Amanda Bell
Amanda Bell is a Badamia Yamatji and Yued Noongar artist living and working on Wardandi land in Goomburrup. Her practice explores language, story, culture, and identity, reflecting on power, “otherness,” and the importance of telling stories in ways that feel ‘right’ for her as an Aboriginal artist.
Amanda has curated and co-curated several editions of Noongar Country (2021, 2022, 2024) at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery and co-curated KANANGOOR/Shimmer at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions across WA, including Fremantle Arts Centre, AGWA, John Curtin Gallery, Holmes à Court Gallery, FORM Gallery, Boola Bardip, and ArtGeo.
Her neon glass sculpture From our lip, mouths, throats and belly was acquired by the State Art Collection and premiered in Fremantle Arts Centre’s 2021 Revealed exhibition. Other highlights include public commissions, residencies, awards, and acquisitions, including My Blood, Your Blood, Our Blood (City of Bunbury) and her 2025 Judy Wheeler Commission at PICA, F.ma (five ways to make a rainbow).
Amanda’s work engages audiences through storytelling that is culturally grounded, visually and sonically dynamic, and contributes to creating culturally safe spaces in the arts.
Biography and Artwork Images supplied by Amanda Bell
Anna Louise Richardson
Anna Louise Richardson is an independent curator and artist based on Bindjareb Nyoongar Boodja in the Peel region of Western Australia. Her curatorial practice focuses on regional and marginal narratives, intergenerational exchange, and female-centric experiences, with a particular interest in place-making, the archive, and identity politics. Since graduating from Curtin University in 2013, Richardson has worked with institutions and organisations across WA, NSW, and VIC, including John Curtin Gallery, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Fremantle Arts Centre, Galerie Pompom, and Arts Project Australia. She was Lead Curator for The Alternative Archive (2018–2021), the first statewide survey of regional Western Australian practice in over two decades, and has curated the John Stringer Prize (2017, 2019–2020). Richardson has also undertaken curatorial programs with the Australia Council for the Arts (Venice Biennale, 2019). Her curatorial practice sits in tandem with her own nationally exhibited drawing practice, each informing the other through shared concerns with place, identity, and intergenerational narratives. Recent projects include the 2024 TILT commission with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah at Goolugatup Heathcote and a national tour of her solo exhibition The Good, touring regional galleries across Australia with Museums and Galleries of NSW until 2026. In 2023, she was the inaugural winner of the Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery. Richardson is represented by Jennings Kerr.
Biography and Artwork Images supplied by Anna Louise Richardson
Emilia Galatis
Emilia Galatis is an Australian art expert dedicated to working closely with Indigenous artists, especially those without access to traditional market representation and constrained by geographical limitations. With a sharp eye for talent and a commitment to ethical representation, Galatis brings forward unique voices often overlooked in mainstream galleries. Emilia sees art as an agent of change, a vehicle to interrogate our evolving Australia. She has worked with award-winning artists for over a decade, exhibiting artists in NYC, Mexico City, Paris, San Francisco, and widely across Australia. Emilia produces activations that go beyond the canvas, from traditional dining experiences, on country documentaries, ethical homewares, and authors publications.
Emilia has received three international scholarships including a Churchill Fellowship undertaken in 2022, developing international creative business opportunities for Indigenous contemporary arts and inclusion in broader dialogues.
Biography and Artwork Images supplied by Emilia Galatis