Tom Mùller is an artist and the artistic director (and co-founder) of the Fremantle Biennale. Tom is particularly interested in site-responsive temporal and permanent art works that – presented outside of institutional contexts – have direct contact with the social, environmental, and economic landscapes of a place. 

Tom’s work has been included in major exhibitions and institutions including; ‘The National’ at Carriageworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Adelaide Biennial, La Biennale de la Chaux-de-Fonds, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the Northern Alps Triennale in Japan.

He was a previous board member of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and is the current Chair of the Fremantle Culture Council. To read more about Tom, visit his website, here. Learn more about the Fremantle Biennale, here

Sarah Booth is the General Manager of urban-renewal organisation, Spacemarket, and the Community Development Lead with property groups, Hesperia and Fini.

With extensive experience working nationally in the property and community-engagement space, Sarah has a special passion, and skill, for turning vacant buildings and precincts into healthy, vibrant places of creativity and connection. 

As well as a one-time cafe owner and florist, Sarah has also worked with Assemble Papers, Oyster Magazine, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 

Sarah is currently a board member of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the East End Arts Precinct; and in 2024 was awarded joint Fremantle Community Citizen of the Year.

Read more about Spacemarket, here. Read about the East End Arts Precinct, here. 

Rohan Silva is Chair of the Founders Factory Australia, an organisation focused on supporting innovation and job creation in decarbonisation, nature tech, and other emerging fields.

A columnist and book reviewer for the Evening Standard, Times and Observer, Rohan founded the Libreria bookshop in East London and co-founded Second Home — innovative spaces created for cultural events and entrepreneurship in London, Lisbon and Los Angeles.

Rohan is a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art in London and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is a board member of the London Contemporary Music Festival, and has served on the board of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. 

Read more about Founders Factory, here, and Second Home, here. Click, here, to learn about the Libreria bookshop.

Danielle Caruana is an award-winning storyteller, particularly interested in tapping into the human condition through the context of supporting, developing, and performing music.

Under the alias, Mama Kin, Danielle has created a number of solo and collaborative musical projects, some of which have included the development of community choirs across regional Australia. She is also a workshop facilitator and speaker, and has spent time supporting students, emerging artists, and incarcerated women.

Danielle is one of the inaugural members of the Music Australia Council (part of the Australian Government’s arts investment and advisory body, Creative Australia) and is co-founder of The Seed Fund, a philanthropic foundation supporting artists with a particular focus on developing pathways to creative independence in the music industry.

To read more about Danielle, visit her website here. To learn about The Seed Fund, click here, and for more on Music Australia, click here. 

Kate Hulett is an artist, film photographer and owner of retail space, Kate and Abel. She also leads on the cultural programming for Lawson Flats, a creatives’ focussed members club in Perth’s CBD. 

After managing stakeholder communications for the London Underground and UK marketing agencies, Kate has more recently worked with the Fremantle Biennale and Fremantle Design Week, and is co-founder of Freo DoC – the local Town Team. Intent on saving community, small business, and the environment, she has also owned a cafe, a hat label, and ran Australia’s largest temporary space activation project – MANY 6160 – in Fremantle’s vacant Myer Department store. 

Kate currently sits on the advisory panel of the City of Fremantle’s Destination Marketing Working Group. 

Read about Kate and Abel, here. View Kate’s photography work, here. 

Max Barton is a music and performance artist based in Fremantle, and is one half of the award-winning company Second Body. His multidisciplinary night Wednesdays at the End of the World brings together local artists every month to contemplate the worst case scenarios facing the human race. Max trained in both music and theatre, and has spent his career exploring ways to fuse artforms in order to engage listeners and audiences in compelling new ways. This thread has run through all his work, from tiny experimental interdisciplinary gigs through to large-scale musical work performed internationally for thousands of people a night. As a director, his world premiere production of Philip Ridley’s Karagula was nominated for eight Off-West End awards, winning three, and his production of The Listening Room has been performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East, the National Theatre, across the UK in a national tour, and to prisoners and civilians across the UK through broadcasts from the Prison Radio Association and BBC radio 4. As a writer he co-wrote Fuel Theatre’s show The Gretchen Question with Melly Still, and is currently under commission for three large scale musicals and a feature film.

If avoiding writing your own bio was an olympic sport, Lily would be a multi-gold medalist. She gets amongst a bunch of things, most of which involve bringing people together to co-design community-led solutions to complex problems. Lily is passionate about upgrading our democracy (and other systems) by better utilising the tools and collective intelligence we have available.