Wilma Tabacco was born in Italy, and lives in AustraliaWilma uses abstract iconography to refer to aspects of Italian cultural history, archaeological artefacts found in ancient ruins and she ‘maps’ ground plans of architectural spaces.She

Alma Quon

Mar 25th, 2023 16m 58s

Jazz drummer and bandleader Alma Quon was born in 1911 and died in 2007. Her ensemble The Joybelles comprising women from a range of cultural backgrounds was active from the 1940s until the 1990s.

Julie Peters

Mar 23rd, 2023 26m 31s

Julie Peters grew up in the 1950s, way before trans was generally heard of, let alone understood. As a child she had difficulty working out why people insisted she was a boy when she knew she was a girl. She affirmed her gender in 1990. Julie h

Jane Murphy

Aug 7th, 2022 23m 20s

Jane Murphy considers herself to be an “Accidental Property Master”.She stumbled across a role in a film art department in the mid 1980’s in Sydney.Her love of stories & people, combined with a fascination of things, has proved the perfect ma

Elizabeth Russell-Arnot

Aug 7th, 2022 25m 54s

Elizabeth Russell-Arnot is an inquisitive adventurer with academic credentials across multiple arts disciplines. Her Churchill Fellowship and 2 Masters Degrees in the Arts have led to a focus on our endangered environment expressed through crea

Peta Murray

Aug 7th, 2022 23m 51s

Peta Murray is a recovering playwright, best known for her plays Wallflowering and Salt. A late-blooming academic, she is also a Lecturer in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University where she writes extravaganzas with preposterous

Jean Taylor

Feb 11th, 2022 21m 44s

An activist in the women's liberation movement since joining the Brunswick Consciousness-Raising Group in 1972, feminist writer Jean Taylor has been involved in the Women's Liberation Centre, Women's Liberation Halfway House, Women's Liberation

Lella Cariddi

Feb 11th, 2022 22m 8s

Lella Cariddi OAM is a writer/researcher of community history, curator of contemporary art, documentary producer, installation artist, adult educator and Community Cultural Development Practitioner. She is committed to the advancement of litera

Cath Murphy

Feb 11th, 2022 21m 15s

Animator and educator Cath Murphy has a rich history in animation spanning more than 20 years and has won numerous awards in film for: Animation; Writing; Directing; Producing and Visual Effects. A registered nurse with extensive experience in

Madeline McGrady

Nov 3rd, 2019 46m 46s

Aunty Madeline McGrady is a proud Gomeroi elder. She made the first film on black deaths in custody, and was the first Indigenous person on the Australian Film Council.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqjE3M4tdWwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Margret RoadKnight

Nov 3rd, 2019 44m 48s

A performer at the very first National Folk Festival (and many more since then), Margret has sung blues, jazz, gospel, folk, comedy, and social commentary songs in concert halls and cathedrals, clubs and campuses,from Broome to Hobart, Beijing

Sue Nattrass

Nov 3rd, 2019 43m 10s

First female lighting designer in Australia. Stage Manager. Actor. Operations Manager at the Victorian Arts Centre. Artistic Director Melbourne and Adelaide Arts Festivals.

Sue Ingleton

Feb 28th, 2019 1h 1m

Writer, actor, comedian, architect, and celebrant Suzanne Ingleton comes from a tradition of theatre, sacred ritual and spiritual shamanism. She has created solo and collaborative performance works in Australia and overseas for more than 40 yea

Duré Dara

Feb 28th, 2019 44m 27s

Percussionist, social worker, and Board Member of the Victorian Women's Trust, Duré Dara OAM is Indian by race, Malaysian by birth, and Australian by choice. A proponent of spontaneous and improvised music for more than 40 years, she is well kn

Liz Jones

Feb 28th, 2019 42m 4s

Actor and teacher Dr Elizabeth Jones has been the Artistic Director of La Mama Theatre since 1976. For 20 year prior she was a teacher of English, History, Drama, and Politics in Australia and Indonesia. She has worked over many years as an adv

Elizabeth Drake

Jul 21st, 2018 39m 53s

Classical pianist and composer Elizabeth Drake creates original music for theatre, film, dance, and radio. She was the first woman to win an AFI award for screen composotion, for her score from the 2003 film 'Japanese Story'.

Shirley McKechnie

Jul 21st, 2018 44m 43s

Shirley McKechnie is a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She founded the first tertiary dance course in Australia at Rusden College (Deakin University) in 1975 and has written extensively on dance and dance education. She was a co-founder of

Jo Jo Smith

Jul 21st, 2018 35m 28s

Born in New Zealand, Jo Jo Smith is a soul singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer. She was the first woman to perform at the Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival in the 1980s. In 2017 she performed 50 shows around Australia with fellow songwr

Joyce McGrath

Mar 5th, 2018 45m 19s

Joyce McGrath is a 92 year old portrait painter. She was the first arts librarian at the State Library of Victoria, and received a Churchilll Fellowship to travel to arts libraries around the world and investigate their collections. Joyce spent

Sandra Shotlander

Mar 5th, 2018 1h

Feminist playwright, actor, and teacher Sandra Shotlander is a regular feature at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre, and at Women Playwrights International conferences around the world. She has founded several theatre companies including Mime and Mum

Robin Laurie

Mar 5th, 2018 46m 46s

Performance artist Robin Laurie was heavily involved in the infamous Melbourne Pram Factory in the 1960s and 70s, was a founding member of the first Women's Circus in Victoria, as well as Circus Oz. She's a trombone playing, Feldenkrais practic

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