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Cheryl Leavy is from the Kooma and Nguri Nations in western and central Queensland. A poet, Cheryl was the winner of the 2022 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize with several commissions including for Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra, Red Room Poetry Month 2023, and most recently poetry activations for Daniel Boyd's Rainbow Serpent (Version) at the Institute of Modern Art and Judy Watson's exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery. Cheryl was a proud recipient of the inaugural FNAWN Varuna Residency Fellowship in 2024 to work on her poetry manuscript, Mudunja - Song Country. Cheryl's first children's book, Yanga Mother, written in Kooma and translated to English, will be published by UQP this year with her second book, For You, Country, forthcoming in 2025. Cheryl often writes in her Kooma language and is passionate about its revitalisation. Cheryl has enjoyed a long career in the arts and cultural sector, serving on many boards, including the Brisbane Writers Festival where she established and co-chaired the First Nations Advisory Committee. Cheryl has also achieved notable success in First Nations policy and rights advocacy with her most recent focus on environmental and land justice. Christopher Bassi is an artist of Meriam, Yupungathi and British descent. Working with archetypal models of representational painting, his work engages with the medium as sociological and historical text and as a means to address issues surrounding cultural identity, alternative genealogies, and colonial legacies in Australia and the South Pacific. Chris's recent work will be included in the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition, Primavera 2023- Young Australian Artists.
