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Olive Gill-Hille is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Gill-Hille completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (2015) specialising in Sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts. Seeking further study and to develop skills in making, the designer undertook the Associate Degree of Furniture Design at RMIT (2018). Gill-Hille aims to create pieces that transform furniture, traditionally static items, into involved and unconventional works of art. The artist's experimental structures often reference the human body, bodies supporting bodies and adapting shapes and forms from the natural environment into man-made works. Developing a narrative surrounding the artworks as well as drawing inspiration from the material's history and artist's working environment are key aspects of Gill-Hille's practice.

Tom Mùller is an established multi-disciplinary artist with an active international practice spanning the realms of site-responsive, temporal and permanent projects. His work has been included in major exhibitions and Institutions including ‘The National’ at Carriageworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Adelaide Biennial, Biennale de la Chaux-de-Fonds, and the upcoming Northern Alps Triennale in Japan. He has been the recipient of multiple Australia Council grants, the inaugural winner of the Qantas Contemporary Art prize, a mid-career fellowship from the Department of Culture and the Arts. In 2009 won the Basel international residency program through the Christoph Merian Stiftung. He was mentored by the Russian-American conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov in New York, and studied Anthroposophy at Emerson College in London. He holds a BFA (first class honours) in Sculpture from Curtin University of Technology.

Annika Kristensen is an experienced curator with a particular interest in commissioning new work by contemporary artists, art in the public domain, and broadening audiences for the arts. Most recently in the position of Visual Arts Curator at Perth Festival (2023 and 2024), Kristensen was previously Senior Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne, where she worked with major international and Australian artists to commission new work and curate significant solo and group exhibitions. Kristensen was Exhibition and Project Coordinator for the 19^th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012). She has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Kristensen holds an MSc In Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh, following undergraduate studies in Arts (Communication Studies) at the University of Western Australia.