Project Team

	Name: Tim Acker Project Position: Co-founder, photographer, executive project support Location: Perth Bio: Tim has worked with desert artists and communities since 1999, firstly at Warlayirti Artists, followed by a variety of support and advocacy roles, with Indigenous art, cultural and community groups, organisations and businesses throughout northern, central and western Australia. Tim’s logistical work on the CSR Project has included bush trip organisation, art centre liaison, fund-raising assistance and is one of the main photographers.
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	Name: Hayley Atkins Project Position: Co-curator Location: Newman Bio: Hayley grew up in Jigalong in Martu country and lives in Newman, where she works with Martumili Artists. As the CSR Project’s first curator, Hayley has been involved with the Canning Stock Route Project since 2007. While supporting the artists on the return to Country trip at Well 36, Hayley began painting herself. She also began to learn about her own family ties to artists from the many other Western Desert art centres. Hayley loves working with her elders and learning about their lives in the bush.
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	Name: Morika Biljabu Project Position: Photographer, filmmaker Location: Punmu Bio: Morika lives at Punmu in the heart of Martu Country. Her passion for her family and community inspires all of her film and photographic work. She joined the project in 2007 for the return to Country trip at Well 36. She recorded the artists’ workshops and produced a film featuring her grandmother, Jakayu Biljabu. In 2008 her photographs were published in the Weekend Australian Magazine and held her first solo exhibition Ngayunpala kujungka (We Are One). She was nominated for the international Prix Pictet in 2009.
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	Name: John Carty Project Position: Co-curator, anthropologist Location: Canberra Bio: John is an anthropologist who has worked extensively throughout the Western Desert and Kimberley regions. He was the principal researcher throughout the Ngurra Kuju Walyja project, and is co-curator of the exhibition Yiwarra Kuju. Some of his publications on Aboriginal art include Prettyone: the Art of Billy Atkins, and Ngaanyatjarra: Art from the Lands (with Tim Acker). He is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, and is based at the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University.
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	Name: Carly Davenport Project Position: Co-founder, project manager (2007-2011), co-curator Location: Perth Bio: With a passion for listening to stories and their connections between culture, innovation and the creative industries, Carly has engaged with Aboriginal artists and their enterprises throughout Australia since 1996. She has contributed to and led educational projects and programs at Munupi Arts (Tiwi Islands), Melbourne Museum, RMIT’s Centre for Design and the National Gallery of Australia. With FORM since 2005, she co-founded the Canning Stock Route Project in 2006. Carly enjoys the ‘magic of collaboration’ and as the Project’s team leader designed and managed its multi-disciplinary professional development programs, brokered diverse community and industry partnerships, and guided the development of the Yiwarra Kuju exhibition and associated outcomes in collaboration with the National Museum of Australia.
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	Name: Clint Dixon Project Position: Filmmaker Location: Broome Bio: Clint was born and raised in Broome. His mother is a Bardi woman, from the country north of Broome near One Arm Point and his father is Yawuru, from the country around Broome. He has a passion for recording and telling stories on film and has been working with Goolarri Media Enterprises and the Canning Stock Route Project since 2007. Travelling in Country, Perth and Canberra, he has documented the workshop activities, celebrations, meetings, and interviews with artists and the development of the Yiwarra Kuju exhibition.
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	Name: Mollie Hewitt Project Position: Project Coordinator Location: Perth Bio: With a passion for Australian culture and digital media Mollie has been working with FORM since 2010 to help deliver a diverse array of projects, exhibitions, accompanying catalogues and programs in metropolitan and regional Western Australia. Along with her curatorial role at FORM Mollie has been the Project Coordinator on the Canning Stock Route Project since 2011, which has included assisting in the delivery of Yiwarra Kuju as the cultural backdrop for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth and CSR Project Digital Futures.
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	Name: Monique La Fontaine Project Position: Co-curator, leader Digital Futures, project manager (2011-2013) Location: Perth Bio: An artist and writer, Monique has worked with Aboriginal artists and cultural leaders on cultural, arts and political advocacy projects since 1997, and was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Award in 2006 for New Legend [Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre]. As curator, content manager and production editor on the Canning Stock Route Project she has managed its artwork collection and digital archive since 2007, designed its Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property protocols and produced various project publications. Monique was a co-curator of Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route and curated its award-winning multimedia interactive One Road.
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	Name: Putuparri Tom Lawford Project Position: Cultural advisor, senior translator Location: Fitzroy Crossing Bio: Putuparri is a Wangkajunga man living in Fitzroy Crossing. Putuparri has worked with the Canning Stock Route Project in 2007 as a translator and cultural advisor and has helped coordinate some of the project’s biggest cultural workshops on Country. He has provided the Aboriginal and non-Indigenous project team with invaluable cultural guidance and direction. Putuparri also works for the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre coordinating its cultural program and assisting on international repatriation.
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	Name: Nicole Ma Project Position: Multimedia director & mentor Location: Melbourne Bio: Based in Melbourne, Nicole Ma coordinates the Project’s multimedia output, the exhibition’s film productions, and mentors the CSR Project’s four Aboriginal multimedia practitioners. Nicole co-founded Bluehorse films in 1990 in New York, and the company went on to win a prestigious screenwriting award at the Sundance film festival. Nicole returned to Australia and was appointed Executive Producer of multimedia, for the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of Australia. Her documentaries Kurtal – Snake Spirit and Dances of Ecstasy have also won several awards.
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	Name: Kenneth KJ Martin Project Position: Filmmaker Location: Halls Creek Bio: KJ lives in Halls Creek with his wife and family. His mother’s people come from north of Halls Creek in Gija country and his father’s people come from the area around Doon Doon Station. He developed a passion for filmmaking after the birth of his first daughter and developed these skills while working as Audio Visual Project Officer for the Kimberley Language Resource Centre. KJ has subsequently completed a Certificate 3 at Goolarri Media and works as a deejay on Halls Creek radio. Since 1998 he has also worked regularly at the Kimberley Language Resource Agency.
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	Name: Doolmarria Louise Mengil Project Position: Co-curator Location: Kununurra Bio: Louise is a Mirruwong woman from Kununurra. She began working on the Canning Stock Route Project in 2007, and has played an important part in helping to shape the Canning Stock Route collection as one of the team’s co-curators. Louise currently lives in South Hedland where she works as Employment Development Officer for Job Futures.
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	Name: Murungkurr Terry Murray Project Position: Co-curator Location: Fitzroy Crossing Bio: Terry is a Walmajarri, Wangkajunga and Juwaliny man. His family’s country is Japingka in the northern reaches of the Great Sandy Desert, south of Fitzroy Crossing, where he lives with his family. Terry is a Cultural Heritage Officer with the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre. He is also a painter and worked with Mangkaja Arts for several years as an arts worker, travelling to Spain with Wally Caruana in 2004. Terry is also currently working with curators at the Berndt Museum of Anthropology. He has exhibited around Australia and his first solo show, Jiljis opened at Brigitte Braun in April 2010.
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	Name: Curtis Taylor Project Position: Filmmaker, cultural advisor Location: Parnngurr Bio: A keen emerging filmmaker, Curtis works with Martu Media, a program of Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa. Curtis has produced short-films describing the history and culture of Parngurr (Cotton Creek), his home community in Martu Country, for the exhibition’s interactive multimedia ‘One Road’. The youngest member of the CSR Project team, Curtis is also a valued cultural facilitator and translator for Martu people. Curtis received the Western Australian Citizen of the Year Awards for Youth Arts and Indigenous Youth Arts in 2011.
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	Name: Ngalangka Nola Taylor Project Position: Senior translator, project advisor Location: Parnngurr Bio: Nola works closely with Martumili Artists as a valued translator and advisor for Martu people. In 2007 she joined the return to Country trip at Well 36. As one of the Project’s senior translators she has translated the majority of Martu oral histories. As a cultural mentor under the leadership of Martu elder, Kumpaya Girgaba, Nola has also provided guidance and support to curator Hayley Atkins and filmmaker Morika Biljabu and the Project team. She has helped facilitate multiple trips in Martu Country.