phan

Kim Phan is a finance manager and bookkeeper, interested in supporting not-for-profit organisations making a positive impact. Kim had held Business Analyst and Internal Auditor roles and, while living in Thailand, founded her own business Children’s Playcentre, and volunteered at organisations supporting children with disabilities.

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.

Paris Lettau

Paris Lettau is a practising barrister, arts editor and writer. He is a co-founder and contributing editor of Memo Review, Index Journal, and Index Books.

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.

Jahkarli Romanis

Jahkarli Romanis is an early career artist, researcher, and curator. Jahkarli's 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

Archie Barry, Aida Azin and Torika Bolatagici at the 'Unison' Symposium, 2023. Photography by Kenneth Suico.