In 2023, we have reviewed our structure to make it more supportive for our team of voluntary and emerging talents. From 2023, we are creating a clearer structure for the collective to work together, including the board of directors\caretakers (who owns and runs this artist-run-initiative everyday), an intern team (who assists the board and learn at the same time), and an advisory board (who supports the board with their experience, network and knowledge). There is also a mailing list for a pool of skill-based community volunteers that you can join anytime here for infrequent engagement.
All the roles are voluntary at Tributary Projects at the moment. Tributary Projects would have not been able to sustain with the generosity of labour from the community of members and artists involved. We have a five-year goal to set up part-time paid staff roles that will be termed\rotative to help us sustain while maintaining a collective culture.
We intend to follow the guidance of NAVA Code of Practice for ARIs: https://code.visualarts.net.au/artist-run-initiatives/artist-run-initiatives/summary-of-good-practice-recommendations, and we welcome our voluntary members to help us keep up with the good practice.
Our Team
Meet Us
Board of Caretakers
MIMIR S MOORE
Development and Advancement
Mimir Soboslay Moore is an arts worker and artist who has worked in gallery management, administration, curation, installation and marketing across arts and cultural organisations on Ngnunnawal, Ngambri and Noongar country. They are passionate about fostering inclusivity and accessibility in the arts through community collaboration and supporting emerging artists and workers.
JANHAVI SALVI
Secretary
Janhavi Salvi (b. 1998) is an Indian Artist working within the Visual and Media Arts, based in Canberra, Australia. Janhavi loves accomplishing this by crafting experiences that change the status of the viewer from being the classic mute spectator to participants. She aims to bring about communication between the viewer and the work – to make them co-authors of the work – she happily welcomes even the most basic response of emotion, even that of a chuckle. Her practice is driven by the aim to make pieces of work that move away from the ‘please do not touch’ conditioning to a more liberal form of engagement that encourages touching and tampering with the work.
CHRISTIAN SIRLOIS
Exhibition Program Curator
Christian Sirois is anthropologist, curator, and PhD candidate at UNSW in Cultural Geography. Sirois’ research and practice is centred around curation, and multisensory and arts based methods within cultural preservation and documentation.
REBECCA(BEC) SCHAEFER
Community Engagement Organiser
Bec Schaefer is a glass artist and small business owner and is mum of 3 teenaged boys, 2 dogs and 3 cats. Bec is also a recent Diploma of Visual Arts graduate from CIT, where she developed a particular fondness for painting and printmaking. Bec is continuing to further her field of practice, and has been including local scenes and social history in her current body of artwork.
Advisory Board Members
ZEV AVIV
Community Mediator
Zev Aviv (they/them) is a queer multidisciplinary artist who was born and raised with privilege on stolen Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. They’ve worked as a performer, producer, baby animal wrangler, theatre reviewer and forklift driver. Currently a personal trainer, Aviv also works with their queer/arts/sports collective CLUBSCORE making work that centres the experience of trans and gender diverse people’s experience of sport and games.
ZOE XU
Digital Engagement Consultant
Zoe Xu is working as a Strategic Content Coordinator in a global management, engineering and development consultancy. She is specialised in strategic communication with the creative thinking in content development and the strategic thinking in purpose-driven delivery. With the diverse background in linguistics, media, consultacy, and culture, she believes that the great communication is not only delivering right messages to right people but also engaging with communities more inclusively. Having been volunteering with multiple art organisations for years due to her personal interest, she is keen to help emerging art organisations to grow by experience sharing.
Interns
JONATHAN DEVAN
Digital Engagement
Jonathan Devan is a undergrad at the ANU, studying a Bachelor of Design. He's very passionate and interested in graphic design & visual arts. He has goals of always trying new things, getting out there and exposing himself to new ideas & concepts. His volunteering journey has helped him gain a variety of work & social skills/experiences. Jonathan would love to get into a career path that involves both art and psychology.
HAYDEN STARR
Digital Engagement
Hayden Starr is a Canberra-based communications expert and multimedia artist. Working across digital media, sculpture and photography, Hayden’s art explores the overlaps and tensions between human and natural environments and their inhabitants. He has featured in, curated and coordinated multiple exhibitions in Canberra, and was a feature artist of the Art in Place Program organised by Gungahlin Arts.
FORMER MEMBERS
Members in Leadership: Lucy Chetcuti, Jess Semler, Ruby Rossiter, Lilith Silva, Xavier Jones, Faith Stellmaker, Oscar Capezio, Tom Campbell, Isabelle Sheppard, Sophia Childs, Alice Rezende
Julia Thwaites, Remi Prica, Matilda Skerritt, Annie Parnell, Emma Rani Hodges, Sophie Ryan, Em Ryan, Sean Martin, Lingyan Lu, Hengjia Liu, Mel Glav, Jacqueline Meng, Kirsten Farrell, Bernie Slater, Natalija Nikolic, Anja Loughheed, Roseanna Parkes, Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts, Gabby Williams, Ion Brown, Asil Habara, Cassandra Dove, Sarah Murray, Joyce Fan, Fleur Jennings, Tilda Njoo, Vy Tsan, Clementine Belle McIntosh, Annie Robinson, Aaron Sun, Fuyao Liu, Elika TK, Yalan Chen, Emily O’Neill
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Patrick Larmour, Grace Blake and Connor Drum
If you have been involved with us before but your name is not acknowledged here, or it is in the wrong category, please email us at contact@tributaryprojects.xyz.
Last update: MAY/2023
