Constance ARI

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.

Cameron Pettit is an operations and analytics professional. 

He brings a background in financial oversight, data analysis, and organisational systems to his role as Treasurer of Constance ARI, with a particular interest in supporting artist-led organisations to build governance capacity. 

He joined the Constance board in March 2026.

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.

Ella Boas is an architecturally trained arts worker and artist based in Nipaluna / Hobart.

Ella has taken on the role of Marketing Officer with Constance ARI while completing a Bachelor of Philosophy. She works with the University of Tasmania’s Libraries and Cultural Collections team across public programs, collections management, public art commissioning and marketing. Past collaborations have been with Sawtooth ARI, The Unconformity, Design Tasmania, MONA FOMA, Sculpture Tasmania Inc., City of Hobart (Public Art team), Despard Gallery, and Plimsoll Gallery.

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.

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.  

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 an emerging multidisciplinary artist and creative arts practitioner based in Nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania. Her practice spans textiles, sculpture, photography, and installation, exploring themes of identity, embodiment, material histories, and the social narratives embedded within everyday objects and images. Drawing on backgrounds in community arts and social justice, her work is informed by collaborative, process-based approaches that value care, participation, and resourcefulness.

Alongside her studio practice, Bonni works as a freelance arts facilitator, designing and delivering creative programs across Australia and internationally. She has collaborated with organisations including Kickstart Arts, DRILL Performance Company Inc., The Story Island Project, and Creative Hobart, and currently works as a creative arts support worker with Dementia Australia.

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.

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.