Curriculum Vitae
Curating + Producing
2024
Producer- VIC, Performing Lines - current
Producer - Performance, RISING
”Playing with Food” with Andrew Chan, Darebin Intercultural Centre
2023
Guest Curator - Malaysia, Adelaide Festival
Program Coordinator, Biennale of Sydney
Program Coordinator, MPavilion
Creative Producer, Next Wave, National, 2021 - 2023
Program Producer, Regional Scribes, Regional Arts Australia, 2022 - 2023
2021
Executive Producer, Darwin Fringe Festival, Darwin
Manager, National Young Writers’ Festival, National
2020
Bio writing and Self Promotion Workshop Facilitator, Art Squad, Country Arts SA
2019
Art To Street Facilitator and Mentor, Creative Accomplice, Darwin
2018
Zombie Queen Zine Swap 1-7, Event Producer and Curator, various locations, Adelaide, 2015 – 2018
2016
Co-curator, The Mill, Adelaide, 2015 – 2016
2015
“YKK —-> ADL: From Yogyakarta to Adelaide”, Curator, The Mill, Adelaide
“Brain Milk” by Bronte Stolz, Curator, Floating Goose Studios, Adelaide
2014
Exhibitions Coordinator, Sub Rosa Shop & Gallery
“Diaspora: An Exploration of True Multiculturalism in Australia”, Curator, The Mill, Adelaide
Governance
2024
Peer Assessor, Creative Australia, 2021-2024
Member, Editorial Committee, UnProjects
2023
Board Member, Mahmood Martin Foundation, 2019-current
Member, Curatorial Committee, Watch This Space, 2022-2023
2022
Judge, Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund
2021
Member, Advisory Committee, NT Writers’ Festival
Student Representative, Research & Scholarship Committee, NIDA, 2020-2021
Chair, Happy Yess, Darwin, 2020-2021
Writing
2024
”Map of Kuala Lumpur, 2000”, Malaysian Places & Spaces Anthology (upcoming)
dSCRIBE: Desire Lines, Issue 17 (upcoming)
2023
Artist, Emerging Writers’ Festival
2022
”Cooking my way home”, Peril Magazine
”A love letter to dancefloors”, SBS Voices
Character Bios: Meet the Delinquents, Delinquente Wines
2021
”no one is dying today” (with Isobel Marmion), fine print magazine
Character Bios: Meet the Delinquents, Delinquente Wines
Book Review: “Turbulence”, InDaily
Artist, National Young Writers’ Festival
Character Development, ‘Supers’, ActNow Theatre
Research and Development Paper, Contemporary Asian Australian Performance
“My national dress is a symbol of pride and beauty”, SBS Voices
Sweat Season Zine: A Collection of Stories
2020
“There is no haze here”, ‘Postcards’: Emerging Writers Festival x Voiceworks
Guest Writer, ‘Supers’, ActNow Theatre
Artist, Northern Territory Writers’ Festival
Artist, National Young Writers’ Festival
“I’m living the reverse migrant dream”, SBS Voices
5 Rules to Being a F**k Gurl, Writers’ Room
”Hair Unruly”, Peril Magazine
Artist, Red Dirt Poetry Festival
5 Questions with Kuya James, Liminal Magazine
“Ramadan celebrations will change this year (and that’s ok)”, SBS Voices
2019
Artist, Digital Writers’ Festival
Artist, Emerging Writers’ Festival
“What Eid means to me and my family”, SBS Voices
“I am done shapeshifting into a form of Muslim palatable for people I don’t know”, The Guardian
Interview with TextaQueen, Liminal Magazine Book
2018
“The pleasures and sorrows of having two hometowns”, SBS Voices
“A look into the Barunga Festival and why everyone should North at least once for the experience”, The AU Review
“Interview: Suming Rupi on bringing traditional Taiwanese music to the Barunga Festival”, The AU Review
Exhibition Essay for Che Chorley “The Sea and She”
Creating + Making
2024
Sayang-Sayang Supper Club, 2023 - Current
2023
”A Soft Touch”, group exhibition, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Co-editor, Regional Scribes 2022 Anthology, Regional Arts Australia
2020
“Portal”, group exhibition, Paper Mountain, Perth
“Rindu”, solo exhibition, Red Dirt Poetry Festival, Online
“Instant”, group exhibition, Perth Fringe, Perth
2019
”The Nap”, Sweat Season, Darwin
“The Ghan 90th”, Artist in Residence group exhibition, Adelaide Terminal
The Ghan 90th anniversary Artist Residency, Guildhouse and Great Southern Rail
2018
“A-Kin”, group exhibition, Sister Gallery, Adelaide
“We Did the Soft Wind”, group exhibition, Adelaide City Library, Adelaide
2017
Nexus and Chill, Live painting, Nexus Arts, Adelaide
“Patterns of Migration”, solo exhibition, Nexus Arts, Adelaide
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Artist Residency, Nexus Arts, Adelaide, 2016-17
2016
“Schmidt”, set design, costume design and promotion, Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide
“Looking Backward / Moving Forward”, duo exhibition with Jake Holmes, The Mill, Adelaide
2015
“Gutless”, solo exhibition, The Mill, Adelaide
“Content Not Available”, group exhibition, The Mill, Adelaide
2014
“Mystery Lines”, solo exhibition, Sub Rosa Shop & Gallery, Adelaide
2013
“Ground Up”, group exhibition, Old Union Bookshop – University of Adelaide, Adelaide
“This Isn’t What I Wanted”, solo exhibition, The Reading Room, Adelaide
Leadership
2024
Founder, Malay & Malaysian Creatives in Australia Database
2023
Artistic Leadership Program, Adelaide Festival Centre
Artistic Associate, Brown’s Mart, 2022 - 2023
Co-Founder, Teh Cha, 2021 - Current
MFA (Cultural Leadership), National Institute of Dramatic Art
2021
Interim Artistic Leadership Team Member, Brown’s Mart, 2021 - Current
2020
General Manager, Skinnyfish Music, 2018-2020
Awards
2022
Semi-Finalist, Career Achievements: NT Young Achiever Awards
2021
Recipient, Regional Arts Australia Fellowship
Recipient, NT Performing Arts Awards
2020
Finalist, Writing + Podcasts: Good Stuff Awards, frankie magazine
Miscellaneous
2024
Chair, Changing Pace, National Writers’ Conference, Emerging Writers’ Festival
Participant, Presenter Training Program, PAC Australia
Participant, Asian Producers Platform Camp, Malaysia
2021
Panel member, “Am I Too Old To Be Here?”, Artlands, National
Panel member, Longhouse:National, Contemporary Asian Australian Performance
Reading, Watch This Space Zine Fair, Alice Springs
Panel member, “From the Fringes”, Darwin Fringe
Production Attachment + Translator, ‘Give Us Green, Darling’, Brindle Films, 2020-2021
2018
In Conversation with artist Abdul Abdullah at screening of “You See Monsters”, Mercury Cinema, Adelaide
YEWTH Magazine Online Visual Arts Editor, 2017-2018
2017
Panel member, “Intersectional Feminism in the South Australian Arts” FRAN Fest, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2015
B. Architectural Design, University of Adelaide
Dip. Languages (Indonesian), University of Adelaide