Category: Artist

Bio: Founder of community “Newcastle fire and flow” and Owner of the new enterprise “Alchemy of Arts” Jessica has been training and working in the creative industries for 20 years and now primarily produces, performs, and teaches in the Newcastle & hunter area.   Made.In.Newcastle Project: Jessica created the show “Tinker Box” which was hosted at

Bio: India is a Newcastle local, singer-songwriter, and currently fronts funk-pop band Viragos. She has been playing music for 4 years in the Newcastle scene, recently scoring the title of UON Band Comp Winner of 2020. Through her storytelling, India conveys messages of healing and compassion towards oneself and her journey through emotional and spiritual

Bio: Helen Hopcroft is an artist, performer and writer. She holds a Masters degree in Painting from London’s Royal College of Art, and a Creative Writing PhD from the University of Newcastle. Hopcroft’s publication list includes the Griffith Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Art Monthly and ArtsHub.com. She recently spent a year dressed as

Bio: Hannah Indigo is a highly skilled hula-hoop entertainer with a penchant for dropping jaws and a style that’s as rock ‘n’ roll as it is glam metal and 80s. With 6+ years’ experience, she’s as comfortable on stage at a crowded stadium as she is in front of kids drooling with excitement at a

Bio: Georgia Gaffney is an emerging visual artist working in puppetry and installation. Her work plays with interactivity and whimsy to explore social discourses. Whether it’s a giant ibis or a recycled coral sculpture, you can expect a playful, visual spectacle.  Made.In.Newcastle Project: Georgia’s project ‘Coral’ was an installation at Top Shelf Excellent Mid City

Bio: Claire Albrecht is a Newcastle based poet and PhD student. She was the 2019 Emerging Writers Festival fellow at the State Library of Victoria, a 2020 Varuna ‘Writing Fire, Writing Drought’ fellow, and will be a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico in 2021. Her debut chapbook “pinky swear” was published in

Bio: Conor has facilitated collaborative works across a variety of visual, performative, and therapeutic disciplines, working with professional theatre companies, community sector organisations, and community arts organisations. Conor has undertaken roles within performance arts such as artistic director, facilitator, and performer, and has a passion for medium and large scale puppetry and interactive installations. Conor

Bio: Byren Sawell is a local artist primarily focused on the areas of music performance & production. He has been performing and creating works in various bands & art/performance collectives for the past five years.  Byren’s current musical project is Photo of the Moon. This folk-infused alternative rock troupe wins crowds over with tenderness and

Bio: As an artist originating from Glasgow Scotland, Annemarie Murland’s ideas-led art practise is concerned with the representation and translation of an aesthetics of migration, a corporeal experience into material form. Her work is interdisciplinary with a particular interest in abstract drawing and painting alongside her engagement in artistic research, social practice, collaborative and curatorial

Bio: Amy Vee writes music that both disquiets and mollifies the soul. Her songs are driven by a poetic lyricism that resonates as deeply with those seeking comfort and connection as it does with those seeking escape. A skilled multi-instrumentalist and award-winning composer and performer, Vee’s latest works sit comfortably in the realm of between