Name: Jeremy Smith
Occupation and/or artform: Creative producer and arts manager
Jeremy Smith lives and plays in Boorloo (Perth). Recent positions include Senior Producer – WA with Performing Lines, General Manager at PICA and Director of Experimental Arts and Community Arts with the Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia). He has spent considerable time supporting initiatives and projects born out of regional and remote Australia and developed key arts and disability programs. He is a graduate of WAAPA, and worked as a freelance lighting designer, production manager and creative producer in the early stages of his career. In March 2024, his writing was published in the second edition of The Relationship is the Project: A guide to working with communities. Jeremy’s chapter speaks to the power and abuse of labels in our society, and his own journey of avoidance and acceptance.
Name: Margot Morales
Occupation and/or artform: Theatre
Margot Morales is an award-winning writer, director, and performer. Across a range of roles, Margot has worked closely with many medium-to-large scale arts organisations including Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne Fringe, Arts Centre Melbourne, Arts House, Arts Access Victoria, and the Green Room Awards.
Name: Sam Martin
Occupation and/or artform:Filmmaker and Creative Producer
Sam Martin is a director, producer, consultant, and community engagement specialist. He has directed short documentaries, written, performed, and produced theatre, and curated storytelling events. Sam’s work focuses on crafting narratives that bridge lived experiences with broader cultural contexts, exploring innovative forms of creative expression across diverse media.
Name: Morwenna Collett
Occupation and/or artform: Consultant and Director, multi-artform
Morwenna Collett runs a national arts consultancy, specialising in access, diversity, equity and inclusion. She helps organisations create positive change, through strategy, research, consultation and training. She has previously worked with arts organisations as CEO, Non-Executive Director and leadership team member, including Accessible Arts and the Australia Council (Now Creative Australia).
Name: Ebony Wightman
Occupation and/or artform: Visual Artist/Arts Worker
Ebony Wightman is a Western Sydney artist, creative leader, and Disability advocate with a passion for systems thinking, social justice, and access for all. Ebony’s practice champions disability-led perspectives and explores her lived experience as an Autistic person with Disability. Ebony co-founded We Are Studios, Australia’s first 100% disability-led studio.
Name: Luke John Campbell
Occupation and/or artform: Core Artist, Second Echo Ensemble
Luke John Campbell is a director, movement, and multi-disciplinary artist. Luke is also an artist living with Down Syndrome and he is not happy about it. He longs to be seen and critiqued as an artist- not as an artist living with a disability. Luke’s artistic journey started when he joined Second Echo Ensemble in 2015. He created a lead role in the Ensemble’s production of the RITE OF SPRING which premiered at Salamanca Moves in 2016. In 2017 Luke was an artist in residence at Critical Path where he worked with UK artist Kate Marsh. He has studied with Philip Channels in NSW and Hobart and participated in the Theatre Royal [Hobart] Young Ambassador Program. Luke has been an Emerging Artist at Back to Back CAMP, an Arts Tasmania 2020 Educational Artist in Residence, a micro residency recipient at Performance Space and a 2020-21 Australia Council Future Leader. Luke’s directorial debut BY MY HAND was presented at Dark MOFO 2018 and toured to Lonely in the Rain Festival in Finland. His subsequent works have been presented in partnership with Constance Ari, The University of Tasmania, Wide Angle Tasmania, Moonah Arts Centre, Rosny Barn and GASP. He has performed at MONA; MONA FOMA; Dancehouse Room to Move, Melbourne; Ten Days on the Island; You Are Here Festival and Undercover Artist Festival. In addition to his dance practice, Luke is a musician and photographer. His photography has been exhibited at Moonah arts Centre, Hobart Waterside Pavilion and Salamanca Arts Centre.
Second Echo Ensemble will be presenting III, a trilogy of Luke’s recent works, The Bridge, The Chain and The Bond as part of their 20th Anniversary season in 2025. In III Luke is putting his art to the test through anonymity, abstraction and distance.
Name: Kath Duncan
Occupation and/or artform: Live performance, writing, research
Kath Duncan is an Untamed Arts Fiend, working in audio, live performance, unusual research and media making.
Name: Creatrix Tiara
Occupation and/or artform: Creative producer, director, performance artist, media-maker, writer, organiser
Creatrix Tiara is a transient artist creating hybrid worlds that connect communities. Their divergent experience spans writing, performance and other multidisciplinary ‘shenanigans’ across media, gaming and arts, with expert engagements on panels like the Creative Australia Peer Assessor Pool. Emerging from whimsy, their projects are tied to current affairs, life experiences, and off-and-online culture. In the past, this meant zoning into identity, social justice and fandoms before, in the last few years, pivoting to uplift the digital realm as art. As director and producer, they now bridge video games and performing arts with experiential and physical outcomes.
Name: Abbie Madden
Occupation and/or Art Form: Artistic Director of Blindful - Dance / Circus performer, Choreographer and Director. Training Coordinator at Access2Arts
Abbie Madden is Artistic Director and founder of inclusive dance and circus company Blindful. Abbie is a dancer, originally from Kaurna Country (Adelaide) where she was a member of the world-renowned Australian Dance Theatre’s Youth Ensemble. Abbie relocated to Belfast in 2014 to fulfil her dream of working with ponydance and became a company member for two years. Abbie is a versatile performer and a founding member of the highly successful Yuck Circus. She also works as a choreographer with experience in dance performance along with creative research and developments, film, physical theatre and musical theatre. Abbie wishes to work with disabled artists, coming from her own experiences being born with congenital glaucoma. In 2020 Abbie was awarded the National Leadership Award in Arts Access supported by the Australian Council for the Arts. Abbie continues to work in the arts and disability as Training Coordinator at Access2Arts. When she isn’t performing or making social change you can find her climbing around at heights as a qualified rigger and rope access technician.
Name: Gayle Kennedy
Occupation and/or Art Form: Writer, playwright, poet and editor
Gayle Kennedy is a member of the Wongaiibon clan of the Ngiayampaa speaking Nation in South-West New South Wales.
Gayle is an award-winning storyteller - a writer, playwright, poet and editor. As a disability advocate, she has spoken widely on the Aboriginal perspective of disability across Australia and internationally. Gayle has also presented at the Sydney Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, Wordstorm, Festival of the Dreaming and NAIDOC events.
In 2005, Gayle’s book of poetry ‘Koori Girl Goes Shoppin’ was shortlisted for the David Unaipon Award, which she went on to win in 2006 with her book ‘Me, Antman & Fleabag’. Gayle has had 11 children’s novels published by Oxford University Press as part of the ‘Yarning Strong Series’. One of those books, ‘This Is Country’, was selected to represent Australia at the 2014 Bologna Book Fair, Italy. In 2021 Gayle contributed to the anthology work ‘Growing up Disabled in Australia’.
Name: Uncle Paul Constable Calcott
Occupation/ artform: Indigenous visual artist, Human rights advocate
Uncle Paul Calcott is a renowned Australian artist and long -time advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disability.
As a proud Wiradjuri man growing up with disability and a member of the LGBTIQ+ community, Uncle Paul has first-hand experience of how intersectionality can lead to marginalization and discrimination. He advocates for more culturally appropriate programs and activities for people with disability both locally, and internationally, and facilitates a local art group of First Peoples artists living with disability (Nuuna Ron) using traditional art and storytelling to raise awareness around issues such as health, social isolation, economic participation and resilience building. Uncle Paul has recently been commissioned to develop artwork for the promotion of the 2032 Paralympics.
Name: Madeleine Little
Occupation and/or artform: Undercover Artist Festival Director / Performing Arts
Madeleine Little is an award-winning performer, theatre maker and access consultant, currently working at Access Arts directing Undercover Artist Festival, Australia’s premier disability-led performing arts festival (returning September 2025, undercoverartistfest.com). She is passionate about creating accessible and culturally safe spaces for disabled and d/Deaf artists.
Name: Matt Shilcock
Occupation/ artform: Creative producer/Dance artist
Matt Shilcock is a marketing and communications specialist, performing arts professional, and disability advocate with over 15 years of experience across entertainment, fitness, and business sectors. As a creative strategist, he excels in stakeholder engagement, brand development, and project management, with a passion for inclusive innovation, accessibility, and community impact.