Jenna Lee lives and works between Brisbane and London. She is a Larrakia, Wardaman, and Karajarri woman and identifies as a queer, mixed race, Asian, Aboriginal woman. Through her art, Lee explores language, labels, and objects, examining how they intersect to create or challenge the concept of identity. Her practice spans curation, creative design, art making, and production. Formally trained as a graphic designer, her work has become a key part of Queensland’s visual identity through her engagements with Gillimbaa Creative Agency. In 2019, Lee was the recipient of the Australia Council Young and Emerging Dreaming Award. She has also been a finalist in the John Fries Award (2019), the 35th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (2018) and the Blacktown Art Prize (2018). In 2018, Lee won the tertiary category in the Libris Artist Book Prize. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Communication Design and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Queensland.

Freja Carmichael is a Ngugi woman and curator belonging to the Quandamooka People of Moreton Bay. She works broadly across the cultural sector with artists and communities on projects with a focus on collaborative curatorial approaches and the promotion and preservation of First Nations fibre knowledge. Carmichael recently curated Weaving the Way, The University of Queensland Art Museum (2019), Seeing Country, Redland Art Gallery (2019) and Around and within, Macquarie Group Collection space gallery (2018) and was a co-curator of The Commute, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018) and its follow on iterations as The Layover, Artspace Aotearoa (2019) and Transits and Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery (2020). Currently, Freja is curator IMA Belltower at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts and also works as an independent curator, writer and arts worker.