Constance ARI

Hannah Foley is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in nipaluna/Hobart. Her process-driven practice considers the phenomenological and relational body; incorporating performance, installation, and sound, each work begins with embodied processes of gestural and lived investigation. Having completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) at the University of Tasmania, she is now undertaking doctorate research, drawing on hydrofeminist theory to generate modes of performing and scoring encounters with more-than-human bodies of water. Alongside her practice and research, Hannah is involved in tertiary arts education, and has previously worked for arts organisations and galleries including Salamanca Arts Centre.

Jade Irvine is an artist and writer living in Nipaluna. Her creative work centres on re-examining her cultural identity and articulating a sense of place through landscape. Jade has written for a number of arts publications including the National Gallery of Australia, ArtsHub, Assemble Papers, and un Magazine. She is currently working across digital mediums to produce audio and video content as part of her professional practice.

Talitha is a landscape painter working from Good Grief Studios (AU), and a PhD candidate in higher education research at Lancaster University (UK). Talitha joins Constance with the aim of using art practice to enhance intersections and relationships, between those from new immigrant and cosmopolitan backgrounds in Lutruwita/Tasmania, and indigenous practices of place and Country. In past work within progressive and traditional indigenous art communities in Bhutan (BT), through colour theory, Talitha contributed to enhancing relations that were previously at an impasse.

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Cassie Sullivan is a lutruwita/Tasmanian Indigenous contemporary emerging artist living and working on Melukerdee Country. Cassie has a responsive, intimate and experimental arts practice that crosses disciplines of moving image, photography, writing, sound, installation and printmaking. She graduated from University of Tasmania with a bachelor of Fine Arts with honours (first class) in 2021 and has exhibited both locally and interstate.

Andrew is an accomplished Creative Producer whose career has covered Festival, Art Centre and Local Government roles. Originally from Western Australia, Andrew has worked with leading arts organisations such as Moonah Arts Centre, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth Festival, and Big hART, programming and producing iconic events and arts programs, cherished by the community. Andrew’s practice explores Community Arts and Cultural Development principals, producing artist led projects that have positive impact on the health and wellbeing of communities and stimulate artistic innovation and vibrancy. Currently living and working in nipaluna (Hobart) lutruwita (Tasmania), Andrew is discovering a new community and leads the team and program at the Moonah Arts Centre.

Yumemi is a multidisciplinary artist and youth arts worker based in nipaluna (Hobart), with a rapidly growing interest in community-based arts, education, and socially engaged practices. Her works and collaborations are often process-driven, posing intimate offerings and intersections of memory, nostalgia, cultural practice and an emotional response to site. Yumemi uses her practice as personal interventions of vulnerability, confrontation and reflection, that long to connect with a deeper sense of self.

Tüli Morris-Merkel is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, creating and facilitating in Nipaluna/Hobart. Currently undertaking their second year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University Of Tasmania, Tüli works with illustrative motifs using mediums such as printmaking, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, music and occasionally video, as a way of storytelling. Their practice echoes a passion for D.I.Y and an experimental attitude to making, adaptation, learning and losing themselves in the act of creativity.

Bonni is a creative arts practitioner with a background in community arts and social justice. She has run creative-based programs across Australia and internationally, and maintains a personal practice in writing, music, and visual art. Currently based in Nipaluna/Hobart, she works as a freelance arts facilitator and with NFP Story Island, engaging young people through storytelling and creative writing.

Sara Kirby is a Tasmanian-based arts educator and practitioner with a focus on transformative education and outsider art. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Tasmania and has worked with major media organisations including Fairfax, Australian Associated Press, and Getty Images.

In 2025, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study prison art programs in the UK, USA, and India, exploring how creative expression can support rehabilitation and reintegration. Her work is informed by a background in Restorative Justice and a deep interest in the creative voices often found outside traditional art institutions.

Sara facilitates arts-based learning at Risdon Prison and co-curates the annual Artists with Conviction exhibition, showcasing creative work by incarcerated artists and championing the value of outsider art within justice-focused contexts.

Laurie Oxenford (b. 1997) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and producer critically reimagining the potential of urban spaces and ecologies. Now working from nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania), her practice is a series of continuous experiments on public space, informal mapping and speculative (post-extractivist) geologies in and beyond the *Anthropocene. 

In 2025, Laurie exhibited her seventh solo exhibition Eating Gravel, Burying Bodies with Good Grief Studios and co-curated softwash with Merinda Davies and Grace Dewar with funding from Creative Australia. In 2023 she completed an internship at Triangle Asterides in Marseille, France. She is currently the Exhibitions and Touring Coordinator at Contemporary Art Tasmania and a board member of Constance ARI. 

Laurie is a Co-Director of artist collective, PUBLIC PALACE, founded with Grace Dewar in 2020.

Laurie has worked with organisations including HOTA Home of the Arts, Triangle Asterides, City of Gold Coast, Platform Arts, Floating Land Biennale and Outer Space Gallery. She one half of Parks Anonymous.  

Cullen Butters is a visual artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart. Working with archival, documentary and forensic processes, their analogue based practice examines collisions, collapses and tensions between the environment and people who are shaped by their circumstance. Cullen is the President and one of the founding board members of the Analogue Photographic Society and is currently finishing their Bachelor of Fine Arts at UTAS. Alongside their art practice they work as a screen-printing assistant and disability support worker.

Sara Morawetz is a conceptual artist whose research-based, interdisciplinary practice reflects critically and poetically on the matter and methods of science. Interested in the systems and structures that shape how we see and what we know, her work interrogates scientific and cultural apparatus that convey precision, accuracy and determinacy, yet remain slippery, speculative and whimsical when ‘tested in the field.’ Her projects have involved collaborations with scientists from MIT, NASA and NIST, and have been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally. Her work has been profiled in Frieze, Forbes, Scientific American, Aesthetica, Artist Profile and included in publications by Phaidon and Whitechapel Gallery / MIT Press.