Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer (he/him) is an artist and arts worker with ten years of experience in the industry. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has worked at Artspace, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, and as a lecturer and tutor at the University of Technology Sydney and Queensland College of Art. He holds a Bachelor of Design with Honours in Photography and Situated Media from UTS and a Masters of Fine Art (Research) from the University of New South Wales.

Contact: nick@ima.org.au

Stephanie Berlangieri (she/her) is a curator, researcher, and writer. Her research interests include digital technology, labour, and mental health, and their impact on contemporary selfhood and social relations. She is currently Curator Research at the Monash University Museum of Art and previously held curatorial positions at Carriageworks, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and SydneyBiennale. Recent curatorial projects include Salote Tawale: I Remember You and The National 4: Australian Art Now (Carriageworks, 2023); and Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Doug Aitken: New Era, and Anywhere but Here (Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021). She has written for Art Monthly Australasia, Art Asia Pacific, Artist Profile, and Art and Australia.

Shannon Brett (they/them) is a proud Wakka Wakka/Butchulla/Gooreng Gooreng person, an artist, designer, and curator, currently completing a PhD in Social Justice at the Queensland University of Technology. Their research on whiteness responds to systemic racism and misogyny in Australia from decolonial and black feminist perspectives. They hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Queensland College of Art and have worked in numerous arts institutions throughout Australia.

Kink are a cross-disciplinary working group researching and formalising a history of queer Australian art. They are passionate about generating new, open resources for and about the Australian LGBTQIA+ art community. They currently comprise art historian Amelia Barikin, artist and facilitator Courtney Coombs, artist and researcher Callum McGrath (pictured right), artist and educator Spiros Panigirakis (pictured left), and art historian and curator Tim Riley Walsh.

Hen Mills (they/them) is an arts worker and artist whose work involves kinetic sculpture and poetry, repurposed waste and expanded sound. As an experienced gallery technician, they work with artists, art galleries, and community groups to provide technical services and facilitate workshops.

Contact: production@ima.org.au

Nadine Schmoll (she/her) is an artist and educator experienced in working with diverse audiences. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education (Visual Arts) and has worked across curriculum areas, including art, design, fashion, history, science, and English. Prior to joining the IMA, she was Learn Curator at the Museum of Brisbane.

Contact: education@ima.org.au

Caitlin Sheedy (she/her) is an artist and retail manager, with an interest in artisanal design. Prior to the IMA, she worked at the Museum of Brisbane and Artisan. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art, where she was awarded the Win Shubert Graduate Prize for Fine Art and the Karl and Gertrude Langer Memorial Prize for the highest graduating student in printmaking.

Contact: shop@ima.org.au

Jessica Dorizac (she/her) is an arts worker and artist, whose practice explores assemblage, ornament, and pattern. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has worked within the artist-family collective, Fruit Juice Factory Studio. In 2022, she won the Libris Awards Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal National Artists’ Book Award.

Contact: jessica@ima.org.au

Odette Miller (she/her) returns to Brisbane via Hobart, where she held marketing roles at the University of Tasmania and Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). At MONA, she developed campaigns for Kirsha Kaechele’s Forest Congress, the second annual MONA Gala, and Frying Pan Studio, a new recording studio housing the console from Abbey Road. She has been a marketing consultant for documentary films, including the AACTA-award-nominated Franklin and Documentary Australia and Totem Film’s The Climate Changers.

Contact: odette@ima.org.au